“Back in the day,” Chubby Checker told Billboard, “I said, ‘I don’t want to be in the Rock Hall when I’m dead. I want to smell my flowers when I’m here.’ And I’m smelling my flowers…a little late in the game.”
“It’s another milestone — and the beat goes on,” Checker said, reflecting on the honor. Although this tribute has been a long time coming, Checker has had a complicated relationship with the famed organization.
“I wanted people to know that Chubby’s music was not being played, that’s all it was,” he explained. “The protest was, ‘Please play Chubby’s music.’ The best thing for any artist is to get his music played, and my music wasn’t getting played and I was a little upset about it.”
Checker’s path to rock stardom began at age four, after seeing a performance by country star Ernest Tubb. Later, he and his family moved to South Philadelphia, where he sang doo-wop as a young boy.
He started his recording career with a 1959 single called “The Class”, emulating popular artists like Domino and Elvis Presley. But it was “The Twist,” written by Hank Ballard, that catapulted him to fame.
“‘The Twist’ gave us what we have on the dance floor — and is still giving us that,” said Checker. Beyond “The Twist,” Checker’s influence includes hits like “Pony Time,” “The Fly,” “Limbo Rock,” “Let’s Twist Again” and a revival of “The Hucklebuck.”
Checker’s career includes 32 songs on the Billboard Hot 100, seven of which reached the top 10. In 2008, Billboard ranked “The Twist” as the No. 1 Greatest of All Time Hot 100 Song, a title it held until 2021.
Yet Checker maintains that “The Twist” will always hold its iconic status. “There will be a number two No. 1 song, a number three No. 1 song, but (‘The Twist’) was the first and will always be the first.”
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