Dick Clark
T Hughes
Apparently, Dick Clark (former host of American Bandstand) was asked by
Howard Stern what type of music he listens to. His answer: "Brazilian music"!
Empcds
>Howard Stern what type of music he listens to. His answer: "Brazilian
>music"!
I'm switching to something else!
Joe Carter
Phyllis Fisher
Phyllis
emp...@aol.com (Empcds) wrote in message news:<20031114175318...@mb-m25.aol.com>...
bjbe...@mindspring.com
In defense of Mr. Clark (whose program originated in my city in the
1950s) - I think we should consider the possibility that just maybe
his tastes changed over all these decades . . . Another possibility is
that we really shouldn't assume that just because he hosted a dance
program for teenagers (not people his own age) which featured current
and popular rock and roll artists - that Mr. Clark couldn't possibly
be attracted to any other kind of music himself...
--bj
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Gerry
<bjbe...@mindspring.com> wrote:
> > >Apparently, Dick Clark (former host of American Bandstand) was asked by
> > >Howard Stern what type of music he listens to. His answer: "Brazilian
> > >music"!
> >
> > I'm switching to something else!
> >
> > Joe Carter
>
> In defense of Mr. Clark (whose program originated in my city in the
> 1950s) - I think we should consider the possibility that just maybe
> his tastes changed over all these decades . . . Another possibility is
> that we really shouldn't assume that just because he hosted a dance
> program for teenagers (not people his own age) which featured current
> and popular rock and roll artists - that Mr. Clark couldn't possibly
> be attracted to any other kind of music himself...
All true. But then he IS the living incarnation of the Picture of
Dorian Grey.
In a larger sense than Joe's good-natured joke, Clark is critically
important to the popularization and dissemination of rock-and-roll in
its early years.
He has his difficulties ("inventing" Fabian among them). And someone I
met who had read through part of the transcripts from the Payola
investigations told me he was just as dirty as any of them. So one can
use that as a condemnation pretty easily, despite the fact that this is
how the business worked then. And still does, I hear.
The ease with which he produced shows featuring black performers for
white high-school kids all across the USA--I think that was important
in many ways.
So what has he done for me lately? (That too is a joke.)
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