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🌀 August 6, 1960 – Chubby Checker Twists His Way Into History... But the Story Starts Earlier On this date, Chubby Checker performed "The Twist" on national television for the very first time on Dick Clark’s Saturday Night Beechnut Show—and a full-blown cultural phenomenon was born. But here’s the twist behind The Twist: The song was actually written and first recorded by Hank Ballard and The Midnighters in 1959. Ballard’s version had the groove, the lyrics, and the spark—but it was Chubby Chec