It was an ordinary day. Just returned from my mailbox and opened one of my favorite magazines, "ReMIND". The magazine is published monthly and deals with everything "Rock and Roll." You know...the best music ever created! My latest issue's cover was plastered with some of the best well-known Rock & Roll singers...Buddy Holly, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Bill Haley, and...of course... Elvis Presley! But, the first page of the magazine showed a photograph of the "World's oldest teenager," Dick Clark who helped bring that new craze called rock 'n' roll to the nation in the 1950s. I can remember coming home from elementary school and turning on the TV to watch "American Bandstand" on my parent's black and white TV. Didn't matter what color the TV was as long as it played Rock 'n Roll...as loud as it could. That was until my mom would enter the living room and make me turn down the volume. Well, the latest issue of "REMIND" had quite a few stories about all the big time Rock 'n Roll artists from the '50s. There were many stories about Elvis as well as stories about Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Bill Haley and his Comets, Buddy Holly & The Crickets, Richie Valens, The Beatles, The Big Bopper, Dion & The Belmonts and of course Dick Clark who brought all the music to us on his TV show "American Bandstand." Any person my age today just has to remember American Bandstand! So...look up American Bandstand on your computer and you'll be able to tell about how old I might be! At the rear of the magazine was a full page pinup photograph of Elvis Presley from 1955. Would be a great photograph to cut out and frame for those who had fallen in love with Elvis as a young girl...or even an older girl. This month's issue of "REMIND" also had stories about The Beatles, Grateful Dead, The Rolling Stones, Fleetwod Mac, Led Zeppelin, The Ramones, U2, Prince, Bruce Springsteen, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and Metallica. But, this latest issue mostly featured "The History of American Bandstand" and those that performed live on their stage in nearby Philadelphia. The show was broadcast for many years from Philadelphia, PA until it finally moved in 1963 to Los Angeles. My all-time favorite show ran for 24 years, ending its run on ABC in 1987. It was said to be...one of those pop culture phenomenia that fans love to reminisce about. I was lucky enough to be one of those fans! I will forever remember those days when I hurried home from school to watch Bandstand on my parent's black and white television. Mom was usually sitting next to me when Dick Clark came on and began the show. She loved the show and the guest musicians just as much as I did. Hey...we even did "The Twist" together...60 years ago! It was another extraordinary day in the life of an ordinary guy. PS - Yeah...we had to do the twist with the volume turned down!
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