Word: bandstand
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...around balconies and box seats anxious to see the most fashionable of the periphery and the show that was sure to grace the pages of the college newspapers from Waltham to Cambridge. The spectacle was lit by hue-changing lights and blinders (reminiscent of a Kiss concert) behind the bandstand. Death Cab took the stage with no memorable flair; their hope for humility was almost respectable.Words to describe the show and the music that followed hardly offer a fair portrait of the evening. The band only struck off-key chords a half-dozen times. But they were choreographed with kaleidoscopic...
...Dick Clark's American Bandstand, rating a record always means deciding if it has a good beat and is easy to dance to, and then assigning it a number between 35 and 98. But now a group of prominent Washington women, including Tipper Gore, wife of Tennessee Senator Albert Gore, is pushing the record industry to adopt a new rating system for rock songs with lewd lyrics. Their designations: X for sexually explicit, profane, or violent; O for occult; D/ A for drug-or alcohol-related...
...mins. of his then-90-min. broadcast. His musical guests eschewed rock 'n roll; they included crooners, opera tenors and sopranos, lots of jazz men, both in the spotlight (Joe Williams must have sung Every Day I Have the Blues 40 times in those days) and on the bandstand, which was stocked with some of the best mainstream jazz musicians. Like Hugh Hefner, another essential taste-shaper of the period, Carson found that mixing esteemed authors and cool jazz with his staple entertainment (jokes for Johnny, Playmates for Hef) gave the enterprise a broader, higher reach...
RECUPERATING. DICK CLARK, 75, veteran TV producer and ex--American Bandstand host; after suffering a mild stroke; in the Los Angeles area. He said he was hopeful he would be able to emcee what has become a holiday staple, TV's annual Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin...
...RECUPERATING. DICK CLARK, 75, veteran TV producer and ex-American Bandstand host; after suffering a mild stroke; in the Los Angeles area. He said he was hopeful that he would be able to emcee what has become a holiday staple: American TV's annual Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin...