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When we got out of Portland and got signed on Where The Action Is--Dick Clark's show--we had to clean it up a lot because a lot of our antics wouldn't have passed the ABC sensors.

Mike Ragogna: Loudmouths, Raiders & Soup Bowlers: Conversations with Jaret Reddick, Mark Lindsay and Jim Bianco Mike Ragogna 2011

They got the hit record, we got signed to CBS, and we got Dick Clark's Where The Action Is and everybody lived happily ever after.

Mike Ragogna: Loudmouths, Raiders & Soup Bowlers: Conversations with Jaret Reddick, Mark Lindsay and Jim Bianco Mike Ragogna 2011

Then, you moved on to television, specifically Dick Clark's Where The Action Is.

Mike Ragogna: Loudmouths, Raiders & Soup Bowlers: Conversations with Jaret Reddick, Mark Lindsay and Jim Bianco Mike Ragogna 2011

ML: We were one of the 20 opening acts that opened for The Rolling Stones when they played The Santa Monica Civic Center the first time we were in L.A. One of Dick Clark's secretaries was in the audience and saw our three numbers, and of course, during "Louie, Louie," I got up on the piano and danced around in my three cornered hat and full Raider regalia.

Mike Ragogna: Loudmouths, Raiders & Soup Bowlers: Conversations with Jaret Reddick, Mark Lindsay and Jim Bianco Mike Ragogna 2011

ML: We were one of the 20 opening acts that opened for The Rolling Stones when they played The Santa Monica Civic Center the first time we were in L.A. One of Dick Clark's secretaries was in the audience and saw our three numbers, and of course, during "Louie, Louie," I got up on the piano and danced around in my three cornered hat and full Raider regalia.

Mike Ragogna: Loudmouths, Raiders & Soup Bowlers: Conversations with Jaret Reddick, Mark Lindsay and Jim Bianco Mike Ragogna 2011

The most anticipated wedding of the year is upon us — no, not Lois and Clark's on Smallville — but that of Prince William and Kate Middleton.

Poll: Are You Going to Watch the Royal Wedding? 2011

HOWEVER - all this may be thrown into doubt by UCal Irvine Greg Clark's mega-important forthcoming book 'A farewell to alms '- in which he describes the Malthusian Trap: universal until c 1800 in Britain.

The Envy of the World, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Read the whole article, then read Clark's book (some of it is on line here).

Labor Quality and the Wealth of Nations, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Above all, I wonder how to reconcile Clark's views with those of William Lewis (The Power of Productivity), who says that you can take an unskilled man from Latin America and turn him into a highly productive construction worker simply by moving him to the United States and putting him to work under American management practices.

Labor Quality and the Wealth of Nations, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

When we got out of Portland and got signed on Where The Action Is--Dick Clark's show--we had to clean it up a lot because a lot of our antics wouldn't have passed the ABC sensors.

Mike Ragogna: Loudmouths, Raiders & Soup Bowlers: Conversations with Jaret Reddick, Mark Lindsay and Jim Bianco Mike Ragogna 2011