Music / TV
The 13 Most Incongruous American Bandstand Appearances
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by Mark Asch
on Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 12:16 PM
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Blue Cheer, 1968
America's first metal band, maybe, covers Eddie Cochran's "Summertime Blues," the original version of which Dick had introduced many times a decade before. Bands this loud wouldn't be back on Bandstand for a while.
On his hilarious "English-to-English translation": "I wanted to make lazy high school students’ lives easier. I like lazy high school students. I was one."
