The world famous Les Elgart Orchestra made a stop in Chattanooga Saturday night at the Fairyland Club on Lookout Mountain. The band is best known for “Bandstand Boogie,” theme song of Dick Clark’s ...

Elgart, a big band leader who wrote the theme song for Dick Clark’s American Bandstand television program, died Saturday in Dallas of a heart attack. He was 77. During the 1950s, Elgart and his ...

Larry Elgart, a saxophonist who formed a popular big band with his older brother, Les, co-wrote the theme song to "American Bandstand," and had his biggest hit album in 1982, a disco-pulsing medley of ...

Les Elgart, 77, who died Saturday of a heart attack in Dallas, played a big part in the history of big bands. Mr. Elgart, a trumpeter, wrote the theme song for Dick Clark’s “American Bandstand” show.

The Blue Velvet Big Band perform "Bandstand Boogie" The Blue Velvet Big Band perform "Bandstand Boogie" in this Expressions extra clip. This iconic tune by Les Elgart was the theme song for the hit ...

Jazz bandleader and saxophonist Larry Elgart had great success in the 1950s, perhaps most notably recording the “American Bandstand” theme song “Bandstand Boogie.” Then three decades later, he had a ...

The following is an excerpt from "Section 9: Les Elgart" of The Era I Almost Missed—An Autobiography by Ron Aprea (Self Published, 2021). Arnie Lawrence had spent years working in the Catskills and ...