Dick Clark Farewell
Dick Clark, chairman and CEO of Dick Clark Productions, best known for hosting the classic musical variety show "American Bandstand" for more than three decades, as well as ringing in the New Year on "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve," died today in Los Angeles after suffering a massive heart attack. He was 82 years old.
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My oldest brother just called me less than 30 minutes ago to tell about this.
Like just about anyone over the age of 30,Dick Clark played a big part in our TV viewing and msuic listening.
My parents generation in the 1950s and 60s,with American Bandstand. My parents lived in PA and could receive the early '50s Philadelphia broadcast before it went to ABC.
To my older brother's age group who saw it in the 70s and for me and tohers who became teens in the early 1980s,we saw the show until it's end in the klate 1980s. We didn't have cable,so we had no MTV (we did have a local vide sation and netwrok video shows)so we still saw the show to see the latest acts.
Along with Bandstand was the American Music Awards and (Another favorte if mine) TV's Bloopers and Practical Jokes. He also hada syndicated series in the late 1980s/ealry 90s that looked back on music of the 1950s and 1960s (which I recorded a good number of and still have.)
Just a few days ago I watched the Lionel Richie / Country Music Special on CBS and saw the DC logo at the end,I had not seen that logo for sometime (since I only watch the ball drop on New Years Eve.
I watched this past December 31st and I watched him and his wife kiss at midnight. What a great marriage they must have had. ....and what a great life and career he had as well. What a brave man to keep going,even after his stroke a few years ago.
We thank you Mr. Clark,for bringing
it all and sharing it all with us over these past 60 years.
Rest In Peace,you've certainly earned it.
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"A knight of the road,going back to a place where he might get warm."  - Borderstone
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