"America's Oldest Living Teenager," Dick Clark, shuffled off to the big sock-hop in the sky this past Wednesday. Sadly, we've lost another Amerian icon.
With the passing this week of that American Icon, Dick Clark, everyone has been sharing their memories of him and his many contributions to American music and culture through the past half-century. Here are mine:
The late Dick Clark was not only a name of the past. His approach to broadcasting, in every type of media, has carried over to the present day. In fact, a show relaunched just last month adopts the style and format made famous by Clark.
Personally I didn’t think it would ever happen. I always thought Dick Clark would live forever and always look like “Alphaville” sings “Forever Young”. Dick Clark was many things to many people in music and television. He was a graduate of Syracuse with a business degree that new how to manipulate the birth of rock n roll to his advantage. You can learn more about that in the PBS documentary “The
Dick Clark may have worked in bigger cities over the course of his long entertainment career, but it was his time in Philadelphia that made him a household name.