Some of the stories I heard are heartbreaking, Sullivan recalls. It was horrible., Smith says he was lucky to have escaped a beating. Were goin hopin today . When ABC picked up the game show Do You Trust Your Wife? Hes a heckuva good dancer who does a mean jitterbug! No way I will get in his way! Years later, when Clark was asked whether any of the dancers had died of AIDS, he stated that one had, Smith recalled. Dick Clark Productions is credited as the show's co-producer, and longtime employee Allen Shapiro serves as co-executive producer. That really annoyed me because quite a few of the Philadelphia dancers on Bandstand died of AIDS, Smith said. Filmed in the cramped quarters of the WFIL Studios at 46th and Market Streets in Philly, Bandstand is such a part of Americana that Dick Clarks podium now resides in the Smithsonian. In fact, it was dangerous. 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In 1988, the National Park Service listed 4548 Market Street on the National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. American Bandstand Regulars -- Justine Carrelli, Joe Fusco, Myrna Horowitz - The 3rd Degree - 1989 Bandstands Best 3.54K subscribers Subscribe 343 127K views 10 years ago THE USE OF ANY. The American Bandstand Regulars tell us what Studio B means to them today and yesterday, with special guest appearance by the American Bandstand Fan Club pre. While ABC wasnt in the quiz show business, a congressional subcommittee found another reason to investigate the network. The bare necessitiesThis kit packs $431 worth of premium skincare and haircare into a small packageand it's only $80 with the promo code. Clark, known as Americas oldest teenager, knew. We have lived in NJ ever since. . "He presented himself as such a grown-up.". I knew when couples broke up. We call him Namron and yes, if you spell his name backwards it spells, Norman. Many factors were involved in this, particularly the launch and rise of MTV and other music programs on television, and along with that, the number of ABC affiliates opting to pre-empt or delay the program. But just like a lot of today's showmances are concocted, many of the Bandstand boppers were harboring a big secret: They were gay. On all the music they play On the Bandstand.! The previous theme was retained as bumper music. For a brief time in 1973, Bandstand alternated its time slot with Soul Unlimited,[10] a show featuring soul music that was hosted by Buster Jones. At age 30 in 1960, already a millionaire, Dick Clark, Americas only national deejay, stood at the center of the payola storm. . Barbara finally came back and said I had to come to the front because the back was only for colored people. The Hand Jive. Words by Barry Manilow and Bruse Sussman, Were goin hoppin (Hop!) Clark "was very all-American, handsome, and nice, a father figure to us," she recalled. He will never forget one of his first days on Bandstand. The Philadelphia way Were goin drop in (Drop!) I still really didnt know who I was. SUBSCRIBE TO MY FEED! Once a week, she goes to a hop thrown by another Bandstand original, 76-year-old Philadelphia radio and TV personality Jerry Blavat, who bills himself as The Geator with the Heater and The Boss with the Hot Sauce.. They married during her Thanksgiving vacation from Northeast High School. . The news hit hard. . Artists would sing naturally to the studio audience over a background of their own disc, while viewers at home would hear only the original recording. We also surmise that her mother was an Italian immigrant (she refers to her Italian mom), and her father of Irish descent. "This man had the strongest personality that I had ever seen as a young boy," he said. Nicholas Fiorentino, 67, a South Philly native now living in Cherry Hill, said it was clear even to Bandstand teenagers that Clark was going places. Delmont, Matthew F. (September 30, 2014). This site is not endorsed by or associated with dick clark productions, inc. or its family of companies. I tried my best to fill your shoes and I hope I have lived up to what you were expecting of me. In an online page marking her 68th birthday on Nov. 23, 2011, Bandstand "documentarian" Charles W. Amann III posted: "The name Scaldeferri and American Bandstand go hand-in-hand. I hope you've had a good half-hour. However, the couple will shortly be returning to Los Angeles, which will be their permanent residence. Whose Culture? Another time, a dancer was thrown onto the subway tracks. This first national broadcast of American Bandstand was filmed in the Starlight Ballroom in Wildwood, NJ. The program that preceded Dick Clarks American Bandstand at WFIL-TV was deejay Bob Horns locally popular Bandstand. "Bandstand's Backyard". But we were like a little family