Chubby Checker - Film and Musical Depictions

Film and Musical Depictions

Chubby appears as himself in the 1989 Quantum Leap episode entitled "Good Morning, Peoria" where he walks into a radio station in 1959 hoping to have his demo record played on the air. The show's main character, Dr. Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) convinces the station owner to play the song "The Twist".

In 2001 he again guest-starred as himself singing "The Twist" in season 4 of Ally McBeal.

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