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From: "Caroline Lawson" <>
Subject: [Memory-Lane] Is this what your looking for on american bandstand
Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 22:20:42 -0500 (Central Daylight Time)


Everybody knew the names of The Regulars on Bandstand. Justine and Bob,
Kenny Rossi and Arlene Sullivan, Bunny Gibson and Eddie Kelly, Pat
Molittieri, Carmen Jimenz. We followed their dance steps on TV and their
personal lives in Teen magazines. We sent some 15,000 fan letters each week.

American Bandstand began as a local program on WFIL-TV (now WPVI), Channel 6
in Philadelphia on October 7, 1952. Then it was hosted by Bob Horn and was
called Bob Horn's Bandstand. In July of 1956 the show got a new host, a
clean-cut 26 year old named Dick Clark. When ABC picked the show up, it was
renamed American Bandstand, airing it's first national show on August 5,
1957. The show was moved to Los Angeles in 1963. From 1963 to 1987 Bandstand
was on only once a week, on Saturday. Briefly it was part of the USA Network
with new host David Hirsh but went off the air in 1989.

The very first song played on the national edition was Jerry Lee Lewis'
Whole Lotta Shaking Goin' On." The last song on the ABC network was Laura
Branigan's "Shattered Glass."

Wish I could take credit for all of this but if you go to google.com can
find most anything you want.

Caroline

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