FILE - In this undated file photo released by ABC, Dick Clark hosts the New Year's eve special from New York's Times Square. Clark, the television host who helped ...

Long before there was such a thing as a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Dick Clark was the real-time curator, bringing future inductees into America's living rooms right as they first hit the scene. The ...

Past the room with Madonna's glass-entombed high heels and the glittery guitars hanging on the walls, past 20-year-old hostesses and whiffs of greasy cheese-steak sandwiches, a gray-haired man wearing ...

Dick Clark brought rock n roll to the mainstream as the host of American Bandstand and New Years Rockin' Eve. But in his decades long career, the legendary television personality and producer also ...

The entertainment world was all shook up as the landmark TV program "American Bandstand" made its national debut on this day in history, August 5, 1957. "American Bandstand" had been a local hit ...

Last month the pioneering TV broadcaster Don Cornelius died at the age of 75. As the host of “Soul Train,” many obituaries described Cornelius as the “African-American Dick Clark,” the legendary host ...

(CBS) -- A staple of local Philadelphia television, ABC picked it up as a network show thanks in large part to prodding by its young host Dick Clark. The show's format of clean-cut teens dancing to ...

"American Bandstand" is coming back with a new twist, courtesy of the producer of "American Idol." A revamped version, from original producer-host Dick Clark and "American Idol" creator Simon Fuller, ...

LOS ANGELES -- Dick Clark, the ever-youthful television host and tireless entrepreneur who helped bring rock n roll into the mainstream on American Bandstand, and later produced and hosted a vast ...

I was about eight years old, in 1957, when I discovered American Bandstand. I used to ride the back of the couch in our family den, pretending it was a horse, as I'd watch the Warner Brothers westerns ...

“American Bandstand” is coming back with a new twist, courtesy of the producer of “American Idol.” A revamped version, from original producer-host Dick Clark and “American Idol” creator Simon Fuller, ...

Dick Clark, who kept teens rocking with 'American Bandstand,' New Year's Eve shows, has died FILE - In this undated file photo released by ABC, Dick Clark hosts the ...