Now we have entered The 50th Anniversary Year of The Twist. Special ceremonies have taken place in front of City Hall in Philadelphia and Wildwood, N.J. and the 50th Anniversary Tour continues along with a Chubby Checker cruise in May, 2011. Chubby Checker - is the only artist to have 5 albums in the Top 12 all at once. His First Platinum - "Let's Twist Again" and he is the only artist to have a song to be #1 twice - "The Twist". History was made in 1959, "The Twist" changed the way we dance to the beat meaning that now a man and a women were no longer in each others arms they were doing their own thing- ie: Twisting the night away...
We had the great pleasure of interviewing Chubby last night and it was wonderful to see this young 69 year old man still at the top of his game. The Beatle Artist Shannon was also on hand as was Dennis Ferrante who engineered the last few albums of JOHN LENNON. Chubby was so impressed with our house musicians "The Gar Francis Band" that he asked them to come down to Philly next month to record his lastest song... WHEW!
