Dick Clark started hosting the American Bandstand, known for showcasing new talents and musical acts to many different generations, in 1956 that showcased on local television. Shortly after on August 5th, 1957, after being picked up by the ABC television network, the American Bandstand premiered nationally. The American Bandstand helped numerous artists sell out records and kids became a huge division in the consumer network, even then becoming known as “Trendsetters” (. The show included fun aspects such as a Rate-A-Record Segment, lip syncing to hit songs, a multitude of interviews with many different popular artists, one of the first interviews featuring phone calls to the King of Rock n Roll, the infamous Elvis Presley, while he was serving …show more content…
in Germany. After acquiring large sums of money from his fame, Dick became involved in what is now known as the Payola Scandal: the practice in which music producing companies illegally paid broadcasting companies to endorse their products. He had 150 shares of partial copyright to record companies had to sell all of his shares in order to continue hosting on the American Bandstand. However, Dick Clark continued to host the “audio-visual time capsule” (“Dick Clark Productions,” 2017) show until 1989. On December 31, 1972, Dick Clark premiered a television series that would become a worldwide tradition, that takes place on the 31st of December each year and prolongs throughout the 1st of January, held in numerous households across the nation.
The show was called Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve, which took place in Times Square in New York City and featured live performances from an array of genres from music artists across the world. The show also featured, the now infamous ball drop, held in Times Square in New York City, where a multicolored glowing ball drops the moment it strikes midnight in various parts of the nation and the song “New York, New York” sang by Frank Sinatra rings throughout the nation, symbolizing the new year. Dick hosted Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve for over three decades until December 31, 2005, a year after Dick had suffered his mild stroke and was still recovering from its effects. Dick had been nurturing a prodigy of his who was named Ryan Seacrest. Ryan replaced Dick’s hosting spot since he suffered a stroke and the complications that come along with it. Dick did pop in as an occasional co-host alongside Ryan, Dick’s last appearance on New Year’s Rockin’ Eve was on December 31, 2011 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the show. In 1973, Dick created a TV show that would brand the icons of music today, called The American Music Awards. The show is the world’s biggest fan-voted award show and pays tribute to today’s most influential …show more content…
and iconic artists (“Dick Clark Productions,” 2017). Known abbreviated as the AMAs, the show features a lineup of iconic performers and beloved artists from all genres throughout the music industry. Dick Clark then founded his own production company known as Dick Clark Productions.
With the incoming money he began; buying radio stations and oil wells — and pouring money into TV. He produced and hosted game shows like The $10,000 Pyramid and TV's Bloopers and Practical Jokes, and ventured into the movie business with popular exploitation films like Psych-Out (1968), The Savage Seven (1968) and Killers Three (1968) "Scattergories", and "The Other Half". Clark also had several radio programs, including "The Dick Clark National Music Survey", "Countdown America", and "Rock, Roll & Remember". . Another one of his numerous shows also included one by the name of The Dick Clark Show which was also known as Dick Clark’s Saturday Night Beechnut Show. Dick was known for his iconic outro and sayonara at the end of each show he hosted, which included the line “For now, Dick Clark, So long” with a cheeky smile and a military
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During the 1950’s the musical genre of rock and roll was becoming vastly popular (Charlton). The television helped increase this genre’s fame by broadcasting new rock and roll music to the country. By 1954 about 83.2 percent of American households owned a television set (Baughman). TV was a fast and effective way of reaching millions of people which became quite useful to up and coming musical artists. Two television shows that dominated the air in the 50 's were, American Bandstand and The Ed Sullivan Show. These two shows greatly influenced rock and roll, because they changed the perception of rock and roll, provided performers with a large TV audience, and left a
Richard Kuklinski was a convicted hitman who worked has claimed to have killed at least 200 people over the course of his life. The theory that best describes Kuklinski and his personality is the psychodynamic theory. The psychodynamic theory states that people are affected by their early childhood experiences. Sigmund Freud best described the psychodynamic theory by talking about the 3 parts to a personality; The Id, the ego, and the superego. (Siegel 119). Those combined shape our behavior as humans in a conscious and subconscious way. The Id, is our initial primitive desire for things like food, sex, and love. Those are things we naturally subconsciously and consciously want. Then the ego comes in and takes what we want, then finds a
Elvis did more to break down the racial barriers separating the whites and blacks in this country than most people will ever realize. That is one reason there was so much resistance to his music in the 50's and 60's and why it remains so popular today. This is not an overstatement. Presley brought music that had previously been played and enjoyed by minorities to the forefront. When people discovered they had music in common, they could talk about that subject and enjoy it together. Then conversations were started on other interests and a
John Wayne was a psychopath who authorities should not have let out on parole and released him early of his sentence. He murdered 33 people and enjoyed every single death. No normal human being would enjoy killing someone.
Elvis Presley changed the music world as they knew it back in the 50’s he came out with a wild new style unlike any other. Even to this day if you hear Elvis’ name you automatically think of his signature style or as the king of rock and roll. Hound Dog was controversial for it’s time and made extra controversial by Elvis’ moves and how the ladies would swoon and storm the stage to see him. Presley was so ahead of his time that most adults didn’t because of his so-called vulgar ways but the younger generation went crazy for Elvis and his new style of blues meets country hence creating rock and becoming the king.
