The park also features a pond, sport pitches, woodland areas and the Bandstand, which is a natural amphitheatre, near where the famous Cambuslang Wark took place in the 18th century.

Map of Green with some key features: ( A ) Fusiliers ' Arch ( B ) O ' Donovan Rossa ( C ) O ' Connell Bridge ( D ) WolfeTone & Famine Memorial ( E ) Lord Ardilaun ( F ) Markievicz ( G ) Playground ( H ) Bandstand ( I ) 3 Fates

It has two main historical features which include the Bandstand and the Rizal Monument.

It was John, Jr. who had the history in broadcasting and music ; he hosted a local TV dance program ( before American Bandstand ), and was a recording pianist in the late 1940s.

The President's speech commences and he offers the content of the cassette to the summit ; but to the President's embarrassment, the tape has been switched for a cassette of the swing song " Bandstand Boogie ," Cabbie's favorite song.

He appeared on American Bandstand and toured the U. S. for three months non-stop with Patsy Cline.

Also featured in the film is Jackson Browne's " Late for the Sky ", appearing in a scene where couples are dancing on the program American Bandstand to the song as Travis watches on his small TV.

Her family is believed to have bought the house Dick Clark sold upon leaving for the west coat when Bandstand left WFIL in the early ' 60s.

* March 11 – A taped appearance by The Beatles on American Bandstand includes their new music video for the songs " Penny Lane " and " Strawberry Fields Forever "

* July 9 – Dick Clark hosts American Bandstand for the first time

* February 23-The Beatles make a taped appearance on American Bandstand, where they premiere their new music videos for the songs " Penny Lane " and " Strawberry Fields Forever.

Barris got his start in television as a page and later staffer at NBC in New York City, and eventually worked backstage at the TV music show American Bandstand ( then filmed in Philadelphia ), originally as a standards-and-practices person for ABC.

They had been playing country music and Western swing for several years when they were hired as the house band on the daily live television show Milt Grant's House Party, a local Washington, D. C. version of American Bandstand.

Dorsey also owned for a short time a trade magazine called The Bandstand.

It premiered locally in late September 1952 as Bandstand on Philadelphia television station WFIL-TV Channel 6 ( now WPVI-TV ), as a replacement for a weekday movie that had shown predominantly British movies.

In late spring of 1957, the ABC television network asked their O & O's and affiliates for programming suggestions to fill their 3: 30 p. m. ( ET ) time slot ( WFIL had been pre-empting the ABC programming with Bandstand ).

In Philadelphia, however, WFIL opted to tape-delay the game show for later broadcast in another time slot, and to continue on with Bandstand, though only for the local audience.

Set pieces from Soul Unlimited were utilized by Bandstand for its 1974 – 1978 set design.

In 2004, Dick Clark, with the help of Ryan Seacrest, announced plans to revive the show in time for the 2005 season ; although this did not occur ( due in part to Clark suffering a severe stroke in late 2004 ), one segment of the revived Bandstand — a national dance contest — eventually became the series So You Think You Can Dance.

From 1977 to the end of its ABC run in 1987, the show opened and closed with Barry Manilow's rendition of " Bandstand Boogie ," which he originally recorded for his 1975 album Tryin ' to Get the Feeling.

Attractions in Lowville include parks, such as the Veteran's Memorial Park which includes the Hospice Garden, and the Village Bandstand, where the community gathers for various types of entertainment.

Ritchie's record producer and manager, Bob Keane ( Pantoliano ), helps him by giving him a little vodka to calm his nerves during the flight to Philadelphia for the Bandstand appearance.

Richard Wagstaff " Dick " Clark ( November 30, 1929 – April 18, 2012 ) was an American radio and television personality, best known for hosting American television's longest-running variety show, American Bandstand, from 1957 to 1987.

Singer Paul Anka claimed that Bandstand was responsible for creating a " youth culture.

Atkins ' first live show with PiL was recorded and released as a live album Paris au Printemps and his first year with the band included appearances on The John Peel Sessions for the BBC, American Bandstand and the BBC's live Old Grey Whistle Test.

The suburb is also famous for its coastline, with promenades along Carter Road, Bandstand and Reclamation.

Dick Clark, host and producer of American Bandstand, attempted to divert viewers from Soul Train with a similarly themed program called Soul Unlimited, whose brief run on ABC in 1973 was controversial for its pronounced racial overtures.

