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...

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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.

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, 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.