connie frances at her home in california, donny osmond and paul anka. you knew dick clark for 40, 50 years, an absolute lgds of the business, put it in historical context, how important was dick clark, do you think? >> he was a pioneer, in the early days of television, with "american bandstand" he revolutionized music. he had blacks and whites dance together, unheard of, a lot of young people watching were saying, what? that's crazy. that was crazy then to put that on. risk taking. then he was involved in so many programs that the public didn't even know. >> i knew that you were responsibility for this show alone before i came along. 7,000 shows. dick clark apparently was responsible in all these guises for 75,000 shows on television. there's so many things he touched as a producer, as a businessman, he owned a radio network, quiz shows, television talk shows, he produced donnie and marie. you're going to have donnie on. >> if you could bottle the dick clark magic, what would you would have? >> he could do anything, he was very, very good. you wouldn't