Bandstand: The Birth of Rock 'n' Roll with a Holiday Twist” opens on Tuesday, November 26, at the Cotuit Center for the Arts.

This is a detail of the bandstand at Regent's Park which is much in use during the summer months. It was originally in Richmond Park and relocated in the 1970s.

Simply titled Bandstand, the program debuted on Oct. 13, 1952. By the 1950s, television had leapfrogged radio. By the middle of the decade, more than half of all American homes owned a TV set.

In 1962, Carroll Shelby established Shelby American and began producing Ford ... But even though Ford did not produce Shelby cars for the 1970 model year, both the GT350 and GT500 were present ...