"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.[3] 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[4] (who are referred to as Ricky, Frankie, and Fabian).[citation needed]
| "The Class" | |
|---|---|
| Single by Chubby Checker | |
| B-side | "Schooldays, Oh Schooldays" |
| Released | 1959 |
| Recorded | 1959 |
| Genre | Novelty[1] |
| Label | Cameo-Parkway |
| Songwriter(s) | Kal Mann[2] |
References
edit- ^ 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.
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