‘American Bandstand’ dancers take step back . admin // May 1, 2002 // Listen to this article. In the late 1950s and early ‘60s, everyone knew Bob and Justine, Kenny and Arlene, and Ed and Bunny.

What they didn’t know was that Arlene and several of the other female dancers, and most of the handsome teen boys, were gay. Clark, known as America’s oldest teenager, knew.

On July 9, 1956, 26-year-old Dick Clark stood in front of the cameras at WFIL-TV in West Philadelphia, wearing a crisp suit and a smile. That afternoon, he officially took over as host of Bandstand, a ...

Aug. 5, 2007 — -- Sunday is a milestone for the show that taught America to dance. It was 50 years ago that American Bandstand changed the way a generation listened to music. On Aug. 5, 1957 ...

"American Bandstand" has got a good beat, and 19 Entertainment's Simon Fuller would like to dance to it. Fuller, the brain trust behind Fox's megahit "American Idol," has pacted with Dick Clark ...

RATE-A-RECORD "It's got a good beat and you can dance to it" continues to be a running joke decades after the demise of Bandstand's famous "rate-a-record" feature, in which Clark would ask a boy ...

Did Dick Clark hide the homosexuality of its star dancers on television’s American Bandstand?That’s the claim of two of the dancers. Ray Smith, now 74, is the coauthor of a self-published book ...

The cover of Bandstand Diaries proclaims it's "the book you've waited over 50 years to read." For me, the hype was true. Like many adolescents growing up in the 1950s, I ran home from middle school ...

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.

With no disrespect to Mr. Eddie Kelly, I was also a dancer on American Bandstand from 1956 to 1958 during my freshman, sophomore and junior years at West Philadelphia Catholic High School.