[2], https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Buddy_Deane_Show&oldid=1101079819. As with the drapes and squares of the previous decade, she explains, there were two classes of people thenDeaners and Joe College. Even racists like it, Waters said in his opening remarks. There are other socio-cultural comments in various YouTube comments threads about the Madison dance. Every rock n roll star of the day (except Elvis) came to town to lip-synch and plug their records on the show: Buddy Holly, Domino, the Supremes, the Marvelettes, Annette Funicello, Frankie Avalon, and Fabian, to name just a few. The school tried to throw me out before. His childhood nickname was Buddy. It was the era of rock n' roll ducktail, pegged pants, and beehive haridos. But it went something like this: Buddy Deane was an exclusively white show. "Do You Love Me" by The Contours, or "Hide and Go Seek" by Bunker Hill). In 1950, Deane moved to Baltimore to host 1230 AM WITH after Stan Kenton, a performer and guest he was interviewing, informed him of the opening at the radio station. With the show beginning at 2:30 in some years, cutting out of school early was common. 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. I wanted to go, but my parents wouldnt let me. As you can see from the December thread my question concerning African Americans was totally dismissed by the Committee member who was speaking. Deane began his broadcasting career at KLXR in Little Rock, Arkansas. Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! If you couldnt do the Buddy Dean jitterbug, (always identifiable by the girls ever-so-subtle dip of her head each time she was twirled around), you were a social outcast. 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. Get off that furniture!? When Mary Lous husband gave me the long and complicated directions to their home on the phone, he ended with And there you will find, yes, Mary Lou Raines. He later confided that when he first started dating her, he had no idea of her early career. Sure, as a teenager I was a guest on the show. January 4, 1964. And the whole concept of the Committee changed. Sometimes youd wrap your hair at night. 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). . 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. 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.". 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. Here, Clark's memories of American Bandstand are nested in an overview of important events in U.S. history from the 1950s and 1960s. There were a lot of obscene phone calls., And the rumors, God, the rumors. 'Buddy Deane' really did have "Negro day" once a month -- it was called worse in some neighborhoods in Baltimore. Plot. Its host was Winston "Buddy" Deane (1924-2003), who died in Pine Bluff, Arkansas after . Another royal Deaner couple who met on the air and later married was Gene Snyder and Linda Warehime. It was similar to Philadelphia's American Bandstand. Marie Fischer was the first Joe to become a Committee memberchosen simply because she was such a good dancer. 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 . 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. Some kids on the show went a little nuts, with stars in their eyes; they thought they were going to go to Hollywood and be moviestars.. . Hairspray movie was inspired by this show and was based off of the the events but unlike the movies, instead of the show being integrated, it was cancelled. In 2003, "Hairspray" went on to sweep the 57th Annual Tony Awards, winning a total of eight awards. It was so painful. . Hairspray encourages its audience to take the fight to integrate a teenage TV show seriously, but it does so through songs, dances, and costumes that celebrate and satirize the 60s. I had to get up there on time. Here is the new video celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Buddy Deane Show and the former Catonsville Community College (now CCBC). This program is a tribute to long-time Maryland radio announcer Buddy Deane, who passed away in August, 2003. While at WITH, Deane was the first Baltimore disk jockey to capitalize on the new musical phenomenon that was rock 'n' roll. 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. In December 1963, producers at Baltimores WJZ-TV cancelled the Buddy Deane Show rather than integrate the popular teen dance program. Ninfa O. Barnard Special to The Commercial He was one of the first to showcase rock and roll music on a continual basis. Both black and white activists picketed the . 