Who's ready to...do the twist! This incredible performance highlights Chubby Checker doing "The Twist" with some friends live on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1961. Watch the premiere tonight at 5PM PT / 8pm ET and get ready to dance! https://EdSullivan.lnk.to/TheTwistFP | The Ed Sullivan Show

On this day in Rock and Roll History - August 1, 1960 Chubby Checker's "The Twist" is released in the US, where it will become the number one song by mid-September. Record industry history was made when Checker's original hit recording re-entered the charts in the Fall of 1961 and by January of 1962, was back in the number one position. It was the first record ever to hit number one on two separate occasions. "The Twist" by Chubby Checker is an iconic rock and roll song that took the world by st

“The Twist” was originally written by Hank Ballard, but 2025 Inductee Chubby Checker turned it into a cultural phenomenon. Checker debuted his version of the song in July 1960 at the Rainbow Club in Wildwood, New Jersey. The dance, which was performed in tandem with the song, took the nation by storm, with moves considered scandalous and ahead of their time. Chubby Checker, born Ernest Evans, was given his now-iconic stage name while working at a produce market where the owner of the market call