Ryan Seacrest: ‘Rockin’ in another year on ABC – Merced Sun

But as Monday nears, Seacrest is focused on this annual rite: «Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest,» which, with related programming, will blanket ABC from 8 p.m. until past 2 a.m. EST.

Booking musical acts has been in the works for months, Seacrest says. Performers include Carly Rae Jepsen, Neon Trees, Flo Rida and Pitbull, as well as Taylor Swift, in the headliner position just before midnight.

But Friday afternoon in Manhattan, Seacrest is soon due at a production meeting «to work out the nitty-gritty of the show – some of which we will stick to, some of which we won’t. «

Already he has appeared on «Good Morning America,» then headed to the rooftop of One Times Square, where the huge crystal ball was poised for its flashy descent, along with half-a-dozen TV teams queued up to tape interviews with him.

An hour later, at ABC ‘s Upper West Side headquarters, Seacrest has shed his top coat and taken a break to reflect on Monday’s extravaganza. This will be his eighth New Year’s Eve turn for ABC. But it’s his first since Clark’s death last April at age 82.

Clark, of course, originated «New Year’s Rockin’ Eve» four decades ago. And it is Clark on «Rockin’ Eve» who gave Seacrest as a youngster his earliest memories of ringing in each new year.

«I’d like to say I can imagine how it’s going to feel, but I’m not quite sure,» says Seacrest. «I looked forward so much to each year that I did the show with him.»

Seacrest recalls how typically he would be posted outside overlooking Times Square, while Clark, who had suffered a stroke in 2004, made brief appearances from indoors.

«Then, right after midnight, I would run inside and stand next to him, and he always has some funny, clever thing to make fun of me about,» says Seacrest, unwittingly speaking in the present tense. «I think I will really miss that moment this year.»

The night will begin with a two-hour tribute, «New Year’s Rockin’ Eve Celebrates Dick Clark,» hosted by Fergie and Jenny McCarthy.

Then Seacrest takes over for the countdown show at 10 p.m. EST.

«I definitely will say something about him, and it will be from the heart,» Seacrest promises. «But the night will be, as he would want, a celebration of what’s to come: Dick was always one to say, ‘The show must go on.’»

That clearly resonates for the man who claims Clark as his mentor.

Seacrest, who marked his 38th birthday on Christmas Eve, grew up in Atlanta loving music and dreaming of a career in broadcasting.

From childhood, he was a student of Dick Clark, who in the 1950s had pioneered melding music, youth and TV on a show he called «American Bandstand.»

«I loved the perception that people came together to hang out and be introduced to new music,» Seacrest says. «Dick was brilliant at making everyone feel at home and comfortable, and never getting in the way. That’s the key.

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