AMERICAN BANDSTAND (1987 Closing Credits - ABC Finale)
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- Опубликовано: 10 ноя 2018
- These are the closing credits to the Saturday, September 5, 1987 episode of the 1952-89 music/dance series "American Bandstand". This was an historic episode as this particular episode marked the end of the show's 30-year run on the ABC Television Network.
Problems that led to this dated all the way back to shortly after the 1980s began. "American Bandstand" had begun to face serious contenders to its' audience domination in the forms of its' Afrocentric syndicated counterpart "Soul Train", as well as the upstart series "Solid Gold". The most serious competition debuted on August 1, 1981, when Warner Amex Satellite Entertainment Company launched the cable network MTV, with it's 24-hour music video rotation lineup. With that new addition to the TV landscape, teenagers no longer had to wait until Saturday afternoon to see the latest hits performed by the hottest acts around.
Also contributing to the downfall of "American Bandstand" was ABC's constant preemption of the show with game show pilots, sports anthologies or specials. With production costs ballooning, Dick Clark requested that ABC shorten "American Bandstand" from an hour down to 30 minutes, which was granted. The move did little to improve ratings and quality.
In the summer of 1987, ABC offered a three-year extension for "American Bandstand", which would have taken the series into the 1990s. The contract stalemate occurred when Dick Clark wanted the series to return to an hour, while ABC preferred 30 minutes. When a resolution couldn't be reached, ABC decided to cancel "American Bandstand". Clark wasted no time in moving the series from network television to syndicated television. Two weeks after the finale of the ABC run, "American Bandstand" was resurrected in syndicated markets, mostly airing on NBC affiliates, and back up to a full hour for the first time since 1986. The syndicated run of "American Bandstand" only lasted one season.
In 1989, "American Bandstand" returned, yet now on cable's USA network, with a new host in David Hirsch, as Clark decided to step down after hosting the show for 33 years. The change did not last long, after after a few months, "American Bandstand" left the air again, this time forever. 
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The end of an era in Pop Music.
It was the right call to call it quits to be honest. I was born in 1955 and I started to watch American Bandstand in 63 and watched it throughout the 60s, 70s and 80s. Honestly the show was done when MTV and VH1 were on the rise throughout the 80s.
Also the music business had changed way too much in the 90s but for the worse.
Just like Soul Train!!
Yes it did change for the worst...
American Bandstand's last and final taping on the ABC television lot in L.A. From 1964 - when the show moved from Philadelphia - to 1987, AB taped mostly out of ABC Stage 55; on varying occasions out of Stages 54 and 57. Incidentally, Stage 54 was also used for Richard Dawson's "Family Feud", while 55 alternated with Bandstand and The Lawrence Welk Show, which was also taped thereon.
I think Let's Make A Deal was taped there as well.
Use to watch it every Saturday. When I was about ten. I use to be in my room watching it trying to imatate what the dancers was doing. My mom would just smile
In truth in my opinion it's also Mark the end of Saturday morning television as we know it. After American bandstand what off the air Saturday morning television was never the same As we get ready to start a new decade this is one of the first times in 50 years that there are either no Saturday morning cartoons or music/dance shows on television.
All stations want more morning news and infomercials.
Still had “Soul Train!”
at least that was still strong and kept going after don cornelius stepped down from hosting it
@@facebook51ify they got their wish after 1991 basically the fcc was behind that they felt kids were getting fat looking at the tv thankfully some channels still had saturday cartoons like fox and the wb/cw which are all no more.
A.B.S Productions, LLC Yes it did! “Soul Train” was a great show that focused on R&B music. Don Cornelius was the man who put the show on the map. And then, MTV became a huge deal to put out music videos everyday, and other local UHF TV stations was running music videos like WWHT-TV “U68” which was a small NYC TV station that carried music videos like MTV did at the time. That lasted until 1987 when it became HSN. And also, NBC at the time had a late night block on Friday nights into early Saturday mornings called “Friday Night Videos” where it featured music videos that has been on MTV since then. WWHT-TV’s “U68” was a short lived TV station when it took over the Womenco Home Theater (WHT) subscription TV service where they ran movies like HBO did at the time, just like they did with OnTV subscription service in Chicago when it was on WSNS-TV (channel 44) back in the 1980’s.
I Think American Bandstand Should Have Stayed On ABC-TV For An Hour For The 1987-88 Season, Then Go To The USA Network And Have David Hirsch Hosted It.
Here’s my closing version:
“Hey, our thanks to our guest Miranda Lambert for being with us here on American Bandstand today. I hope you had a good half hour, please come and join us three weeks from today for a full hour version of American Bandstand on Saturday, September 4th. We hope to see you then. In the meantime, have a wonderful weekend or three, we’ll be see you the next time on AMERICAN BANDSTAND. For now, Alden Davis on ABC: “Keep holding on your dreams, and keep reaching for the stars. So long, everyone!”
GREAT ONE
@@zacheryalderton6699 Glad you loved it. My own tagline is: “Keep holding on your dreams, and keep reaching for the stars.”
YOU LIKE MINE
They should’ve kept it going in the 90s!!!
You millennials will never know what it was like watching this man and having performers of the 50s-80s. I feel bad for you kids.
@@bigolebot facts
They tried not long after this broadcast. It continued on broadcast syndication for a year longer, then when it moved to the USA network in 1989, Dick Clark stepped down as host and a guy named David Hirsch succeeded him. MTV was what largely killed it. It made programs like American Bandstand seem obsolete. Plus, it had been on the air nationally since 1957 and it became too associated too with the baby boomer generation.
