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";s:4:"text";s:22312:"These kids invented new dance steps and made The Bunny Hop and The Bristol Stomp popular. Dick Clark later wrote that he kept that dress code when he took over because “it made the show acceptable to adults who were frightened by the teenage world and teenage music.” Some observers might say that he was making the show acceptable to people who were frightened by the appearance of blacks. Other performers including Brandy, members of KISS, Dennis Quaid and his band The Sharks, Cher, and Stevie Wonder also performed to remember the iconic program.[46]. These happenings would never have become known if one man had just listened to Maxine’s restrictive instruction. For seven years kids had been coming to WPEN at 1522 Walnut Street and riding the elevator to spend a couple of hours at their “club,” which was a small studio on the top floor without windows. I couldn't find a factual and chronological account of Bob Horn in one place. It was common for promo guys to give bottles of whiskey as Christmas gifts. Acts debuting on Bandstand would appear on Deane's program, but were asked to not mention their previous appearance with Clark while on the Baltimore show. This set and theme music were used until September 1974, with the arrival of a brand new set and the second, updated version of "Bandstand Boogie". Horn led a double life that included activities his virginal dancers never dreamed of. Horn produced alibis for those dates and Horn got a break when the judge refused to allow testimony about any other times. Of course it never was. from CBS in November 1957, they renamed the program as Who Do You Trust? Horn called his radio program "The Bob Horn Bandstand," which had a nice, alliterative sound. She has an uncanny way of getting to know people. It became a staple in homes and heavily influenced American society culturally, musically, and socially. Since he was a huge fan of jazz and so many jazz artists were black, there was no way Bob would allow the dance floor to be lily white.”. Many factors were involved in this, particularly the launch and rise of MTV and other music programs on television, and along with that, the number of ABC affiliates opting to pre-empt or delay the program. Steve’s a one-man F. B. I., Fearless Broadcast Investigator. Due to a combination of factors that included the size of the studio, the need to have as much space available for the teenagers to dance, and the size of the color camera (owing to the technological limitations of the day) compared to the black-and-white models, it was only possible to have one RCA TK-41 where three RCA TK-10s[3] had been used before. Secondly, the producer started to require admission cards. Then my crowd all sat down. The author worked at three radio and television stations involved in this report. The Mann Act was law, barring anyone from transporting a person across state lines for an “immoral” act, even when it was consensual. Horn was a pioneer when he made the youngsters the stars of the show, and when he gave teenagers a forum to set their own standards of music, dance steps and style. So, when he went on TV, Bandstand was the obvious choice for a name. I went to Alan Freed’s concerts at the Paramount and black kids didn’t show up there either. ", "Forty years after 'Bandstand' debut, Clark and dancers celebrate", "ORIGINAL DANCERS WILL GRANDSTAND AT `BANDSTAND' REUNION", "American Bandstand, Season 30, Episode 38: Laura Brannigan (Final ABC show)", "Dick Clark's On a Roll : He Tunes In to TV Trends", "Dick Clark celebrates American Bandstand's 35th", "AB now in syndication: Jody Watley, Dan Hill, David Spade", "RETRO: Fairbanks, Alaska (October 24, 1987)", "Retro: Northern Wisconsin, Sat. I used to see Horn with the young girl, Lois Gardner, when she accompanied him to the station for his 11-to-midnight radio show. 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American Bandstand played a crucial role in introducing Americans to such famous artists as Prince, Jackson 5, Sonny and Cher, Aerosmith, and John Lydon's PiL—all of whom made their American TV debuts on the show. He said ‘Name your salary.’ So we asked our station manager for a release and he said he’d talk to the station’s owner. We stopped going and so did the black girls, for the most part.”