\’The Twist,\’ Chubby Checker

CHUBBY CHECKER Hank Ballard, of Detroit, wrote \”The Twist,\” recorded it in 1959, and had a minor hit with it. Chubby Checker, of Philadelphia, recorded a cover the next year. In the summer of 1960, he started performing it live at the Rainbow Club in Wildwood, and by fall of that year, it was a national…