Gene Chandler ... going, and Chandler would sometimes turn those nonsense syllables into nonsense words: “Duke, duke, duke, duke of Earl.” When he turned them into a song, that song was ...

First Chubby Checker (two weeks) and then Joey Dee and The Starliters (three weeks) had kept America dancing, but that all ended 50 years ago this week when Gene Chandler ascended to the top of ...