Recalibrating the Brand of American Bandstand

New York Post raises media profile of revealing 2016 memoir

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The book Bandstand Diaries was published last fall. But sometimes, in this era of news aggregation, it takes a belated bit of coverage to kick-start media attention.

In this case, the kick-starter was a weekend New York Post feature by Jerry Oppenheimer. The contributor’s gathered comments from co-author Ray Smith, a retired Today show producer and one-time teenage dancer on the Dick Clark-hosted program, have since reverberated across the Daily Mail, Gay Star News, Out magazine and several other outlets.

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