The Class (song) - Misplaced Pages

1959 single by Chubby Checker

"The Class" is 1959 novelty song by American rock and roll recording artist Chubby Checker. It peaked number thirty-eight on the Billboard Hot 100 and was his first entry on the chart. In the song, Checker plays a music teacher who asks his class (Checker doing impressions of various musicians) for their homework, which are variations of Mary Had a Little Lamb. The musicians imitated are Fats Domino, the Coasters, Elvis Presley, Cozy Cole, and the Chipmunks (who are referred to as Ricky, Frankie, and Fabian).

v t e Chubby Checker
Singles	"The Class" "The Twist" "The Hucklebuck" "Pony Time" "Let's Twist Again" "The Fly" "Jingle Bell Rock" (with Bobby Rydell) "Slow Twistin'" (with Dee Dee Sharp) "Dancin' Party" "Limbo Rock"/"Popeye the Hitchhiker" "Let's Limbo Some More"/"Twenty Miles" "Birdland" "Loddy Lo"/"Hooka Tooka" "Let's Do the Freddie" "Back in the U.S.S.R."
Albums	Twist with Chubby Checker For Twisters Only Bobby Rydell/Chubby Checker Let's Twist Again For 'Teen Twisters Only Limbo Party Chequered!
Related articles	Twist Around the Clock Don't Knock the Twist

References

Breihan, Tom (November 15, 2022). "Chubby Checker - "The Twist". The Number Ones: Twenty Chart-Topping Hits That Reveal the History of Pop Music. New York: Hachette Book Group. p. 16.
"ASCAP Repertory entry for this song". ASCAP. Retrieved May 14, 2021.
"Chubby Checker". Billboard. Retrieved 2022-01-16.
Dawson, Jim (1995). The twist : the story of the song that changed the world. Internet Archive. Boston : Faber & Faber. pp. 30-31. ISBN 978-0-571-19852-8.

This 1950s song-related article is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.