together, and we all had something in common, and we all stuck together, and that made it easier for us.. His name was Dick Clark and in the next year the show was transformed from a local show to a syndicated. She told me she got so many letters from fans who thought I looked like her and [with our dark hair], we did look alike. The young dancers on American Bandstand were the reality stars of the 1950s and '60skids nationwide rushed home to watch their every move and chatter about their relationships and exploits. [8] On September 7, 1963, the program was moved from its weekday slot and began airing weekly every Saturday afternoon, restored to an hour, until 1989. I was so afraid that I started trying to talk myself into being straight. The other reason was that American Bandstand was pre-empted on many occasions by televised college football games (which expanded greatly in number in the wake of a court-ordered deregulation in 1984) which were becoming huge ratings successes, as well as occasional special presentations (i.e. Regardless, the music historian John Jackson calls it the gravest crisis in his professional career.1, At all events, the payola hearings spurred action by Congress. Parents across America would never, NEVER have allowed their kids to put Bandstand on, she writes. She danced the "push" - a "type of jitterbug . Come and join us two weeks from today for an hour version of American Bandstand on Saturday, September 19. Local radio disc jockey Buddy Deane was chosen as the host of The Buddy Deane Show on Channel 13, and began a daily two hour broadcast on September 9, 1957. Hundreds of kids lined up each day hoping to be one of the few lucky ones who got to dance alongside the Regulars and share part of the magic that was American Bandstand. Race and American Bandstand, The Seven-Year Itch: West Philly Loses American Bandstand, Report accessibility issues and request help. One market not telecasting Bandstand was Baltimore, Maryland, as local affiliate WAAM (now WJZ-TV) elected to produce a local dance show in the same afternoon time slot. My mother thought I was nuts. sign up for our monthly Nostalgia e-newsletter or other e-newsletters tailored for boomers. Where things are poppin'(Pop!) 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She also mentions a gay dancer who was pushed in the train tracks, and another who was dangled over an elevator shaft. But he vividly recalls that one of his fellow gay dancers was thrown onto the El tracks outside the studio, and another popular regular who was gay and often danced with Sullivan was dangled over an elevator shaft.. Despite that sense of community, the show's starsgay and straight alikewere targeted in Philadelphia, and even physically attacked in some cases, just for being dancers. Dick Clark, in full Richard Wagstaff Clark, (born November 30, 1929, Bronxville, New York, U.S.died April 18, 2012, Santa Monica, California), American television personality and businessman, best known for hosting American Bandstand. Although the Regulars didnt perform in the South, Sullivans memory of a personal visit to Fort Worth, Texas, stuck with her: My friend Barbara [a fellow Regular] and I were visiting Barbaras friend there. Sullivan says Bandstand host Dick Clark knew most of the cast was gay, but was determined to keep it under wraps for the sake of the show. Where Are the American Bandstand Regulars Now? The Slop. Carole made the world a better place," Gibson wrote on a Facebook page called America's Original Bandstand Dancers. Clark was out for Clark, says Brancaccio. However unethical his behavior may have been, his federal income tax records seemed to be in order. "Saturday Bandstand retained the proven format of the now defunct weekday show, but it sustained a crucial loss of spontaneity as a result of being taped instead of shown live. Clark weathered the hearings by not being fully transparent, and he avoided being indicted for criminal behavior. He needed a group to show up every day, she says, and nobody got paid. This version was canceled after 26 weeks, and its final show (with The Cover Girls performing "My Heart Skips a Beat" and "We Can't Go Wrong") aired on October 7, 1989,[37] thus ending the show's 37-year run.