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NUMBER-ONE SINGLE ON THIS DAY IN 1966
According to an English D.J.,McCartney wrote the song in response to a request
from an aunt who asked if he could "write a single that wasn’t about love.”
"Paperback Writer" was the last new song by the Beatles to be featured on their
final tour in 1966.
The Beatles during the recording session of “Paperback Writer” in 1966.
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PERMANENT HOST ON THIS DAY IN 1956
Richard Augustus Wagstaff "Dick" Clark Jr.
(November 30, 1929 – April 18, 2012)
In 1952, WFIL-TV in Philadelphia began airing a show called Bob Horn’s
Bandstand. Dick Clark had a similar show on the company’s radio station
(WFIL) and served as a regular substitute host when Bob Horn went on
vacation. After a drunk driving arrest in 1956, Horn was dismissed and
a 26-year-old Clark then became Bandstand’s permanent host. The
show was picked up by the ABC television network, renamed American
Bandstand, and debuted nationally on August 5, 1957.
The Bandstand podium (above) was donated
to the Smithsonian Institution in 1981.
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