Three individuals had enormous influence on popular music in the mid-to-later 20th century/ Alan Freed, Brian Epstein, and Dick Clark !!!###
Here's my new closing version:
"Hey! Our thanks to our guests Carrie Underwood for being with us here on American Bandstand today. I hope you had a good half-hour, please come and join us three weeks from today for a full hour version of American Bandstand on Saturday, July 8th. We hope to see you then. In the meantime, have a wonderful weekend or three and have a good summer, we'll be seeing you the next time on AMERICAN BANDSTAND. For now, Alden Davis on ABC: "Keep holding on to your dreams, and keep reaching for the stars. So long, everyone!"
Anyone who lived in Philadelphia in the late 70s/early 80s will recognize that voice over during the credits as former WKBS 48 announcer Dan Foley.
ABC actually offered Dick Clark a three year extension which would have kept Bandstand on through 1990. Clark declined because ABC wanted to continue at 30 minutes and Clark felt it needed to be an hour.
djpatc63 wow. It would have been nice to see Bandstand make it to the 90s but the world of music changed too much
Adam Stabelli I wonder how Bandstand would have been had it ran into the 1990’s. “Soul Train” kept up into the 90’s and 2000’s but you seen the way music went downhill by the 90’s.
I wonder if Dick Clark was interested in moving the show to MTV which was pretty hot in the 80’s.
Do you have any bandstand closing credits from 1986
I'm not entirely sure that Bandstand would've made it into the '90s. Before the growth of cable (namely, MTV) Bandstand (along with Soul Train and maybe Hee Haw from the standpoint of black and country music respectively) was the only game in town as far as a reliable source for popular music. In effect, MTV, VH1, BET, TNN, and CMT killed the usefulness of those type of shows. Incidentally, MTV already had a similar show to Bandstand called Club MTV. Hell, the USA Network, who aired Bandstand's final season in 1989 had a similar show of their own called Dance Party USA.
@@TMC1982Part2 and also, TNN had their own version of American Bandstand called TNN Club Dance Produced by the same people that produced Nickelodeon's Hey Dude
But also, Soul Train wasn't the same after 1993 when Don Cornelius decided to step down as host and even if the show lasted 13 more years, no one could replace the voice of Don Cornelius
and let's not forget about America's Top 10 with the late great Casey Kasem which lasted 12 years on syndication from 1980-1992
It even gave Bandstand competition as well
32 years ago today.
By this point, the show was reduced to 30 minutes and changed the end credits music to what we have here. The end credits theme carried over to the syndicated and USA runs.
And after the syndicated Bandstand crashed and burned after one season, the show had a six month tour of duty on USA network with host David Hirsch in 1989, taped outdoors, and that was the end.
BUT...we would still keep riding the Soul Train for another 17 years before it left the station for good in 2006 (in its last years, ratings fell to below 1.0 with the show being buried to overnight slots).
@@johnnyballenatlSoul Train lasted longer because black America are more loyal television viewers to things that represent their community.
0:18 - “For now, Dick Clark on ABC... So long.”
ABC preempted the show a few times in 1987 to show unsold game show pilots like Animal Crack Ups and What are my True Colors. Animal Crack Ups did make the air on Saturday mornings from Fall 1987-Fall 1989
they should have been on for a long time 69 years
ABC’s series finale.
Please post the entire show!
I like the big final farewell shot of the entire stage with all the dancers and camera crew with the second AB sign hanging from the ceiling. Which leads me to ask: Did "American Bandstand" continue to tape on that same soundstage at the ABC studios for its one-year run in syndication? The overhead AB sign looks identical to the one the cameras swooped into and out of on the syndicated show's stage.
The story is that they moved to KCET Studios in LA for the 1987-88 season, totally breaking from ABC and then filmed the final season at Universal Studios Hollywood
@@kdizzle79 On an outdoor set, no less! Terrible acoustics outdoors, plus the elements....
Unlike Lawrence Welk, who continued to tape his show for syndication at ABC after the network cancelled it in 1971.
@@LogoMan7777 The outdoor set SUCKED!! No colorful effect lighting, etc... Granted they kept the main AB sign around.
@@revehimifilms I think they had to. Now, did it ever rain during taping? Oh, I keep forgetting it never rains in Southern California.
American Bandstand ended on ABC in 1987 but it ended on the USA Network in syndication in 1989.
Santiago Cano Jr. I know. These are just the credits from the last ABC episode
That was when it moved to syndication and went nowhere, but it ran for a year until it moved to USA in 1988 until the show ended by 1989.
That was where “Soul Train” was still a syndicated hit where it focused on R&B music along with a few crossover R&B/Pop hits of the time.
I thought it was cool during the closing credits they changed it up and showed both AB signs flashing.
Laura Branigan appearance courtesy of Atlantic Records.
That was the final set
I WANTED TO HOST
I LIKE TO HOST AS WELL
Outdated credit at 1:03 .
10am/ 9am central on would’ve been a great time to move AMERICAN BANDSTAND on ABC, avoiding pre-emptions, and still within mandated network time for affiliates to carry ABC programming. Plus, it would’ve gotten a head start on competing dance shows, and MTV, grabbing that audience who start their weekend upbeat, and easily benefiting from viewers changing habits and changing TV landscape over the years, especially with ABC as their Saturday morning lineup changed drastically many times up to LITTON’S WEEKEND ADVENTURE, which AB might’ve still been on somehow.