50th Anniversary of 'Bandstand'

From David Hinckley

Like most TV shows, "American Bandstand" was most popular when it was new. By the mid-'60s, clean-cut lip-synching was no longer on the cutting edge, and by the time MTV was born in 1981, "Bandstand" was widely seen as an artifact from rock's attic. But that's how kids always look at their parents, and MTV is a DNA-certified child of "Bandstand," just as surely as "Bandstand" owed a lot to the likes of "Your Hit Parade"
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