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I believe the Stray Cats performed live on the program as well. googuse 01:07, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

Contents 1 I wrote the theme? 1.1 Alphabetization effort completed. 1.2 33 vs. 4? 1.3 Syd Barrett 1.4 Bob Horn 1.5 Please source this trivia 1.6 DVD RELEASES?

[edit] I wrote the theme?

Liner notes to a Manilow album cred him with writing "Bandstand Boogie", the show's theme. Trekphiler 03:30, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Alphabetization effort completed.

Please let me know if any errors were introduced by the edit... Folajimi^(talk)

[edit] 33 vs. 4?

Since the previous host, Bob Horn, only had the show for four years and Dick Clark for thirty-three, I would say his name has become much more recognizably and permanently attached to the phenomenon. Should we associate his name in the intro to the article?

I suggest: "American Bandstand was a long-running dance music television show that aired in various versions from 1952 to 1989, and hosted for the bulk of its life by American broadcast personality Dick Clark. It is known not only for the emerging performers that it promoted (from Jerry Lee Lewis to Run DMC) but the many dance styles it featured through the decades."

David 16:45, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Syd Barrett

Syd refused to sing on the Pat Boone Show the night before... He makes an effort on bandstand and even responds to Clark's questions in the interview (as oppose to the ill-fated Boone interview the night before)... The person who wrote that trivia confused the two shows... —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 216.175.100.89 (talk • contribs).

[edit] Bob Horn

There was a section on Bob Horn at the bottom of the page - however, it had all the same info as a pre-existing Bob Horn page so I just removed it. - AKeen 16:29, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Please source this trivia

Please source and re-add this trivia. Thanks, Chaz ^Beckett 16:51, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

• Charlie O'Donnell, then a very young Philadelphia radio DJ, landed his very first network announcing assignment on Bandstand, a job he would hold until the late-1960s.

• The old WFIL-TV building in Philadelphia is currently being used as a business incubator program, The Enterprise Center, and the original "American Bandstand" studio is now a large meeting room.

• The weekly ABC version did not air in the Boston market. WNAC did not air it, neither did WCVB when ABC affiliation in the Boston market switched in 1972 because WCVB's weekly airing of Candlepin Bowling at noontime where it has been since it was WHDH channel 5 which pre-empted Bandstand, although prime time specials did air. It also didn't air in the Houston market on KTRK-TV, starting in 1959, when they had their own local dance show hosted by Larry Kane from 1959-71. After which, KTRK would have local community shows in place of Bandstand. And on September 1, 1984. KTRK finally carried the last three years of American Bandstand after 25 years.

• People who lived in Boston saw American Bandstand on WTEV Channel 6 in New Bedford-Providence (now WLNE) and WMUR-TV Channel 9 in Manchester, NH. But when WTEV Channel 6 and WPRI Channel 12 switched affiliations in 1977. WPRI Channel 12 didn't carry American Bandstand.

• Bandstand was also not carried in Baltimore, Maryland. Instead ABC affiliate WJZ-TV carried the local Buddy Deane Show, the inspiration for the movie Hairspray. Reportedly, the Baltimore station "blacked out" Bandstand because Black teenagers were allowed to dance on the program (although Blacks and Whites were not allowed to dance together).

• It was customary on the show to have Clark perform a mini-interview with the guest band members. Clark says the most difficult interview he performed was with Prince, an unknown at the time of his appearance. Prince was unresponsive and would generally answer his questions with only a hand gesture or a single word. Clark in fact asked Prince how many instruments he played; Prince responded with, "A thousand."

• Another famous mini-interview Clark is famous for is one with Madonna, who, when asked what she would like to do 20 years from now, answered coyly, "To rule the world!"

• B.B. King and Jerry Lee Lewis were the only recording artists to actually sing on the program. They were uncomfortable with miming their performances and requested that they just perform the songs live on the set.

• In 1980, singer John Lydon of Public Image Limited refused to mime on the show; the musicians continued the charade for a while as though they were actually performing "Poptones", but when the time came for their second song, "Careering," the band gave their instruments to the audience, who had swarmed the stage at Lydon's urging.

• In 1961, Tony Orlando performed his then-hit song "Bless You" with his trousers zipper open.

• The first rap/hip hop performance in the history of television occurred in 1981 when the Sugar Hill Gang performed their hit song "Rapper's Delight" on the show.

• In 1957, Simon and Garfunkel, then billing as Tom and Jerry, performed their first hit, "Hey Schoolgirl," immediately after Jerry Lee Lewis's "Great Balls of Fire." The song hit #49 on the Billboard Charts when they were just sixteen years old.

• Pro wrestler Sylvester Ritter better known as the Junk Yard Dog appeared on the show to sing his theme song "Grab Them Cakes" from The Wrestling Album

• Dave Johnson appeared on the show numerous times with a female partner doing his famous "Peppermint Twist".

• When the show moved from ABC to syndication, the station that created it all, WPVI (formerly WFIL) didn't carry the syndicated version. KYW (channel 3) picked up the syndicated season.

[edit] DVD RELEASES?

Is there DVD releases of this show, I was not born when all of most of this happend.Iron Valley (talk) 23:18, 4 January 2008 (UTC)