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Ok, we are a sucker for a great story for a South Carolina made good, so the State had his hooked from the word go with a story on Chubby Checker. It has been 50 years since Checker, born Ernest Evans in Spring Gulley, reached international stardom with "The Twist."
A couple of facts on The Twist: Versions of the song had been floating around the South for most of the 1950s until Checker made it a sensation. How did he do it? By actually doing the dance number on stage. According to him, that changed the way people went on a dance floor.
According to the State, “The Twist” went to No. 1 on the Billboard magazine charts. It reached the top again in 1962, making it the only song to be No. 1 twice. Billboard named “The Twist” the No. 1 song from 1958-2008. “The Twist,” undoubtedly, was the biggest song of the ’60s.
A couple of facts on The Twist: Versions of the song had been floating around the South for most of the 1950s until Checker made it a sensation. How did he do it? By actually doing the dance number on stage. According to him, that changed the way people went on a dance floor.
According to the State, “The Twist” went to No. 1 on the Billboard magazine charts. It reached the top again in 1962, making it the only song to be No. 1 twice. Billboard named “The Twist” the No. 1 song from 1958-2008. “The Twist,” undoubtedly, was the biggest song of the ’60s.
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