The dance craze known as the twist seemed to take over the music world for a few years. When Hank Ballard wrote “The Twist” and put it out as the B-side of “Teardrops on Your Letter” in 1959, it was ...

The 84-year-old, born Ernest Evans in South Carolina, has been eligible for induction since the first Rock Hall class in 1986. On Saturday, November 8 in Los Angeles, the artist who turned “The Twist” ...

"The Twist" by Chubby Checker remains a unique single in American music history. While hundreds of singles have reached number one on the Billboard Pop Singles Chart, fell out of that position, and ...

Believing Chubby Checker’s The Twist is an iconic pop song worth not just remembering but replaying, Ridgefielder Gary Lefkowith has remixed and remastered the song, which was re-released as a CD ...

It’s the latest milestone in a career marked by authenticity and connection. From his breakout single “Pretty Heart” to his ...

Recently, I had the opportunity to be a disc jockey for a record hop at The Village. We were going to bill it as a “sock hop” but realized with limited medical staff on site that would not have been ...

John Lennon was a fan of a Bruce Springsteen song and a Cars song for the same reason. He liked 1980s music with 1950s vibes as well as classic rock songs from the 1950s. The Springsteen song was huge ...