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🟢 Title: Bandstand Days
🟢 Summary: 'Bandstand Days' explores the history and origins of the America's first reality program: American Bandstand with Dick Clark. It focuses on the show's regular dancers - how they got on, who they were, how they became celebrities, and the benefits & drawbacks of their newfound celebrity status.
Watch 'Bandstand Days' to learn how a small public television show became a national sensation that lasted for 37 years.
Directed by: Sharon K Baker
Starring: Dick Clark, Bobby Day
Year Released: 1997
🟢 Rating: TV-MA
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Enjoyed doing "Bandstand Days" - dancing and reliving this special time in my life... Bandstand inspired me to give back the "joy of dancing" and have been doing "Dance Contests" for foster children for twenty years......BUNNY GIBSON
Thanks so much for commenting, Bunny. It's wonderful that you've been able to share your love of dance with the world.
That's so fantastic, Bunny! CHEERS!!
one of the greats!
I remember you Bunny. Thanks for the sweet memories
Lovely some were my parents days. I'm 67 now so i grew up watching American Bandstand.
I'm 63 and I did the same, but I also like Lawrence Welk, wink.
I was FASCINATED with this documentary and finding out "behind the scenes" -- Dick Clark was a smooth announcer, even the teens parents liked him, because he was "one of them", both teens and parents. I was 14 in 1960, and everybody there were "my friends", so to speak. I remember "Arlene", one of the fan magazines carried articles by her, she more or less talked about "bandstand". She was popular because she bore a strong resemblance to "Annette Funicello", every guy with a pulse liked Annette! By the way, later in life I didn't do too badly myself, I was in radio and TV for 50 years, emceed some dances myself, I won money on AFV, and I do a lot of "UA-cam" work! Thanks for that marvelous biog!
I guess I had a pulse..M I C SEE U REAL SOON..K E Y Y? BECAUSE WE LIKE YOU.M O U S E.
He was not the original host.
This documentary is 27 years old. My God where does time go?
Omg, tell me about it.
2024 and I'm 76 years old and I still remember watching American Bandstand when I was a little girl. I still miss that show so much. Good memories.
Great to see this delightful walk down memory lane. Thanks for posting!
The Endless Teenager left us in 2012, but his legacy lives on. Today, kids have a very different challenge with the internet as they create their own celebrity and influence. There are problems and worries with each passing generation but they will look back just as this generation with fond memories. America still is a whole new frontier with an ever-changing culture of good and bad just like these kids faced. The rest is up to them as we pass the baton.
Yes, his production Company Does The American Music Awards, The Golden Globes and also when you see The Infomercials for Time-Life Music you will almost always see a performance from American Bandstand, The Saturday Night Beechnut Show and Where The Action Is.
The kids who danced on the show in the 1950's when it was still in Philadelphia, were the original reality stars. I was stunned to find out that many of them were Gay. Phildelphia had a very strong but "silent' LGBT Community. I remember watching American Dreams and Helen who worked as a Travel Agent, found out that her co worker was Fired because he liked Men. Then in The Movie about one of the Kray Brothers who was Gay had planned to go to Philadelphia, and in a UK TV Movie called Family about British Mobsters, Ted Cutler the patriarch had to pay $300.000.00 to get his Son Dave out of a major mess.
I always wondered why all the regular people “disappeared”. I quit watching because I enjoyed American Bandstand in Philly! It was like a soap opera for teenagers. I never was the same without the original regulars.
Yeah I’m with you. I like it better with the soapy teens.
