Chubby Checker (born Ernest Evans, October 3, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter. He is widely known for popularizing the twist dance style, with his 1960 hit cover of Hank Ballard's R&B hit "The Twist". In September 2008 "The Twist" topped Billboard's list of the most popular singles to have appeared in the Hot 100 since its debut in 1958, an honor it maintained for an August 2013 update of the list. He also popularized the Limbo Rock and its trademark limbo dance, as well as various dance styles such as the fly.
Checker is the only recording artist to place five albums in the Top 12 all at once. The performer has often claimed to have personally changed the way we dance to the beat of music, as when he told Billboard, "Anyplace on the planet, when someone has a song that has a beat, they're on the floor dancing apart to the beat. And before Chubby Checker, it wasn't here." Clay Cole agreed: "Chubby Checker has never been properly acknowledged for one major contribution to pop culture—Chubby and the Twist got adults out and onto the dance floor for the first time. Before the Twist dance phenomenon, grownups did not dance to teenage music."
Are you ready, Let’s do the Freddie
Are you ready, Gonna do the Freddie
Oooo Oooo Oooo Ooo
Do the Freddie
Oh Oh Oh Oh
There’s a dance that crossin’ the nation
Causin’ more than a great sensation
You flip your wings just like a bird
I know it sounds crazy
But you gotta take my word
You wave your hands up to the sky
Kick your legs out to the side
Are you ready, Let’s do the Freddie
Are you ready, we’re gonna do the Freddie
Better do the dance every day or night
If you wanna learn to do it right
It’s good to [- - ] the second hop around
Your heart starts poundin’ like it’s upside down
Are you ready, Let’s do the Freddie
Are you ready, we’reg onna do the Freddie
Ar mums and brothers, sisters and ya daddio
Soon as you learn the Freddie
Other dances gotta go oh oh
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Do it in your house and down at school
Do it with the hippies and with the fools
Do this dance every day and night
If you wanna learn to do it right
You gotta wave your hands up to the sky
Kick your legs out to the side
Are you ready, Let’s do the Freddie
Are you ready, get ready Freddie
Kick your legs out to the side
Gonna do the Freddie
Kick your legs up high