Stambler, Irwin, The Encyclopedia of Pop, Rock, and Soul, St. Martins, 1989. You get through that.. Instead of touching each other, as a couple would in a traditional dance like a waltz, the Twist made each dancer an individual who did not necessarily even need a partner. The nighttime show lasted only until 1960.. London: Methuen, 1975. 1945), and Chubby Checker (b. ." WebAfter retelling the story of the first time he spoke to a black teen on the air, Clark describes American Bandstands integration in the context of television history: There was one American Bandstand became the prototype for a generation of musical TV shows, from Soul Train (which ran for 1117 episodes from 1971 to 2006) and Hee Haw (which ran for 655 episodes between 1969 and 1993), to such shorter running shows as Shindig (1964-1966) and Hullaballo (1965 to 1966). Bill Haley continued to have hits into the late 1950s, but he was largely eclipsed by Presley and other emerging rock and rollers. Nite, Norm N., Rock On, updated ed., Harper & Row, 1982. Birnbaum, Larry. These recordings were firmly in the country-and-western tradition, but around 1951 Haley began to introduce elements of R&B into the groups live performances. In May 1954 Decca released their tune Rock Around the Clock, but it did not sell very well. Gelnhausen, Germany: Wagner Verlag, 2014. He first commented on the program's integration in his 1976 autobiography, when American Bandstand' s ratings were in decline and the show faced a challenge from The dance itself was simple enough, as Checker helpfully explained: "Work your feet like you're putting out a cigarette and work your hands like you're drying your bottom with a towel." (In case you were wondering, the longest-running television show of any kind, anywhere, is NBCs Meet the Press, which made its debut on November 6, 1947; it has run continuously for 70 years and 9 months! Encyclopedia.com. (d. 2010) Radio presenter and director, Oval Records and Music, London. We invented dancing apart. Checker continued to capitalize on the twistwhich he described to Jon Bowermaster in Newsday as a movement akin to drying your butt with a towel while grinding out a cigaretteand other dances during the early 1960s with such follow-up hits as Limbo Rock, Pony Time, and Lets Twist Again.. Most online reference entries and articles do not have page numbers.
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