Okay so lets talk Dick Clark.
I feel like we are getting around the holidays so it is Thanksgiving this Thursday, then Christmas, and then New Year which means Rockin' New Year's Eve with no Dick Clark. Not to mention the American Music Awards were on tonight and were dedicated to his legend.
He was born on November 30th, 1929 and died April 18th, 2012 at 82 years old. The beginning of his career was in a mail room at a radio station in New York oddly enough. After working there and then graduating college and working there again he got his first television hosting job on a country music show. He later took over a news casting job however his biggest work was yet to come.
1952 is where his career blew up. He moved to a Philadelphia suburb (Drexel Hill for those of you who know it up there) and became a disk jockey for a radio station that also had an affiliation with a television station occasionally hosting as a substitute until he was asked to take over after the original host was arrested for DUI and told to leave the station.
ABC soon picked up the show and Bandstand took off officially with Dick Clark interviewing Elvis Presley.
Okay so there is so much more that goes on with his career after this but seriously at this point we will be here all night....
Anyway this only begins the amazing life that Dick Clark lead and I invite you to look him up and read about him yourself.
I always looked forward to Dick Clark's Rockin' New Year's Eve. Ever since I was little I would watch it with my parents and see Dick Clark go on that screen as old as he was he was always pleasant with his wife sitting by his side.
What about you guys? Anything you remember or like about Dick Clark?
That's all I have for now.
BYE!