. Harvey remembers Bandstand, Bob Horn and the dance craze "The Bunny Hop" (Video copyright 2006 George Manney). From 1974 to September 6, 1986, Bandstand featured another instrumental at its mid-show break: Billy Preston's synth hit "Space Race.". The shows were usually produced in either Stage 54 or Stage 55 at ABC Television Center. He died in 1968 at the age of 71. One show from this first season (December 18, 1957, indicated as the "Second National Telecast") is now in the archives of Chicago's Museum of Broadcast Communications. On September 13, 1969, the Bandstand set was given a complete overhaul and Les Elgart's big band version of "Bandstand Boogie" was replaced by the Mike Curb theme. If only this man stopped where Maxine drew the line, then she wouldn’t have gone to the cops, then Horn would not have been investigated, then he would have remained on Bandstand and Dick Clark may not have become a star, etcetera, etcetera and so on. The white kids had no problem with the new dress code. A small table was next to the hosts’ platform, where guest performers would sit and sign autographs. In Philadelphia, however, WFIL opted to tape-delay the game show for later broadcast in another time slot, and to continue on with Bandstand, though only for the local audience. At WFIL they thought: What a wonderful idea for TV! If Clipp couldn’t get those people, he nevertheless could steal their format. He tangles nightly with the bigwigs on every hair-raising issue.”, Allison displayed a crudity that even exceeded Horn’s. Elgart's version was released as a single in March 1954 (Columbia 40180) as well as Curb's theme (by "Mike Curb & The Waterfall") in October 1969 (Forward 124). A 1957 jury deadlocked, then a judge acquitted Horn at a second trial, this one without a jury. So if you got on the show once you were assured of returning, as long as they liked you, ahead of people who phoned in or wrote in. He’d take me home to spend weekends with his family in Levittown and in the summer I’d be the cabin boy on his boat at Stone Harbor.”, Dave Feldman also started coming in 1953. I'm David Hirsch and, on behalf of American Bandstand, I bid you, for the last time, goodbye. He said ‘If you care enough to want to go to my dances, I’ll drive you.’”, Jerry Blavat started coming to the show in 1953 when he was only 13. I am the short guy next to Bob Horn in the photo. Coincidence played a major role in this drama. Delmont, Matthew F. (September 30, 2014). In early October 1952, a dance show hosted by Bob Horn premiered on Philadelphia's WFIL-TV, taking from the popular "ballroom" live radio show format and pointing a camera at it. From the first day, I established the most platonic of friendships with the kids. Two weeks later, Bandstand moved to first-run syndication,[17][18][19] restored to its former hour length,[20] and videotaped at KCET's Studio B. The format of watching kids dance seemed to evolve in October of 1952 with the arrival of radio disc jockey Bob Horn as the new host. You had to line up at the end of each show and the producer picked whom he wanted to come back, so you had to please him. The Bandstand dancers, on the other hand, were fond of him. On July 9, 1956, Horn was fired after a drunk-driving arrest, as WFIL and dual owner Walter Annenberg's The Philadelphia Inquirer at the time were doing a series on drunken driving. Cameraman Vince Gasbarro said: “Horn was old-looking. When I saw him socially, he did not seem like a zealot or a crusader. “For those of you that question or challenge this, please try and recall a scene from the shows in Philadelphia where the girls were not wearing Catholic school uniform dresses and the boys were not wearing the white shirt and tie Catholic school boys uniform. Blanc’s sting operation was hush-hush except for the private phone call that Blanc made to his friend at WFIL, towards the end of the investigation, to alert him to the Bob Horn problem. This is but one of the many bitter memories that I and many of the people that I grew up with have about American Bandstand.”, Henry Gordon said in 1995 as he looked at an old photo of the kids at Bandstand: “Anything that looks like a black face in this picture is probably a white face in the shadows. “I didn’t know anyone who had sex. It was just his shtick. On May 3, 2002, Dick Clark hosted a one-off special 50th anniversary edition on ABC. During the segment, two audience members each ranked two records on a scale of 35 to 98, after which the two opinions were averaged by Clark, who then asked the audience members to justify their scores. He gave special attention to local singers including Sunny Gale, Gloria Mann, Georgie Shaw and Micki Marlo. From 1977 to September 6, 1986, the show opened and closed with Barry Manilow's rendition of "Bandstand Boogie,"[6] which he originally recorded for his 1975 album Tryin' to Get the Feeling. While the American series has aired thirteen seasons, its format was also replicated worldwide, from Norway (Dansefeber) to Australia (So You Think You Can Dance Australia). Let’s consider these other events in 1956: The era was one of sexual repression. American Bandstand premiered locally in late March 1950 as Bandstand on Philadelphia television station WFIL-TV Channel 6 (now WPVI-TV), as a replacement for a weekday movie that had shown predominantly British films. Prior to the move, Bandstand had sourced many of its up-and-coming acts from Philadelphia's Cameo-Parkway Records. “Horn didn’t act like a star,” he says. ABC gave Bandstand color cameras and launched it on its network of 67 stations in August of 1957. There’s an El stop there and we used to watch the kids line up. The use of videotape allowed Clark to produce and host a series of concert tours around the success of American Bandstand and to pursue other broadcast interests. They wouldn’t get up unless the bunny hop was playing. Making matters worse, on September 13, 1986, ABC reduced Bandstand from a full hour to 30 minutes;[12] at Clark's request, the 2,751st and final ABC installment[13] (with Laura Branigan[14] performing "Shattered Glass"[15][16]) aired on September 5, 1987. There were trysts of another Jacobs model and another WPEN announcer, and other girls had encounters with a publicist and a photographer, respected professionals who were in love with their wives and felt they were just having some harmless, job-related fun on the side. Blitz, author of “Bandstand: The Untold Story,” defends Horn against accusations of rudeness and says that Horn avoided friendships with co-workers only because he had more experience and knowledge and didn’t need to learn from them. Most people around the station found him less than charming. Published 2003 in TotalTheater, copyright by Steve Cohen. He asked for, and received, whiskey, cash and women from record-promotion men. It debuted on television from 2:45 to 5 p.m. on October 7, 1952. He was only 50 when he passed away. From 1974 to 1977, there was a newer, orchestral disco version of "Bandstand Boogie," arranged and performed by Joe Porter, played during the opening and closing credits. Because of the sex accusations, the drunk-driving and a jail term, there was no chance he’d get another chance on the air in Philadelphia. I talked to the kids on the same intellectual level. For the most part, the white kids from West Catholic and Roman Catholic, etc., were intimidated when we got on the floor. The station advertised, “Trouble’s in town, sporting the monicker of Steve Allison. The show's popularity helped Dick Clark become an American media mogul and inspired similar long-running music programs, such as Soul Train and Top of the Pops. He later became a Hollywood screenwriter. What I did find lacked detail, was disjointed or incorrect. He and his producer Tony Mammarella created Bandstand for the Philadelphia region. The station, where I worked at the time, fired him. [5], Bandstand originally used "High Society" by Artie Shaw as its theme song, but by the time the show went national, it had been replaced by various arrangements of Charles Albertine's "Bandstand Boogie," including Les Elgart's big-band recording remembered by viewers of the daily version. Clark said this about Horn: “He was a man in his late thirties, was heavyset with a double chin, long, narrow nose and greased-back black hair. Mary Ann Colella Baker was a freshman at Hallahan Catholic High School who started attending in 1952 when Bandstand was new: “Horn was a perfect gentleman, the nicest person,” she says. Not nasty trouble. Soul Unlimited was not well-received among its target audience of African-Americans, ostensibly due to its being created by a white man (Clark), and because of its alleged usage of deliberately racial overtones despite this fact. “Bob was color blind,” Sheldon told me; “On the first shows there were black couples dancing on the floor along with white couples. Freddy Cannon holds the record for most appearances, at 110. He personally picked the kids to be on the committee by watching us dance and seeing how we got along with people. There’s a dramatic difference between the description of Horn by his adult co-workers and what we hear from his teenage fans. “Bandstand” was hosted by radio DJ Bob Horn and featured local teenagers bopping to the current hits of the day as well as a vocalist or band performing a couple of songs. This incarnation was an early pr… The sex-with-minors angle was too shocking for public consumption, and the station didn’t dare to reveal it. Horn’s radio program was called The Bob Horn Bandstand, which had a nice, alliterative sound. Blanc had a love-hate relationship with show business, and even got personally involved in it. So if a majority of the attendees came from the Catholic schools, that made the audience overwhelmingly white. Hosted by local radio personality Bob Horn, the original Bandstand nevertheless established much of the basic format of its later incarnation. On the day that Allison was indicted, he was about to receive an award for public service from