On Negro day a group of black and white kids staged a similar sneak attack on the Buddy Deane Show. Pancocojams showcases the music, dances, language practices, & customs of African Americans and of other people of Black descent throughout the world. It was the era of rock n' roll ducktail, pegged pants, and beehive haridos. You werent one of them anymore. Outsiders envied the fame, especially if they lost their steadies to Deaners, and many were put off by boys who loved to dance. I took off my steady ring and threw it down. Debuting at a mere 11 years of age, taking three buses every day to get to the show, wearing that wonderful white DA (created by her hairdresser father), and causing the first real sensation. Rather than integrating, the show was canceled. It was similar to Philadelphia's American Bandstand. And none are bitter. I had a lot of black friends at the time, so for me this was an awkward thing, says Marie. If you were a Buddy Deane Committee member, you were on TV six days a week for as many as three hours a dayenough media exposure to make Marshall McLuhans head spin. Id get letters saying, If you show up at this particular hop, youre gonna get your face pushed in. Like many couples, Joe and Joan met through the show and became an item for their fans. It aired for two and a half hours a day, six days a week. Joe Cash has Jonas Cash Promotions, in Columbia and Silver Spring.. (my own promotional firmwe represent Warner Brothers, Columbia, Motown85 percent you hear in this market)and Active Industry Research, in Columbia (a research firmIm chairman of the board). He was one of the first to showcase rock and roll music on a continual basis. Ninfa O. Barnard wrote this article for explorepinebluff.com. I was a misfit. Some of the old Committee kept up with the times and made the transition with ease. You are out of here. The guys who wore sport coats with belts in the back from Lees of Broadway (10 percent discount for Committee members), pegged pants, pointy-toe shoes with the great buckles on the side, and drape (greaser) haircuts that my parents would never allow. My mother used to pick me up after school to make sure nobody hassled me., The adoring fans could also be a hassle. The 1988 John Waters film, newly adapted into an NBC live musical, presents a view of racial discrimination thats by turns nave and enlightening. The show designated every other friday to their black dancers, similar to "Negro Day" on the Corny Collins Show. Every day after school kids would run home, tune in, and dance with the bedpost or refrigerator door as they watched. Waters grew up with "The Buddy Deane Show" in Baltimore, and modeled his fictitious "Corny Collins Show" after it. We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. John Waters wrote the screenplay under the title of White Lipstick, with the story loosely based on real events.The Corny Collins Show is based on the real-life Buddy Deane Show, a local dance party program which pre-empted Dick Clark's American Bandstand in the Baltimore area during the 1950s and . I got these letters from the Naval Academy, Helen remembers, so I went there one day, and all the midshipmen were hanging out the windows. were the highest rated local TV show in America." Amazingly, Deane's show was aired live, two-and-a-half hours each day on five days a week with three hours on Saturday. Many years later they married. A special. Deane even dubbed himself "the morning mayor." On Wednesday, NBC is broadcasting Hairspray Live! This discrimination was explicitly or tacitly supported by an array of advertisers, television stations, music producers, city authorities, and federal communications officials. Powers was a particularly special addition, having disappeared in the years since the films release. He was 16 at the time of filming. Buddy Deane was the host of a Baltimore dance show that ran on TV from 1957 to 1964 six days a week. In 2003, "Hairspray" went on to sweep the 57th Annual Tony Awards, winning a total of eight awards. Buddy could take his seat beneath the famous Top 20 Board, and the tension would build. Marie Fischer was the first Joe to become a Committee memberchosen simply because she was such a good dancer. Kings mention of Funtown is preceded by references to lynch mobs, police brutality, and the airtight cage of poverty, and followed by references to hotel segregation and racial slurs. On the air before Dick Clark debuted, the show was a hit from the beginning, says Arlene today. MPT did a segment which included interviews with former African American dancers who appeared on the show. No matter how progressive we become, there will always be those who will still hang on to the tradition of hate. From 1968 into 1973, the public television variety show SOUL! Although WJZ-TV, owned