Two of my life's guideposts,
American Bandstand and The Band, drew their last breaths a week ago with the deaths of
Dick Clark and Levon Helm. Now the bandstand is less full, the songs less soothing, the beat a little harder to dance to... I realize that has a lot to do with my growing up in Philadelphia and being born in 1947. The latter designates me, demographically, as an official "baby boomer." There were millions upon millions of ...