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 . In 1984, he sold the station to a local college but bought it back in 1996. Buddy Deane. The Buddy Deane Show was taken off the air because home station WJZ-TV was unwilling to integrate black and white dancers. Friday, February 24, 2023. On the last day of the show, January 4, 1964, all the most popular Committee members through the years came back for one last appearance. He got a great review in The New York Times. Once a month the show was all black; there was no black Committee. Buddy Deane was the host of a Baltimore dance show that ran on TV from 1957 to 1964 six days a week. That she has an affluent life-style surprises no one on the Committee. MPT did a segment which included interviews with former African American dancers who appeared on the show. Im the biggest ham. Although she denies being conscious of the camera, she admits, I did try to dance up front. The Corny Collins Show is based on the real Buddy Deane Show which, interestingly, was cancelled in 1964 for refusing to integrate black and white dancers, a core theme in this musical. The star system was born. 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. While he wasnt on the committee, Waters occasionally danced on the show as a guest. . The musical is based on John Waters' 1988 campy movie of the same name. I was a misfit. 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. as its newest live-television musical adaptation. She was one of the chosen few who went to New York to learn how to demonstrate the Madison, and was selected for the exchange committee that represented Baltimores best on American Bandstand. When I get depressed, I dont go to the psychiatrist, I go to the jeweler, she says. "The Buddy Deane Show," which aired on WJZ-TV in Baltimore from 1957 until 1964. . 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! 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. Hairspray was the actors first film, before Dead Poets Society, which came out the next year. Hairspray is John Waters most commercially successful film the 1988 dancing comedy spawned a hit Broadway musical, a movie and TV movie of that musical, plus multiple sequel and TV show offers that never saw the light of day. Then we made up on camera.. It was hilarious., Some of the rumors were fanned on purpose. Image Credit: OzNet.com Winston Joseph Deane was born on August 2, 1924, in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. I took off my steady ring and threw it down. Hairspray, which started as a camp film with a modest $2.7 million budget, grew into a popular and commercially successful Broadway musical and movie. The Deane program set aside every other Friday for a show featuring only black teenagers. Black History Month . This sort of nearsighted, if not disingenuous, framing persists today, whether in affluent parents in New York City insisting their opposition to school rezoning proposals is not about race, or in arguments suggesting that the best way to address racism is to stop accusing people of being racists.. I thought I was running the world, so they developed a Board, and the Committee began governing itself. Being elected to the Board became the ultimate status symbol. And more important, so did the Committee, still entering by a special door, still doing the dances from the period with utmost precision. I must have had ten different phone numbers, says Helen, and somehow it would get out. The Deane program was a segregated show: white and Black teenagers danced on separate broadcasts. 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 used to boast that every major rock 'n' roll star of the era appeared on the show, except Elvis Presley and Rick Nelson. Some fifty years later, the mindset is STILL the same. That's one of the things that the Black Lives Matter movement is talking about. On the last day of the show, January 4, 1964, all the most popular Committee members through the years came back for one last appearance. Today they seem opposites. WJZ's show aired from 1957 to 1964 and was popular among Baltimore teens, promoting dances like the twist, mashed potato, and the Madison. The best little jitterbugger in Baltimore. GOD HELP US! John Waters, a Baltimore filmmaker and Deane Show fan, loosely based "The Corny Collins' Show" in his movie "Hairspray" on Deane's show. Although the show has been off the air for more than twenty years, a nearly fanatical cult of fans has managed to keep the memory alive. When Barry Levinson, another Baltimore native, requested video from the show for his film Diner, the station told him it had no footage. My mother wanted me to go, she took me down to the tryouts. 