American - Musician | October 3, 1941 -
Chubby Checker changed the dance floor.
Chubby Checker
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I want to play main rooms in Vegas. I want to play every day like Elvis did, not just weekends.
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When I play in Atlantic City, I perform Tuesdays through Sundays for two weeks, and I have 91-percent attendance. No one else plays six days a week, two shows per night, and does that kind of business.
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People don't do the Macarena together. Or if they do, they do it to get closer, to get together. It's the same thing with the Electric Slide.
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Do you realize that I have had five albums in the Top 30. Elvis and The Beatles have never done that. I had five singles in the Top 5, I mean, no one's ever done that.
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Everybody in the '80s, well, we hate rap. Now, the biggest rapper in the world... Eminem. Rap's a black thing.
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I was born in South Carolina. On my dad's farm, I didn't have much. I'm just a poor kid who worked in a produce market.
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I was 17 or 18 when 'The Twist' came along, and the rest is history. Sometimes I regret it. I would have gotten more into acting. I would have been more of a legitimate performer onstage like Liza Minnelli. But I got so caught up in the dance thing that I never got into theater.
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I love food, and the food industry is huge, and I just love dealing in it.
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It takes a real soldier to stay in the music industry and live off the things that have been put before me and be able to survive all this time because it has not been easy.
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Before I got in this business I was in the chicken business.
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Besides, at 62 years old I look like I'm about 27.
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