This photo flick collage of American Bandstand pictures tries to re-create for all of you what a typical day at American Bandstand might look like. Most of you visiting my website personally recall watching the shows so know this well, and many of you actually danced on the show or visited it, so you know it even better. So for those of you already informed, this is just a trip of memories...but for some of the visitors out there who never had the privilege of being a part of the earliest years of American Bandstand in Philly and are too young to have watched it but may have heard all about it from grandparents, parents, aunts and uncles, etc....well this will give you a glimpse of the reality of the show itself. Here you will see ...

American Bandstand was so popular across the nation that many shows cropped up all over the country that were similar in style and format. Here today is a YouTube video of "Rockin' Robin" and throughout you can see teens dancing--and dancing as close to AB style as I have seen on any show. Forgive any commercial before or aft that you have to sit through, but it's worth it to see the dance show. ROCKIN' ROBIN
I have seen this show before on YouTube but can't remember the name of the host or the show, but I am sure some of you astute ones out there will know it well. It definitely has an East Coast flavor to it, so I am sure it is an area not far away from Philly. This is just for fun. Anyone else think that one of those gals dances ......

Pop Singer presented birthday cakes to others, but let's present one to him

In honor & memory of Pop Singer's birthday which falls on October 12th.

One could write a lot of good things about Pop Singer, but the way I will always think of him is that he was a fine and decent man in a world where that just might be the best tribute one can give anyone in life--not that they had fame or money or knew how to play the game, etc...but that they lived their lives in subtle ways that left big impressions on the hearts and minds of others.

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