The Tigers had been out-thought by their old mentor Checker Hughes, who had assigned a tagger to negate Dyer.

Patrons often had to wait an hour to get in and the club featured high-profile live acts such as singers Chubby Checker and the Four Tops.

The next day the band flew to Washington State, met their roadies who had their Checker car and a truck, and continued a one show per state tour for all fifty states in exactly fifty nights.

) By 1961, the Del-Phis had changed their name to The Vels and recorded unsuccessful singles for Checker and Checkmate Records.

He urged Philadelphia record label Cameo / Parkway to record a new version of “ The Twist ” with young, wholesome Chubby Checker, who had displayed his talent for copying other artists on an earlier novelty hit “ The Class .” Released in summer 1960, Checker ’ s rendition of “ The Twist ” became number one on the singles chart in the USA in 1960 and then again in 1962.

In 2006, Checker Books announced they had obtained the rights to publish trade collections of various CrossGen series, starting with Sojourn.

Chubby Checker had a minor novelty hit in the summer of 1959 called " The Class ", which featured Checker doing comic imitations of singers Fats Domino, The Coasters, Elvis Presley, Cozy Cole and the Chipmunks.

Fifteen-year-old Dee Dee Sharp had done a duet with Chubby Checker on " Slow Twistin '", and recorded her first solo single, " Mashed Potato Time ", on the same day.

Mann and Appel soon followed, and by mid-1965 none of Cameo-Parkway's founding trio were associated with the label, and their biggest stars ( Bobby Rydell and Chubby Checker ) had also left.

Rock and roll had not disappeared at the end of the 1950s and some of its energy can be seen in the Twist dance craze of the early 60s, mainly benefiting the career of Chubby Checker.

The label's most popular artist, in the label's early years, was Little Walter, who had ten songs released by Checker that made the Top Ten of Billboard magazine's Top Rhythm & Blues Records charts.

In 1957, Checker cracked into the rockabilly market with Dale Hawkins, who had a crossover hit with " Susie Q ", although he could not repeat the single's success.

Commonwealth Motors was on the verge of bankruptcy but had an order from Checker Taxi ( a privately-owned cab company in Chicago that had no affiliation with Markin at the time ).

Yellow Cab Co. ( of Chicago ) was bought by Morris Markin, who had established Checker Cab Manufacturing Company, with the Checker Taxi, a driver's cooperative.

Moore had written an additional one-two issues which were never published, a point referenced by artist Rick Veitch, when talking about the Checker TPB collection.

His most successful post-Atlantic recording was producing Hi-Heel Sneakers by Tommy Tucker ( released on Checker Records ) but he did not enjoy anywhere near the success that he had with Atlantic Records.

It depicted a New York taxi driver ( who had in fact appeared in numerous other Blondie music videos ) driving his Checker through Manhattan traffic.

The production of the famous Checker Cab had stopped and although there were still many in operation, the Chevrolet Caprice and Ford Crown Victoria became the industry top choices.

Sojourn had 4 trade paperbacks ( TPBs ) released by Crossgen before their bankruptcy, with 2 more released later by Checker Books.

However, Disney has licensed reprint rights to several Sigilverse titles to the Checker Book Publishing Group for publication starting in early 2007.

Checker released several singles by well-established blues artists such as Elmore James, Arthur " Big Boy " Crudup ( credited as Perry Lee Crudup ), and Memphis Minnie, none of which sold well.

From 1960 to 1964, Rydell was the label's second largest hit maker after Chubby Checker, scoring with such hits as " Wild One " ( his biggest hit, peaking at # 2 ), " Swingin ' School ", " Volare ", " The Cha-Cha-Cha ", " Forget Him " and others.

Checker was forced to re-record his hits such as " The Twist ".

KROY would play the top hits of the days by artists including Frankie Avalon, Chubby Checker, The Shirelles, The Four Seasons, The Beach Boys, The Beatles and the music of the British Invasion, Bob Dylan, the sounds of Motown, plus all the various dance sounds of the time ; the Twist, The Watusi, and the Mashed Potato.