[38][39]. Clark now eyed California as where the action is. And in February 1964 Clark moved to Los Angeles, where it would continue until 1989, though lacking its West Philadelphia spontaneity. Determined, Don got Bunnys number from one of the regulars and he met his dream girl. Like nostalgia? From 1974 to September 6, 1986, Bandstand featured another instrumental at its mid-show break: Billy Preston's synth hit "Space Race". Unlike Smith, she expresses no animosity toward Clark. "It is with much sadness that we have lost one of the most loving and beautiful souls - Carole Scaldeferri Spada has passed away," Bunny Gibson, who identified herself as a "Bandstand buddy," posted on Facebook. . ", "Forty years after 'Bandstand' debut, Clark and dancers celebrate", "ORIGINAL DANCERS WILL GRANDSTAND AT 'BANDSTAND' REUNION", "American Bandstand, Season 30, Episode 38: Laura Brannigan (Final ABC show)", "Dick Clark's On a Roll: He Tunes In to TV Trends", "Dick Clark celebrates American Bandstand's 35th", "RETRO: Fairbanks, Alaska (October 24, 1987)", "Retro: Northern Wisconsin, Sat. THIS & THAT 50s/60s. The shows were usually produced in either Stage 54 or Stage 55 at ABC Television Center. BUT he was out for Clark., Sullivan claims there were four other popular girl dancers on the show whom she knew to be lesbians, and they hung out together. Give me some Thumbs UP!This is Bunny Gibson and the American Bandstand Regulars live at Sesame Park outside of Philadelphia on July 21,. My friends went to church dances every Friday and Saturday night. The show, hosted by Dick Clark, sounds like it was both a community of welcome amongst the teens and a repressive construct from higher ups. American Bandstand, abbreviated AB, is an American music-performance and dance television program that aired in various versions that aired regularly from 1952 to 1989,[1] and was hosted from 1956 until its final season by Dick Clark, who also served as the program's producer. There were occasional shows that were not hosted by Clark, in which case a substitute host (among them Rick Azar) was brought in.[6]. Clark was a disc jockey at the student-run radio station at Syracuse University (1951), and he worked at radio and television stations in Syracuse and Utica . OnAmerican Bandstandsdance floor, Sullivan was first partnered famously with Kenny Rossi (1957-58), a multitalented Italian-American student at West Catholic Boys High School, and such was her national popularity that her fan mail eventually totaled some 500 letters weekly. She was 13 but lied about her age. History goes back and forth with the timing and motives of the integration, but nevertheless, American Bandstand socially impacted teenagers' opinions regarding race. . I am on that stage just trying to do my own thing and turn the party. I went to Bandstand because I was gay and I was a misfit in my neighborhood. . "When I walked through those doors, that was the only place I wanted to be," said Gibson, 66, an actress who now lives in Los Angeles. "He was the commander," Colanero said. . Bunnys mom, Betty, made her promise that she would graduate. Score: 4.4/5 (45 votes) . It became a staple in homes and heavily influenced American society culturally, musically, and socially. I started going out to straight clubs.. Sullivan was raised in a rowhouse in a working-class neighborhood; we surmise from her writing that it was somewhere in Southwest Philly (she attended John Bartram High School), although Sullivan doesnt specify a home address. In her memoir forBandstand Diaries, she writes frankly and poignantly of her youthful struggle with her emerging identity as lesbian, a sexual orientation she would fully embrace as an adult. She wasnt immediately successful, but with the help of a new southwest Philly friend, she eventually got in. You eventually get cancelled.. Norman had a very, very unique sense of humor, which made him so popular with all that knew him. Clark claimed that the affiliates got greedy and took the time back to put their own material on where they got 100 percent of the revenue. Dick Clark later stated that he knew the prime-time edition would fail because its core audience teenagers and housewives was occupied with other interests in the evenings. He was six weeks shy of his 47th birthday. 4/8/1989 10/7/1989 Syndicated The "ab" logo was replaced with the iconic stylized "AB" logo (shown at the top of this page) used for the remainder of the show's run. I was truly blessed in my life with wonderful family, friends and fans. Carole Ann Scaldeferri Spada, 70, of Newtown Square, a regular dancer on American Bandstand from 1957 to 1961, has died. They wrote. Later, in hindsight, I guessed that made me the first white Rosa Parks. My husband and I met on a blind date and six months later on April 12, 1964 we were married. A storybook ending to a tale that began with American Bandstand, albeit 40 years ago. He would dance on the show until early 1960. American Bandstand started life as a Philadelphia TV show in 1952, with Bob Horn as master of ceremonies. On December 27 Bunny Gibson, American Bandstand Regular from 1959-1962, married Duke Tirschel in Chattanooga , Tennessee. Broadcast only on Saturdays after 1963, American Bandstand lost