The Class (song) explained

"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.^[2] 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^[3] (who are referred to as Ricky, Frankie, and Fabian).

Notes and References

1. Book: Breihan, Tom. Chubby Checker - "The Twist. November 15, 2022. The Number Ones: Twenty Chart-Topping Hits That Reveal the History of Pop Music. Hachette Book Group. New York. 16.
2. Chubby Checker. 2022-01-16. Billboard. en-US.
3. Book: Dawson, Jim. The twist : the story of the song that changed the world. 1995. Boston : Faber & Faber. Internet Archive. 978-0-571-19852-8. 30-31.