 The Traits had several regional hits at TNT with songs such as "One More Time", "Live It Up", both released in 1959, and "Summertime Love" (1960), establishing themselves in the late 1950s and the early 1960s as one of the premier teenage Texas-based rock and roll bands while playing the concert, sock hop, college and university and dance hall circuits throughout Texas.It was during this period that the parents of The Traits turned down Dick Clark's invitation for the boys to appear on "American Bandstand", which ABC had started broadcasting nationwide from Philadelphia in 1957.At the time, all of the Traits were "minors", and some were still in high school.