dancing every day on “American Bandstand.’’ “We were like miniature rock ‘n’ roll stars. We had fans, we had groupies,’’ said Steve Colanero, 56, a dancer from 1959 to 1961 and now ...

Harsh though it may be, a new book, by California professor Matt Delmont—The Nicest Kids in Town: American Bandstand, Rock ‘n’ Roll, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in 1950’s ...

dancing every day on “American Bandstand.” “We were like miniature rock ‘n’ roll stars. We had fans, we had groupies,” said Steve Colanero, 56, a dancer from 1959 to 1961 and now ...

"American Bandstand" stars Kenny Rossi and ... The big teenybopper magazines of the era — Sixteen and Teen — plastered “Bandstand” dancers on their covers and wrote glowing, gossipy ...

Aug. 5, 2007 — -- Sunday is a milestone for the show that taught America to dance. It was 50 years ago that American Bandstand changed the way a generation listened to music. On Aug. 5 ...

Did Dick Clark hide the homosexuality of its star dancers on television’s American Bandstand? That’s the claim of two of the dancers. Ray Smith, now 74, is the coauthor of a self-published ...

American Bandstand hid the fact that many of its teenage dancers were gay, former stars of the show claim. Arlene Sullivan, now 74, is among them. Despite forming an on-screen partnership with ...

Take a look back through the decades at a dozen typical (or, in the case of Johnny Rotten, not-so-typical) Bandstand moments: "It's got a good beat and you can dance to it" continues to be a ...