"Chubby Checker is ticked off. But only in the very nicest possible way. The 70-year-old creator of the twist, the greatest dance sensation in history, doesn't feel the respect he thinks he deserves. He sits in his modest suite on the top occupied floor of the Thunder Valley Hotel and Casino, where he will perform that evening once again, trying to explain how he feels. "I have only one regret in my whole life," he says. "This is my greatest regret - that my music is not being played and more people aren't seeing Chubby Checker. That's very painful for me. Many nights I have tears in my eyes about that. While I'm praying to God and thanking him for all the good things, I ask, 'Why don't they play my music? Did I do something wrong? Is there something about it?' "It's not just any music - the No. 1 song in the world, the only song to be No. 1 twice - why don't they play my music? It's so painful. Why isn't Chubby getting his music played like the rest of the white boys?"" - Anne Bouey from Bookmarklet

"He may have slowed his step, but he still has some moves. He entertains a procession of young, athletic women he selects from the audience to dance with him onstage - showing them how to do a dance called the hucklebuck, which was originally "only done in the privacy of your own room because it was too nasty," he says. Somehow he makes it more naughty than nasty, which has always been his specialty. Dick Clark knew Checker could show America how to grind its pelvises on nationwide television and make it seem wholesome. That is his special gift. "What I bring to the stage is humility," he says. "I don't bring sex. I bring warmth." - Anne Bouey

"On airplane reservations, he is still plain Ernest Evans. He says he is Chubby Checker only onstage. His latest record, in fact, is a bilingual gospel number by "Brother Evans." He lives in a remodeled colonial farmhouse on 14 acres in Paoli, Pa., that he bought in February 1965 with his wife, 1962 Miss World Catharina Lodders from the Netherlands, whom he'd married in '64.They raised three children and have six grandchildren. "They range in colors from chocolate to gold to blond-haired and blue eyes," he says, "and they all look like me." - Anne Bouey

"The twist was the biggest thing to happen in music between Elvis and the Beatles. Checker was the undisputed king of the twist. He is the brand. That he has not been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame doesn't seem right, and he has not been shy about that topic either. "I told them that because of the importance of what we have given to the music industry ... I should like for you to erect a statue of me in the courtyard of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inviting everybody in to rock 'n' roll. Who is the best spokesman? Elvis? I don't think so." - Anne Bouey

Chubby Checker was NOT the creator of The Twist. Hank Ballard was. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Spidra Webster

Chubby's not in the rock n roll hall of fame?! He should be. - edythe from iPhone

Let's Twist Again is one of the greats. :) - edythe from iPhone