Autographs of Chubby Checker

Chubby Checker (born Ernest Evans; October 3, 1941) is an American rock and roll singer and dancer. He is known for popularizing many dance styles, including the Twist, with his 1960 hit cover of Hank Ballard & The Midnighters' R&B song "The Twist", and the Pony, with his 1961 cover of the song "Pony Time". His biggest UK hit, "Let's Twist Again", was released one year later (in 1962). That same year, Checker also popularized the song "Limbo Rock", a previous-year instrumental hit by the Champs to which he added lyrics and its trademark Limbo dance. He also introduced other dance styles, such as the Fly. 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 1960, an honor it maintained in an August 2013 update of the list. In 2014, Checker was inducted into the National Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame, and he was selected for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2025.
Checker was born Ernest Evans on October 3, 1941, in Spring Gully, South Carolina. He was raised in the projects of South Philadelphia, where he lived with his parents, Raymond and Eartle Evans, and two brothers. By age 11, Evans formed a street-corner harmony group, and by the time he entered high school, Ernest had learned to play the piano a little at Settlement Music School. He entertained his classmates by performing vocal impressions of popular entertainers of the day, such as Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis Presley and Fats Domino. One of his classmates and friends at South Philadelphia High School was Fabian Forte, who would become a popular performer of the late 1950s and early 1960s as Fabian.
After school, Evans would entertain customers at his various jobs, including Fresh Farm Poultry in the Italian Market on Ninth Street and at the Produce Market, with songs and jokes. It was his boss at the Produce Market, Anthony Tambone, who gave Evans the nickname "Chubby". The owner of Fresh Farm Poultry, Henry Colt, was so impressed by the boy's performances for the customers that he, along with his colleague and friend Kal Mann, who worked as a songwriter for Cameo-Parkway Records, arranged for young Chubby to do a private recording for American Bandstand host Dick Clark. After hearing Chubby's Fats Domino impression, Clark's wife, Barbara, suggested that Chubby be called "Chubby Checker" in homage to him.
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Traded items with a signature of Chubby Checker

The most expensive item with a signature of Chubby Checker (Chubby Checker ‘lets Twist Again’ Hand Signed Sheet Music) was sold in November 2025 for £263.06 while the cheapest item (Chubby Checker hand signed vintage sheet music ‘Let’s Twist Again’) found a new owner for £0.99 in July 2024. The month with the most items sold (6) was February 2026 with an average selling price of £75.78 for an autographed item of Chubby Checker. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in April 2025 with £101.69 and the month that saw the lowest prices with £0.99 was July 2014. In average, an autographed item from Chubby Checker is worth £19.95.

Most recently, these items with a signature of Chubby Checker were sold on eBay - click here for more items.

Picture	Item Title	Price	Store
	1962 Chubby Checker Signed Autographed Parkway Records Black Cloud/Birdland BAS	£85.03
	All the Best by Chubby Checker [CD, 2008] **AUTOGRAPHED BY CHUBBY CHECKER**	£137.65
	AUTOGRAPHED 1960s VG++ Chubby Checker Let's Limbo Some More/Twenty Miles 862 45	£68.00
	autographed 1961 VG+ Chubby Checker The Twist/Twistin' U.S.A CROPPED SLEEVE! 45	£53.58
	autographed BOTH 1960s VG+ Bobby Rydell, Chubby Checker Teach Me To Twist 45	£130.91
	Autographed Chubby Checker 45	£26.59
	Autographed LP: Chubby Checker “The Change Has Come”	£42.69
	Chubby Checker CD Greatest Hits ●Autographed No COA●	£17.51
	Chubby Checker Texas Twist Radio CD Teec Signed	£17.73
	Chubby Checker: Knock Down the Walls - autographed maxi-single CD	£8.92
	hand signed 1960s MINT-EXC chubby checker the twist/twistin (vg+ sleeve) 45	£90.63
	hand signed 1962 MINT-EXC SLEEVES & good minus 45 Chubby Checker Slow Twistin 45	£60.94
	Original CHUBBY CHECKER BIGGEST HITS 1963 LP P-7022 w Pull-Off Pix SIGNED Clean	£87.59
	SIGNED CD-40th Anniv. Chubby Checker's Greatest Hits-Dancing Apart to the Beat	£30.96
	signed Chubby Checker CD 16 Greatest Hits The Twist Let's Twist Again Limbo Rock	£61.84