Forty-five years ago, on February 8, 1965, Motown Records released The Supremes‘ “Stop! In the Name of Love.” Recorded over the course of three sessions the previous January, the song wasn’t the first of the great anthems the songwriting and production team of Eddie Holland, Lamont Dozier, and Brian Holland would concoct, but it was arguably the greatest of their early productions....
A good piece by Emily Brandon of U.S. News & World Report (and not only because Yours Truly and Brent Green are quoted): Social Security Administration Sees Stars February 1, 2010 (Chubby) Checker is the latest star in a series of celebrity-studded Social Security public service announcements that have come out over the past year, most of which feature actress Patty Duke. I warn against nostalgia...
By Everett M. Lo Social Security Administration’s Regional Public Affairs Office in the New York Region If you’ve been thinking about applying for extra help with your Medicare prescription drug costs, then now’s the time to get on the dance floor and hop to it. Chubby Checker, the Grammy Award winning rock and roll legend most known for his hit, “The Twist,” has teamed...
Michael J. Astrue, Commissioner of Social Security, and Chubby Checker, Grammy Award winner and rock and roll legend, have launched a new campaign to inform millions of Americans about a new “twist” in the law that makes it easier to qualify for extra help with Medicare prescription drug costs. The extra help program currently provides [...]
Changes Make it Easier to Qualify for Extra Help with Medicare Prescription Drug Plan Costs (Local contact is John Garlinger; phone: 816.936.5740 / email: john.garlinger@ssa.gov) Michael J. Astrue, Commissioner of Social Security, and Chubby Checker, Grammy Award winner and rock and roll legend, today launched a new campaign to inform millions of Americans about a new “twist” in...
Filed under: Insurance , Retire , Health , Insurance-health Social Security is using Chubby Checker to help promote an expanded "Extra Help" program for one million more seniors who need assistance to be able to afford their prescription drugs. Seniors who were rejected for Extra Help in the past should reapply to see if they meet the new requirements. With Extra Help, seniors can pay as...
WASHINGTON -- The feds had to go back a bit to find just the right Baby Boomer to help publicize a new twist in the Medicare drug program -- 68-year- old Chubby Checker, the singer who popularized the dance craze "The Twist" back in the '60s. More than a million...
Poor Divinity 2 . Any traditional fantasy RPG (even an action RPG) with a focus on dragons is bound to draw players' minds to BioWare's Dragon Age: Origins , a truly fantastic title to which almost any other would compare negatively. And sure, Divinity II isn't as good -- but you'd be wrong to cast a jaundiced eye over this one; there's plenty of quality gaming to be had here, if you're willing to...
Chubby Checker and Social Security Commissioner Astrue Announce a New “Twist” in the Law Michael J. Astrue, Commissioner of Social Security, and Chubby Checker, Grammy Award winner and rock and roll legend, today launched a new campaign to inform millions of Americans about a new “twist” in the law that makes it easier to qualify for [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) -- In case the prospect of nearly $4,000 in prescription assistance isn't enough to perk up low-income seniors, the government is using '60s singer Chubby Checker to publicize "the twist" in the Medicare drug program. As of Jan.
An LP on the small Valmor label that put this out in the early 60's when the Twist dance craze was at it's height. All instrumentals of old rockers like Dream Lover, Splish Splash and Kansas City etc. "The thrill of the late 1950s and the phenomenon of the early 1960s --the dance anyone can do-- was the twist. Nearly the hula-hoop movement without the hoop, the twist paved the way for the frug,...
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