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Lionel Mandrake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-22-10 11:13 PM
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Anybody remember Chubby Checker?
Don't confuse him with Fats Domino. ;-)
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Peregrine Took Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-22-10 11:18 PM
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1. Absolutely! It would be fun to have a dance "craze" take over again
but, somehow, we seem to have lost our sense of fun - for many years now.
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Lydia Leftcoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-22-10 11:37 PM
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2. Of course!
I'm old.
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NoFace Donating Member (200 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-22-10 11:45 PM
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3. Stoned In The Bathroom ~ Chubby Checker
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwY5nxXk4kY
Hahaha....do the twist.


But seriously, yeah, he's okay. I like him.
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MiddleFingerMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-22-10 11:49 PM
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4. I saw him live in concert around 1990.
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Still had an INCREDIBLE amount of energy going on.
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grasswire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-23-10 01:46 AM
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6. yeah I saw him in about 1993 at a convention
He had half the ballroom up on stage twisting along.
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abq e streeter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-23-10 12:06 AM
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5. Also have seen him in person; about 7 or 8 years ago...A great professional entertainer
he was the headliner at a casino show with Felix Cavaliere, The Turtles ( Flo and Eddie with backing musicians)...We went to see Cavaliere ( my friend and I were, and are, total Rascals fans), but all three were excellent ( Howard Kaylan still has that same beautiful voice he had all those years ago). We weren't expecting much out of Chubby Checker, but he really is ( or still was that recently) a total pro entertainer. Killer band, still sang well, and put on a great show; didn't just go through the motions...
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WCGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-23-10 01:48 AM
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7. I remember having drunk relatives asking me to twist...
I couldn't have been more than 3 or 4 at the time, 1961, I think, and I was loving the attention.

So you could say that Chubby Checkers made me strive for the lime light...
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