RIP Dick Clark

Platapus · 04-18-12, 04:05 PM

I sure would like to see that painting he has in the attic.

jmann · 04-18-12, 04:19 PM

Watched him every year since i was a kid.. 82 is about as far back as i can remember. It's sad.. everyone has their day. Death comes for us all.. It's the only thing you can count on

vienna · 04-18-12, 05:17 PM

Another part of my childhood and adolescence gone away...

From the late 50s on, I would watch American Bandstand and his other later shows in the 60s like "Where the Action Is" to see the latest bands and performers. When I moved to hollywood in 1975, "Bandstand" was temporarily being produced in an ABC-TV studio facility just around the corner from my home. I would see the "Bandstand" dancers and some of the musical guests going in and out of the building. I once saw Dick Clark on Sunset Blvd., down the street from Vine Street. I was just exiting an Arby's fast food restaurant and a car, a big station wagon, pulled up into the parking lot near the door. Out came this big family group and when the driver exited, it was Dick Clark. I remember thinking how very cool it was he was out with his family, no limo or entourage, and going in to have a meal in an Arby's, not a swank Hollywood restaurant. He always seemed like such a pleasant, normal guy on TV and seeing him that day just proved the image was no lie...

Thanks, Dick Clark, for all the musical memories, and rest in peace...

...

u crank · 04-18-12, 06:19 PM

Great post vienna.

Lots of memories. R.I.P. Mr. Clark.

Torplexed · 04-18-12, 07:15 PM

I wonder if this means any remaining obligations I may have had to the Columbia Record and Tape Club are dissolved? Those eight-tracks are really piling up in the basement.

Takeda Shingen · 04-18-12, 08:38 PM

He hadn't been well for some time. No matter, he is now in a better place and we are all the richer for his work.

Gargamel · 04-18-12, 10:47 PM

I still remember his Last new years count down

Tensh.....

Ninesh......

Eightsh.......

Eightsh.......

Squirellsh......

Sixsh........

All bad jokes aside, RIP dick. You will be missed.

kiwi_2005 · 04-18-12, 10:53 PM

RIP Dick Clark. I remember him in the 80s.

Sailor Steve · 04-18-12, 10:57 PM

I remember him in the '50s.

soopaman2 · 04-18-12, 11:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gargamel

I still remember his Last new years count down

Tensh.....

Ninesh......

Eightsh.......

Eightsh.......

Squirellsh......

Sixsh........

All bad jokes aside, RIP dick. You will be missed.

I won't bring up the first New Years he did after the stroke, and fell behind on the count.

We all kinda laughed then, but maybe a bit of trolls remorse now. Just a little, the power of shadenfreud(sp) is still strong in me.

In all seriousness.
He was an icon that spanned across multiple generations. Even if you do not know him from American Bandstand, then you knew him as that friendly face, and golden voice you saw every New Years eve.

You wanted to party with Dick.

I will chug this can of Budwieser now in his memory.

Jimbuna · 04-19-12, 05:17 AM

RIP DICK CLARK

04-18-12, 04:05 PM	#1
Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,362 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	RIP Dick Clark I sure would like to see that painting he has in the attic. __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.

04-18-12, 05:17 PM	#3
vienna Navy Seal Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Anywhere but the here & now... Posts: 7,711 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	Another part of my childhood and adolescence gone away... From the late 50s on, I would watch American Bandstand and his other later shows in the 60s like "Where the Action Is" to see the latest bands and performers. When I moved to hollywood in 1975, "Bandstand" was temporarily being produced in an ABC-TV studio facility just around the corner from my home. I would see the "Bandstand" dancers and some of the musical guests going in and out of the building. I once saw Dick Clark on Sunset Blvd., down the street from Vine Street. I was just exiting an Arby's fast food restaurant and a car, a big station wagon, pulled up into the parking lot near the door. Out came this big family group and when the driver exited, it was Dick Clark. I remember thinking how very cool it was he was out with his family, no limo or entourage, and going in to have a meal in an Arby's, not a swank Hollywood restaurant. He always seemed like such a pleasant, normal guy on TV and seeing him that day just proved the image was no lie... Thanks, Dick Clark, for all the musical memories, and rest in peace... ... __________________ __________________________________________________ __ Last edited by vienna; 04-18-12 at 06:23 PM.

04-18-12, 06:19 PM	#4
u crank Old enough to know better Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Prince Edward Island Posts: 11,744 Downloads: 136 Uploads: 0	Great post vienna. Lots of memories. R.I.P. Mr. Clark. __________________ “Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” ― Arthur C. Clarke

04-18-12, 10:47 PM	#7
Gargamel Lucky Sailor Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Rome Posts: 4,273 Downloads: 81 Uploads: 0	I still remember his Last new years count down Tensh..... Ninesh...... Eightsh....... Eightsh....... Squirellsh...... Sixsh........ All bad jokes aside, RIP dick. You will be missed. __________________ Luck is a residue of Design.

04-18-12, 10:53 PM	#8
kiwi_2005 Eternal Patrol Join Date: May 2004 Location: Aeoteroa Posts: 7,382 Downloads: 223 Uploads: 1	RIP Dick Clark. I remember him in the 80s. __________________ RIP kiwi_2005 Those who can't laugh at themselves leave the job to others.

04-18-12, 04:19 PM	#2
jmann Swabbie Join Date: Apr 2012 Posts: 6 Downloads: 52 Uploads: 0	Watched him every year since i was a kid.. 82 is about as far back as i can remember. It's sad.. everyone has their day. Death comes for us all.. It's the only thing you can count on

04-18-12, 07:15 PM	#5
Torplexed Let's Sink Sumptin' ! Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Seattle, WA Posts: 5,823 Downloads: 43 Uploads: 0	I wonder if this means any remaining obligations I may have had to the Columbia Record and Tape Club are dissolved? Those eight-tracks are really piling up in the basement.

04-18-12, 08:38 PM	#6
Takeda Shingen Navy Seal Join Date: Mar 2000 Posts: 8,643 Downloads: 19 Uploads: 0	He hadn't been well for some time. No matter, he is now in a better place and we are all the richer for his work.

04-18-12, 10:57 PM	#9
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	I remember him in the '50s. __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

04-19-12, 05:17 AM	#11
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,525 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	RIP DICK CLARK __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

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