Two of the biggest names of 1950s music are Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley. These men helped the music industry become what it is today. Cash did it with a deep, genuine, southern voice, while Presley had the women swoon over him for his quick feet, charisma, and smooth voice.
Robert F Kennedy had gone to Marilyn's home that day, they had gotten into an argument and sometime after that he left with a partner of Ginancana named Johnny Roselli. He visited her around 10pm, purposely leaving the front door unlocked, letting five hit men enter her house. One crept up behind her and slipped a chloroform-soaked washcloth over her face and gave her an enema of barbiturates and took her to her bathroom. Departing the house when they hear Marilyn's housekeeper come into the house” said Darwin Potter, biographer and travel writer. Police contact and a man named Peter Lawford arrived and stole Marilyn Monroe's little red diary, which she kept all her sexual affair details in, which all made the scene after a while.
Tupac Shakur Tupac Amaru Shakur was born in the East Harlem section of Manhattan in New York City. His birth name was Lesane Parish Crooks, June 16, 1971. Both of his parents were members of the Black Panther Party. Tupac Shakur was a vocal participant during the East Coast and West Coast hip hop rivalry. He went to high schools in California and Maryland.
Al Capone Legacy Al “Scarface” Capone was a successful entrepreneur who saw an opportunity and pounced on it. Capone made his fortune through both legal and illegal business practices. WIth these strategies they live on and we see them today still and with them many laws and reforms had been created because of Capone. Capone had a very challenging and different childhood with eight siblings, he was born January 17th, 1899 in Brooklyn, New York. He had struggled in school, not because of the work as he was a fairly good student but he saw rules as something to break and not something to follow.
...y and western music was the norm; and mainstream pop was practically everywhere in urban settings. However, as populations shifted, word of mouth spread, and radio stations were able to amplify the reach of their signals – white, middle-class teenagers came to discover a whole other world of music. Take for example, Alan Freed’s radio program, The Moondog Show, which played hit R&B records when other major stations refused to play them. Like radio stations, who utilized recorded music to garner an audience, TV shows did the same by holding special guest appearances by a famous musician or band. These appearances would not only generate views to keep the show on air, but it also elevated its popularity. As an example, consider Ed Sullivan’s television show, Toast of the Town, which went on to boost the popularity of Elvis Presley and several musicians and bands after.
Twenty-one years ago, over ninety-five million people turned their television sets to local and cable news channels to watch a historic car chase through Los Angeles. The police were chasing a famous football player and actor by the name of Orenthal James (OJ) Simpson as he sat in the back seat of a 1993 white Ford Bronco holding a gun to his head. The owner of the Bronco and long-time friend Al (A.C.) Cowlings was driving, aiding and abetting the fugitive. Five days before the famous car chase OJ Simpson was accused of killing his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman in front of her residence. The low-speed chase lasted two hours and ended in front of Simpson’s home without incident. With Simpson captured and behind bars, the stage was set for the trial of the century. The evidence in Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman’s
Even though Elvis Presley did not create rock and roll, he was the driving force behind it. The term “Rock and Roll” was used to describe the new music that was taking shape. It was first used by a disc jockey named Alan Freed in Cleveland Ohio. This genre of music was influenced by country music, gospel, rhythm, and blues (Waltos, Goodrich, and DiSalvo). Record producers wanted a white artist who could make African American music since they saw a lot ...
The trickster character is often use in African American Comedy. The definition of a trickster is a person who plays tricks who also is a deceiver, cheat and a fraud. In literature, a trickster is a supernatural figure appearing in various guises and typically engaging in mischievous activities. Tricksters usually succeed by outsmarting or out thinking their opponents. The trickster figure originated in African American culture, through African folklore. When Africans were force to come to the New World for slavery, they brought over stories and tales with them. As black slaves gained literacy and began to write about their experiences, they incorporated figures from oral tradition into their written creations.
Imagine at the age of eight you are the lead singer of one of the most popular bands at the time with multiple songs reaching number one and produces incredibly popular albums, and at the age of around twelve you start a solo career, ("Jackson 5"). Michael Jackson's life was just that, including many multi-million selling songs across two music groups the Jackson 5 at the age eight and going solo at the age of twelve and having many adoring fans it contributed to Jackson being the best pop singer of all time. Although there were rape allegations which people suggest that Michael Jackson should be stripped of his title of the "King of Pop". Michael Jackson even with the faulty allegations, the popularity
January 24, 1989 notorious serial killer Ted Bundy was executed via electric chair after being convicted of over 30 murder he committed in hope to satisfy his sexual needs and wants. Bundy went on a killing spree for over 4 years getting away with brutally murdering and mutilating over 30 woman and keeping parts of some as a souvenirs during his rain of terror and told to be the devil in human form. A man that had no remorse for the crimes he committed and even killed 12 year old Kimberly Leach, an innocent girl taken away from a play ground and never seen again. A man that had a fatal addiction to violent pornography and turned his darkest fantasy into reality. Just before Bundy’s execution, he agreed to only be interviewed by Dr. James Dobson