Chubby Checker

Offbeat Weekend – Elvis’ First Public Appearance, Aerosmith Bails Out Fans From Jail

This day in 1945 Elvis Presley made his first-ever public appearance in a local talent contest at the Mississippi Alabama Dairy Show singing ‘Old Shep’. Elvis was 10 years old at the time and came second. The members of Aerosmith bailed thirty fans out of jail in 1978 after they were arrested for smoking pot during an Aerosmith concert at…

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Offbeat Weekend, Hank Ballard and The Midnighters, Mama Cass, CCR

Today in 1960 Hank Ballard refused to perform ‘The Twist’ on a highly rated US TV show with his band The Midnighters, so Chubby Checker picked it up at the insistence of Dick Clark, and Checker’s version of the song was number 1 this week in 1960. It made No.14 in the UK in 1962,…

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