TV Dance Shows

It sounds like you and I are in the same age group worldwise 1! Here in the UK in the 60s we used to get Come Dancing on tv - all very staid and refined, it was competition dancers who wanted to make it a career or just to win...Then nowadays, after such films as Strictly Ballroom and Dirty Dancing, we have Stricty Come Dancing - the difference is that the contestants are celebrities dancing with professional dancers, so it's interesting to see how they get on. The USA has a version called Dancing with the Stars, with the same judges. I think the standard is higher in the American show - more advanced moves and generally more glitzy - the UK isn't renowned for being gitzy! However the costumes nowadays are much more raunchy and daring... People do discuss it though, and talk about who they think will win etc. There has been controversy lately because one of the judges in the UK show, Arlene Phillips, who has been a professional choreographer for 40 years, has been axed and is being replaced by Alesha Dixon who won the show 2 years ago. She is young and pretty but hasn't the experience of Arlene - people are saying it's ageism because they're replacing her with Alesha who is young and pretty, but they are leaving in the other judges, one of whom, Len Goodman, is over 70 but because he's male, they keep him in - he's a good judge, but it's still not fair on Arlene...And the host, Bruce Forsyth, is over 80! I love dancing...

I remember American Bandstand too. And there was another with a name like Jumbulia or something. Paul Revere and The Raiders were always on it. Actually AB was on in the morning on Saturday here. For me, the one I hurried home to see in the afternoons after school was Dan Curtis' Dark Shadows. I loved that show and am a fan to this day.

Nope, or yep. I was around in the Bandstand Era, NOpe, I did not watch it. Mom ruled the TV we had just one and we watched her shows. I remember when we had a little dog named Peanut, and my sister had Bandstand on and there was a song called Hey Peanut. The dog would sit and be alert with its ears cockeyed for the whole song. I was only about four at that time.

I remember American Bandstand when I was little in the 70s. That was so long ago it was a good show to watch. I remeber seeing it but I can't remember who the host of it was then though.

Oh my god yes, it was a race to get home to sit in front of the TV and watch American Bandstand. I wanted so bad to be a part of that show, to be like the kids that was so lucky to be there. The music and the entertainers on each show. An watching to see yes who was the new couple. It was fun, and there just don't seem to be that kind of fun for the kids now a days. The music I see my grand daughters play, should be banned.The vulgar language, we grew up in a time when things was better. Oh how I long for those days when life was so much easier.

I wasn't alive during the bandstand days but I have heard about it and saw it protrayed on shows like American Dreams. That show featured American Bandstand. When I was a kid growing up in the 80's the mickey mouse club and kids incorporated were the "dance" shows I ran home to see. As you may or may not know the Mickey Mouse Club and Kids Incoporated produced some of todays biggest stars Justin Timberlake, Brittany Spears, Christian Agularra, Ryan Gossling,JC Chaze(N'SYNC) all from the mickey mouse club Jennifer Love Hewitt and Stacie Ferguson aka Fergie from the black eyed peas were on kids incoporated.

I couldn't wait to get home from school and watch American Bandstand. I can remember Justine but not her boyfriend/dance partner's name. It use to be the highlight of my day. Who was the cutest guy, etc. The music was the best. Getting away from the classical music and rockin right into rock n roll. Best time of my life.

I think I can remember watching that show a few times. I do not recall a whole lot of it though because I was too young. I used to watch it with my mom and dad and sisters.

I really do not know this show - I have never ever heard about it, but I do not live in the United States of America, though. So that might be the reason why (; But I have seen that Dance-show on MTV sometimes. Of course I forgot the programs name, but I do not like the show anyway. I find it boring though I love dancing my self :D