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Music (Rock 'N Roll Special) - The first prime time network special devoted
to rock music entitled ROCK 'N ROLL was telecast on ABC May 4 & 11,
1957. It was hosted by Alan Freed, the Cleveland D.J. who coined the phrase
"Rock 'n Roll," and featured the talents of Sal Mineo, Guy Mitchell, June
Valli, Martha Carson, The Clovers, Screamin' Jay Hawkins and The Del Vikings.
On June 28, 1959 ABC broadcast another first, a tribute to the recording
industry entitled THE RECORD YEARS hosted by Dick Clark, with guests Johnny
Mathis, Fabian, the McGuire Sisters, Les Paul and Mary Ford, Fats Domino and
the creative comic genius of Stan Freberg.
PAUL WHITEMAN'S TV TEEN CLUB/ABC/1949-54 was the first
program for teenagers. Dick Clark, who read commercials on the program later
had his own successful teen program AMERICAN BANDSTAND on the ABC Network
which years later was the inspiration for the NBC drama AMERICAN DREAMS
about Meg Pryor (Brittany Snow), a 15-year-old from Philadelphia who aspires
to be a dancer on the American Bandstand program in the early 1960s.
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