Clay Cole, the clean-cut kid who became New York television’s rock ‘n’ roll teen guru in the mid-1960s, died Saturday at his home in Oak Island, N.C. He would have turned 73 on New Year’s Day. He was ...

For the majority of people reading this article, the name Clay Cole is unknown. While everyone is familiar with Dick Clark, from 1959-1968, Cole was just as popular in New York. His eponymous show, in ...

Clay Cole, whose dance program “The Clay Cole Show” had a loyal following among adolescent television viewers in the New York area in the 1960s and gave many groups, including the Rolling Stones, ...

The Clay Cole Show was a rock music television show based in New York City, hosted by Clay Cole. First broadcast on WNTA-TV in September 1959 as Rate the Records, within two months the format was ...

Editor's note - This is a StarNews Flashback to popular story on StarNewsOnline.com, In the 1950s and '60s, almost every fair-sized American city had a “teen dance party” show on a local TV station.

IT HAD taken a couple of years, but by the summer of 1960, grownups saw some encouraging indications that they had finally tamed this rock ‘n’ roll menace. Rock ‘n’ roll had, frankly, not made a very ...

Officially, Clay Cole resides in Oak Island, but these days, it’s hard to find him there. On Thursday, Friday and Saturday, he was touring Florida, appearing in Naples, St. Petersburg and Fort ...