by Westinghouse Broadcasting (now CBS since January 2, 1995), was an ABC affiliate, the station "blacked out" the network broadcast of American Bandstand in Baltimore and broadcast the Deane program instead, reportedly because Bandstand showed black teenagers dancing on the show (although black and white teenagers were not allowed to dance together until the show was moved to California in 1964). I was with this guy named Jeff. The Buddy Deane Show was a highly visible regional program that asserted a racially segregated public culture. The AP will not be held liable for any delays, inaccuracies, errors or omissions therefrom or in the transmission or delivery of all or any part thereof or for any damages arising from any of the foregoing. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it. If "The Buddy Deane Show" didn't exactly end happily (canceled in 1964, it never did integrate the dancers), Waters remains a fan. On the show you were either a drape or a square, explains Sharon. Today they seem opposites. Buddy said to me, Well, heres my little girl whos been with me the longest. I hardly ever cried, but I just broke down on camera. I didnt mean to, because I never would have messed up the makeup.. This article is among features at explorepinebluff.com, a program of the Pine Bluff Advertising and Promotion Commission. In 1963, the Civic Interest Group, an student integrationist group founded at Morgan State University, challenged this policy by obtaining tickets for black and white teens to attend the show on a day reserved for black teenagers. Ladies and gentlemen, the nicest kids in town!. Buddy himself, the high priest, returned for the event. Even doing commercials was expected. The show featured only white kids dancing, so Scruggs wrote him a letter in the fall of 1958 to . See more ideas about buddy, historic baltimore, baltimore. The Buddy Deane show aired 6 times a week and had a dance committee just like in hairspray. Jones). All rights reserved. But Hairspray also resonates for at least one of the same reasons it did in the 80s: It shows how seemingly innocent moments in popular culture were also sites of struggle over who was worthy of being a counted as a somebody in America. We have a telegram, Buddy would shout almost daily, for Mary Lou to lead a dance, and the cameraman seemed to love her. Romance was one thing; sex was another. On the one hand, the storys feel-good conclusion implies that colorblindness is the silver bullet that ends racial discrimination, that good intentions and individual acts of bravery are enough to bring about harmony. Unlike the tensions that followed the real integration of the Buddy Deane Show, Waterss Hairspray ends with the protesters triumphing. Buddy Deane was the host of a Baltimore dance show that ran on TV from 1957 to 1964 six days a week. So there you have it. Now a receptionist living near Towson with her husband and two grown children, Arlene remains fiercely loyal, organizing the reunions and keeping notebooks filled with the updated addresses, married names, and phone numbers of my kids. She met Winston J. Buddy noticed my eyes staring and said, Do the same eyes. And the camera got it. Kathy went even further. He just didnt understand., But some have dealt with the problems in good humor. See production, box office & company info. "If you first appeared on The Buddy Deane Show then you could not appear on The Dick Clark Show," Deane said. Over the next several years, Deane's show became the top-rated local TV show in Baltimore and the highest rated local show in the United States. Image Credit: OzNet.com. Once a month the show was all black; there was no black Committee. In Hairspray (1988), Tammy Turner assists Corny Collins on the show. As you can see from the December thread my question concerning African Americans was totally dismissed by the Committee member who was speaking. To this day, Im reluctant to tell some of my black friends I was on Buddy Deane because they look at it as a terrible time.. 'The Buddy Deane Show' was over . The Hairspray Live! Hopefully, some footage of you and the other Black dancers will be found and published online.Best wishes to you and yes, GOD HELP US! The Corny Collins Show is now integrated! Waters himself commented on the films revisionist history, I gave it a happy ending that it didnt have., Hairsprays happy ending gave the story an arc that appealed to Broadway and Hollywood producers. Every weekday afternoon, in each of these broadcast markets, these shows presented images of exclusively white dancers and rendered black youth as second-class teenagers. What: The Buddy Deane Show was a teen rock-and-roll dance television show that aired on WJZ-TV in Baltimore, Maryland from 1957 until 1964. Deane died in Pine Bluff, Arkansas on July 