Action ‘73 - - Heartbeat - It’s A Love Beat, The DeFranco Family Featuring Tony DeFranco

Airdate: October 27, 1973

Once a month, in the ‘73-‘74 season of American Bandstand, Dick Clark would do an outdoor special called “Action” which replaced that week’s episode of Bandstand. “Action ‘73/‘74” was taped on the beaches near Malibu and Leo Carillo, CA. This episode aired nearly 3 months before the DeFranco’s appearance on “Jack Benny‘s 2nd Farewell Special” (January 24, 1974) shown elsewhere on YT.

“Heartbeat…” is at #8 on the Billboard Hot 100 today and will peak at #3 in 3 weeks.

The DeFranco family were discovered by the editor of “Tiger Beat” magazine while living in Welland, Ontario, Canada. If you were a fan of Donny Osmond and/or Tony DeFranco and read “Tiger Beat” in 1973, you were in luck. Both teen idols were on the cover every month from May through the end of the year. Aboot 35 years later another teenager from Ontario made it big in the U.S. - Justin Bieber from Stratford.


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