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Monday, 23 December 2019

TV Guide and Bandstand, 1954.03.00

   March 1954-Poll by TV Guide votes Bandstand as the best music show in the Philadelphia area.

   wikipedia_TV Guide    wikipedia_Bandstand    wikipedia_Bob Horn



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Lee Stewart is dismissed from Bandstand, 1954.01.00

   January 1954-Lee Stewart is dismissed as co-host leaving Bob Horn as the Bandstand show’s only host.

  wikipedia_American Bandstand

Lee Stewart

Lee Stewart and Bob Horn


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Wednesday, 6 November 2019

Dick Clark with Johnny Ace, Bandstand, 1953.08.00

   1953 - Producer Tony Mammarella substitutes for the vacationing Bob Horn.

  en.wikipedia.org Tony Mammarella   Bob Horn   Dick Clark   Johnny Ace

Dick Clark with Johnny Ace


   1953.08.00-TV host Dick Clark with singer Johnny Ace on Bandstand in the WFIL studio, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1953




Johnny Ace
1952
08/1952
My Song - 1 R&B
1953
01/1953
Cross My Heart - 3 R&B
07/1953
The Clock - 1 R&B
12/1953
Saving My Love for You - 2 R&B



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Bob Horn, Frankie Laine, Joni James, 1953.05.00

   March 29, 1953 - Rex Polier of the Philadelphia Bulletin calls Bandstand "the city's beehive of juvenile jive." 

   1953.05.00

  Bob Horn and Frankie Laine  in the WFIL studio Bandstand, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

  Bob Horn and Joni James in the WFIL studio Bandstand, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania



Frankie Laine
1953
01/1953
I'm Just a Poor Bachelor - 14 US
02/1953
I Believe - 2 US, 1 UK
03/1953
The Girl in the Wood - 11 UK
05/1953
Your Cheatin' Heart - 18 US
08/1953
Hey Joe! - 6 US, 1 UK
09/1953
Where the Wind Blows - 2 UK
10/1953
Answer Me - 1 UK
Joni James
1953
01/1953
Have You Heard - 4 US
01/1953
Wishing Run - 17 US
02/1953
Your Cheatin' Heart - 2 US
05/1953
Almost Always - 9 US
05/1953
Is It Any Wonder - 16 US
08/1953
My Love, My Love - 8 US
08/1953
You're Fooling Someone - 11 US

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Bob Horn, Bandstand show, 1953.05.00

   1953.05.00    en.wikipedia.org Bob Horn


   Bandstand host Bob Horn and a group of the show's dancers


   Bob Horn and Regulars at the Rate-A-Record Desk 1953


Poster, 1955
   

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Thursday, 5 September 2019

Lee Stewart and Bob Horn, 1953.03.00


530300-Bandstand teen dance program on WFIL-TV co-host Lee Stewart and Bob Horn.


Lee Stewart and Bob Horn

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Dick Clark, 1953.03.00

   Dick Clark - Radio announcing days at WFIL, Philadelphia


In October 1952, the Philadelphia Inquirer featured an eighty-page pullout magazine 
on the growth and promise of “Delaware Valley, U.S.A.”


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Sunday, 1 September 2019

Ray Anthony on Bandstand, December 1952

  Ray Anthony & The Gang do The Bunny Hop, kids dancing 'The Bunny Hop' on Bandstand, WFIL-TV - December 1952

broadcastpioneers.com   wikipedia_org Bunny_hop_(dance)

Ray Anthony, woman, Bob Horn at a concert, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

The Bunny Hop-Ray Anthony and His Orchestra  Capitol 2427



Ray Anthony & his orchestra perform the 1950s




The Bunny Hop from The Ray Anthony Show (1953)




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Disc Jockey Play Chart Top 10 in USA
 - December 20, 1952


Juke Box Charts Top 10 in USA
 - December 20, 1952


Joni James, 1952



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Saturday, 31 August 2019

Teenagers, Bandstand, WFIL-TV - December 1952

  Teenagers waiting to dance on Bandstand - WFIL-TV, Philadelphia - December, 1952




  Kids dancing 'The Bunny Hop' on Bandstand, WFIL-TV - December 1952


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WFIL TV 6 Philly Ad Oct 1952



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Disc Jockey Play Chart Top 10 in USA
 - December 6, 1952


Juke Box Charts Top 10 in USA
 - December 6, 1952


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Bob Horn, Don Flanagan - 1952, November

  Don Flanagan said he and the girls managed to keep things orderly by distributing color coded entry tickets, each assigned for a different day of the week. Broadcast Pioneers member Jerry Blavat also played an important part in the Horn days of Bandstand.

