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Topic: Dick Clark under harsh spotlight in documentary |
Jason Schofield
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Posted 24 Sep 2009 6:27 pm |
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This looks kind of interesting.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090925/en_nm/us_clark_1
I always hated those lip syncing performances. But I guess it just wasn't practical to set up a band's whole sound system to do one song. Remember Solid Gold?? Ughhh.. |
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Barry Blackwood
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Posted 25 Sep 2009 6:25 am
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| Right on. |
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Bo Borland
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Posted 25 Sep 2009 3:54 pm
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| wow, this happened in my hometown, i have a lot of friends that lived it, and still no one speaks about it.. DC still must have a lot of power. |
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Jeremy Steele
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Princeton, NJ USA
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Posted 26 Sep 2009 5:17 am
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| I once worked as road crew for one of the "New Year's Rockin' Eve" extravaganzas...will never forget Dick and the missus driving up in the Country Squire after the load out to claim what was left of the deli trays...blew my mind then, but now it sorta makes sense....waste not, want not. |
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Mike Perlowin
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Los Angeles CA
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Posted 26 Sep 2009 8:06 am
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Dick Clark also promoted "The Fabulous Fabian" as the next rock and roll icon, told Bobby Darin that releasing "Mack the Knife)" would ruin his career, and dismissed the Beatles as just another bar band.
Still, I must admit, I loved American Bandstand when I was a kid, and it's the first place I ever saw a steel guitar. Santo and Johnny appeared and (guitar synced?) Sleep Walk.
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Andy Sandoval
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Bakersfield, California, USA
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Posted 26 Sep 2009 10:10 am
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| The first live music concert I attended as a young teen was "Dick Clark's Caravan of Stars"...what a show. |
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Dave Hopping
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Aurora, Colorado
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Posted 26 Sep 2009 11:43 pm
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BIG Bandstand fan back in the day.Missed Santo and Johnny,but I did catch Duane Eddy and the band playing(I think)"40 Miles of Bad Road" live on the show.It had a real ending--no fade.Saw Charlie Gracie on AB once too,doing one of his later tunes.BTW speaking of Charlie,within the past couple of weeks somebody here,or maybe on the TDPRI,mentioned doing a gig with him....
Yeah,I think Dick Clark probably had his hand in a lot of pockets,and made at least as much off a lot of tunes as the artists did.During Clark's heyday,the paradigm of artists holding on to control of their material was still several years in the future,and it seems to me that Dick Clark's decline as a creative business force began when the self-contained bands came into prominence. |
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