in helping make the music the common ground between blacks an whites. a thing called the twist, here s chubby checker come on baby. were you 13 at the time? i was actually 12 when i recorded the song but it was released when i was 12 and they said that i was 12. this is a squeaky little voice of an early stevie wonder, ladies and gentlemen, stevie wonder. ladies and gentlemen, the first visit, the jackson 5. [cheers and applause] governor huckabee: what once was considered race music what s the essence of the deeply felt and rhythm and blues and soul music that brought races together. dick clark was more effective than the politics and even the preachers, that caused people to think of others for their contributions to art, rather than the color of their skin. while politic tends to highlight our divisions and differences,