{"id":31122,"date":"2013-01-14T05:09:29","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T10:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=31122"},"modified":"2026-03-11T11:46:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T15:46:21","slug":"august-6-1960-the-twist-debuts-how-chubby-got-his-nameat-the-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=31122","title":{"rendered":"August 6, 1960: &#8216;The Twist&#8217; Debuts &#038; How Chubby Got His Name!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Chubby Checker - The Twist\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xbK0C9AYMd8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The clip kicks off with Dick Clark introducing Chubby Checker <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">in front of a crane\u2011mounted RCA TK\u201110<\/span> at The Little Theater, home of his New York Saturday Night Beechnut Show for three solid years. Then you get a great moment: Conway Twitty, Chubby, and Clark all twisting during rehearsal. And yes\u2014this is 1960, back when Conway was still a pop guy, long before he crossed into country.<\/p>\n<p>The Origin of \u201cChubby Checker\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ernest Evans once nailed a Fats Domino impression so perfectly that Clark\u2019s wife joked, \u201cHe\u2019s Chubby Checker!\u201d When Dick later pitched Evans to re\u2011cut Hank Ballard\u2019s \u201cThe Twist\u201d with a Black lead vocalist, the name stuck\u2014and a cultural phenomenon was born.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/photos\/a.197108410326716.39183.189359747768249\/473519162685638\/?type=3\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp_automatic_fb_img\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/August-6-1960-The-Twist-Debuts-How-Chubby-Got-His-Name-At-the-star\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/473519172685637\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The clip kicks off with Dick Clark introducing Chubby Checker in front of a crane\u2011mounted RCA TK\u201110 at The Little Theater, home of his New York Saturday Night Beechnut Show for three solid years. Then you get a great moment: Conway Twitty, Chubby, and Clark all twisting during rehearsal. And yes\u2014this is 1960, back when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":31123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_popup_image":0,"_vp_format_audio_url":"","_vp_album_images":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail":0,"_vp_custom_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail_cover":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[788,1231],"class_list":["post-31122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-rca","tag-rca-tk-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31122"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81127,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31122\/revisions\/81127"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}