Word: bandstand
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...vocal submerged beneath a guitar and a sax that both beat a hard rhythm, was choked with references to recent songs ("Peggy Sue," "Good Golly, Miss Molly," "Sugartime," "Short Shorts," "Lollipop," "Sweet Little Sixteen") and dances (the chicken, the stroll), with a commercially canny citation of Dick Clark?s "Bandstand...
...good ol' rhythmatic.") Freed had been his own worst witness, confronting the committee, contradicting himself under oath. Clark - who had become a millionaire by investing in 33 music-related businesses and by being "given" the royalty rights to 143 songs, many of which he promoted on "Bandstand" - was much smoother...
...cool that had pacified so many South Philly punks. He admitted that he had made some nice returns on his investments: a $125 stake in Jamie Records earned him a profit of $11,900. He acknowledged that he owned a startling 27% investment in records he had played on "Bandstand." He didn't say any of this was kosher; he just said it wasn't against the law. As he noted later in "Rock, Roll & Remember," his autobiography: "A record company could give a disc jockey $100,000, a list of records with how often to play each...
...Bandstand" was just a show that happened to originate nine miles from my house. I didn't connect particularly with the dancers or with the icky-pop Philadelphia style (Avalon, Fabian, Bobby Rydell) that got so much play from Clark. In those days my rock 'n roll delivery system was radio. And by luck, I was listening at a crucial time for two important media. For television, the mid-'50s marked the movement from reliance on regional production centers (like Philadelphia) to consolidation of the entertainment apparatus in Los Angeles and the news divisions in New York; that separation continues...
...newest, kookiest kid on the block was WCAM's Jerry Blavat, self-dubbed the Geator With the Heater, the Boss With the Hot Sauce. Blavat had crashed Bob Horn's early "Bandstand" show when he was 13, and somehow avoided having sex with the host. Instead, he won lots of dance contests and soon was running The Committee, a panel of teens that chose records and monitored the troops. At 20 he got on radio and quickly established himself as a pioneer rock archivist, running perhaps the first-ever oldies show. And not something simple, like pre-Army Elvis. Wildly...