I am trying to pinpoint the exact moment in time when following the career of Chubby Checker became my full time job. I was just trying to see a free Blondie concert. Why did Chubby Checker have to be selling meat? Why does he keep doing things that keep him in the news? Somewhere along the line I turned into the Chubby Checker news desk and all of my readers became correspondents.
Heave a sigh, because you have guessed correctly. Early Monday morning I had an email from EQ titled Chubby Checker News. She sent this link. It seems that Chubby Checker has reinvented himself as a rap artist. He now goes by the name Chubby C. This raises many questions, including why didn't he do this in the late eighties when he worked with The Fat Boys? It seems to me that the best time to take a rap name is while working with a rap act.
I know a recent article mentioned that he has a dance remix of the Limbo Rock out right now, but dance remix and rap are very different categories. And the article doesn't mention anything else about this alleged reinvention. I am waiting for the announcement that Dr. Dre will produce Chubby C's debut rap album. The first single and accompanying video could feature Snoop Dogg. Think of the cross generational marketing possibilities!
Also of note in that article, the fact that people compared meeting Chubby C. to meeting Elvis. Huh. I got nothing. In other news, he is also trying to get into the Guinness Book Of World Records by, I don't know, nagging them or something. That's how he's trying to get into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame.
The story claims that some radio station contest was held to get the biggest group of people ever to dance all at once or something. One hundred fourteen people doing the Electric Slide does not a record make. The story also says that there is no large crowd engaged in dancing record in the Guinness Book right now, but I guess Chubby C. needs a hobby.