TIL Chubby Checker (born Ernest Evans), famous for the early 60's song and dance craze "The Twist", got his stage name from Dick Clark's wife as play on the name of another popular musician at the time Fats Domino. en.wikipedia.org Submitted by big_macaroons t3_y9dz3b on October 20, 2022 at 11:52 PM in todayilearned 68 comments 1,152
Serious_Scheme_7990 t1_it7ipjo wrote on October 21, 2022 at 2:30 PM That Era of music is quite interesting. Many black singers and song writers had their songs stolen without any payment or future royalties. Elvis stole quite a few which I had not realized until a few months ago. Permalink 1
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