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Dick Clark 4
Friday, May 4, 2012
In 1963 he started something new in the hosting of game shows. He watched over The Object Is (cancelled in 1964) and replaced by Missing Links on which he replaced Ed McMahon. He was the first host of The ,000 Pyramid which premiered on CBS in March 1973. The show (a word association game) changed to bigger top prizes and created several spin-offs. Clarkhosted the daytime version and won three Emmy’s for Best Game Show host. During his run Pyramid won 9 Emmys, eclipsed only by the syndicated version of Jeopardy. He retired from the show in 1988. He guest starred on the show in later versions with the same seamless aplomb he always showed. Entertainment Weekly set Clark’s ‘quietly commanding presence’ as a major factor in the show’s popularity. He made so many TV appearances on other shows, even did a little acting, that to list them all....well, I’m not gonna, but there were lots. In 1972, he produced and hosted Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin Eve, the first of a popular, long running show that became part of a lot of people’s New Years Eve for decades to come. In 2004 he was unable to attend due to a stroke that rendered him partially paralyzed and with speech problems. Regis Philbin handled hosting duties that year. Clark returned the following year with Ryan Seacrest acting as the primary host. His final appearance was this year, 2012, the show’s 40th anniversary program. He spoke about the show to a Los Angeles Times rep. He said the two most memorable moments for him were the millenium broadcast and Jennifer Lopez’s performance in 2009. ‘The most amazing thing to me about doing the show for 40 years is how quickly it all went) he said. Dick Clark was married three times. His first was to high school sweetheart Barbara Mallery in 1952. They had a son, Richard and divorced in 1961. He married his former secretary, Loretta Martin in 1962. They had two children, Duane and Cindy. They divorced in 1971 . In 1977 he married another former secretary, Kari Wigton. His business acumen was such that he amassed a fortune over the decades, but he was always much better known for his on-air persona and those ageless good looks and just pure charm. That which comes to us all took Dick Clark on 18 April 2012. He suffered a massive heart attack while having a procedure done. Dick Clark, the forever teenager, died at St. John’s hospital. He had a huge influence on the viewing and listening habits of music fans for a bit over 50 years. He was a true pioneer.
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Thursday, May 3, 2012
“I was roundly criticized for being in and around Rock & Roll music at it’s inception. It was the Devil’s music, it would make your teeth fall out and your hair turn blue, whatever the hell. You get through that.” Dick Clark “The man was big. He was the biggest thing in America at that time. He was bigger than the president.” Hank Ballard, songwriter (The Twist) His work on Bandstand was getting recognition and praise from critics and fans alike. People were beginning to see subtle yet inexorable changes taking place because it didn’t just endwhen the show was over for the day. Once American Bandstand got really rolling it ruled. It’s been speculated that the spread (like a bonfire) of Rock & Roll across the country in the late 1950s with one exception, that being Elvis Presley, was of Dick Clark’s making. “He became a primary force in legitimizing Rock & Roll.” That kind of comment, full of praise for the young man was common and justified. He had a humble side as well which no doubt helped him to keep things in perspective in the face of nearly overnight fame and fortune. “I played records, the kids danced, and America watched." Dick Clark In short order, once he took over, he ended the show’s all white policy and blacks and whites performed on the same stage and studio seating was desegregated. A young singer from Canada named Paul Anka started his career at roughly the same time, had this as an explanation for Clark’s seeming boundless popularity; “This was a time when there was no youth culture -- he created it.” “My talent is bringing out the best in other talent, organizing people to showcase them and being able to survive the ordeal, I hope someday somebody will say that in the beginning stages of the birth of the music of the Fifties, though I didn’t contribute in terms of creativity, I helped keep it alive." Dick Clark Ciao In 1960, the U.S. Senate with nothing better to do launched an investigation of something called Payola. In reality it’s quite likely that many of those intrepid senators couldn’t give a tinker’s damn about payola and the only real accomplishment after it was all over was to put people in the business out of work and put a pall in general over the entire music industry. It was a way to show the constituents that were getting on their cases over the demonic Rock & Roll, that they were actually doing something about it. Payola was the practice of music-producing companies paying broadcasting companies to favor their songs. Clark’s personal investments in music publishing and recording companies were considered a conflict of interest, so he was compelled to sell shares in some of the companies. He was never charged with anything and he strongly denied any involvement.
Clark was asked about some of the causes for the hearings and answered “Politicians.......did their damndest to respond to the pressures they were getting from parents and publishing companies and people who were being driven out of business (by rock)....It hit a responsive chord with the electorate, the older people...they full-out HATED the music. (But) it stayed alive. It could have been nipped in the bud because they could have stopped it from being on TV and radio.”