I was born in 1954 and my aunts were only a decade or so older than me. Some of my earliest memories were them coming home from high school turning on band stand and dancing the latest dance with my younger brother and me. It was so much fun.
a few years ago i was at work and someone was watching on you tube old clips of bandstand when i walked over and saw Arlene Sullivan again ,it was if i was 12 again ,i had always a crush on her ,thru all these decades and life, there on a screen was Arlene ,she was dancing to an old song by the Esquires,the very next day i stopped by a record store selling vinyl,i was looking the the albums and happen to pull out a random rack of old 45,s i had not planned that but when i opened it ,in the front was that Esquire record that Arlene was dancing to,geeze! how odd i thought,i bought it ,and in a very weird way when i play their in my memory bank Arlenes dancing to it -crazy😵but true .i.ve been married twice ,kids, been to family funerals and such wars, recession, cultural shifts yet ,i still see arlene dancing-as for kenny Rossi ,i didn,t like him much hahaha,thanks for this,it was great
You're very welcome, Harold. Glad you enjoyed it. And thanks for sharing this anecdote.
I was all of 11 y/o, 6th grade, in the Fall of 1957, when I discovered " AB " . By then in Denver, we had 1 " rock & roll station " on the radio, 1630 AM, KOSI, " cozy " . By then, more than ANYTHING , I longed to be a teenager ! I just knew I'd be cool, once I was a teen. I read " Archie " comics, & watched as much of " AB " as i could-------which sadly, wasn't much, but when I did, I soaked it in------every song, & every cute girl ! -------When I got a transistor radio, I lived with it & followed the music all the time. ---------RIP, Dick Clark, & all the AB dancers. it really was the best of times. ---------------------mjl, 77 y/o
Love this comment. Thanks so much, Michael.
God bless these ladies and gentlemen 🙏
I remember watching American Bandstand especially in the mid 1970’s as young mid teen! The one dancer I remember the most was a young lady who always wore a tee shirt with words on it does anyone remember her?
Not sure. Let me ask the team and see if that rings any memory bells for them.
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The bullying that the American Bandstand regulars endured is heartbreaking, but it's also important that they relate their experiences, since kids that are going through bullying today, might be able to gain some value from the stories that the regulars such as Eddie Kelly and Arlene Sullivan are relating here.
On a related note, Philadelphia was home to several violent youth gangs during the 1950's, such as The Green Street Counts (responsible for two murders between 1952 and 1954, which is of course, before Dick Clark took over Bandstand, but around the time that Bob Horn ran the show), and The Moroccans, also responsible for two gang related shooting murders in 1957 (which is when Dick Clark took over the show.)
Then there was that beating murder of the South Korean foreign exchange student, In Ho Oh, at the University of Pennsylvania committed by some kids who were ejected from a local rock n' roll record hop (possibly one of Georgie Woods' hops?)
That incident occurred in 1958, and was just one mile away from WFIL, literally walking distance.
So that's the environment that the Bandstand regulars had to navigate around when they made it over to the WFIL studios.
So when we put it in that context, the Bandstand regulars were actually quite courageous to keep on dancing on the show, and to be true to themselves, in the face of all of that.
Curiously, the rules to promote a clean cut image, so strongly enforced during Bandstand's Philadelphia run, were kind of skirted during the '"Fifties Nostalgia Fad" of the 1970's (when Dick Clark was already long established in California.)
There are several episodes of "American Bandstand" from the 1970's where, referencing "The Fifties," Clark had some boys dressed up in the stereotypical leather jacket and jeans with the greasy hair in the duck's a** (there's even glimpses of that in Clarks NBC "Good Ol' Days" TV special.)
Ironic, because during the actual 1950's run of "American Bandstand," as shown here, none of the boys dressed up like a "juvenile delinquent," though sadly, some of them had been victims of those types of boys' assaults.
Sad Never knew this
The popularity of the 50's in the 70's was influenced by Happy Days & Grease, with both male stars dressed in leather jackets & slicked back hair. Fonzie, Harry Winkler, being the more popular of the two. Kids in the 70's didn't know what it was really like back then. Groups like this help them learn.
@@aananimity agreed, those two shows, the "Happy Days" TV show and the 1978 film adaptation of "Grease" are the first things that mainstreamers think of whenever the subject of 1950s teenagers is brought up.
Curiously, the original 1971 Kingston Mines Chicago stage-play version of "Grease" was significantly distinct from the later 1978 film, as it was actually based on young people that co-creator Jim Jacobs had grown up with at William Howard Taft High in Chicago in the late 50's.
