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Checker performed on the Philadelphia streets before signing with Cameo-Parkway Records in and recording his version of Hank Ballard's "The Twist. Checker still performs today and was featured in a popular ad for Nabisco's Oreo cookies. Checker's family moved to Philadelphia, and as a young boy, he worked various jobs shining shoes, selling ice and assisting in a butcher's shop. Because of his heavy build, he got his nickname, Chubby, while working as a teen at Tony Anastazi's Produce Store.

Chubby Checker - The Pony. It's pony time, Boogety, boogety, boogety shoo Hey now let's party with the union hall, It's pony time when ya hear this call, So get with it, Don't quit it, Get up. Do the pony with your partner, With a big boss line, Well anyway ya do it, You're gonna look real fine, So get with it, Don't quit it, Get up. Now ya turn to the left when I say gee, You turn to the right when I say haw, Now gee, ya ya baby, Now haw, ya oh baby, oh baby, pretty baby, Do it baby, oh baby, oh baby, Boogety, boogety, boogety, boogety shoo. Gonna see little Suzie, who lives next door, She's doin' the pony, she's takin' the floor, Eeea ah, so get with it, don't quit it, come on, Boogety, boogety, boogety, boogety shoo.

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Available on iTunes and All Access Downloads. Like Chubby on Facebook. When he was a small boy, his mother took him to see Sugar Child Robinson, a child piano prodigy and also the famous country singer Ernest Tubb. Young Evans was so impressed, that he vowed to someday enter show business and took his first step toward that goal by forming a street corner harmony group when he was only 11 years old.