Dick Clark spent just a fraction of his career in Philly, but it was long enough to make local rock ’n’ rollers like Chubby Checker and Danny and the Juniors national icons. When original host Bob Horn was fired from Channel 6’s live Bandstand telecasts in 1956, Clark arrived at the 46th and Market studios and swiftly brought the dance show to national prominence — so much so that it was renamed American Bandstand. The new name predicted the enormous influence the show would have on the birth of youth culture. Lately, Bandstand’s veneer of innocence has been a subject of revisionism — the 2008 documentary The Wages of Spin targets Clark for profiting off his most popular performers during the payola era, and this year’s book The Nicest Kids in Town challenges Clark’s claims of having fully integrated Bandstand in the ’50s — but the clean-cut Clark and the well-groomed dancers reassured Middle America that rock and soul music could be wholesome. The program moved to L.A. in 1964, and Clark hosted it there until the ’80s, also becoming a game-show host, producer and New Year’s Eve fixture, but he remains in the eyes of many the man who made Philly the place where everybody wanted to be. Clark died in April at 82 — his career had a good beat, and you could dance to it.