Dick Clark Pic D.C. 1950
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
 Dick Clark 2
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Clark was a natural communicator, always knowing what to say and when to say it. He had a natural rapport with the show’s teenage audience and contestants and things just took off. I’ll reiterate what a master communicater he was. Rock & Roll scared the hell out of a lot of people, from my parents and grandparents generations, they felt threatened by it’s rebellious theme. Some of the public statements about it from people in authority bordering on the hysterical. Dick Clark was able to smooth those waters seemingly with ease. He was able to introduce new songs and the oldies in such a way that people’s concerns and fears started to fade. I mean here was this wonderfully clean-cut good looking, affable, urbane young man who had the gift of the gab and quite simply charmed people of all ages right off their feet. Who could possibly stay mad at him for anything. You have to keep something in mind which may illustrate what an accomplishment this was. Most, if not all, of the bigwigs and movers and shakers in the music business viscerally hated Rock & Roll. Politicians at all levels, church officials and ministers, singers and songwriters of the generations referrred to before were having mouth frothing fits over it. Anything anybody had to say about it was always dripping with acid. Frank Sinatra was reported to have called Elvis Presley a “rancid-smelling aphrodisiac” and that was mild compared to some. Most of the Rock & Roll performers were quite measured in their responses to the insults hurled at them, those that responded at all that is. When the show started out he wasn’t very familiar with most of the songs available to play , but he wisely consulted the kids he was playing the music for (what a concept) and it wasn’t long at all before his grasp of the genre was thorough. ABC picked Bandstand up in 1958 to run on Saturdays. By the end of it’s first year viewership was over 20 million and featured artists were assured of big sales boosts after apearing on the show.In 1959 he was called “America’s youngest starmaker” and at the close of 1959 sales were 50 million. Clark moved the show from Philadelphia to Los Angeles in 1964, drawn there by the surfing/hot car craze and the popularity of the sound that went along with it. The show ran daily Monday through Friday until the last few years it was back to weekly on Saturday. The show’s emphasis in the beginning was just playing records, but in the 60s the focus expanded to some live acts and during that period a lot of acts were exposed to a national audience for the first time in their careers. Clark was interviewed in 1990 by Henry Schipper of Rolling Stone magazine. It was noted during the interview that over two thirds of the artists who had been inhitiated into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame had their TV debuts on Bandstand. During the tenure of the show over 10,000 live performances were featured and many of them wouldn’t have had that opportunity if it weren’t for Bandstand, because competing variety shows weren’t exactly friendly to rock.
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America's oldest teenager
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Richard Wagstaff “Dick” Clark 30 November 1929 - 18 April 2012 Entertainer, radio and TV personality, game show host, host of TV’s longest running variety show, skilled communicator and perhaps most importantly, he was a major force in legitimizing Rock& Roll. This legitimizing process wasn’t so much necessary for the kids listening to Rock & Roll, they already knew about it, they didn’t need convincing. No, it wasn’t the kids, it was their parents that needed to be convinced that their children weren’t going to become satanists or arch criminals or go insane from listening to ‘evil’ Rock & Roll. He had a youthful appearance which had him tagged as “America’s oldest teenager.” His American Bandstand, gave many new artists with or without talent such as, Ike & Tina Turner, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, Stevie Wonder, Talking Heads and Simon & Garfunkel their first exposure to national audiences. His shows were in the vanguard of shows where white and blacks performed on the same stage and live audience seating was desegregated. Not only was he host to the first ever TV show dedicated to Rock & Roll, but it was also the longest running musical show in TV history running from 1957 - 87.
A successful businessman, he served as chairman and chief executive officer of Dick Clark Productions, selling part of it off in later years. He founded the American Bandstand Diner, a chain modeled after the Hard Rock Cafe. In 1973 he created and produced the American Music Awards show.
Born in Bronxville, New York and raised nearby in Mount Vernon, where he was an average student up ‘til he discovered radio in the 10th grade, quickly deciding that his career was going to be in the broadcasting/music genre. He attended A.B. Davis High School in Mount Vernon and graduated from Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York in 1951 with a degree in advertising and a minor in radio. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, (Phi Gamma) while at Syracuse.
His first job (1945), was working in the mailroom at WRUN, an AM radio station in Rome, New York. The station was owned by his uncle and managed by his father. He was asked to fill in for their vacationing weatherman and before long was announcing station breaks.
While at Syracuse he worked at WOLF AM, at the time a country station. After graduating he returned to WRUN for a while under the name of Dick Clay. He took a job at TV station WKTV in Utica, New York. His first TV hosting job was on Cactus Dick and the Sante Fe Riders a country-music program.
In 1952 he moved to Drexel Hill, Pensylvania, a Philadelphia suburb, and took a job as a disc jockey at radio station WFII and that was where he became Dick Clark. He worked on a show called Bob Horn’s Bandstand in 1952 serving as a regular substitute for Horn and took over for him entirely when Horn was arrested for drunk driving and was dismissed. On July 9, 1956 Clark became the permanent host.
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