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As host of American Bandstand, Clark introduced rock and roll to many Americans. The show gave many new music artists their first exposure to national audiences, including The Supremes , Ike & Tina Turner , Smokey Robinson and the Miracles , Stevie Wonder , Simon & Garfunkel , Iggy Pop , Prince , Talking Heads and Madonna .
Dick Clark in a promotional image for American Bandstand in 1961 Charlie O'Donnell, the show's announcer. The only singer to ever co-host the show with Dick Clark was Donna Summer, who joined him to present a special episode dedicated to the release of the Casablanca film Thank God It's Friday on May 27, 1978.
Clark had shared afternoon DJ duties with Horn on WFIL-AM (Horn had been working radio and TV simultaneously, and wasn't happy about it.) [4] Bandstand was picked up by ABC (becoming American Bandstand) on August 5, 1957, and went on to great success with Dick Clark as host.
The Dick Clark radio show began syndication in the late 1950s as part of MARS Broadcasting. [2] The name and lower-case stylization of Dick Clark Productions dates back to, at latest, 1964, when Dick Clark's public relations manager, Henry Rogers of Rogers & Cowan, suggested naming his production company after himself, so he could be more visible following American Bandstand ' s move to Hollywood.
(Clark died in 2012.) “I was a kid watching this show, watching other people do the things that I get a chance to do every day. Wanting to do it,” the American Idol host added to Us in 2022 of ...
The event began being televised in the 1950s (it was broadcasted on radio years before that), but it really morphed into what it is today during the 70s, when American Bandstand host Dick Clark ...
In 1959, radio and television personality and television producer Dick Clark organized and produced a concert tour of rock and roll and rhythm and blues artists, many of whom had appeared on his music performance and dance television program, American Bandstand. The show was billed as Dick Clark's Caravan of Stars. Its success prompted ...
The B'zz; The Babys; Bachman–Turner Overdrive; Badfinger; Philip Bailey; Baltimora; Scott Baio; Anita Baker; Joby Baker; LaVern Baker; Marty Balin; Bananarama; The ...