Dick Clark News

On Saturday, you'll be able to step back in time, to the 1950s, as The New Brunswick Country Showcase presents a '50s rock 'n' roll show.

It was a standing-room only event as thousands of collectors packed into the Dick Clark American Bandstand Theater for the Mecum '57 Heaven Museum Auction.

The wildest, most innovative children's television host of the baby-boom era, comedian Soupy Sales -- who rose to fame hosting several shows in the 1950s and '60s at WXYZ-TV -- passed away Thursday night at a hospice in The Bronx, New York.

On Friday from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., interested people will have a chance to preview items going up for auction from the '57 Heaven Museum, a news release said.

Sometime after Arthur Murray Dance Party , "Shindig," and "Hullabaloo"--but before "Midnight Special"--many rock 'n' rollers setting out to lip-sync their latest single on TV often appeared on Dick Clark-produced "Where the Action Is," which aired on ABC from 1965 to 1967.

Singer. Born October 3, 1941, in Spring Gulley, South Carolina, the son of a tobacco farmer.

As ailing showbiz mogul Dick Clark prepares to celebrate his 80th birthday in November, a new documentary threatens to tarnish his image by recounting his controversial beginnings.

Newsblaze presents The Best of American Bandstand with your host, Dick Clark. On this day of January 14 in the year 1984, the group Quaterflash came on Bandstand to performed "Take Me to Heart" and "Take Another Picture", the follow-ups to their breakout hit "Harden My Heart". But it was this next artist that made this edition memorable.

The Mecum Auction Company has announced a special preview of the '57 Heaven Museum at Dick Clark's American Bandstand Theater in Branson, Mo.

Roanoke native Billy Joe Burnette had a national hit with "Teddy Bear" in 1976. The song received a BMI award for songwriting.

A Branson museum dedicated to all things 1957 will close and the contents will be auctioned off.

The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Neptune, Uranus, Jupiter, Venus and Mars.

BRANSON, Mo. - A Branson museum dedicated to all things 1957 will close and the contents will be auctioned off.

A Branson museum dedicated to all things 1957 will close and the contents will be auctioned off.

It is hard for weird to be weird now. If there be perversity somewhere, it's probably the kernel of a reality show or the focus of a dutiful blog.

Arrivals: July 30 : blues guitarist Buddy Guy , singer-songwriter Paul "Havin' My Baby" Anka , saxophonist David Sanborn , Jethro Tull bassist Jeffrey Hammond , Marc Bolan of T. Rex , The Sweet's Andy Scott , Hugh Nicholson of Marmalade , Stewart Copeland of The Police , Rat Scabies born Chris Miller of The Damned , singer-songwriter-producer Kate ...

The Bomhard Theater is sizzling with the brassy Music Theatre Louisville production of "Hairspray." Set in Baltimore in 1962, "Hairspray" is adapted from John Waters' 1988 campy movie.

Cast, left to right, Bucky Herd, Chris Skillern, Angie Skillern, A.J Herd and Ken Brown introducing theRock U Mentally motto "Don't Stand By, Stand Up." When Branson's newest show, "Rock U Mentally" was first announced, it was described as "a hip educational musical adventure for kids of all ages." The show is now a few performancesinto its limited ...

IN STEP: For exec Mike Darnell, Dick Clark Prods. exec veep Barry Adelman, 'Dance' exec producers Nigel Lythgoe and Simon Fuller, and DCP prexy Orly Adelson.

The five-brother singing group Tavares may be best known for such up-tempo hits as the million-selling single "Heaven Must Be Missing an Angel," "More Than a Woman," and "Whodunit," but they first came to national attention with the luscious ballad "Check It Out." Their crisp vocalizing and clean-cut, young-men-next-door image made them favorites ...