A bit of that was removed when the show went to Broadway in 1972 and a good amount of that was jettisoned for the goofball cartoonish portrayal of 1950s gangs that we saw in the 1978 film.
When Jim Jacobs voiced his concerns, he and co-creator Warren Casey were actually banned from the Paramount Studio lot.
"Grease" the movie is entertaining, but it is a fantasy, and unlike what we saw in the movie, no gang member would have wanted to be on a Dick Clark-like TV teen record hop, because (unlike the inner city dances that they did attend), their perception was that the boys who danced on "American Bandstand" were "soft" or even "effeminate." (I don't agree with that of course, but that was the 1950s youth gang subcultural perception of boys who danced on shows like "American Bandstand.")
It's also, most likely, why Kenny Rossi suffered a beating by some of Philly's local young toughs.
What's even more sad about this whole affair is that Philadelphia's youth gangs of course, certainly did not see Kenny Rossi or Eddie Kelly as a physical threat, nor as rivals.
They heaped their abuse upon the male Bandstand regulars because it was (supposedly) "fun" for them.
Loved it. I was on bandstand often. Had a great time.
Are you in any of the Bandstand shows that are shown on UA-cam? If so which one(s)? Did you know Barbara Warchol, Bruce Richard, Michelle Liebowitz, Pat Carpino, or Lewis Crusco?
@@Dr.Pepper001 yes
Fascinating documentary-Thanks for posting!
I watched this on WFIL TV from West Chester, PA everyday after school. I remember rate a record…….”it has a good beat and is easy to dance to”.😎
saw a reunion show from the early 60's and the jobs they had gotten into were: guys---bookkeeper, beautician, hairdresser....and the girls were ALL secretaries, one said "private secretary"---different times then and in my opinion BETTER.
youre right...women were just getting into the workforce en masse and secreteries was about all there was aty the time. The idea there were so many beauticians amomng the men is probab;y w2hy we here about all the gay goings on but I think it says something about jobs near girls were very popular if I remember correctly. Dont forget all the "models" that came out of AB. It was a very different time and I was fortunATE ENOUGH TO HAVE WITNESSED IT.
Correct. If you recall Bruce Richard (good looking guy and 6 feet tall), who in 1963 was a favorite dance partner of Barbara Warchol, became the personal hairdresser for Peggy Lee. He was gay and unfortunately died of AIDS in 1987 at age 41.
Also Dick Clark's Production Company also did "So You Think You Can Dance" that also had an Canadian Version for a hot minute. I think he was partnered with Fremantle Productions that also owned The Rights To Popstars, and The "Talent" Franchise as well as "The X Factor".
I never knew. I grew up with California bandstand but knew there was something more to the early days. Not feeling too good about Dick Clark now. Those kids are a big part of modern American history.
yeah this was an eye-opener for sure. started seeking out more docs on the topic. Another decent one I thought is 'Wages of Spin'. You can read more about it here: www.imdb.com/title/tt1189398/#:~:text=The%20Wages%20of%20Spin%20chronicles,first%20honest%2C%20compr...
Oh how I wish there were more of these, or there might have been some recordings of shows from back then. I'll never forget American Bandstand. I still have my autographed picture of Dick Clark from when the show was on. I was always copying the dances and used the door knob as my partner. LOL! I am still trying to remember Carmen's sister's name, she was the one I copied the most.
I was about 7 and I remember the girls with the "white streaks" in their hair. I remember those light streaks grew in size over time. I lived in Schenectady, New York back in those days. Now I live in the same town where those girls had their "streaks" done, according to the interview on this documentary! Who knew.
I hear Streaksville USA is lovely this time of year. 😉
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Such better times. There was RESPECT and GOD. Too much trash on TV now...wish we could go back....
Excellent.
I started watching when I was 5.
It actually started the year I was born.
