[78-L] Dick Clark gone

[bruce78rpm at comcast.net]

How sad, There must be something "good" to say about him, now that he has passed. I never really cared that the entertainers lipsynched on bandstand as you were hearing Danny & the Juniors and Fabian and Frankie and all the rest just like they sounded on the records the DJ's played on the Radio, and bandstand was on every week day afternoon, and we enjoyed watching all the kids our age an older dancing to the music we listened to everyday , and rating the new songs, and Dick presenting the guest stars. So big deal, he was a shrewd and skillful businessman who knew how to self promote and make stars out of kids who needed a big break. I venture to say there are many many more former employees, and recording stars who loved and admired him and are grateful to him then those who, disliked him and thought of him as some sort of cheap cold hearted bastard. Just my opinion of course, but I thought I would throw in my positive 2 cents worth now that he is gone. I will always have fond memories of Bandstand, and of course it ran for 30 years, so he must have been doing something right. 

----- Original Message -----
From: "Cary Ginell" <soundthink at live.com> 
To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com 
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2012 4:11:18 PM 
Subject: Re: [78-L] Dick Clark gone 


I knew some people who worked for him when he had his syndication business. They said that he was extremely cheap. A real bottom line guy who paid employees as little as he could get away with and whose facade of niceness on the air hid a cold-hearted interior. I also hated that he never permitted acts on AB to play live. Everything had to be lip-synched to save money on production costs, licensing, performance royalties - he knew the business but I'll bet he still had the first dollar he ever earned. 

Cary Ginell 


> Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 16:07:22 -0400 
> From: mikedaley at gmail.com 
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com 
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Dick Clark gone 
> 
> One of his most impressive achievements was managing to come out of 
> the payola hearings smelling like a rose, while his counterpart Alan 
> Freed's career was destroyed. 
> 
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 3:59 PM, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote: 
> > http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2012/04/18/report-dick-clark-dies-at-age-82/ 
> > 
> > dl 
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