Prince performed both these songs on January 26, 1980 on American Bandstand.

He has also been a guest on The Ed Sullivan Show, American Bandstand, The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour, KTLA Morning News, Visiting with Huell Howser on PBS, Good Day LA, The Rosie O ' Donnell Show, Good Morning America, and The Tonight Show with both Johnny Carson and later with Jay Leno.

The Browns appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show and Dick Clark's American Bandstand, and followed up with " Scarlet Ribbons " and " The Old Lamplighter ", recordings that also did well on both the pop and country charts.

However, members of the program's mainstay band Paul Revere and the Raiders ( with lead vocalist Mark Lindsay ) hosted very similar follow-up shows ; both Revere and Lindsay hosted Happening ' 68, a Saturday afternoon follow-up to American Bandstand, and a weekday version of the same show, It's Happening, from 1968 to 1969.

It reached # 1 on both the R & B and pop charts in U. S. and the group performed it on television's American Bandstand.

Toward the end of the 1986 – 87 season, ABC began discussing reducing Bandstand from a full hour to 30 minutes.

Canada's version of this ( mostly of American Bandstand and Soul Train ) was Electric Circus ( 1988 – 2003 ), which was also seen in the USA, and which had a national chart ( mostly of dance music and some pop ) as well as live performances, and was based on a local late 70's program in Toronto called CITY TV Boogie.

In the late 1970s / early 1980s, Teri made three TV appearances including American Bandstand with the Captain and Tennille and KC ( Dec / 29 / 1979 ), The Midnight Special with Tom Jones ( Feb / 08 / 1980 ) and on Solid Gold hosted by the Pointer Sisters ( Jan / 17 / 1981 ).

* 1957 – American Bandstand, a show dedicated to the teenage " baby-boomers " by playing the songs and showing popular dances of the time, debuts on the ABC television network.

They released a concert DVD in 2004 on Hydra Records, played the Viper Room in West Hollywood in 2005, and performed at Dick Clark's American Bandstand Theater in Branson, Missouri in 2006-07.

Devo made two appearances on the TV show Fridays in 1980, as well as on Don Kirchner's Rock Concert, American Bandstand, and other shows.

ELO also made their first appearance on American Bandstand.

Lynne, with the 7-piece line-up that supported Time ( with the exception of bassist Groucutt being replaced by Martin Smith ), played a small number of live ELO performances in 1986, including shows in England and Germany along with US appearances on American Bandstand, Solid Gold, then at Disneyland that summer.

programs like American Bandstand, but it also extended to film, clothes, hair, cars and motorbikes, and distinctive language.

" Sock hops ", gym dances, and home basement dance parties became the rage, and American teens watched Dick Clark's American Bandstand to keep up on the latest dance and fashion styles.

They were the first to earn a platinum record ( King of Rock, 1985 ), the first to earn a multi-platinum certification ( Raising Hell, 1986 ) the first to have videos on MTV, the first to appear on American Bandstand and the cover of Rolling Stone.

Brass bands and ' The Bandstand ' became popular in the Victorian era.

* August 5 – American Bandstand, a local dance show produced by WFIL-TV in Philadelphia, joins the ABC Television Network.

* August 5 – Eastbourne Bandstand officially opened in Eastbourne, United Kingdom.

* Recording Artist Franny Boye recorded a cover of the song, and preformed it on Dick Clark's American Bandstand in 1960.

In 2006, The 1954 – 55 Comets spent much of the year in residence at Dick Clark's American Bandstand Theater in Branson, Missouri.

This stood in comparison to the contemporary American Bandstand, which catered to a youth audience and played new music.

It broadcast American Bandstand and Shindig !, two shows that featured new popular and youth-oriented records of the day.

Though mainstream audiences in the early sixties preferred a clean-cut style – epitomised by the acts that appeared on the Nine Network pop show Bandstand – there were a number of ' grungier ' guitar-oriented bands in major cities like Sydney and Melbourne, who were inspired by American and British instrumental and surf acts like Britain's The Shadows – who exerted an enormous influence on Australian and New Zealand music prior to the emergence of The Beatles – and American acts like guitar legend Dick Dale and The Surfaris.

The Leas Lift connects the Leas with the beach. Bandstand near the Leas Cliff Lift

* Dick Clark booked Alabama on American Bandstand during the show's country week, on October 4, 1980.