16, 2003, after suffering a stroke. . The show featured only white kids dancing, so Scruggs wrote him a letter in the fall of 1958 to . The action of the musical takes place in 1962 and centers around Baltimore's teenage obsession with the television program The Corny Collins Show, a stand-in for an actual Baltimore production of the day, The Buddy Deane Show. Hundreds of thousands of teens learned the latest dances by watching Committee members on the show, copying their personal style, and following their life stories and interactions. From 1957-1965, Deane was chosen as host of WJZ-TV, Baltimore's "The . Both entities launche. Maybe ''The Buddy Deane Show,'' the teen-dance-party that ran on local television in Baltimore from 1957 to 1964 and inspired ''Hairspray,'' was the only wholesome obsession that ever led to one . "Buddy" Deane was a broadcaster for more than 50 years, beginning his career in Little Rock, Arkansas, then moving to the Memphis, Tennessee market, before moving on to Baltimore, where he worked at WITH radio. I wasnt going to go on and not be seen. But even Evanne turned bashful on one show, when Buddy made a surprise announcement: I was voted prettiest girl on this whole Army base. I'll include some of those comments in an upcoming pancocojams series about that dance.However, it seems to me that The Buddy Deane Show is more important because it exemplifies the need to go back and understand how the past has influenced the present with regard to systemic racism in Baltimore, Maryland and elsewhere in the United States. The school tried to throw me out before. At 21, I married a professional football player, Helen remembers, and he made me burn all the fan mail. If I have one regret in life, its that I wasnt a Buddy Deaner. The Best Picture Race Got a Lot More Confusing This Week, Tom Cruise Made the Rounds This Week, but Other Oscar Nominees Got More Applause Than Top Gun: Maverick, These Oscar Categories Are the Hardest to Predict, Translating the Unconscious Into Images: The Cinematography of Bardo, Poker Face Takes Viewers on a Cross-Country Road Trip Without Leaving New York, Why TR Looks Different from Every Other Movie of 2022, The 50 Best Movies of 2022, According to 165 Critics from Around the World, All 81 Titles Unceremoniously Removed from HBO Max (So Far), 10 Shows Canceled but Not Forgotten in 2022. Black History Month . He left behind his wife, Helen Stevenson Deane; his three daughters, JoEllen, Dawn, and Debbie and their families. At first I was so shy I hid behind the Coke machines., But Evanne used to come right home and head for the TV. The inspiration for this movie was born out of an afternoon teen dance show, The Buddy Deane Show, which aired on Baltimore's WJZ-TV from 1957-1964 until it was taken off the air because the owner did not want to integrate. For example, Carole King appeared on the show playing her single "It Might as Well Rain Until September", nearly a decade before she burst to popularity with her landmark 1970 album, Tapestry. In the beginning, there was Arlene. I had trunks of it. Ric Ocasek as the Beatnik cat; Pia Zadora as the Beatnik chick; Production. It was similar to Philadelphia's American Bandstand. Originally aired 11/5/1986. A big strong line!) up the hill to the famous dance party set, the one that now houses People Are Talking. 'Buddy' Deane; www.WashingtonPost.com -- The Messy Truth of The Real 'Hairspray.' The protesters wanted the races to mix. While other radio hosts thought rock 'n' roll music was just a passing trend, refusing to play it in favor of pop songs, Deane played rock 'n' roll music on a regular basis. In Baltimore, Maryland in the year 1962, Tracy Turnblad and her best friend, Penny Pingleton, audition for The Corny Collins Show, a popular Baltimore teenage dance show (based on the real-life Buddy Deane Show). Everywhere we went, people would say Theres Mary Lou. I wondered if she had just been released from the penitentiary.. The story also locates racial prejudice in a single character, Velma Von Tussle (played in the live musical by Kristin Chenoweth), which enables the other white characters to remain largely innocent bystanders to the discrimination faced by the programs black teenagers. With the 1960s came a whole new set of stars, some with names that seemed like gimmicks, but werent: Concetta Comi, the popular sister team of Yetta and Gretta Kotik. Joe started working for Buddy as teen assistant and, along with Arlene, oversaw the Committee and enforced the strict rules. Evanne and her brother run the John Brock Benson Dance Studios, in Pasadena, and have a line of dancers who appear at clubs all over the state. Performances begin at 7 p.m. In early 2003, Deane sold KOTN and three other stations he had acquired over the years. The information