As a college student around 1970, Worrell played with a group called Chubby & The Turnpikes ( later to be known as Tavares ).

* Chubby — Antone Lee Tavares ( born June 2, 1945 )

The Tavares brothers from New Bedford, Massachusetts, whose parents were of Cape Verde descent, started performing in 1959 as Chubby and the Turnpikes when the youngest brother was 9 years old.

:: Chubby: If love is like a rose, I will nip my rose in the bud.

Okeh's first new signings included G. Love & Special Sauce, Keb ' Mo, Popa Chubby, and Little Axe.

Throughout the first year, in celebration of the relaunch, singles for G. Love, Popa Chubby and Keb ' Mo were released on 10-inch vinyl.

Dickinson's first musical experience was dancing in his grandparents ' front room to Chubby Checker's " The Twist ", when he still lived with them in Worksop.

**" Limbo Rock ", a 1961 song about the dance ; first released with lyrics in 1962 by Chubby Checker

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.

In the 1971 recording of " The Grand Ole Opry Song ," the first track on the LP " Will the Circle Be Unbroken ," by The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band ," there's a line, " Stringbean's with Hank Snow, and ol ' Fiddlin ' Chubby Wise.

At first, the breasts are obscured by a Guy Game logo (" Soft and Squishy " level ), then just digitally blurred (" Sorta Chubby " level ), and finally fully uncensored (" Super Stiff " level, maxed-out meter ).

" Pay Attention " was also the last album for Dennis Brockenborough who had already formed his own band, Chubby, for which he sang and played guitar.

* Popa Chubby on the live / studio album Electric Chubbyland: Popa Chubby Plays Jimi Hendrix ( 2006 ).

In 2008, an album was released under the name of One Life Crew entitled 2KH8, which in actuality was just a demo of Chubby Fresh's other band, Heavyweight.

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.

Chubby Checker, accompanied by Dee Dee Sharp, covered the song on the 1960 record " Twist with Chubby Checker ".

A year later, Chubby Checker's cover version of the song went to number 1 on the pop charts.

She had small roles in three of her father's films: Stage Fright ( 1950 ), in which she played a jolly acting student named Chubby Bannister, one of Wyman's school chums ; Strangers on a Train ( 1951 ), playing Barbara Morton, future sister-in-law of Guy Haines ( Farley Granger ); and Psycho ( 1960 ), playing Janet Leigh's plain-Jane office mate, Caroline, who generously offers to share tranquilizers that her mother gave her for her wedding night.

For example, the episode " Doug's Chubby Buddy " focuses on Patti, and features no narration, save for a brief PSA made by Patti at the end.

The dance was inspired by “ The Twist ,” Chubby Checker's 1960 cover of the B-side of Hank Ballard & The Midnighters ' 1959 single, “ Teardrops on Your Letter ”.

" But the simple dance that we now know as the Twist seems to have come from Chubby Checker in his preparation to debut the song to a national audience on August 6, 1960, on The Dick Clark Show, a Saturday night program that, unlike disc jockey Clark's daytime American Bandstand, was a stage show with a sitting audience.

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.

ABKCO sat on the entire catalog of music from artists such as Bobby Rydell and Chubby Checker.

is a 1993 British sci-fi spoof that stars Roy ' Chubby ' Brown in the role of a blue comedian whose act offends a pair of female aliens, who proceed to kidnap him and put him on trial.

To follow up on this success, Motown had the band record " Twistin ' Postman " to take advantage of the twist dance craze and the re-release of Chubby Checker's " The Twist ".

Although she stated that " the boys the series were given all the best lines ," in Love Business Dorothy has some of the funniest lines in the entire series, delivered while Chubby is practicing his seductive patter on an oversized cutout poster of Greta Garbo in front of a movie house:

Farina, Chubby, and Buddy decide to go back inside, apologize, and hope that they can " get in on that ice cream ".

