That would be awesome for about a month. One bedroom? For 3.5 mil? Wow.
R.I.P. Mr. Clark. Your “American Bandstand” was a staple of my youth. I think I’ll keep one calendar in the house turned to Dec. 2012 since you won’t be announcing the change.
Glad I read the thread.
2013…Happy BLUE year.
I’m sure that many are now expressing that sentiment.
I posted earlier this year that Disney needs to get to work on the animatronic version of Dick Clark. Necessity is the mother of invention.
So, who is the world’s oldest teenager now?
As one of my friends said on Live Journal: “I guess someone found the picture.”
RIP Dick. New Year’s Eve will never be the same.
I have this image in my head of his family & loved ones gathered round his bed in his final moments chanting “Ten…nine…eight…seven…(etc.)”
A little piece of my childhood just died. My mother, siblings and I would watch Bandstand every Saturday.
Dick Clark was responsible for intergrating his audience and introducing “colored” acts–quite a big deal back then.
I predict a lot of editorial cartoons showing a disco ball forlorn on the ground in a darkened Times Square.
If New Year’s survived Guy Lombardo’s death, I think it will survive this.
Guess we can’t ring in the New Year anymore. Well played, Mayans, well played.
You went to school on Saturdays?
(bolding mine – I used to watch it weekdays after school, too.)
Ah, I did not know that. Ignorance fought.
Your quote might be a little confusing though. “The Saturday show would run until 1960.” refers to The Dick Clark Saturday Night Beech-Nut Show, not American Bandstand. Bandstand continued airing every Saturday until 1989.