Dick Clark is one of those people who never seems to change regardless of how much times do. My hat’s off to him for not giving up and making the comeback.
I remember American Bandstand too, OCM, and when it finally went off the air he had enough juice in television to put on a nighttime show without a sponsor—something unheard of in those days, or these days for that matter. A chewing gum sponsored the show after that but I don’t recall the brand, it was in a green package. Clark referred to it as “teen green”.
[Exiting, humming the theme to American Bandstand]
He looks better today then I did at half his age, (only a slight exaggeration),I suspect
his vices are morally accepted above my own.
I thought doublemint too at first, OCM, but it wasn’t. It was a darker green package and was not as good as doublemint. Yeah, I remember the doublemint twins too. Then there were the slogan parodies: “Double your pleasure, double your fun, get laid by two girls instead of just one.”
The Japanese also package seaweed in gum-like packaging. It’s ... different. Yeah, I remember the apple gum.
I’m still racking my brain over the “teen green” gum. It wasn’t beechnut either.
I’m not sure what the name of the show was that I mentioned above, or the dates. I was ten in 1958. If it was Beechnut peppermint gum they must have changed the packaging shortly after that era.
Good lord.
What are they going to do when he dies? Cart out his corpse every year and prop it behind a desk?
I’d say he is a “bit” past his prime. Retire the man and give the reigns to someone else (No, not Ryan Suckrest....anyone but that Ken doll...)
Good God. He’s just eight months and fifteen days younger than my grandma (she was born on the Ides of March of that year, but passed away in May of 1999).
And all this time, I had thought that he had made a deal with the Devil.