the homegrown vitality of the daily program in West Philadelphia. The shy Sullivan pushed herself forward with the contact because she wanted to get on TV to impress her mother. I didnt know what I was doing and decided I cant do this, and I called my dad and asked him to come get me, she says. In 2004, Dick Clark, with the help of Ryan Seacrest, announced plans to revive the show in time for the 2005 season; although this did not occur (due in part to Clark suffering a severe stroke in late 2004), one segment of the revived Bandstanda national dance contesteventually became the series So You Think You Can Dance. But if you subscribe and leave a comment you want to see the parade, I will do it.Remember to SUBSCRIBE TO MY FEED AS I UPLOAD MORE FROM MY ARCHIVES! But . We'll see you the next time on American Bandstand. The couple first honeymooned on the Chattanooga Choo Choo, the famed railway that was immortalized by Glenn Miller and was the first to run South to North. Out filmmaker Christopher Landon spills the spooky tea on his new movie and working with the 'White Lotus' star. "Dick Clark introduced records, and the camera followed teenagers as they selected partners to dance," writes historian Matthew Delmont. My favorite dance was the Jitterbug the last dance where people danced together. "Two or three times during the show, Clark would introduce singers or groups who would lip-sync their latest hits." 2. Dick Clark was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Cleveland, OH, in 1993 as a non-performer. Numerous black and white performers who appeared on American Bandstand during its seven-year heyday in West Philadelphia are also memorialized in this building. They werent playing basketball. Back in July, I received a most endearing email from Duke which told of his experiences in life. The TV exposure, plus the profiles some of the dancers were given in Teen magazine in the late 1950s, made them instant celebrities. I was trying to hit them over their heads with my pocketbook, but they just wouldnt give up. Dick Clarks tight control on the sexual expression of his cast extended to a denial years after the show had ended. Home Yesteryear Nostalgia Where Are the American Bandstand Regulars Now? In 1964 Dick Clark took Dick Clark Productions and American Bandstand to Hollywood, Los Angeles in search of new markets for his myriad projects. In 2019, a trio of formerAmerican Bandstandregulars assembled a book on their experiences on the popular show. They were introduced as a result of an email sent to the Fifties Web. This more-familiar version of Bandstand debuted on October 7, 1952, in "Studio 'B'", which was located in their just-completed addition to the original 1947 building in West Philadelphia.mw-parser-output .citation{word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}^ , and was hosted by Horn, with Lee Stewart as co-host until 1955. In their new self-published memoirs Bandstand Diaries, series regulars Arlene Sullivan, Ray Smith, and Sharon Sultan Cutler reveal that though fans loved to gossip and fantasize about the shows heterosexual pairings, many of their favorites were young gay men and women putting on a show for the cameras. Her husband, Richard Spada, said Mrs. Spada was recovering from a minor stroke she had suffered earlier when she became ill on the way to church. But . In other parts of the country, if you were a gay kid growing up, you were probably the only one in town who was gay, Sullivan says. Tony Mammarella was the original producer with Ed Yates as director. She was a senior.and luckily on the Honor Roll. LOS ANGELES - APRIL 1960: Host of the television show 'American Bandstand' Dick Clark appears in a scene with Michael Callan from the movie 'Because They're Young' which was released in April 1960. American Bandstand first aired 5 August 1957 in the 3-4:30 afternoon slot. The rest is American Bandstand history. "After that, it was history.". It preceded The Guy Mitchell Show. The dancers, as Teen wrote, were the "most famous unknowns on TV today. He had other irons in the fire. In addition to his other ventures, Clark maintained a virtual lock on New Years Eve television withDick ClarksNew Years Rockin Eve. They were hurting him. He spoke of his youth, of Bandstand and his favorite gal, Bunny. A case in point is Arlene Sullivan, a popular Regular who has described her own emerging lesbian sexual orientation, which she says was masked by her dance partnerships with boys. Aura Mayari Just Wants to Live Her Zombie Apocalypse Fantasy. SUBSCRIBE TO MY FEED! From 1969 to 1974, "Bandstand Theme", a synthesized rock instrumental written by Mike Curb, opened each show. Mixed REGULARS Galleries. 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