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Thanks to his original '60s recordings on Cameo-Parkway being held hostage by ABKCO, the label that bought the rights, Chubby Checker was forced to cut re-recordings of his hits like "The Twist," "Limbo Rock," "Pony Time," and "Let's Twist Again." One could speculate that Checker could have made enough money to survive by touring the oldies circuit and might have forgone redoing his songs so that seemingly every budget label on earth could release them. But re-record them he did and almost every Checker collection (with the exception of the two on ABKCO from 1972 and 2005) consists of these modernmore… versions. St. Clair's Forever Gold appears to have gotten its hands on the original versions, at least for a few of the 12 songs that appear on the collection. The big hits ("The Twist," "Limbo Rock," "Pony Time," and "Let's Twist Again") all sound legit, as only some of the filler tracks like "Hey Boba Needle" and "Dance This Mess Around" are re-recordings. The hodgepodge nature of the collection makes it hard to recommend. If you want to check out some Checker you'll want to track down a collection of all-original recordings.

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Music > Albums

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CD

Release Type:

Retail

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Title:

Chubby Checker - Forever Gold (2000) Retail CD

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Front

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2000 x 2000 px

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