Bob Horn poster cover LP

  It was Bob Horn who Flanagan credits with establishing much of the basic format of the later incarnation of “American Bandstand,” the name the show used when on network. Local segments (which preceded the network show were still called “Bandstand”).

  For a few months, Bob took over hosting an afternoon TV music show called “Parade of Stars” which ran filmed songs, the first so-called music videos. WFIL-TV wanted to capitalize on Horn’s very popular radio program called, Bandstand. They thought of just changing the name of “Parade of Stars” to “Bandstand,” but that idea was nixed.

Lee Stewart - The Original Bandstand Set - WFIL-TV, Philadelphia - 1952

  Bandstand teen dance program on WFIL-TV with Bob Horn as co-host with Lee Stewart. 


Disc Jockey Play Chart Top 10 in USA
 - November 8, 1952


Juke Box Charts Top 10 in USA
 - November 8, 1952


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Don Flanagan - 1952, October

   In 1952, a 16-year-old West Catholic High School junior Don Flanagan can tell you he was the first record runner for the TV show that became the forerunner to American Bandstand. It was called, “Bandstand.”



   He signed up to show up Monday through Fridays at the “new” home of WFIL-TV and Radio at 46th and Market Streets in West Philly, near several major high schools.

   Don Flanagan, tall, a string bean of a kid, was given the assignment to run records from the station’s afternoon teen record hop with Bob Horn and Lee Stewart across the hall to the AM radio station. He deposited them into the hands of a young 26 year-old guy from upstate New York. His name was Dick Clark.

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Disc Jockey Play Chart Top 10 in USA
 - October 25, 1952


Juke Box Charts Top 10 in USA
 - October 25, 1952


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Bob Horn, October 13, 1952

  October 13, 1952—Bandstand teen dance program debuts on WFIL-TV with Bob Horn as co-host with Lee Stewart. Horn is named director of recorded music for WFIL radio and WFIL-TV.

Lee Stewart and Bob Horn


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   WFIL 1947 Publication Cover - Cover drawing from 1947 WFIL 
"Going Forward With Radio" publication.


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Disc Jockey Play Chart Top 10 in USA
 - October 11,1952


Juke Box Charts Top 10 in USA
 - October 11,1952


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Dick Clark, June 28, 1952

  520628-Dick Clark- June 28, 1952 with my high school sweetheart, hom I married, Bobbie Mallery

Dick Clark- At the Salisbury, Maryland, wedding reception, Bobbie and I posed with her uncle and her mother. On my left, my mom and dad.


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Dick Clark, May 13, 1952

  May 13, 1952-Dick Clark, 22, joins staff of WFIL radio.

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   WFIL Whitemarsh Transmitter Site - Construction of the WFIL-AM towers at Whitemarsh Pa. The three 397 foot towers were completed in the fall of 1947. Power was raised to 5,000 watts. These towers were replaced in 1987.


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Disc Jockey Play Chart Top 10 in USA
 - May 10,1952


1 Kiss Of Fire-Georgia Gibbs
2 Wheel Of Fortune-Kay Starr
3 Guy Is A Guy-Doris Day
4 Blue Tango-Leroy Anderson
5 Blacksmith Blues-Ella Mae Morse
6 I'll Walk Alone-Don Cornell
7 Be Anything (But Be Mine)-Eddy Howard
8 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-Guy Mitchell & Mitch Miller
9 I'm Yours-Don Cornell
10 Blue Tango-Hugo Winterhalter

 Juke Box Charts Top 10 in USA
 - May 10,1952
1 Wheel Of Fortune-Kay Starr
2 Guy Is A Guy-Doris Day
3 Blue Tango-Leroy Anderson
4 Blacksmith Blues-Ella Mae Morse
5 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-Guy Mitchell & Mitch Miller
6 Kiss Of Fire-Georgia Gibbs
7 Any Time-Eddie Fisher
8 I'll Walk Alone-Don Cornell
9 Blue Tango-Guy Lombardo
10 Forgive Me-Eddie Fisher & Hugo Winterhalter

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Bob Horn, 1951

   In 1951 Bob Horn adds television to his duties, at WFIL-TV. 

   Bandstand was originally a radio show broadcast by Philadelphia's WIP-AM station and hosted by Bob Horn, who moved with the show to rival station WFIL in 1951.

  In 1951 Bob Horn moved his highly popular Bandstand to rival WIP.


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1947 - Eastern Light Company - 12 Sep MC - Allentown PA

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Disc Jockey Play Chart Top 10 in USA
 - January 13,1951

Juke Box Charts Top 10 in USA
 - July 7,1951


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