When I was a kid, "American Bandstand" came on right after the Saturday Morning cartoon block ended, so the "AB" title card was my signal to get up off my a$$ and go play outside. As I got a little older, I have vague memories of leaving it on occasionally, depending on who the featured band of the week was.
Oddly enough, the one band I most vividly remember seeing on "Bandstand," considering the talk about them recently on this forum, was Autograph. Man, I was all excited to see them do "Turn Up The Radio" and then I got pissed cuz all they did was lip sync to the record. That was probably the last time I watched the show. Haha
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