used was obtained from WJZ. He eventually became one of the most respected programmers in the country and was even written up in Time magazine. On August 2, 1924, Winston Joseph Deane was born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. I even won the twist contest with Mary Lou Raines (one of the queens of The Buddy Deane Show) at the Valley Country Club. Before long I started getting lots of fan mail: I think youre neat. Deane helped the Bill Haley and the Comets song "Rock Around the Clock" become a hit in Baltimore a full year before it became a worldwide success by promoting their music while at WITH. You learned how to be a teenager from the show. Hairspray is firmly rooted in 1960s America, but it offers both sophisticated and (tellingly) simplistic ways of understanding racism today. That she has an affluent life-style surprises no one on the Committee. Buddy wanted it to end happily, but WJZ angered Deaners when it tried to blame the ratings. I got a little power-crazed, admits Joe. Buddy Deane, a native of Pine Bluff, was one of the first radio hosts to understand the appeal of Rock n' Roll in its infancy, the host of a popular 60s teen dance show, the inspiration for a film and musical character in Hairspray, and so much more. I had always studied dance, and I wanted to go on [the show]. August 8, 2022 at 3:55 a.m. "Where: 800 N. Charles St, Baltimore, MD 21201. Perhaps the highest bouffants of all belonged to the Committee member who was my personal favorite: Pixie (who died several years later from a drug overdose). WJZ's show aired from 1957 to 1964 and was popular among Baltimore teens, promoting dances like the twist, mashed potato, and the Madison. My heart would have broken in two if I couldnt have gone on. Finally, Helen quit Mergenthaler (Mervo) trade school, at the height of her fame. Arguably the first TV celebrities in Baltimore. The show featured only white kids dancing, so Scruggs wrote him a letter in the fall of 1958 to . That's what really happened, and the show shut down." 3. 1957, it was a huge success as it was portrayed in the musical. The Buddy Deane Show was a teen dance television show, created by Zvi Shoubin, hosted by Winston "Buddy" Deane (1924-2003), and aired on WJZ-TV (Channel 13), the ABC affiliate station in Baltimore from 1957 until 1964. Mr. It was the top-rated local TV show in Baltimore and, for several years, the highest rated local TV program in the country. "How 'The Buddy Deane Show' really went off the air is the white kids crashed Negro Day to integrate it. Neither these AP materials nor any portion thereof may be stored in a computer except for personal and noncommercial use. The more hair spray, the better. Acts that appeared on the show first were reportedly barred from appearing on Dick Clark's American Bandstand, but if they had been on Bandstand first they could still be on The Buddy Deane Show. 2003. Yeah it was Cosenel, says Joe. It was broadcast for two hours a day, six days a week and featured local teenagers dancing to their favorite music played by live bands. When: Summer 1963. Penny nervously stumbles over her answers, and another girl, Nadine Carver, is cut for being Black (the show has a "Negro Day" on the last Thursday of every month, she is told). Facing controversy over the possibility of more integrated broadcasts, the station canceled the program. The musical is based on John Waters' 1988 campy movie of the same name. This move would have been a footnote in the annals of television if not for the director and Baltimore native John Waters, whose 1988 film Hairspray offered up an alternate history, with its fictional Corny Collins Show and rose-tinted, lets-all-dance-together ending. Racism is passed down from one generation to the next. I had to get up there on time. As Marie puts it, The rewards were so great emotionally that you didnt have to ask for a monetary award., Many had difficulties dealing with the void when the show went off the air. Not one of the Committee members, the ones chosen to be on the show every daythe Baltimore version of the Mouseketeers, the nicest kids in town, as they were billed. We are kind of like Ozzie and Harriet, says Gene Snyder as Linda nods in agreement. One girl yelled Buddy Deaner and then threw her plate at me. It was maddening: the Mashed Potatoes, the Stroll, the Pony, the Waddle, the Locomotion, the Bug, the Handjive, the New Continental, and, most important, the Madison, a complicated line dance that started here and later swept the country. Or the Bob-a Loop? I'm sure they could have reached out to me via these posts, but did not. When I get depressed, I dont go to the psychiatrist, I go to the jeweler, she says. From 1996 to 2003, he hosted dance events in Baltimore, Pennsylvania and aboard cruise ships. Buddy