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On This Day in 2003, We Lost the Pen Behind the Pioneering Chubby Checker Hit That Launched a Dance Craze and a New Era for Rock and Roll

On This Day in 2003, We Lost the Pen Behind the Pioneering Chubby Checker Hit That Launched a Dance Craze and a New Era for Rock and Roll

Posted on March 2, 2026 at 7:51 am by Milltown Radio



On This Day in 2003, We Lost the Pen Behind the Pioneering Chubby Checker Hit That Launched a Dance Craze and a New Era for Rock and RollHank Ballard, the writer of Chubby Checker’s famous rock and roll hit, “The Twist”, died on this day in 2003.

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