Up for auction a RARE! "American Bandstand" Dick Clark Hand Signed Vintage Card Tin.This item is authenticated By Professional Autograph Authentication
Service (PAAS) and comes with their certificate of authenticity and hologram
affixed. ES- 775 Richard Wagstaff Clark (November 30, 1929 – April 18, 2012) was
an American radio and television personality,
television producer and film actor, as well as a cultural icon who remains best
known for hosting American Bandstand from
1956 to 1989. He also hosted the game show Pyramid and Dick Clark's
New Year's Rockin' Eve, which transmitted Times Square's New Year's Eve celebrations. As host of American
Bandstand, Clark introduced rock & roll to many Americans. The show gave many new
music artists their first exposure to national audiences, including Iggy Pop, Ike & Tina Turner, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, Stevie Wonder, Prince, Talking Heads, Simon & Garfunkel and Madonna. Episodes he hosted
were among the first in which blacks and whites performed on the same stage,
and likewise among the first in which the live studio audience sat without
racial segregation. Singer Paul Anka claimed that Bandstand was
responsible for creating a "youth culture". Due to his perennially
youthful appearance and his largely teenaged audience of American
Bandstand, Clark was often referred to as "America's oldest
teenager" or "the world's oldest teenager". In
his off-stage roles, Clark served as Chief Executive Officer of Dick Clark Productions (a
financial interest in which he sold off in his later years). He also founded
the American Bandstand Diner, a restaurant chain modeled after the Hard Rock Cafe. In 1973, he created
and produced the
annual American Music Awards show,
similar to the Grammy Awards. Clark
suffered a stroke in December 2004. With speech ability impaired,
Clark returned to his New Year's Rockin' Eve show a year later
on December 31, 2005. Subsequently, he appeared at the 58th Primetime Emmy Awards in
2006, and every New Year's Rockin' Eve show through the
December 31, 2011 episode. He died on April 18, 2012, of a heart attack, at the
age of 82, following prostate surgery. |