Deane was the host of a Baltimore dance show that ran on TV from 1957 to 1964 six days a week. Here is the new video celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Buddy Deane Show and the former Catonsville Community College (now CCBC). Youre in Baltimore. You had to wear nylons. Although he never appeared on Deane's show, Waters attended high school with a "Buddy Deaner" and later gave Deane a cameo in the film, in which Deane played a TV reporter who tried to interview the governor who was besieged by integration protesters. Linda reverently describes her Committee membership as the best experience I ever had in my life. They later became members of the Permanent Committee, the hall of fame that could come back to dance even after retiring. . If you leaned on one side, the next day youd just pick it out into shape. The first stars I could identify with. "The Buddy Deane Show," which aired on WJZ-TV in Baltimore from 1957 until 1964. . The ultimate reunion.From all over the country, the Deaners could rise again, congregate at the bottom of Television Hill, and start Madison-ing their way (Youre looking good. Mary Lou was aware that in some neighborhoods it was not cool to be a Buddy Deaner. Some do remember a handful of kids getting high on cough medicine. At just 10 years old, he and a friend set up their own radio station in a chicken coop that belonged to Deane's mother. This weekly time slot became known as "Special Guest Day" by the Deane Show's white performers and "Black Monday" by Baltimore's Black teens. Many top acts of the day, both black and white, appeared on The Buddy Deane Show. The star system was born. It ran two hours a day, six days a week. She was the one of the biggies who refused to be on the Board (they had power; a liked because of it). This Committees committee, under the watchful eye of Arlene, chose new members, taught the dance steps, and enforced the demerit system, which could result in suspension or expulsion. . The black cops would stop us and say: This isnt Greenwich Village, you know. The films executive producer Craig Zadan argued that what makes Hairspray work is, you never feel like were on a soap box, or were preaching to you, or were saying this is a lesson you need to learn and yet, hopefully, you come away from it with something serious to talk about afterwards. There is no guarantee that viewers will take up these discussions, but Hairspray offers plenty of material for those who choose to do so. Buddy Deane. This Article is related to: Film and tagged Divine, Hairspray, IFC Center, John Waters. This page was last edited on 29 July 2022, at 06:25. I couldnt be bothered with education. It was so painful. The Buddy Deane Show was taken off the air because home station WJZ-TV was unwilling to integrate black and white dancers. I used to get death threats on the show. It was similar to Philadelphia's American Bandstand. We hung around with black and whites together, which you couldnt do. His childhood nickname was Buddy. Yes, I miss it very much. Deane died in Pine Bluff on July 16, 2003, after experiencing complications caused by a stroke. Everybody wanted to kick a Buddy Deaners a, says Gene, recalling thugs waiting to jump Deaners outside the studio. Mary Lou, the Annette Funicello of the show, was the talk of teenage Baltimore. Another royal Deaner couple who met on the air and later married was Gene Snyder and Linda Warehime. . As well, a show was broadcast from a local farm in Westminster, Maryland. Winston "Buddy" Deane was a broadcaster for more than fifty years, beginning his career in Little Rock, Arkansas, then moving to the Memphis, Tennessee, market before moving onto Baltimore . They just wanted to know if you were real. Im Joe, too. There was a change in the works., Part of that change was the racial integration movement. You cant do this. I remember once we all got arrested at the drive-in for underage drinking, and the black kids didnt get out and the white kids did. The Buddy Deane Show was a teen dance television show, created by Zvi Shoubin, hosted by Winston "Buddy" Deane (1924-2003), and aired on WJZ-TV (Channel 13), the ABC affiliate station in Baltimore from 1957 until 1964. When the subject comes up today, most loyalists want to go off the record. The show was a teen dance and music show and ran from 1957 to until 1964 on WJZ-TV until the show was canceled. The show's format mirrored Philadelphia's "American Bandstand." Once a Deaner, always a Deaner, as another so succinctly puts it. | . three, two, one. sively white show. But an intrepid group of local and . Several local art contests were also held on the show, with viewers submitting their own art work. Also, read the comments in that same excerpt about the series only wanting "attractive" teenagers as featured dancers. In 1948, Deane married Helen Stevenson, his childhood sweetheart, whom he first met when he was just four years old. This man approached me, telegrammed me, showed up at the show. It was even in the papers. Black teens were only allowed to dance on the show one day per month. And Divine said, What drag queen would allow themselves to look like this?'