FILE - In this undated file photo released by ABC, Dick Clark hosts the New Year's eve special from New York's Times Square. Clark, the television host who helped ...

The entertainment world was all shook up as the landmark TV program "American Bandstand" made its national debut on this day in history, August 5, 1957. "American Bandstand" had been a local hit ...

That is, everyone except one-time Madonna opening act the Beastie Boys. When the newly minted superstars were told by American Bandstand producers that they would be lip-syncing to the recorded ...

Last month the pioneering TV broadcaster Don Cornelius died at the age of 75. As the host of “Soul Train,” many obituaries described Cornelius as the “African-American Dick Clark,” the legendary host ...

The legendary TV host died Wednesday at the age of 82. From hosting American Bandstand to Pyramid and his eponymous New Year’s Eve show, WATCH Dick Clark’s memorable moments. The King of Pop Meets the ...

The other act on the debut episode of American Bandstand 60 years ago was Billy Williams, lip-synching his hit, I’m Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter, which continued, “and make believe ...

I was about eight years old, in 1957, when I discovered American Bandstand. I used to ride the back of the couch in our family den, pretending it was a horse, as I'd watch the Warner Brothers westerns ...

In the late 1950s and early ‘60s, everyone knew Bob and Justine, Kenny and Arlene, and Ed and Bunny. They were some of the most famous kids in America, dancing every day on “American Bandstand.’’ “We ...

Dick Clark, who kept teens rocking with 'American Bandstand,' New Year's Eve shows, has died FILE - In this undated file photo released by ABC, Dick Clark hosts the ...

The other act on the debut episode of American Bandstand 60 years ago was Billy Williams, lip-synching his hit, I’m Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter, which continued, “and make believe ...