Dick Clark Dies at 82 - Dick Clark and 1050 CHUM

TV and music pioneer Dick Clark dies of heart attack at age 82 - Read here

Few realize if it wasn't for Dick's show which aired on 1050 CHUM there may never have been "American Bandstand".






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READ: Dial 1050 CHUM for Dick Clark - Torontoist


READ: Dick Clark - The 1050 CHUM Tribute Site


 From: 'Rock Radio Scrapbook'
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'In the summer of 1963, CHUM Toronto pulled off a real coup, getting Dick Clark to host a series of shows.

The programs ran on CHUM from 7-9 p.m. weeknights. While fronted by Clark, the shows were co-hosted by Dave Johnson whose own program followed from 9-10:30 p.m. Clark introduces and interviews the artists, while Johnson does the time and temperature and keeps things rolling. But here's something most people don't know - the shows were taped. For the story behind the story, read this from CHUM's Doug Thompson:

"Here's the deal with Dick Clark. I started at 1331 Yonge Street in 1965 replacing a board op named Claude Deschamps. Claude was being promoted into production, partly because of his incredible work op-ing the Dave Johnson/Dick Clark show. Claude has told me many times how most people had no idea that Dick wasn't actually there in the studio with Dave. Dick came into Toronto a few times (I'm not sure how many) and recorded time checks for every minute of his shift - It's 8:01, CHUM time 8:02, etc; temperature checks for every conceivable temp and all kinds of other so-called live liners.

All of these individual Dick Clark elements were put on carts. It was Claude's job to marry Dick Clark's voicetracks and Dave Johnson live in-studio seamlessly. I also recall him telling me that they ran a party sound effects cart under all the Dick and Dave banter so that probably helped any differences'"

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