[78-L] Dick Clark gone

[David Lennick]

On a 17-inch black and white screen, who'd notice if Lewis's fingers weren't in 
sync with the record? Ah, memories (from another old gasbag).

dl

On 4/18/2012 5:47 PM, bruce78rpm at comcast.net wrote:
> I watched Bandstand in the 50's (I'm an oldtimer), and the majority of the artists lip-sinched to the record, Jerry Lee of course was at the Piano and all over it for that matter, so how would you Lip-sync his routine ?
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> From: "Matthew Duncan"<recordgeek334578 at yahoo.com>
> To: "78-L Mail List"<78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2012 5:37:46 PM
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Dick Clark gone
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> Was the lip-synched thing a part of Bandstand later on?? Just there are live performances by Jerry Lee Lewis from the 50s on Youtube...but maybe more polished pop artists were 'miming' in the 50s too?
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> From: Cary Ginell<soundthink at live.com>
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Sent: Wednesday, 18 April 2012, 21:11
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Dick Clark gone
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> 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.
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> Cary Ginell
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>> 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
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>> 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/
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>>> dl
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