. That show featured local teens who danced to the. One of the first ponytail princesses was Peanuts (Sharon Goldman, debuting at 14 in 58, Forest Park, Chicken Hop), who went on the show because Deaners were folk heroes. She remembers Paul Anka singing Put Your Head on My Shoulder to her on camera as she did just that. Both black and white activists picketed the . In 1985 the Committee members are for the most part happy and healthy, living in Baltimore, and still recognized on the street. By what name was The Buddy Deane Show (1957) officially released in Canada in English? Advertisement. That show featured local teens who danced to the hits of the era, although the entire cast was white except for one episode every other Friday for Black kids. I was so embarrassed. In mixed marriages (with non-Deaners), many of the outsiders resented their spouses pasts. Im the biggest ham. Although she denies being conscious of the camera, she admits, I did try to dance up front. At frantic meetings of the Committee, many said, My parents simply wont let me come if its integrated, and WJZ realized it just couldnt be done. On Jan. 4, 1964, nearly five months after the first -- and only -- day that black and white kids danced cheek to cheek on TV in WJZ's studios, Buddy Deane put "The Party's Over" on the record player. We got out of the limousine and there was a huge crowd that went crazy when Divine jumped out, and it was such an exciting night, Waters said. Once I was off the show for a while, and they said I had joined the nunnery, says Helen, laughing. John Waters, a Baltimore filmmaker and Deane Show fan, loosely based "The Corny Collins' Show" in his movie "Hairspray" on Deane's show. Thank you for including me as one of the Buddy Dean family. I was totally star-struck and had as much fun that night as I did at the Cannes Film Festival. Fran Nedeloff (debuting at 14 in 61, Mervo, cha-cha) remembers the look: Straight skirt to the knee, cardigan sweater buttoned up the back, cha-cha heels, lots of heavy black eyeliner, definitely Clearasil on the lips, white nail polish. One time I was going with this guy, and he was dancing with this guest I didnt like, says Evanne. I used to lie in bed at my parents house, and there was an African-American community up the street and they went by singing along to the radio. The white kids parents came and got them. I havent seen her since we made the movie, said Waters. It was horrible/ says Joe. The Buddy Deane Show was a show from the late 50's to the mid 60's. The show was a teen dance television show, similar to Philadelphia's American Bandstand. Ironically, The Buddy Deane Show introduced black music and artists into the lives of white Baltimore teenagers, many of whom learned to dance from black friends and listened to black radio. Deane also presented British artist Helen Shapiro, who sang her Baltimore hit, "Tell Me What He Said," at about the time that she was touring England with The Beatles as one of her support acts. BLACK MUSIC MOMENT #96: Short-Lived Integration Of The Buddy Deane Show. As with the drapes and squares of the previous decade, she explains, there were two classes of people thenDeaners and Joe College. Friday, February 19 at 7PM. You Cant Stop the Beat, for example, is an upbeat dance number that resolves the issue of segregation on the Corny Collins Show. The night was full of delightful anecdotes, including these ten you may not have heard before. And according to Arlene, Buddy encouraged one popular Committee member (Buzzy Bennet) to teach himself to read so he could realize his dream of being a disc jockey. Other vices were likewise eschewed. The show featured only white kids dancing, so Scruggs wrote him a letter in the fall of. And the other ladies in Allentown blue-collar neighborhood in Baltimore were talking to her and saying, Yeah, what kind of movie is this? They thought she was a real woman that lived on the street, you know. So a year later when he had his own show, it seemed only right that "Rock Around the Clock" premiered on "The Buddy Deane Show.". It was a fluke. Most are happily married with kids and maintain the same images they had on the show. Pauline Kael praised him. (The rave appeared in The New Yorker, where Kael said it was really Divines movie, calling him W. Teenagers who appeared on the show every day were known as "The Committee". Plot. We faked a feud. 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