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dance to into the motivating force of a business empire and made singers into fares. the legendary aretha franklin will join us in a few minutes. but here a look back at his career by koreen wynter. reporter: he was known as the world s oldest teenager. dick clark began his career on the weekly dance party that would later be known as american bandstand in philadelphia in 1956. the show became a national and later an international sensation, after it was picked up by abc one year later. do the twist reporter: in spite of racial altitudes at the time, clark was a pioneer in promoting african-american artists, including percy sledge, the silhouettes, the supremes and gladys night and the pips. an appearance on american bandstand could launch their career. if you look at the history of dance, from the popular music to the through the rock n roll period, country music, rhythm and blues, rap music, it is everything. reporter: but music wasn t his only beat, ....
he turned a beat that kids could dance to into the motivating force of a business empire and made singers into stars. the legendary aretha franklin and little richard join us in a few minutes to talk about dick clark, but here s a look back at his career by koreen wynter. reporter: he was known as the world s oldest teenager. dick clark began his career on the weekly dance party that would later be known as american bandstand in philadelphia in 1956. the show became a national and later an international sensation, after it was picked up by abc one year later. come on baby, let s do the twist reporter: in spite of racial attitudes at the time, clark was a pioneer in promoting african-american artists, including percy sledge, the silhouettes, the supremes and gladys night and the pips. an appearance on american bandstand launched many a musical career, and from jerry lee lewis to janet jackson, they all wanted dick clark to give their record a spin. if you ....
the world. he integrated a corner of the media watched by the entire nation while a third of that nation was still segregated. he turned a beat that kids could dance to into the motivating force of a business empire and made singers into stars. the legendary aretha franklin and richard and little richard will join us in a few minutes. but here a look back at his career by koreen wynter. reporter: he was known as the world s oldest teenager. dick clark began his career on the weekly dance party that would later be known as american bandstand in philadelphia in 1956. the show became a national and later an international sensation, after it was picked up by abc one year later. come on baby, let s do the twist reporter: in spite of racial attitudes at the time, clark was a pioneer in promoting african-american artists, including percy sledge, the silhouettes, the supremes and gladys night and the pips. an appearance on american bandstand could launch their c ....
he made singers into stars. the legendary aretha frank lili will join us. reporter: he was known as the world s oldest teenager. dick clark began his career on the weekly dance party that would later be known as american bandstand in philadelphia in 1956. the show became a national and later an international sensation, after it was picked up by abc one year later. come on baby, let s do the twist reporter: in spite of racial attitudes at the time, clark was a pioneer in promoting african-american artists, including percy sledge, the silhouettes, the supremes and gladys night and the pips. an appearance on american bandstand could launch their careers. and from jerry lee lewis to janet jackson, they all wanted dick clark to give their record a spin. and from jerry lee louis to if you look at the history of american bandstand it covers everything. when we started in 1952, it was very como and eddie fisher and the four aces and so forth, through the rock ....