As the world reacts to the news of Dick Clark’s passing after suffering a heart attack Wednesday morning, we remember the legacy the TV legend left behind. Clark became a national icon with the ...

“American Bandstand” was the first reality show craze for high schoolers in the ’50s and ’60s who would rush home to watch their favorite couples dance on screen. Although all the pairings were ...

Dick Clark, the perpetually youthful-looking television host whose long-running daytime song-and-dance fest, “American Bandstand,” did as much as anyone or anything to advance the influence of ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by The Bay Citizen By Andy Wright On a gray February morning, Karen Alexander stood in a Mission District parking lot, dressed in red lamé leggings, ...

The news of TV legend Dick Clark’s death Wednesday had an especially deep impact on Mark Wilhelm, of Spokane. Wilhelm, 52, was a regular dancer on Clark’s signature show, “American Bandstand,” along ...

Dick Clark, a television host and entrepreneur who sold rock-and-roll to Middle America on the dance show “American Bandstand” and counted down the new year with millions of TV viewers as emcee of an ...

Bandstand Bonnie got her nickname later in life, but her inspiration early, as "the girl with the big hairdo" on American Bandstand in 1961. Hearing today that Dick Clark had died was "very, very sad.

Pictured, Dick Clark and some really odd looking dancers frozen forever in time from this Jan. 29, 1977, Journal Gazette feature about American Bandstand's 25th Anniversary TV special. For ...