Just showed up in my time machine in 2022 to see what it’s like, headed back now to 1962, anyone here wanna come?
take me, take me!!!! simpler times were better. and our economy wasn't in the toilet.
@@BoomerChannel_YT Agreed! Let’s Go! (And the cars were better. People had morals, dressed better, ect…)
Please take me too! EVERYTHING was better then!
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I'm right behind you....We all wanna go back and be kids again, don't we? Rod Sterling used this subject often, about returning to the past.
In fact, Outer Limits also touched on it also. You step into a time capsule, it's programed to a place and time that gave you happy memories of an event you want to relive, and you're right there for a few moments (or the length of the episode). Those of us, of a certain age, can and still remember (and mostly good and positive things of our lives), but I wonder what will it be like for the future. Social media and technology has and will change us and it's doubtful if "nostalgia" will have the same meaning 50 years from now. On the other hand, we have videos like this and with the click of a button, we're ALL KIDS again.
Still haven't seen Charley. Good dancer with long legs. He was the best. (Very limber ND light on his feet).
Born in 1941, "I" was in my teens in the 50s! my girlfriend and I, watched American Bandstand after school, almost daily. Not only did I , learn how to do the "STROLL" But I learned much about becoming a man as well! Thanks to her I did become a man! Sooooooo...... GOD bless American bandstand, Dick Clark . And my girl friend ..... My thoughts of those days..........ARE so VERY pleasant indeed ! BLESS YOU SWEETY........YOUR MOM AND DAD,, Had the deepest and most comfortable Carpet......I have often wondered how many other kids, have memories as great as that! Richie K, or as she called me "big Dick" !
I always watched American bandstand loved it I love to dance
I wonder how you can tell she had Green hair, it was in black and white in the 50s
the philly dancers were good but I learned to like the 64-70 crowd as well...unfortunately there was a huge gap in kinescopes from 70-75 and the program was totally different in 1975. The dancers seemed more concerned with appeasing the camera than acting like teens at a dance. Disco helped destroy the image ab HAD and it took a while in the 80s to get it back...the dancing always got better, the quality of the film got better but I think the novelty of what the dancers did for the country was lost after 1970.
Fun & interesting. C'mon Dick Clark, the term "teenager" was in common usage since the mid 1940's, although it exploded in the 50's. Bandstand star Arlene Sullivan wrote a good book, "Bandstand Memories," in which she revealed - as a gay woman - that many of the dancers during her late 50's heyday were young gay men & a sprinkling of lesbians.
Geez, memories flooding in! My eyes are getting misty! But I must confess that sometimes I would change the channel over to Popeye Playhouse!
Aw, love that this brought up old, dear memories for you. Nothing wrong with catching some Popeye. Good ole Skipper Chuck. Anyways, thanks for the comment Mickey.
Remember Sally Starr and Gene London....also part of that era!
My fav was Frannie Giordano!
California kids Loved the Cameras.
It was really a SILLY show!
Hmmm.... Clark had some questionable dealings, which raised some eyebrows during The Payola Scandal, and yet, he was so strict with these teenagers as far as them "not accepting pay."
Not only does it seem a bit hypocritical, but from a practical standpoint, he could have helped promote the records of Kenny Rossi, Pat Molitieri, and Justine Carrelli, making them the next teen idols, while also getting a piece of the pie.
It could have been a win-win, but no, he had to have that very rigid thinking when it came to The Regulars .
heard that for many years and from many who knew and worked with him and my opinion of him changed...and THEN I heard (or read somewhere) that he really disliked The Beatles...WHAAAT???
@@jenniferdjaslowskj993 When he owned a Small Interest in a Record Label called Swan, he played "She Loves You", the kids weren't too crazy about it so he like Little Richard (RIP), and Roy Orbison (RIP) turned them down. Dick admitted he couldn't have been more wrong. The "Regulars" were in many ways the original "Reality Stars".
Sadly, Justine recently passed away.
I absolutely Loved Bandstand!
Did not like the show when the moved to the West Coast. The kids could not dance.
You got that right!! Philly kids were just naturaly good dancers, both the guys and girls.