In 1962 she began a string of successful Billboard Hot 100 Top 10 hits: " Slow Twistin '" ( with Chubby Checker ) (# 3 ), " Mashed Potato Time " (# 2 ), " Gravy ( For My Mashed Potatoes )" (# 9 ), " Ride " (# 5 ) and " Do the Bird " (# 10 ).

3 which contains 60 versions of the song — 30 by Haley ( mostly live performances ), and 30 more by a variety of artists including Pat Boone, Chubby Checker, Eddie Cochran, John Lennon, Buddy Knox, Isley Brothers, The Platters, Carl Perkins, and Mae West.

A number of celebrities guest-starred on the series over the course of its run, including Debbie Allen, Bob Saget, Charles Rocket, Neil Patrick Harris, Lydia Cornell, Brooke Shields, Roddy McDowall, and others ; Chubby Checker, Dr. Laura Schlessinger, and Dr. Ruth Westheimer appeared in episodes as themselves.

Ballard's group gained fame for originating " The Twist ", later a monster dance craze and hit for Rock & Roll Hall of Fame excludee Chubby Checker, and for its risque series of " Annie " songs, including " Work With Me Annie " and " Annie Had a Baby.

In October 2005 it began to issue various single-artist " best of " CD compilations, including Charlie Gracie, Bobby Rydell, Chubby Checker, Dee Dee Sharp, The Dovells, The Orlons, The Tymes and Question Mark & the Mysterians.

Becoming popular in Scotland, and under the management of Billy Grainger, in early 1964 they were signed to Columbia ( EMI ) by Norrie Paramor and recorded four singles, including a cover of the 1963 Chubby Checker US hit ," Twenty Miles " which was a big seller locally, but failed to chart nationally.

It dented the careers of established R & B acts like Fats Domino and Chubby Checker and even temporarily derailed the chart success of surviving rock and roll acts, including Elvis.

" Mann wrote a number of songs for Checker, including " Popeye ( The Hitchhiker )" and " Slow Twistin '" plus Pat Boone's " Remember You're Mine ", and the much covered " You Can't Sit Down ".

Dorton Arena has hosted countless performers over the years, including The Platters, Garth Brooks, Patty Loveless, Clint Black, Travis Tritt, Chubby Checker, Alan Jackson, Emmylou Harris, Trisha Yearwood, Waylon Jennings, The Temptations, KISS, The Four Tops, Three Dog Night, George Jones, Trace Adkins, Toby Keith, Little Richard, Ray Charles, Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, Brad Paisley, Loretta Lynn, Village People, Josh Turner, Clay Aiken, Edwin McCain, Third Day, Blake Shelton, Earl Scruggs, Chris Brown, Casting Crowns, Lady Antebellum, Jason Aldean, Kellie Pickler, Darius Rucker.

The character was used as the basis for a feature film in 1988, with a cast including Neil Patrick Harris, Ned Beatty, Shelley Winters, Thora Birch, Little Richard, Chubby Checker and Wooley himself.

Allmusic lists cover versions by more than 70 performers, including Elvis Presley, Simon and Garfunkel in a medley with " Kodachrome ", George Jones, Carl Perkins, Bubba Sparks, Foghat, Gerry & The Pacemakers, Johnny Rivers, and Chubby Checker.

It featured many top people over the years including Bill Haley rocking around the clock, Chubby Checker who introduced the " new dance " The Twist to the country with a whole stage full of people dancing the Twist and Sammy Davis, Jr. met the girls in 1961.

* " Pony Time " – Chubby Checker

The Pony was a dance made popular in the 1960s by the Chubby Checker song " Pony Time ".

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He recorded for Swing Time Records in the 1940s, Chess Records ( on the Checker label ) in the 1950s, Kent Records in the 1960s, and Rounder Records ( Bullseye ) in the 1970s.

* Dee Dee Sharp, singer (" Slow Twistin '" ( with Chubby Checker ), " Mashed Potato Time ")