Arlene Sullivan and Kenny Rossi on the cover of Teen magazine in 1959.
The big teenybopper magazines of the era - Sixteen and Teen - plastered “Bandstand” dancers on their covers and wrote glowing, gossipy stories about their lives in Philadelphia, where Dick Clark produced the show. They joined Arlene’s and Kenny’s fan clubs. When cute young teenagers Arlene Sullivan and Kenny Rossi slow danced together on “American Bandstand” back in the late ’50s and early ’60s, kids across the country swooned.