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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. Buddy called me up before the cameras, and I wasnt dressed my best. These dances included the Mashed Potato, the Stroll, the Pony, the Waddle, the Locomotion, the Bug, the Handjive, the New Continental and the Madison. And it was not unique: Dick Reids Record Hop in Charleston, West Virginia; Ginny Paces Saturday Hop in Houston, Texas; John Dixons Dixon on Disc in Mobile, Alabama; Bill Sanderss show in Chattanooga, Tennessee; Dewey Phillipss Pop Shop in Memphis, Tennessee; and Chuck Allens Teen Tempo in Jackson, Mississippi, were all segregated dance shows. Buddy returns on a pilgrimage from St. Charles, Arkansas, where he owns a hunting and fishing lodge and sometimes appears on TV, to spin the hits and announce multiplication dances, ladies choice, or even, after a few drinks, the Limbo. All the choreography in the movie prior to this was segregated by race, and now its all together, which is a very, very subtle reference to the theme of this movie.. This sentiment carries through to the songs lyrics. The Buddy Deane.phenomenon is hardly dead. Deane even played a small role in the movie, which premiered to moderate success but went on to become a cult classic. . Ladies and gentlemen, the nicest kids in town!. Everybody wanted to kick a Buddy Deaners a, says Gene, recalling thugs waiting to jump Deaners outside the studio. But I was never a Deaner. Sign Up: Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! From 1964 to 1984, Deane hosted a show and owned KOTN-FM and KOTN-AM radio stations at Pine Bluff. Eating the refreshments (Ameches Powerhouses, the premiere teenage hangouts forerunner of the Big Mac), which were for guests only. The show featured only white kids dancing, so Scruggs wrote him a letter in the fall of 1958 to . 2023 IndieWire Media, LLC. The show featured only white kids dancing, so Scruggs wrote him a letter in the fall of 1958 to . 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. Mr. Deane hosted a crowd of exuberant teens, who danced to the music of live rock bands, including many name acts. This Article is related to: Film and tagged Divine, Hairspray, IFC Center, John Waters. Waters would rush home . A devoted fan of the Buddy Deane Show, Waters drew on this history to write and direct the original film version of Hairspray. Gene calls it a big loss. It was living in a fantasy world, says Helen. He was mad because I was as popular as he was. Deane hosted a morning show at WITH. I was aggressive. The white kids parents came and got them. Over lunch at the Thunderball Lounge, in East Baltimore, Kathy remembers, I could never get used to signing autographs. We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. 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. Neither these AP materials nor any portion thereof may be stored in a computer except for personal and noncommercial use. While the rest of the nation grew up on Dick Clarks American Bandstand, (which was not even shown here because Channel 13 already had Buddy Deane), Baltimoreans, true to form, had their own eccentric version. | And although few will now admit to having been drapes, the styles at first were DAs (slicked back into the shape of a ducks tail), Detroits, and Waterfalls (flowing down the front) for the guys and ponytails and DAs for the girls, who wore full skirts with crinolins and three or four pairs of bobby socks. No matter how progressive we become, there will always be those who will still hang on to the tradition of hate. I wonder if that applied to Black males as well as White males. It ran two hours a day, six days a week. Teenagers who appeared on the show every day were known as "The Committee". Rather than integrating, the show was canceled. The Corny Collins Show, is a teen dance show in Baltimore's WYZT /WZZT Network. The Department of Education even withdrew its support of the show, and the show had to be filmed in the parking lot at times because of the threats they received. Whats great about the choreography in [You Cant Stop the Beat] is that, subtly, the black dancers and the white dancers have the same choreography, the executive producer Neil Meron said in the DVD commentary for the 2007 film. This document may not be reprinted without the express written permission of Northwest Arkansas Newspapers LLC. You Cant Stop the Beat, for example, is an upbeat dance number that resolves the issue of segregation on the Corny Collins Show. I was with this guy named Jeff. And because a new dance was introduced practically every week, you had to watch every day to keep up. Im still a fana Deaner groupie. Joel Chaseman, also a DJ at WITH, became program manager of WJZ-TV when Westinghouse bought it in the mid-50s. It was similar to Philadelphia's American Bandstand. One time I was going with this guy, and he was dancing with this guest I didnt like, says Evanne. Im Joe, too. There was a change in the works., Part of that change was the racial integration movement. After a surprise interracial broadcast, WJZ-TV received bomb and arson threats, hate mail, and complaints from white parents. . From 1996 to 2003, he hosted dance events in Baltimore, Pennsylvania and aboard cruise ships. . Checking back with the studio, no one had information concerning footage of African American dancers. It was