NBC Bandstand - aired August 24, 1956 - Featuring Claude Thornhill's band with So In Love. Bert Parks is host. Bert Parks' Bandstand was a daytime radio show based on the the Big Band sound. Radio audiences kept it on for years, but a TV version, called "NBC Bandstand" which was also simulcast on the NBC Radio network, didn't do as well. The show debuted July 30, 1956 and had its last broadcast on November 23 of that year. It was replaced by a new show called "The Price is Right".