In addition, there were many styles of dance introduced by Philly....The Bop, The Stroll, Mashed Potato, The ChaLypso, The Twist, The Pony, etc. Even couples slow danced with "koolness".
The same with me, I quit watching the show. I missed the kids from Philadelphia.
There is a funny video of showing Bandstand kids doing the stroll and on the same video other kids on a non-Bandstand show from somewhere else trying to do it.
I never watched it after they left Philly. When they went to California it got to slick and contrived. The dance contest was big money prizes and it was just not the same and the dancers were NOT all that great. I watched for years. It was so sad when they cut from 90 minutes to an hour. They went to California (I lived in California) about the time I left for college.
What about Mashed Potatoes Dance?
In 1957 Philadelphia was more than 50% black. But yet there were no black folks dancing on American Bandstand Dick Clark.
Marginalized. Thanks, Darryl.
Could it be that Bandstand wasn’t of their culture’s interest? Fast forward I don’t see any white people on BET award shows.
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Marginalized what no it's not called racism.
I remember the sisters.
At the time American Bandstand was shooting, the Philadelphia, PA ABC-TV affiliate WFIL-TV shared studios with NET's WHYY-TV. I had a one season show on WHYY "Fun With Music" in 1964 and would watch American Bandstand occasionally from the director's booth since their director was also our director.
That’s so cool. To be there at the beginning before it morphed into a massive phenomenon. I know it’s kind of a corny question, but did you know or sense that you were witnessing the start of something huge? Just curious. Thanks for sharing your experience with us. Grateful.
Make a show of Rock for Babyboomers put it on Education channel
What ever happen to the girl I think her name was Joanne wait a minute I think that was another show.
the show had a dancer in the 70s named Jo Ann Orgel ... is that who you mean? VH1 ran old episodes of the show in the 90s and featured her in the promos. She wore a tee with 'Packaged in America' printed across the front.
Dick Clark played on Perry Mason episode "The Final FadeOut" a character that close to what he really was in private 😠🤑🤯 Clark played a weasel of a producer/writer who kills the star then has to continue killing to try to cover his tracks ✔️👿Of course Perry Mason figures it out !! Clark had an iron grip on everything on the show "HIS BABY" so he was very manipulative of the kids especially!!
There's a documentary called 'Wages of Spin' that you might be into. It dives into the Philadelphia music scene from the 50s to 60s.
Did AB feed or serve them beverages did they get paid
No pay
I HAVE A NEARLY COMPLETE LIST OF ALL THE EPISODES AND CLIPS WHICH DONT OVERLAP OF AMERICAN BANDSTAND FROM 1958 TO 1988. tHE QUALITY OF THE VIDEO CAN BE PRETTY GOOD ESPECIALLY WHEN COLORIZED BUT SOME EPISODES ARE BARELY WATCHABLE. THE VIDEO IS SO BAD I MISTAKEN;LY THOUGHT DEBBIE SEWELL, RTOBIN MILLER AND CATHY HICKS WERE THE SAME PERSON OVER A PERIOD OF 1965-19670. THEN I SAW SEWELL LISTED AS A REGULAR AND MILLER AS WELL AND WAS SHOCKED AND AMAZED WHEN DICK CLARK CALLED HICKS "CATHY" IN 1970!
you should upload the 1958-1960's ones.
Yeah, a teen soap opera
teens need their soaps
All you had to do to get in was be of Italian ancestry. A very ethnic community. I envied them all.
and the best dancers, too. Many of us in and around the area (Philly, NJ, Delaware) before it went national, watched and learned how to dance from watching the show. The "kids" became semi-famous (which D.C. didn't approve of after awhile..?) but it DID become a phenom and lasted until the 80's, but never had the original "oomph" as in the beginning. Elvis and R & R arrived just at the right place and time and it was wonderful while it lasted.
Not everyone on it was Catholic or Italian. There were also Jewish kids, and I knew some who traveled from Allentown.
You did not bite her neck
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