ABC New Years Rock "N" EVE 2011

[vchimpanzee]

HI All happy new year.did any of you tune in to see Dick Clark last night.He looks and sounds great.God bless him. The entertainment on the show stinks.Or is it my age again.Fergie looks great.

Yeah, the entertainment stinks. Just show the crowd in Times Square! Show the ball dropping. Tell us all about the ball. NBC had Brian Williams list the top events of the year. That was great. Though for someone who used to be on MTV, Carson Daly sure doesn't have much personality. He was dignified enough to be doing NBC Nightly News himself.

Dick does still look good. It's unfortunate that right after midnight, instead of him kissing Kari, he looked like a nursing home patient or something. Obviously the countdown was exhausting for him.

I used to turn off the TV and go to bed when Dick and Kari kissed, but I have to wait for the start of "New York, New York" now. That's not the name of the song, though, despite what was said somewhere. It's called "Theme from 'New York, New York'". "New York, New York" has the lyrics "The Bronx is up and the Battery's down."

 

[vchimpanzee]

Dick Clark is 81.
Guy Lombardo did his last New Year's Eve broadcast at 74.
Ben Grauer was 68.

Dick Clark has been doing New Year's shows since 1960 (although early on he was in the WFIL-TV studio from which Bandstand originated, not Times Square). 40 years is the record. And eventually everyone ages, even Dick Clark.

Of course Guy had a good reason for leaving--he was dead.

I wish we could watch people dance to his music and have Dick doing Times Square on the same channel.

 

[Silkie]

Hey, 2006: Mario doesn't know you the way some of us do. ;D

 

[azumanga]

I used to turn off the TV and go to bed when Dick and Kari kissed, but I have to wait for the start of ... "Theme from 'New York, New York'".

I find it kind of ridiculous for Times Square to play only the first two lines of "Auld Lang Syne" (the standard song for New Years), then go immediately to "Theme from NY NY" in full. It's just like playing only the first two lines of "Little Drummer Boy" before going to "Grandma's Got Run Over by a Reindeer" at Christmas.

 

[dmargalotti]

Hey, 2006: Mario doesn't know you the way some of us do. Grin

Or, maybe he does!

 

[Silkie]

LOL

 

[WMC2006]

Well he does now, doesn't he ;D

 

[ixnay]

I believe ESPN had scheduled to air one of those jumps or tricks that they usually show on New Year's Eve. But something happened with that and it was canceled, so they put on filler programming.

"Jumps?" "Tricks?" Never saw those terms in a TV context before.

ixnay