Dick Clark's career through the years

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Dick Clark's career through the years

Dick Clark's career through the years

Longtime "American Bandstand" host and TV producer Dick Clark died Wednesday, April 18, 2012 at 82.

Clark brings in the New Year from New York's Times Square in this undated publicity photo from ABC. Clark had continued performing even after he suffered a stroke in 2004 that affected his ability to speak and walk.

Dick Clark, left, kisses wife Kari Clark after the American Bandstand Tribute at the 37th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards on Sunday, June 27, 2010, in Las Vegas.

This photo provided by ABC Jan. 1, 2006 shows Dick Clark posing with Ryan Seacrest Saturday Dec. 31, 2006.

Clark speaks after receiving a special Emmy tribute at the Primetime Emmy Awards on Aug. 27, 2006, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. Washington Redskins owner Daniel Snyder's RedZone Capital investment company on Tuesday, June 19, 2007, bought TV production company Dick Clark Productions Inc. for $175 million in a deal that brings the Redskins and the "Bloopers" television show into the same corporate family.

Clark speaks to a group of about 100 people about diabetes during a visit to Tampa General Hospital Thursday afternoon, July 8, 2004, in Tampa, Fla. Clark had been diagnosed with adult onset diabetes 10 years prior ago and traveled nationwide in an effort to educate diabetes sufferers of the correlation between the blood sugar disease and risks of heart attacks and strokes.

In this Jan. 24, 1993 file photo, singer Michael Jackson and American Music Awards executive producer Dick Clark go over the script during rehearsals for The American Music Awards at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.

Clark hosted the Miss USA pageant in 1990, helping to crown Miss Michigan Carole Gist.

Clark and former teen singing star Debbie Gibson go over the script for the 16th annual telecast of the "American Music Awards" during rehearsals at Los Angeles' Shrine Auditorium Friday night, January 28, 1989.

Clark, who served as the executive producer of the "American Music Award" telecast, goes over production notes with singer Teddy Pendergrass during rehearsal at the Shirne Auditorium in Los Angeles, January 25, 1986. Pendergrass made make his first solo appearance on the show since his near fatal auto accident in 1982.

Dick Clark hosts Roxie Roker and Maria Gibbs on his show "The New 25,000 Pyramid." on September 6, 1984.

Clark, left, reminisces with Kenny Rogers, center, and John Travolta about their early music careers during a taping of "American Bandstand's 30th Anniversary Special" October 27, 1981.

Clark shines a new sign that changes a portion of Philadelphia's Market Street to American Bandstand Boulevard on October 27, 1981, to recognize the 30th anniversary of the popular dance program that originated in Philadelphia.

Clark helps cut his 47th birthday cake during a break in rehearsals for a television special in Santa Monica, Calif., December 1, 1976. Helping him celebrate are singer Barry Manilow and comedian David Brenner.

Clark, his wife Barbara, and their son, Richard, 3 1/2, stand outside their home outside Philadelphia July 26, 1960. At the time, Clark hosted two ABC-TV shows, "The Dick Clark Show" on Saturdays and "American Bandstand" Monday through Friday.

In this Feb. 3, 1959 file photo, Dick Clark selects a record in his station library in Philadelphia.

Clark films his wife Barbara and their son, Richard Augustus Clark II, at their home in Drexel Hills, Pa., February 24, 1959.

Clark and Connie Francis are shown at a party in New York, March 1, 1982. Clark, who first catapulted Connie Francis to "American Bandstand," gave the party to celebrate Francis' appearance at Avery Fisher Hall, her first appearance in New York City in 15 years.

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Longtime "American Bandstand" host and TV producer Dick Clark died Wednesday, April 18, 2012 at 82.

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