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They "seemed to inhabit another world," writes Ben Fong-Torres of the old Top 40 disc jockeys in "The Hits Just Keep on Coming," his history of rock radio. "They gave away cash and prizes on the air, and they presided over sock hops and 'Bandstand'-style shows on local television. They were like Dick Clark. Only they lived in your town...
...thousands of strangers milling around, it was almost like being at one of their graduation parties. Indeed we weren't there because of political ties but because this mingling of friends and the presidency was too improbable to ignore. In time the President and his wife appeared on the bandstand. He made a few jaunty remarks and clowned a bit as he danced with Laura. In a few moments they were gone. After a while, there wasn't much left to do but pick up our commemorative champagne flutes and walk through snow and sleet back to our hotel...
...results are a little more uneven on Sunday, when about 10 steelers take turns on the bandstand, but the best among them are pretty intimidating. They're all in a different universe of skill than the one I inhabit, of course, but the levels that separate me from the lowliest of these guys are the same as those separating them from the likes of Jernigan, whose solo set I stick around for before heading home. He opens with the bebop standard "Jordu," effectively blowing away about 99 percent of the field, then satisfies the country contingent's needs with terrifying...
...Tauzin threw a mini Mardi Gras featuring Cajun cuisine, flashy beads and the New Orleans sound of the Neville Family Celebration. Oxley reached back to his love of early rock 'n' roll with a lineup that included Chubby Checker and Frankie Avalon at the site of the old American Bandstand show, where his wife used to dance as a Philadelphia bobby-soxer. The immemorial Dick Clark emceed...
...Best Deadpan Description of the GOP Demographic (USAT) "... a slew of regulated businesses will host a bash tonight honoring committee members at the studio where the television show American Bandstand originated in the 1950s. Dick Clark returns as emcee, and entertainment includes Frankie Avalon, Chubby Checker and Bobby Rydell. Philip Morris, the Investment Company Institute, the Edison Electric Institute, Prudential, Merrill Lynch and more than a dozen other companies with issues pending before the Commerce Committee will pick...