the City of Philadelphia. Annenberg asked Horn to confirm or deny that he knew the teenage girl who was cooperating with Blanc’s investigation. at 3:30 pm, then rejoin Bandstand at 4 pm. Four months later, Horn was arrested on morals charges. “He was very friendly. In any event, he struck another car and left a 5-year-old occupant of that car paralyzed. His demeanor was haughty. She enjoyed seeing the TV series American Dreams, produced by Dick Clark in 2002, because it recalled one of the best periods in her life. When ABC picked the show up, it was renamed American Bandstand, airing it’s first national show on August 5, 1957. Some of the kids would jitterbug in an impromptu fashion while Grady and Hurst played popular records on the air. Horn said he went to her home once for a party. Why did the station move so quickly to dump Horn? Other stations that carried American Bandstand in syndication included WWOR 9[24] in Secaucus, WTMJ 4[25] in Milwaukee, WWHO 53[26] in Chillicothe, WMYA 40[27] in Anderson, South Carolina, WCBS 2[28] in New York City, WFSB 3[29] in Hartford, KLJB 18[30] in Davenport, WCIX 6[31] in Miami, WDIV 4 in Detroit, WEWS 5 in Cleveland, and WMAQ 5 in Chicago. Barbara Marcen Wilston danced at the show from 1953 to 1959. Dubbed as The New American Bandstand, the series was cleared in over 60% of the United States[23]. Horn developed a similar show for WPI radio, Bob Horn's Bandstand, and, while the show had a similar formula, it did not achieve the ratings success the 950 Club had achieved. Hooks has a white father and black mother, while Montgomery is white. It may not be the secret of my success but it sure as hell kept me out of a lot of trouble.”. The slimmer, more youthful, “squeaky clean” deejay Dick Clark would inherit the program and Horn’s role as deejay host and adapt both for a national audience. When the TV show started in 1952, it was simply named Bandstand and aired live every weekday afternoon. This was also a time of day when ABC didn’t feed any network product to the local stations, leaving WFIL with a time gap to fill locally. Most acquaintances describe Horn as arrogant and self-centered, although none of the dancers on his show saw him that way. And everyone at ABC Television tried to ignore the program’s first years. But when the program passed its 50th anniversary, there was no commemoration. Local radio disc jockey Buddy Deane was chosen as the host of The Buddy Deane Show on Channel 13, and began a daily two hour broadcast on September 9, 1957. One national market not telecasting Bandstand was Baltimore, Maryland, as local affiliate WAAM (now WJZ-TV) elected to produce a local dance show in the same afternoon time slot. DA Blanc spent considerable time and money on his probe, renting a center city storefront as an unmarked headquarters instead of using his own office in City Hall. I never saw black people dancing on the show early on, but that didn’t faze me. He usually brought some of his young clients with him and arranged dates — photographic and otherwise — for them. In this new setting, a greater number of kids could dance while the music played. 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The show was moved to Los Angeles in 1964. One early photo shows the studio with an audience that was almost half black. He was born Donald Horn in 1916 and grew up in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. Before Alan Freed brought his popular radio shows and concerts to television in 1956, and before Ed Sullivan broadcast Bo Diddley in 1955 and later Elvis Presley in 1956, Bob Horn’s Bandstand had grown into a local show with national influence, making it the most important television venue in this era for artists and producers looking to reach a large audience. It reflected the fact that Horn played big band recordings by Harry James, Tommy Dorsey and other similar artists. Come and join us two weeks from today for an hour version of American Bandstand on Saturday, September 19. Horn, however, was disenchanted with the program, so he wanted to have the show changed to a dance program, with teenagers dancing along on camera as the records played, based on an idea that came from a radio show on WPEN, The 950 Club, hosted by Joe Grady and Ed Hurst. I didn’t know it at the time, but Blanc must have been on his way to or from his secret lair on some occasions when he stopped by to see my dad. “He asked a bunch of us to be on a committee to act as examples to other teenagers, and he gave birthday cakes and Christmas gifts to all of us on the committee. Bob Horn with Prince Bandi behind the Bandstand 1955 (photo courtesy Peter Horn) On September 28, 1952 it was decided that the new show would premier Tuesday afternoon, October 7, 1952. 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