CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa. — “Good morning, Mr. Evans.”

“Only the tax man calls me ‘Mr. Evans,’” replies the soft, friendly voice on the phone.

Ernest Evans’ other name is Chubby Checker, and he will perform two sold-out shows at Hoosier Park Racing and Casino in Anderson on Saturday.

Chubby Checker is the rocker who made The Twist a national dance sensation in the early ’60s. But the still-youthful 67-year-old also holds a record that will likely never be broken.

His recording of “The Twist” was No. 1 on the Billboard charts. Twice. In two different years: 1960 and 1962.

“I’ve known Chubby since he was a kid,” said entertainment icon Dick Clark via e-mail. “I’ve watched him grow and mature into one of the legends of rock ’n’ roll.”

Gene Swindell, a DJ at WHUT-AM 1470 (now WGNR) from 1960 to 1970, said that Checker’s fame was pervasive in those days.

“He’ll always be known as the rock-’n’-roller that invented the dance craze,” Swindell said Wednesday from his office in Atlanta.

In 2008, Billboard magazine named “The Twist” the biggest No. 1 song of the past 50 years.

According to Dick Clark, it is “probably one of the most influential songs of all time.”

But it didn’t start out that way.

Checker said from his Pennsylvania offices that he started out wanting to be Sammy Davis Jr., Frank Sinatra or Nat King Cole.

Then Checker (his name coined by Clark’s wife as a play on “Fats Domino”) heard a recent B-side by Hank Ballard. The song was languishing on the charts, but a dance was emerging. It was rudimentary, just kids shaking to the beat of music.

Checker recorded his own version of the song and launched a publicity campaign about the dance.

“And lo and behold, (radio stations) started playing ‘The Twist.’ And the rest is history.”