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While in the studio, Clark's wife, Barbara walked in and said to him, "Chubby.... Chubby Checker. You're going to be Chubby for Fats and Checker for Domino." And Ernest Evans received yet another new name and became Chubby Checker for the rest of time. A few months later, while still attending South Philadelphia High School, Chubby Checker bureau made his first record called "The Class". Just before Chubby Checker bureau graduated from high school, the record company told him they had a song that had been done by bureau someone else, but they wanted him to record it over again. The song was the Twist. It had been written and originally recorded by Hank Ballard in 1958 and had made a little noise, but was no hit record by any means. Chubby Checker went in the studio and recorded the tune. Before Chubby Checker graduated high school, the Twist was a hit and so was he.
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