EVANS, ERNEST (CHUBBY CHECKER
). Rock singer ( in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania). He was active in nightclubs, on television, in theaters, and in films, including Twist Around the Clock (1972) and Let the Good Times Roll (1973). He invented his stage name in imitation of
Fats
Domino
, whose real name was
Antoine Domino
. His best-known recordings were of The twist
(1960), which set off the twist
dance craze, the biggest since the Charleston craze of the 1920s; Let's twist...
EVANS, ERNEST
(*1941)> ROCK SINGER