Chubby Checker "The Twist"

I’ve done this before, SGT (Join to see), but how did Chubby Checker get his name?

“Ernest Evans, later known as Chubby Checker, was born in Spring Gully, South Carolina. He was raised in the projects of South Philadelphia...After school Evans would entertain customers at his various jobs, including Fresh Farm Poultry in the Italian Market on Ninth Street and at the Produce Market, with songs and jokes. It was his boss at the Produce Market, ‘Tony A.’, who gave Evans the nickname ‘Chubby’. The owner of Fresh Farm Poultry, Henry Colt, was so impressed by the boy's performances for the customers that he, along with his colleague and friend Kal Mann, who worked as a songwriter for Cameo-Parkway Records, arranged for young Chubby to do a private recording for American Bandstand host Dick Clark. At this recording session Evans got his stage name from Clark's wife, who asked Evans what his name was. ‘Well,’ he replied, ‘my friends call me 'Chubby'.’ As he had just completed a Fats Domino impression, she smiled and said, ‘As in Checker?’ That little play on words (‘chubby’ describing a degree of fatness and ‘checkers’ being, like ‘dominoes,’ a tabletop game) got an instant laugh, and stuck: from then on, Evans would use the name ‘Chubby Checker’.”
LTC Greg Henning PO1 William "Chip" Nagel PVT Mark Zehner PO3 Bob McCord SGT Robert Pryor

That studio audience looks like it would have been a great place for a teenage boy to go pick up girls.

I was actually watching that show. None of us guys could figure it out at first but the girls all latched on to it quickly.