In addition to a dress code, Clark's show required visitors to write in advance to request tickets, and these applications were screened by name and address. They had four top 10 pop hits and "Don't Worry, Baby" was the B-side to their first #1 "I Get Around." "I watch your show every Saturday and enjoy it very much," one viewer wrote. b. they were pop-oriented Dubois High School, Wake Forest, North Carolina,". Bessie Smith earned more, and spent more, than anybody else. A hallmark of earlyAmerican Bandstandwas Clarks promotion of Italian-American male teen idols, sex-symbol pop singers who hailed from South Philadelphia: Frankie Avalon (ne Francis Avallone), Bobby Rydell (ne Ridarelli), and Fabian (ne Fabiano Forte). It was recorded by a girl group. DVD. "30Brett Gadsden, Between North and South: Delaware, Desegregation, and the Myth of American Sectionalism (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013), 7. tippy('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1562_1_30', { content: jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1562_1_30').html(), placement: 'bottom', theme: 'sosp', arrow: false, allowHTML: true }); Many teens who danced on The Mitch Thomas Show or watched the program would have experiencedde jure school segregation and the slow realization of educational equality promised by Brown. "46Guthrie Ramsey, Race Music: Black Cultures from Bebop to Hip-Hop (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004), 4. tippy('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1562_1_46', { content: jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1562_1_46').html(), placement: 'bottom', theme: 'sosp', arrow: false, allowHTML: true }); From this perspective, localism was a virtue for Teenage Frolics rather than a detriment, because it offered young people a community connection that was not possible with national television. a. This site requires Javascript to be turned on. "59"Dance Party (The Teenarama Story), Research Narrative," Box 2, Kendall Production Records, Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum.