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When Soran blows up the Veridian star, it dims as soon as the probe hits it. In fact, since the speed of light is not infinite it should have taken at least several minutes for us to see any difference at all.
There are several scenes in which we get close-ups of Geordi, and you can see his eyes through the VISOR. Each time we see his real eyes, not the white ones he is meant to have.
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The crash landing of the Enterprise-D saucer section on the planet was amazing.
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El-Aurian refugees, some Amargosa observatory staff, the crew of the Klingon ship, Dr. Soran. Also 200 million on Veridian III nd the Enterprise-D crew, but these came back alive again.
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Originally, Kirk was shot in the back by Soran. Test audiences said this wasn't heroic enough, so the ending was re-shot to give Kirk a better send-off.
A tumbling bottle of champagne floats past a starry sky, sailing in towards a Starfleet Spacedock where it smashes against the Enterprise-B to mark the ships official launch. The ceremony is heavily attended by the press, there largely because the guests of honour are none other than Kirk, Chekov, and Scotty. The ships young Captain - Harriman - asks Kirk to order the ship out of dock, and they are soon off on a short trip around the solar system.
During the trip the ship receives a distress call from a pair of refugee transports a few light-years away. The ships are caught in some kind of anomaly, and are in great danger. Harriman is reluctant to help - his ship is ill prepared for a real mission, and he seems nervous of the situation. Nevertheless they are the only ship nearby, so they set an intercept course.
When they arrive they find two ships caught in a colossal 'energy ribbon'. Nothing Harriman tries will break them free, so he asks Kirk for help. Kirk tells him to move the ship in close enough to use the transporters, although it risks their own ship. They manage to rescue some of the refugees, but the Enterprise is soon caught up in the ribbon itself. Chekov goes down to the sickbay to assist the refugees; unknown to him one of the is Guinan and the other is Tolian Soran, a man who repeatedly demands to be sent back to where he had come from.
Scotty finds a way to break free using the main deflector and Kirk races off to deflector control to implement the plan. He is successful, but just as the ship escapes a bolt of energy destroys the section Kirk is in. As the ship limps home Scotty, Chekov and Harriman race to the scene and find a gaping hole in the hull - and no sign of Kirk.
We cut to seventy eight years later, and the crew of the E-D are on the Holodeck celebrating the promotion of Worf to Lieutenant Commander by masquerading as sailors from ancient Earth. Data, as usual, finds it hard to understand the emotions going on around him and is told by Crusher to be spontaneous. He responds by throwing her overboard.
While at the party Picard receives a personal message which causes him to leave at once. A few seconds later the party is further interrupted when the ship receives a distress call from an observatory which is under attack in the Amargosa star system. The ship races to the scene, but the attackers have departed. Picard orders Riker to take an away team and investigate. Riker finds the observatory wrecked; there is a dead Romulan body present, along with a survivor - Doctor Tolian Soran. Back on the Enterprise, Picard seems completely uninterested in the findings and asks Riker to inform Starfleet himself.
Meanwhile, Data is concerned by his behaviour at the party. He has struggled for many years to be human, but he still has not managed to understand such a basic thing as humour. He convinces a reluctant Geordi to install the emotion chip that his creator Soong designed for him, despite the engineers misgivings about the devices safety.
Initially the chip seems to work, and Data experiences various emotions. But when Worf finds that the Romulans tricorder was configured to detect Trilithium - a substance which can destroy an entire star - Data and Geordi are ordered to go over to the observatory and see if there is any of the substance there. They find a solar probe which has Trilithium within it, but Datas emotion chip begins to malfunction and he becomes hysterical. When Soran turns up and knocks Geordi out, Data cowers in fear and begs the scientist not to hurt him.
While this is going on, Troi goes to see Picard and asks him what is upsetting him. He shows her pictures of his brother and nephew, then breaks down in tears as he admits that they have burned to death in a fire. As Troi comforts him there is a sudden massive explosion on the Amargosa star - the solar probe has been launched and the star is collapsing. A shock wave has been produced which will destroy the entire solar system within a few minutes.
Riker and Worf go over to the observatory, but Soran pulls a gun and begins raining fire at them. Data refuses to help, still too frightened. As the fire fight continues a Klingon Bird of Prey arrives on the scene and transports Soran and Geordi on board before escaping. The Enterprise beams its away team back and escapes just as the shock wave destroys the observatory.
Soran tortures Geordi in order to see what he knows about Trilithium. Meanwhile on the Enterprise Picard learns about Sorans past and asks Guinan about him. She tells Picard about the energy ribbon, which she calls the 'Nexus'. Apparently the Nexus is a kind of paradise - once inside you can live any life, anywhere, have anything you have ever wanted. Sorans family were killed by the Borg, and he is obsessed with getting back to the Nexus in order to be able to live with them again.
Datas emotion chip has become fused with his neural net and cannot be removed. Nevertheless, Picard orders him to continue with his duties and they analyse the trajectory of the Nexus. Picard surmises that Soran destroyed the Amargosa a star in order to make the Nexus pass through the Viridian system. He plans to destroy the Viridian star in order to make the Nexus sweep past one of the planets, where he will wait for it to pick him up. Unfortunately, one of the other planets in the system is inhabited by hundreds of millions of people.
The ship heads for Viridian, where it finds the Klingon ship waiting in orbit of one of the planets. Lursa and B'Etor are on board, and Picard does a deal with them - he will trade himself for Geordi if they beam him down to talk to Soran. Once on the surface Picard finds Soran has built an encampment on a mountain top to launch another solar probe from. His camp is protected by a fifty gigawatt force field, and he is resistant to all of Picards arguments. Fortunately, Picard finds a way to get under the force field and sets about digging through.
Back on the Enterprise Geordi has returned to work, not realizing that his VISOR has had a small camera installed in it which allows Lursa and B'Etor to see everything he does. When he looks at the shield control panel the sisters are able to find the Enterprises shield modulation frequency, and promptly rain torpedo and disruptor fire on the ship. The Enterprise tries briefly to return fire, but is unable to fight effectively without its shields. Finally Riker and Data come up with a plan to force the Klingon ship to cloak by sending an ionic pulse at it. The plan works; as the Klingon ship cloaks its shields drop, and Worf uses a photon torpedo to destroy it. Unfortunately the Enterprise has suffered catastrophic damage and a warp core breach is imminent. They separate the saucer section and try to escape, but the massive explosion of the Engineering hull pushes the saucer into the atmosphere of the planet and it crash-lands on the surface.
Meanwhile, Picard attacks Soran but is quickly defeated. The solar probe launches and the Viridian star collapses, altering the course of the Nexus so that it sweeps up Soran and Picard. The shock wave from the sun then destroys the system, its inhabitants and the Enterprise saucer section and crew.
In the Nexus, Picard is living his ideal life complete with wife and children but he cannot rid himself of the feeling that it is not real. He meets an image of Guinan, left behind from when she was briefly in the Nexus, and she tells him that he can leave the Nexus whenever he wants to. When Picard asks for her help to stop Soran she declines, but takes him to meet Kirk just after he arrived in the Nexus from the Enterprise-B.
Kirk is initially reluctant to help, but Picard manages to convince him and they both return to the planet to stop Soran. As Kirk fights with the Doctor, Soran activates a cloaking device around his solar probe - then loses his remote control on a collapsing bridge. Picard heads for the launcher as Kirk goes for the control, climbing out onto the precarious structure. He manages to retrieve the device and deactivates the cloak, but as he does the bridge collapses and he falls with it into a rocky chasm.
Picard manages to engage the locking clamps on the probe, and as Soran attempts to release them the rocket fires, causing an explosion which kills Soran instantly. As Picard climbs down to find Kirk the Nexus passes by overhead. Kirk is badly wounded and as Picard assures him that he has made a difference one last time, Kirk slowly slips away. At the instant of death his eyes widen slightly and he murmurs "oh, my!" in apparent surprise.
Picard buries Kirk in a simple rock tomb on the mountain before a shuttle arrives to pick him up. Several starships have arrived to rescue the Enterprise crew, who fortunately suffered only light casualties. Even Datas pet cat Spot survived, and despite the androids confident prediction that he now has his emotions under control Data weeps with joy at finding his beloved pet. Picard and Riker beam up to the waiting ships, and they warp out of orbit.
So far I've generally talked about the bad things in a film before going on to talk about the good. So here goes :
Generations has plot holes in it. They're not the gaping chasms that some claim, but they are definitely there. The largest is the sudden insistence about halfway through that you can't get into the Nexus via a ship. Yet Soran originally gained access via a ship, as did Kirk, as did Guinan. The hole is fixable - we could say that there was a risk that the ship would be destroyed before it was close enough for people to be scooped up, and that Soran was unwilling to take this risk. But although this would have been trivial to accomplish - maybe two or three lines of dialogue would have done it - the film makes no such statement. As I said several times in my review of ST V, audiences should not have to rationalize these kinds of things for themselves.
Then there is Picards choice of where to go when he leaves the Nexus. Why not go back earlier, on the E-D, when he held all the cards and could just order Soran put in the brig? We can speculate that Picard wanted to minimize the changes he was making to the timeline - and bear in mind that at this point he didn't know that the Enterprise had been destroyed so had no motivation to save it - but again this is something the writers should have made clear.
Datas emotion chip is also treated somewhat unevenly. For one thing, it's grown to about fifty times its original size in this film. It's inserted into the top of Datas head instead of his neck. They claim it cannot be removed, but then at the end Data says he has decided not to remove it! The latter at least would be trivial to avoid - simply have Data say he has asked Crusher to stop
to work out a way to remove it and the problem vanishes.
Then there is the battle with the Klingons. I only partially agree with some of the nits on this one - the Enterprise could not warp out of orbit to avoid destruction, because one of its nacelles takes a hit quite early on. There is nothing to say that they did not try to rotate shield frequencies to save themselves, as some say they should, whilst we were not looking. But bear in mind that it is Geordi that would be doing these changes, and Lursa and B'Etor would adapt their weapons in a matter of seconds.
More seriously, however, we only see the Enterprise fire one single phaser beam at the Klingon ship during the whole battle. This is ridiculous; the ship has phaser arrays capable of firing on any point in the sky, it should easily have been able to keep up a continuous barrage on the Bird of Prey.
There are also a couple of less important nits - the Enterprise is plunged into near darkness for this film, as if it simultaneously blew about three quarters of the bulbs on the ship! When Riker leaves Picards ready room he walks into total darkness - there is no signs whatsoever of the bridge beyond. And of course, having Scotty believe Kirk is dead in this film leads to a contradiction with "Relics" where Scotty in the future thought that he was alive. Probably the biggest and most obvious technical nit is the lack of light speed time lags during the initial stages of the destruction of the Viridian star.
All of this is without doubt annoying, and several are large enough to be serious distractions even on first viewing. But so much for the bad points. What of the good?
This film is one of the very few that has an 'epic' feel to it. We have BIG things going on here; a story that spans almost a century and involves the death of entire solar systems, the destruction of the Federation flagship, even the loss of what is probably Star Treks single greatest icon - Captain James Tiberius Kirk himself. Visually the film is stunning; the Enterprise-B is cool and its encounter with the Nexus is an amazing sight to behold. The Enterprise-D exterior looks incredible in some scenes - although less impressive in others - and while the interior darkness is a little hard to understand it does give the ship a more mysterious and interesting feel. The battle and subsequent crash of the saucer section is one of the most magical sequences in any film, while the destruction of the Viridian system is gorgeous also.
The film is also a very emotional one - we see a warmth and familiarity between Kirk, Scotty and Chekov at the beginning of the film through to similar feelings at Worfs party, to Picards grief at the loss of most of his family. Picards struggle with his feelings is paralleled by Datas own struggle, which throws up some excellent scenes. Seeing Datas fear of Soran for the first time was a genuinely unsettling experience for me, while some of the humour this thread generates is also excellent. Soran himself is a good villain - his obsession is not quite so well done as Syboks in ST V, but is nonetheless convincing. Sorans reasons for behaving as he does also manage to introduce a little sympathy for him, no mean feat considering his actions in the film. The chemistry between Kirk and Picard is excellent, with both actors playing their roles just right. The sequence where they defeat Soran is reasonably well done, although the re-working of the ending messes up the timeline somewhat.
In considering Kirks death, comparisons with Spocks final scenes in ST II are inevitable. This is a much more subtle and low-key sequence, but that is in keeping with the characters involved. I really like this scene; in the original ending Kirks death was a fairly meaningless one, shot in the back by Soran. In the revised version he goes out in a final act of heroism, which is much more fitting. His final moments are good, when Kirk seems to see something that makes him exclaim "oh my!". A hint that just maybe he is starting on a new adventure after all...
So, in my opinion the good things about this film more than outweigh the flaws. It remains one of my favourites.
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During 1963, there were more than 200 guest appearances on American Bandstand, with a number of artists making their national television debuts. Among some of the more notable performers appearing in 1963 with one or more hit songs were: Dionne Warwick, Paul & Paula, the Ronettes, the Righteous Brothers, Peter Paul & Mary, Franki Valli & The Four Seasons, The Chiffons, Dion, Bobby Rydell, Skeeter Davis, Nancy Sinatra, Lesley Gore, Frankie Avalon, Gene Pitney, Dee Dee Sharp, Jan & Dean, Neil Sedaka, Darlene Love, Bobby Vinton, Link Wray, and others.In January 1963, Dionne Warwick made what may have been her first national TV appearance on American Bandstand performing her hit song, "Don't Make Me Over." Released in October 1962, Warwick's song had broken through nationally after receiving heavy radio play in San Francisco. It debuted on the Billboard chart December 8, 1962, rising to No.21 on that chart and to No. 5 on the R&B chart in January 1963.
Warwick would follow this hit with others, including, "Anyone Who Had a Heart," released in December 1963 and "Walk On By" in April 1964, a major international hit and million seller.
Dionne Warwick went on to stardom and a long career of many hits, including those in collaboration with the writer/producer team of Burt Bacharach and Hal David during the 1962 -1971 period. Warwick, in fact, would put 56 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 chart between 1962 and 1998, making her one of the that era's leading female recording stars.The Four Seasons, a quartet of singers from New Jersey with front man Franki Valli and his famous falsetto voice, appeared on American Bandstand at least twice in 1963. These "Jersey Boys" as they would come to be known years later from a famous stage production of that name, formed their group in 1960 as The Four Lovers. They eventually became The Four Seasons, with Frankie Valli on lead, Bob Gaudio keyboards and tenor vocals, Tommy DeVito on lead guitar and baritone vocals, and Nick Massi on bass guitar and bass vocals. By the time they appeared on American Bandstand in 1963, they were already stars, having released their first album in 1962 with the No. 1 hit single "Sherry," followed by their second No. 1 hit, "Big Girls Don't Cry" – both million-sellers. The Four Season appeared twice on Bandstand in 1963 – once in February and once in March – performing "Walk Like a Man" on both occasions. That song had been released in January 1963, but by March 2nd that year it had hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, remaining there for three weeks and in the Top 40 for 12 weeks. The Four Seasons would go on to become one of the more popular musical groups of that era, and for years thereafter, selling some 175 million records worldwide. In late May 1963, a 17 year-old New Jersey teenager named Lesley Gore (Lesley Sue Goldstein) made her first appearance on American Bandstand singing her soon-to-be No.1 hit, "It's My Party." Just three months earlier, she was virtually unknown, performing locally at a Manhattan nightclub. That's when Quincy Jones, a producer with Mercury Records, had caught her performance. By late February 1963, Jones came to Gore's family home where she chose a demo song named "It's My Party" to record for his label. Six weeks later, the recording was finished and sent to record stores.
But by June 1, 1963, after Gore made her national TV debut on Bandstand performing "It's My Party," the song shot to No. 1 on the pop charts, remaining there for two weeks. Gore would also have big subsequent follow-up hits, including "Judy's Turn To Cry" and "You Don't Own Me." And years, later, she would also be nominated for an Oscar for co-writing the 1980 song, "Out Here On My Own" from the movie Fame.
The Righteous Brothers appeared on Bandstand in June 1963, but this was before their major stardom, coming at a time when they worked with a small recording company and then using the Moonglow label. Under that label, they produced two moderate hits: "Little Latin Lupe Lu" and "My Babe." Their big hit – "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin," produced with studio wizard Phil Spector – would not come until 1965.Among others appearing on Bandstand in June of 1963, were: Frankie Avalon, Chubby Checker, Bobby Vinton, and Nancy Sinatra. James Brown also appeared that month performing his "Prisoner of Love," as did Barbara Lewis with her hit, "Hello Stranger" and The Essex, with their hit,"Easier Said Than Done." The Essex were an interesting group for that time, composed as they were of five U.S. Marines: Walter Vickers, Rodney Taylor, Billy Hill, Rudolph Johnson, and female Marine, Anita Humes. Stationed at Camp LeJeune in North Carolina, they cut a demo that landed them a contract with Roulette Records. Their hit song, "Easier Said Than Done," was written by William Linton and Larry Huff, recorded by the group in 20 minutes, and released in May 1963. To the group's surprise, it soared to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on July 6, sold more than one million copies, and garnered a gold disc from the recording industry. In September1963, The Essex had another hit, "A Walkin' Miracle," which rose to No.12 on the pop charts. The group appeared on American Bandstand June 7th, 1963. Stevie Wonder, a young blind teenager out of Detroit, made his network television debut on American Bandstand on July 8, 1963, with a performance of his harmonica-with-vocals song, "Fingertips, Part 2." Wonder would go on to become a very popular music artist for decades, winning many Grammy awards, and continuing his success into the 21st century. Major Lance appeared on Bandstand in September 1963 with a popular dance song called "Monkey Time," written by Curtis Mayfield, a song that had risen to No. 8 on the pop charts that August.
In the latter part of 1963, Dick Clark's American Bandstand had a contingent of "girl group" recording artists on the show– i.e., groups that were girl-led, all-girl composed, or had a "girl group" sound. Among these were the Jaynetts, the Chiffons, Darlene Love, Dee Dee Sharp, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, and the Ronettes. Clark also gave local groups continued opportunity on his show such as The Dreamlovers, a Philadelphia doo-wop group that once backed Chubby Checker on "The Twist" and other songs. This group appeared several times on Bandstand in 1963.Although American Bandstand was still an important force in the music industry of that day, its power wasn't what it had been in the 1950s. By September 1963, when the show went to its Saturday-only format, it wasn't playing new recordings every day, which had been one of Bandstand's big selling points in the music industry. With its reduced air time and song plugging, the show lost some of its influence in the industry. Still, through 1963 American Bandstand was the place where aspiring artists came to launch or enhance their music careers. Bandstand would have many years remaining as a TV dance show, extending into the 1980s.
The 1963 season, in any case, was the last year that American Bandstand would be broadcast from Philadelphia. In early 1963, the live broadcasts were replaced by previously-taped shows, though still running five days a week. In August, Bandstand ended its weekday broadcasts and instead, went to a Saturdays-only show for one hour, ending its years in Philadelphia with its final broadcasts in December 1963. By February 1964, the show resumed broadcasting from Los Angeles, California, near Hollywood. Clark by then had also been serving as a game show host, a part of his career that would grow in the years ahead. At the time of Bandstand's move west, Dick Clark was still a young man at age 34.The move to California and the show's location near the growing music industry in the Los Angeles area, was beneficial in terms of Bandstand landing more musical guests. And in terms of the youth culture at that time, California was becoming an important center of attention.
It was "where the action was," as Clark would later explain. "Everything was going on there. The surfing craze was high on everybody's list of things to do, whether you lived near water or not. Everybody wanted to have bleached-blonde straight hair… So I figured I'd better get out [there]."
Still, the 1963-1964 period became something of dividing line for Bandstand and the nation. With the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, America fell into a period of mourning and national soul-searching. And with the turn of the new year in 1964, the music began to change as well. In February 1964, after the Beatles performed on The Ed Sullivan Show, "Beatlemania" swept the country. Plain Vanilla rock 'n roll was heading into some new territory, not the least of which would be drug and psychedelic influences.Although Clark and American Bandstand were then in California and would adapt with the changing times and fashion, after Bandstand left Philadelphia it would never again have quite the same dominance it enjoyed during the late 1950s and early 1960s. As author John Jackson has put it in his American Bandstand book, 1964 became the year in which "Clark's epic production began its steady diminution…to becoming…just another television show." Dick Clark, in any case, while continuing to host the Bandstand show for many years in California, was building his career in other areas, including game shows, television productions, and related entertainment businesses through his Dick Clark Productions, which he formed in 1957.
What follows below is a listing of artists who appeared on American Bandstand in 1963 – the final Philadelphia year — along with a few Bandstand "top ten" lists from that year. Artists appearing on Bandstand are listed by date, and in some cases, with the song each performed. Other Bandstand-related stories at this website include, "At the Hop, 1957-1958," "Bandstand Performers, 1957," and "American Bandstand, 1956-2007," a general history of the show, Dick Clark, and his related businesses. Thanks for visiting — and if you like what you find here, please make a donation to help support this website. Thank you. – Jack Doyle.
"American Bandstand"
Selected Guests & Performers
January 1963
Jan 2: D. Warwick- "Don't Make Me Over"
Jan 4: Johnny Thunder- "Loop de Loop"
Jan 10: B. Lynn- "You're Gonna Need Me"
Jan 11: Freddy Cannon- "Four Letter Man"
Jan 15: The Dreamlovers
Jan 17: Dion – "Ruby Baby"
Jan 18: Paul & Paula- "Hey Paula"
Jan 22: Barbara Lynn
Jan 23: J. Mathis- "What Will Mary Say?"
Jan 28: Steve Alaimo
Jan 29: Conway Twitty- "The Pickup"
Jan 31: Bobby Comstock & The Counts
February 1963
Feb 1: The Dreamlovers
Feb 4: Bobby Rydell- "Love is Blind"
Feb 6: J. Darren- "Pin A Medal on Joey"
Feb 8: Lou Christie- "The Gypsy Cried"
Feb 12: Sandy Stewart
Feb 14: S. Davis- "End Of The World"
Feb 19: J. Ray- "Look Out, Chattanooga"
Feb 20: Lou Christie- "The Gypsy Cried"
Feb 21: Nancy Sinatra
Feb 22: Four Seasons- "Walk Like A Man"
Feb 24: N. Sedaka- "Alice in Wonderland"
Feb 25: J. Tillotson-"Out of My Mind"
Feb 27: Marcie Blaine
Feb 28: Marcie Blane- "Bobby's Girl"
March 1963
Mar 1: Four Seasons- "Walk Like a Man"
Mar 5: Bobby Comstock- "Let's Stomp"
Mar 6: Connie Francis- "Follow the Boys"
Mar 8: Nancy Sinatra- "Like I Do"
Mar 12: Johnny Thunder
Mar 14: Jo Ann Campbell- "Mother…"
Mar 18: Anita Bryant- "Our Winter Love"
Mar 19: Timi Yuro- "Insult to Injury"
Mar 22: Wayne Newton
Mar 26: The Dreamlovers
Mar 28: Wayne Newton- "Heart…"
Mar 29: Jan & Dean- "Linda"
April 1963
Apr 2: B. Vinton- "Over the Mountain"
Apr 12: J. Soul- "If You Wanna Be…"
Apr 17: S. Alaimo- "Lifetime of…"
Apr 18: Al Martino- "I Love You Because"
Apr 19: Johnny Cymbal- "Mr Bass Man"
Apr 23: Bobby Lewis- "Intermission"
Apr 25: Freddy Cannon- "Patty Baby"
Apr 26: Frankie Avalon
May 1963
May 1: Mickey Callan
May 2: Peter, Paul & Mary- "Puff…"
May 3: Jimmy Clanton
May 7: N. Sedaka- "Let's Go Steady…"
May 8: D. Love- "Today I Met Boy…"
May 14: Rockin' Rebels
May 24: S. Davis- "…Saving My Love"
May 30: Lesley Gore- "It's My Party"
May 31: B. Hyland- "…Afraid to Go Home"
June 1963
Jun 5: The Righteous Brothers
Jun 6: Dee Dee Sharp
Jun 7: Essex – "Easier Said Than Done"
Jun 10: Ray Stevens- "Harry The Ape"
Jun 11: Frankie Avalon
Jun 12: Chubby Checker- "Black Cloud"
Jun 13: T. Yuro- "Make the World…"
Jun 14: Bobby Vinton- "Blue on Blue"
Jun 17: Miami Beach Show
Jun 18: Nancy Sinatra- "One Way"
Jun 19: Steve Alaimo
Jun 20: Bill Anderson- "Still"
Jun 21: Guest info unavailable
Jun 26: James Brown- "Prisoner of Love"
Jun 27: Barbara Lewis- "Hello Stranger"
Jun 28: Paul & Paula- "First Quarrel"
July 1963
Jul 3: Dean Randolph- "False Love"
Jul 4: Joey Dee- "Dance, Dance, Dance"
Jul 5: Dee Dee Sharp- "…Cradle of Love"
Jul 8: Stevie Wonder – "Fingertips, Pt 2"
Jul 10: Link Wray- "Jack the Ripper"
Jul 11: Doris Troy
Jul 17: Freddy Cannon
Jul 22: Bobby Vinton
Jul 23: F. Cannon- "Everybody Monkey"
Jul 24: Roy Orbison- "Falling"
Jul 25: B. Hyland- "Afraid to Go Home"
Jul 26: Jimmy Clanton
Jul 29: Patty Duke (Patty Duke Show)
Jul 30: Mel Carter- "When a Boy…"
Jul 31: Frankie Avalon
August 1963
Aug 1: The Dovells- "Betty in Bermudas"
Aug 2: Freddie Scott- "Hey Girl"
Aug 5: Eddie Hodges- "Halfway"
Aug 6: D. D. Sharp- "Rock Me in The…"
Aug 7: Jo Ann Campbell
Aug 8: Wayne Newton- "Danke Schoen"
Aug 9: Steve Alaimo- "Don't Let Sun…"
Aug 12: Al Martino- "Painted, Tainted…"
Aug 13: Roy Clark- "Tips of My Fingers"
Aug 14: Dick & Dee Dee- "Love is…"
Aug 15: Bandstand Fans Special
Aug 19: Duane Eddy- "… Lonely Guitar"
Aug 22: Dick & Dee Dee
Aug 23: B. Lynn- "…Laura's Wedding"
Aug 29: Fats Domino- "Red Sails in Sunset"
Aug 30: Final Daily Show- Dick Clark
Bandstand "Top Ten" List
(30 August 1963)
1. "My Boyfriend's Back!"- The Angels
2. "Hello Mudduh…"- Allan Sherman
3. "Fingertips"- Little Stevie Wonder
4. "Candy Girl"- The 4 Seasons
5. "Blowin' in Wind"- Peter, Paul & Mary
6. "If I Had A Hammer"- Trini Lopez
7. "Judy's Turn to Cry"- Lesley Gore
8. "Mockingbird"- Inez & Charlie Foxx
9. "More"- Kai Winding
10."Denise"- Randy & The Rainbows
September 1963
(Saturday shows begin)
Sep 7: Neil Sedaka- "The Dreamer"
Sep 7: The Jaynetts- "Sally Go…Roses"
Sep 14: Dion- "Donna the Prima Donna"
Sep 14: Major Lance- "Monkey Time"
Sep 21: Skt. Davis- "Can't Stay Mad…"
Sep 21: Garnett Mimms- "Cry Baby"
Sep 28: B. Rydell- "Let's Make Love…"
Sep 28: The Ronettes- "Be My Baby"
October 1963
Oct 5: Dee Dee Sharp- "Wild"
Oct 5: Linda Scott- "Let's Fall in Love"
Oct 12: The Chiffons– "A Love So Fine"
Oct 19: Peggy March- "…Follow Him"
Oct 19: Bill Anderson- "8 x 10"
Oct 26: The Busters- "Bust Out"
Oct 26: Freddy Cannon- "That's What…"
Bandstand "Top Ten" List
(12 October 1963)
1. "Sugar Shack"- J. Gilmer & Fireballs
2. "Be My Baby"- The Ronettes
3. "Blue Velvet"- Bobby Vinton
4. "Cry Baby"- G. Mimms & Enchanters
5. "Sally, Go 'Round…"- The Jaynetts
6. "Busted"- Ray Charles
7. "My Boyfriend's Back"- The Angels
8. "Mean Woman Blues"- Roy Orbison
9. "Heat Wave"- Martha & Vandellas
10. "Donna the Prima Donna"- Dion
November 1963
Nov 2: Dale & Grace- "…Up to You"
Nov 2: Wayne Newton- "Shirl Girl"
Nov 9: Gene Pitney- "24 Hrs From Tulsa"
Nov 9: Sunny & Sunglows- "Talk to Me"
Nov 16: Bobby Bare- "500 Miles…"
Nov 16: Brian Hyland- "Let Us Make…"
Nov 30: Dick Clark's Celebrity Party
December 1963
Dec 7: Neil Sedaka – "Bad Girl"
Dec 7: Vito & Salutations- "Unchained…"
Dec 7: Chubby Checker- "Hooka Tooka"
Dec 21: Chubby Checker- "Lody Lo"
Dec 21: Donald Jenkins- "Adios"
Dec 28: Bobby Vinton- "Blue Velvet"
Dec 28: Patty Duke- Dick Clark interview
Bandstand "Top Ten" List
(21 December 1963)
1. "Dominique"- The Singing Nun
2. "Louie Louie"- The Kingsmen
3. "Don't Have to Be a…" – Caravelles
4. "There! I Said it Again"- Bobby Vinton
5. "Since I Fell for You"- Lenny Welch
6. "Be True to Your School"- Beach Boys
7. "Drip Drop"- Dion
8. "…Leaving it Up to You" – Dale & Grace
9. "Everybody" – Tommy Roe
10. "Popsicles & Icicles" – The Murmaids
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1963 American Bandstand guests, as some
dates, artists and/or songs are missing.
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The setting for the photo shoot and the ad, shown at right, was the Café Maravillas, a typical bar in Madrid, Spain, where the three famous footballers are engaged in a spirited game of table-top foosball.
In the background of the ad are Louis Vuitton bags, one monogrammed with the initials "Z.Z." for Zinedine Zidane. The tagline for the ad reads: "Three great journeys, one historic game." Antoine Arnault, Vuitton's media person at the time of the ad's release, explained: "What true football fan has not dreamt of seeing these three living legends – Pelé, Maradona and Zidane – play each other?"
A series of the Vuitton ads with the famous soccer greats appeared in magazines and also online in the months leading up to the World Cup matches in June 2010, heading into the championship games in South Africa.Time magazine featured the World Cup games on the cover of a special June 2010 edition, which also included the above ad on the magazine's back cover. Earlier copies of Time had run the same ad in the early front pages of the magazine. Other magazines all over the world also gave the Vuitton ad similar play at about the same time.
Louis Vuitton, for those who may not know, is a venerable fashion brand that began in 1894. Today it is a $2 billion company with 9,000 plus employees worldwide. The Vuitton label is well known for its "LV" monogram found on most of its products, which include luxury trunks and leather goods, shoes, watches, jewelry, accessories, sunglasses, and books. Vuitton is one of the world's leading international fashion houses — and its ads in recent years have become well known for their celebrity and superstar subjects — Madonna, Jennifer Lopez, Gisele Bundchen, Bono, Sean Connery, and Mikhail Gorbachev among them. Other athletes, such as tennis stars Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf, have also appeared in Vuitton ads, but with the soccer stars, Vuitton was reaching for a broader and perhaps, more "everyman" audience.Having the three soccer legends appear in the same ad was something of coup, which Vuitton's Antoine Arnault acknowledged, saying the company was honored to have them participate in its advertising campaign.
In addition to the magazine ads, Vuitton also had a dedicated website — louisvuittonjour- neys.com — where a featured conver- sation between the three players was included, in which they discussed their careers, recalled great matches they had played, and exchanged views on the world of soccer. Part of the story line at the website had Pelé and Zidane challenging each other to a match of table foosball. The ad, in any case, was likely a hit with soccer fans. What follows below are three brief profiles of each of the famous soccer legends.
French soccer star Zinedine Zidane was born in 1972 to Algerian parents. He grew up in the modest suburbs of Marseilles after his parents left Algeria. Zidane played his first junior championship soccer at the age 14. Today, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of World Cup soccer and has played for club teams in France, Italy and Spain. France won the World Cup in 1998 with a team full of immigrant players, with Zidane becoming an icon, especially among the poor. But French fans and players generally love him, not only for the 1998 World Cup but also the 2000 European Championship. He retired briefly thereafter, but soon returned to the French national team in 2005. He was captain of the French team in 2006, leading them in the World Cup Final where he won the Golden Ball as the tournament's most outstanding player. Alongside Brazil's soccer star, Ronaldo, Zidane is the only other three-time FIFA World Player of the Year winner. Zidane, however, had a bit of controversy toward the end of his career in a famous incident in which he head-butted Italy's Marco Materazzi in chest during the 2006 World Cup Final in Berlin, and was thrown out of the game. Zidane maintained he was goaded by Materazzi, who had made a slur on Zidane's sister, provoking Zidane's action, which he later said was to defend "the honor of a Muslim woman." Zidane, who had retired with that game, performed three days of community service to meet his penalty, while Materazzi later apologized publicly to Zidane for his slur. Although Zidane retired from professional football after the 2006 World Cup, he continued to play for the Real Madrid veterans team.In 2004, Forbes magazine named Zidane the 42nd-highest paid athlete in the world, with earnings of $15.8 million a year. He has had endorsement deals with a number of prominent companies, including: Adidas, Lego, France Telecom, Orange, Audi, Volvic mineral water and Christian Dior. Zidane's endorsement deals have continued beyond his playing days, remaining a sought-after icon, especially in France, appearing in advertising for Danone, France Telecom, Generali insurance, and Grand Optical eyewear, among others.
In retirement, Zidane has also participated in charity soccer events in various countries around the world. In 2010 he was appointed as an ambassador for Qatar's attempt to host the 2022 World Cup, a bid they won in December 2010. Zidane was also appointed as a special adviser to Real Madrid's first team in 2010.
Diego Maradona, born in 1960, rose from the slums of Buenos Aires to become one of Argentina's most famous and controversial soccer stars. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest football players of all time.
Over the course of his professional career Maradona set world-record contract fees for his soccer-playing abilities. Playing for Argentina he earned 91 caps and scored 34 goals. He played in four FIFA World Cup tournaments, including the 1986 tournament, in which he captained Argentina's team and led them to their victory over West Germany in the final. He also won the Golden Ball award as the tournament's best player.
In that tournament's quarterfinal round, he scored two remarkable goals in a 2–1 victory over England, one of which has been described as a "spectacular 60-metre weave through six England players." In Maradona lore this feat is also known by many as "The Goal of the Century".Maradona's stardom in his Argentina homeland has risen at times to the "super-celebrity" level, something beyond mere sports heroism approaching idolatry, with some calling him "God," the star having a near religious following in some areas. The Houston Chronicle wrote of him in June 2010:
"To understand the gargantuan shadow Maradona casts over his soccer-mad homeland, one has to conjure up the athleticism of Michael Jordan, the power of Babe Ruth — and the human fallibility of Mike Tyson. Lump them together in a single barrel-chested man with shaggy black hair and you have El Diego, idol to the millions who call him D10S, a mashup of his playing number and the Spanish word for God."Maradona has also had stadiums named for him and he has hosted his own TV talk show. His playing career, however, had it share of controversies. He was suspended for 15 months in 1991 after failing a doping test for cocaine in Italy, and was sent home from the 1994 World Cup in the USA for using ephedrine.
After retiring at age 37 in 1997, he increasingly suffered ill health, gained weight, and battled cocaine addiction. A 2005 stomach stapling operation helped control his weight and he overcame his cocaine addiction, becoming a popular TV host in Argentina. Although he had little previous managerial experience, he became head coach of the Argentina national soccer team in November 2008, remaining there through July 2010. In late October 2010, Puma, the athletic shoe and sports gear manufacturer, put on a major celebration for Maradona's 50th birthday, also then introducing a new line of athletic wares in his name.
PeléFew athletes in any sport have reached the pinnacle of stardom and global recognition as that of Brazil's Pelé, the singular name this world soccer star came to be known by during his playing years and for decades thereafter. Pelé came to represent in soccer what Muhammad Ali was to boxing: an international icon who transcended his sport and his country. Born in 1940 as Edison "Edson" Arantes do Nascimento, a child of Brazilian Portuguese decent, Pelé grew up in poverty in São Paulo. He earned extra money by working in tea shops as a servant. Taught to play by his coach, he could not afford a proper football, playing sometimes with a newspaper-stuffed sock tied with string, a grapefruit, or some other improvised "ball." Today, according to polls taken among football experts, fans, and former players, Pelé is consistently ranked as one of the greatest soccer players of all time. In 1956, Pelé joined Brazil's Santos Football Club and stayed with the club through his retirement in 1974, helping them to nine championships in 18 years. Pelé also played on four Brazilian World Cup teams, including the country's three World Cup Champions in 1958, 1962 and 1970. The 1958 final was perhaps his most famous match, when Pelé stunned the world scoring six goals, including two in the championship game to help Brazil win its first World Cup 5-2 over Sweden. He was only 17 years-old at the time. In his native Brazil, Pelé is hailed as a national hero, known for his soccer accomplishments and also for his vocal support of public policies to improve the social conditions of the poor. When he scored his 1,000th goal he dedicated it to the poor children of Brazil.
In his career, Pelé scored 760 official goals, 541 in league championships, making him the top scorer of all time. In total during his career, he scored 1,281 goals in 1,363 games – 12 in World Cup final tournaments. During his playing years, he was known variously as "The King of Football," "The King Pelé" or simply, "The King." Pelé retired in 1974. However, in 1975, he came out of retirement to play in America for the New York Cosmos team of the new North American Soccer League (NASL). Pelé was paid a $1 million per year when he played for the Cosmos, and some attribute his playing there with helping generate interest in America to make the NASL a going concern. However, Pelé retired in 1977 after leading the Cosmos to the NASL championship.
Given his world soccer notoriety, Pelé became one the world's most formidable marketing forces and something of an international brand. Prime Licensing, a company established by Pele's friend and businessman, Jose Alves de Araujo, was set up to manage Pele's various marketing deals. Prime Licensing managed a number of Pelé product endorsements and contracts, including those with Puma AG, Pelestation, QVC, and Fremantle Media, as well as Pelé brands Pelé L'uomo and Pelé Arena coffee houses. In recent years Pelé has earned an estimated $30 million a year from his businesses and endorsements. He has endorsed products from soccer balls, clothing, and equipment, to a Pelé soccer video game.
Even though he has been retired for more than three decades, the name Pelé is still synonymous with world-class soccer to millions around the world. And so, his appeal in advertising, especially running up to World Cup games in recent years, has made him one of the world's top advertising personalities. During the 1994 World Cup, he was featured in a Master Card ad with an orchestra performing the song "America." During the 2002 World Cup he earned millions doing ads for MasterCard, Pfizer, Petrobas, and Nokia. According to one account, leading up to that event, Pelé appeared in 20 million mailings, 100 World Cup promotions, and at least a dozen TV ads. Among other companies and brands he has represented around the world are: Time Warner, Procter & Gamble, Pizza Hut, Pepsi, and others. But Pelé has also given a part of himself to good causes, including ambassadorial work for various bodies. In the early 1990s, he was appointed a United Nations ambassador for ecology and the environment, and has continued working for good causes since then.
Vuitton's MessageLouis Vuitton, meanwhile, was generally praised for its "soccer legends" ad, some suggesting that bringing the three "soccer gods" together in one frame was enough by itself. Others saw it as a statement for the cooperative spirit of World Cup games as much as it was one for hyping World Cup competition and singing the praises of three soccer greats.
Yet Zidane, Maradona, and Pelé have had their differences about the game – all in the spirit of good competition, of course. But in the Vuitton ads at least, it's only camaraderie and friendly competition that are projected.Louis Vuitton, of course, is in the business of promoting its "mongrammed luxury lifestyle," as one observer described the company's mission. And using the World Cup and three big-name soccer celebrities to help do that – each offering an "everyman" appeal, given their respective roots – was certainly one way to help spread the Vuitton style, or at least the thought of it, to the far corners of the globe. World Cup soccer, in any case, is big business these days. As to which one of the three soccer greats – Zidane, Maradona, or Pelé – is truly the greatest of all time? Well, that debate surely goes on, with national partisans in France, Algeria, Argentina, Brazil all having their favorite, no doubt – as do many throughout the world.
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Scout will only hold orders of in-stock products up to 30 days. The 30 day hold time will apply to pre-orders and custom furniture beginning after the first notification for delivery or pick up.
Our Operations Team will be in touch to schedule white glove delivery once your products are ready to go (1-7 days in advance). If you have specific delivery requests or instructions, please note these on your order at time of purchase. Smaller items are often sent via UPS. These deliveries are not scheduled, but tracking will be shared to the email you provide once your order is sent out.
New and unused Scout Label items may be returned at the customer's expense within 15 days of the received date for store credit, or a refund minus a 25% restocking fee. Outgoing shipping is non-refundable. Floor models, sale items, custom orders, and vintage items are sold 'as-is' condition with all sales final and no returns. Vintage items will show wear consistent with their age. Buyer should assume no restoration work has been performed by Scout unless otherwise specified. Listed price for all merchandise does not include shipping, packaging, or refinishing costs unless expressly noted. Sales discounted 30% or more off of retail are final and non-refundable.
External conditions beyond the control of Scout can affect the life expectancy of products. Scout neither assumes nor offers any warranty on Scout-label, vintage, or refinished/reupholstered items after they are retrieved from Scout Design Studio.
Customer pick-ups for all sales must be made at Scout's warehouse location at 4901 Woodall St, Dallas, TX 75247, with the exception of small accessories, 'as-is' vintage pieces, or showroom floor models. Pick-up hours are Monday - Friday 10am - 4pm. Purchased items left at Scout over 10 business days without payment for additional services will be assessed a daily storage fee of $10 per item per day, billable upon pick-up. Purchased items left over 30 calendar days will be reassumed as property of Scout Design Studio, with no credits or refunds issued.
For reupholstery, clients acknowledge that yardage quotes are provided to the best of our ability without shorting the piece in question. Due to volume and space constraints, Scout will not be responsible for the handling and return of excess client fabric. Deposits made for any work are not refundable if an order is cancelled. If an order is cancelled before shipment, that deposit or payment will be returned to the customer as a store credit which can be used for future purchases at Scout Design Studio.


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Dealer Doc Fee: $80. Prices do not include additional fees and costs of closing, including government fees and taxes, any finance charges, any dealer documentation fees, any emissions testing fees or other fees. All offers expire at Midnight tonight. All prices, specifications and availability subject to change without notice. Contact dealer for most current information *These estimates reflect new EPA methods beginning with 2008 models. Your actual mileage will vary depending on how you drive and maintain your vehicle. Actual mileage will vary with options, driving conditions, driving habits and vehicle's condition. Mileage estimates may be derived from previous year model.


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