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Coming up… it’s a countdown of the Top 5 hit resurrections of the Rock Era! These are the songs that made it into the upper reaches of the charts not once, but twice—on separate campaigns. Our list includes a Queen song about a homicidal cowboy that lingered in a legend's mind for years before being recorded, a Righteous Brothers track where the lead vocal was decided by a coin toss, a controversial Benny Mardones ballad about a 16-year-old that had radio programmers sweating, a Prince song so ingeniously full of metaphors, it managed to slip by the moral majority, and a timeless classic sung by Chubby Checker who cut the session short because he to go race back to his house and do his homework. The countdown is NEXT on Professor of Rock.

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So on this show we have Revelations, we have Evolution, and today we have Resurrections. Today we’re going to countdown the Top 5 Hit Resurrections of the Rock Era. Each of these 5 songs managed to break the Top 20 on the Billboard Hot 100, twice! and there’s some great stories on these ones plus the artists actual reactions.

Coming in at #5 “The Twist” by Chubby Checker: ”The Twist" wasn’t just the ultimate comeback hit of the Rock Era—it was a cultural earthquake that shook up the music scene and dance floors around the world like nothing before. Elvis Presley may have made dancing a hot topic with his provocative moves on the Ed Sullivan Show in September ’56, but Chubby Checker took it to a whole new level. With "The Twist," he ignited a nationwide dance craze, introducing what he famously describes as "dancing apart to the beat.”

”The Twist" exploded into a pop culture sensation when Chubby Checker took it to new heights, but the song’s origins trace back to 1958. Hank Ballard and the Midnighters originally released it as the B-side to "Teardrops on Your Letter," drawing inspiration from the emerging twist dance craze. Ballard’s version made a modest impact, reaching number 28 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1960 and climbing to #16 on the Billboard Hot R&B chart in 1959, later peaking at number six in 1960. By 1962, Ballard’s take on "The Twist" had sold over a million copies, marking his fourth million-seller hit… But let’s take about Chubby Checker.

Born Ernest Evans, Chubby Checker was born to a poor family in South Carolina and said his family lived like Amish people with no electricity and no running water. Chubby was inspired to get into music when he saw ERNEST TUBB perform at a fair when he was only four years old. Years later While he was still navigating the angst-ridden halls of high school, Chubby Checker stepped into the Cameo-Parkway studio on Locust Street in Philadelphia and recorded “The Twist.”