similar to Philadelphia's American Bandstand. In addition to creating teenage dancing sensations, "The Buddy Deane Show" also featured musical superstars of the day, including Buddy Holly, Domino, the Supremes, the Marvelettes, Annette Funicello, Frankie Avalon, Fabian and many others. Youre in Baltimore. Mr. Deane's salary . (97) So the NAACP targeted the show for protests. If Im ever depressed, sometimes I think, Well this will make me feel better, and I go and dig in the box., Holding onto the memories more than anyone is Arlene Kozak, who is by far the most loved by all the Committee members. I was Tracy, said Waters. The show began in September of 1957 when an Arkansan named Winston Joe "Buddy" Deane was approached by Joel Chaseman, the head of programming at WJZ-TV. By representing this realityin bubble-gum, technicolor clarityHairspray does something that pure documentation, at times, cant: It makes a difficult part of a nations history accessible (and entertaining) to millions of viewers. In her home, near Allentown, Pennsylvania, she serves me a beautiful brunch, models her fur coats, and poses with her Mercedes. Voters approve of . On Negro day a group of black and white kids staged a similar sneak attack on the Buddy Deane Show. People already were excited about it, but after the election they were saying, Boy, do we need this now, Meron said while promoting the new television musical. I had a lot of black friends at the time, so for me this was an awkward thing, says Marie. The Buddy Deane Show was taken off the air because home station WJZ-TV was unwilling to integrate black and white dancers. The racial integration of a take-off of the show, dubbed The Corny Collins Show, provides the backdrop to the 1988 John Waters film Hairspray. The Buddy Dean Show was the inspiration for the "Corny Collins Show" in the 2007 musical. To be selected you had to bring a character reference letter from your pastor, priest, or rabbi, qualify in a dance audition, and show in an interview (the Spotlight) that you had personality. At first the Committee had a revolving membership with no one serving longer than three months. I was so embarrassed. 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. Some of the local teens who danced on the show became local celebrities and had fans of their own. 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. 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). The show designated every other friday to their black dancers, similar to "Negro Day" on the Corny Collins Show. It was difficult with your peers, recalls Peanuts. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached, or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Baltimore Magazine. When that little red light came on, so did my smile, she says, laughing. There were threats and bomb scares; integrationists smuggled whites into the all-black shows to dance cheek-to-cheek on camera with blacks, and that was it. 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. Every day after school kids would run home, tune in, and dance with the bedpost or refrigerator door as they watched. Deane also held dances at various Maryland American Legion posts and National Guard armories which were not taped or broadcast on television. At her appearances at the record hops, kids would actually scream when youd get out of the car: Theres Mary Lou! In meetings with the show's white performers, the producers realized that though most of the dancers were in favor of integration, their parents would not be. 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 . The first big stars were Bobbi Bums and Freddy Oswinkle, according to Arlene, but no matter how big anyone got, someone came along who was even bigger. Joe Cash and Joan Teves became the shows first royalty. Buddy could take his seat beneath the famous Top 20 Board, and the tension would build. Deane also played songs that other disc jockeys, including Dick Clark, refused to present to mostly white teen TV audiences because the acts sounded "too black" (e.g. So the rules were bent a little; the big ones, the ones with the fan mail, were allowed to stay. We used to go to stand in front of Reads Drugstore, and people would ask for our autograph.. Even doing commercials was expected. The black cops would stop us and say: This isnt Greenwich Village, you know. "I told him I thought it was terrible," Melva Lee Scruggs said about the "Buddy Deane Show." This article is among features at explorepinebluff.com, a program of the Pine Bluff Advertising and Promotion Commission. and later on, growing up, it was a definite blow: reality. I still have a whole box of fan mail, says Evanne. Only white teens became members of the elite Committee the Buddy Deane equivalent of the Mouseketeers. Many parents and local officials were angry. 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