She had two minor hits that earned some airplay on Puerto Rican media: a cover version of Chubby Checker's " Let's Twist Again, and " Se Enteró Tu Mujer " (" Your Wife Now Knows ").

" Just minutes later after Kennedy the Cop comes onstage in an elephant costume ( with Chubby on his back ), the curtain accidentally falls in the middle of he scene, causing the elephant head to fall off.

Only a few days later, discouraged about the band's financial prospects, and objecting to adding some Chubby Checker songs to The Beach Boys live setlist, Al Jardine abruptly left the group, but rejoined shortly thereafter.

Jackie Cooper left Our Gang in early 1931 at the cusp of another major shift in the lineup, as Farina Hoskins, Chubby Chaney, and Mary Ann Jackson all departed a few months afterward.

Britannia Pier is home to the Britannia Theatre which during the summer months features well known acts including ; Jim Davidson, Jethro, Basil Brush, Cannon and Ball, Chubby Brown, Chuckle Brothers and The Searchers.

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.

On June 4, 1999, 12-year-old Catherine " Casey " Fish died after choking on four marshmallows while playing Chubby Bunny.

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.

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.

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.

Artists who performed at the Peppermint Lounge include The Beach Boys, the Ronettes ( who made their professional debut here in 1961 ), the Crystals, The Isley Brothers, Chubby Checker, Liza Minnelli, and The Four Seasons.

However, Smokie made a surprise return to the UK singles chart in 1995, with one of the most unlikely hits of the year-a duet with controversial northern comedian Roy Chubby Brown, who knew the band through Steve Pinnel, having taught Steve the rudiments of drumming as payment for being his driver in his early club comedy career, on a re-release of their biggest hit " Living Next Door To Alice " which reached # 3.

* 1918 – Chubby Jackson, American jazz double-bassist and band leader ( d. 2003 )

I mean, you could put workers like Chubby Checker or Bobby Rydell in second-rate shows and they'd still shine through, but not me.

The halftime show, produced by Radio City Music Hall, was titled " Something Grand " and featured performances by vocalist Chubby Checker, The Rockettes, and 88 grand pianos.

* August 13 – Chubby Johnson, American actor ( d. 1974 )

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.

Although Chubby Checker and Hank Ballard were credited with starting the Twist craze in America, in Mexico and Latin America, Bill Haley and His Comets were proclaimed the Kings of the Twist.

Monroe's 1946 to 1948 band, which featured banjo prodigy Earl Scruggs, singer-guitarist Lester Flatt, fiddler Chubby Wise and bassist Howard Watts ( also known as " Cedric Rainwater ")— sometimes called " the original bluegrass band "— created the definitive sound and instrumental configuration that remains a model to this day.

Musician Chubby Checker and comedian Chris Rock were both born in Andrews.

* January 7 – Gary U. S. Bonds files a $ 100, 000 lawsuit against Chubby Checker, claiming that Checker stole " Quarter to Three " and turned it into " Dancin ' Party.

" In real life, Royston Vasey is the given name of comedian Roy ' Chubby ' Brown, who makes several appearances as the town's foulmouthed mayor.

Another briefly held early job was as a hot dog seller at Eddie's Meat Market, where his friend Chubby Checker also worked.

He later wrote and recorded " The Twist " and invented the dance, which was notably covered by Chubby Checker.

At Cameo, producer Stan Watson introduced them to producer Thom Bell, then working with Chubby Checker.

Between 1992 and 1994, he drummed with the band Chubby Children, reuniting with former bandmates from 1982 – 1985, Brian Fox and Garth Brandenburg.

Boozoo Chavis, John Delafose, Roy Carrier, Zydeco Force, Nathan and the Zydeco Cha Chas, the Sam Brother, Terrance Simien, Chubby Carrier, and many others were breathing new life into the music.

Young zydeco musicians such as C. J. Chenier, Chubby Carrier, Geno Delafose, Terrance Simien, Nathan Williams and others began touring internationally during the 1980s.