Buddy called me up before the cameras, and I wasnt dressed my best. Winston Joseph Deane was born on Aug. 2, 1924, in Pine Bluff. We have a telegram, Buddy would shout almost daily, for Mary Lou to lead a dance, and the cameraman seemed to love her. From 1957 to 1963, only white teens were allowed to attend the weekday broadcasts of the Buddy Deane Show, with the exception of one Monday each month when black teenagers filled the studio (the so-called Black Monday). For many young people, being blocked from swimming pools, skating rinks, or dance shows like the Buddy Deane Show would be one of their first exposures to what King calls the feeling of forever fighting a degenerating sense of nobodiness.. It was a fluke. Voters approve of . 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.. 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. If I have one regret in life, its that I wasnt a Buddy Deaner. Mary Lou laughs at the memory of doing a pimple medicine spot on camera. Im a typical housewife, says Peanuts. Originally known as The Buddy Deane Bandstand, the show first went on the air at 3 p.m. Sept. 9, 1957, and aired for two hours; the show often preceded the Mickey Mouse Club. [1], As with many other local TV shows, little footage of the show is known to have survived. Yet Joe was a dropout when he went on the show and then, once famous, went back to finish. Print Headline: Buddy Deane Show was huge hit for young viewers in the late 1950s, Copyright 2023, Northwest Arkansas Newspapers LLC. Mary Lou was aware that in some neighborhoods it was not cool to be a Buddy Deaner. But most have settled down to a very straight life. They sent cakes on my birthday. Some of the old Committee kept up with the times and made the transition with ease. This discrimination was explicitly or tacitly supported by an array of advertisers, television stations, music producers, city authorities, and federal communications officials. In mixed marriages (with non-Deaners), many of the outsiders resented their spouses pasts. That really hit home then., He adde, That scene where Tracy and [Link] are making out outside and the homeless guy walks up the street singing, that is exactly true. We hung around with black and whites together, which you couldnt do. SOUL! Id hook and have to dance in the back so the teachers couldnt see me, says Helen. In 2003, "Hairspray" went on to sweep the 57th Annual Tony Awards, winning a total of eight awards. In 1948, Deane married Helen Stevenson, his childhood sweetheart, whom he first met when he was just four years old. 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. 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. Actor: Hairspray. Another royal Deaner couple who met on the air and later married was Gene Snyder and Linda Warehime. Still, as an historian of the television era that Hairspray so lovingly recreates, I believe the story also presents a more nuanced vision of how popular culture helped to educate white and black teenagers about racial hierarchies. It was a real kick! Her fame even brought an offer to join the circus. All on Pulaski Highway. Or the Bob-a Loop? 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. I wanted to get into the record businessand years later he did. Though black and white . It was hilarious., Some of the rumors were fanned on purpose. 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. It ran two hours a day, six days a week. It was the times, most remember. I was aggressive. The Buddy Deane Show was taken off the air because home station WJZ-TV was unwilling to integrate black and white dancers. The movie was eventually turned into a musical by the same name. 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. Chaseman had this idea for a dance party show, with Buddy as the disc jockey, and Buddy asked Arlene to go to work for him. However, unlike during the song "The New Girl in Town" where the Dynamites get there song stolen by 3 committee members, the Buddy . The 1988 John Waters film, newly adapted into an NBC live musical, presents a view of racial discrimination thats by turns nave and enlightening. Oddly enough, few of the Deaners Ive talked to went on to show biz. But something unforeseen happened: The home audience soon grew attached to some of these kids. The Buddy Dean Show was the inspiration for the "Corny Collins Show" in the 2007 musical. . . Id get letters saying, If you show up at this particular hop, youre gonna get your face pushed in. I wonder if that applied to Black males as well as White males. 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. And the girl Deaners, God, hair-hoppers as we called them in Towson, the ones with the Etta Gowns, bouffant hairdos, and cha-cha heels. offered an unfiltered, uncompromising celebration of Black literature, poetry, music, and politics, capturing a critical moment in culture whose impact continues to resonate today. Checking back with the studio, no one had information concerning footage of African American dancers. When I became of age to understand it all I became motivated to make a difference. Nicknamed "Buddy" as a child, Deane developed an early love for radio. 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. Joe remembers a sport coat I bought for $5 from somebody who got it when he got out of prison. From 1996 to 2003, he hosted dance events in Baltimore, Pennsylvania and aboard cruise ships. Once a Deaner, always a Deaner, as another so succinctly puts it. Special appearances. The show's format mirrored Philadelphia's "American Bandstand." It is hosted by the titular Corny Collins, with the exception of the monthly Rhythm and Blues special which is hosted by Motormouth Maybelle . Deane died in Pine Bluff on July 16, 2003, after experiencing complications caused by a stroke. He eventually became one of the most respected programmers in the country and was even written up in Time magazine. The show featured only white kids dancing, so Scruggs wrote him a letter in the fall of. . In early 2003, Deane sold KOTN and three other stations he had acquired over the years. "Hairspray" will continue at East Ridge High School through April 23. Waters took inspiration from the real-life Buddy Deane Show, a local dance party program that ran from 1957 to 1964 in the Maryland area. 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. Most are happily married with kids and maintain the same images they had on the show. I was really mad. With the show beginning at 2:30 in some years, cutting out of school early was common. The white kids parents came and got them. His show became one of the highest rated stations in the country. He was so happy. Sources: www.IMDB.com -- Buddy Deane Biography; www.OzNet.com - A Collection of Articles About Buddy Deane; www.Variety.com -- Winston J. And they all came together on the Buddy Deane Show, Baltimore's legendary teen dance show. "The Buddy Deane Show," which aired on WJZ-TV in Baltimore from 1957 until 1964. . (There was a token all-black program once a month on the show called "Negro Day" in the movie, a phrase that now drips with surreal period flavor but no black Committee, and the protests called for integrating the show.) You could throw her down on the ground, and her hair would crack, recalls Gene. On the other, Hairspray Live! 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. Before long I started getting lots of fan mail: I think youre neat. The show featured only white kids dancing, so Scruggs wrote him a letter in the fall of 1958 to . The Buddy Deane Show was taken off the air because home station WJZ-TV was unwilling to integrate black and white dancers. . Based loosely on the 1988 film by John Waters, Hairspray centres on Baltimore teen Tracy Turnblad (Carmel Rodrigues), who in 1962 wants nothing more than a chance to dance on the local pop music TV. Other vices were likewise eschewed. The very first day on the set, I didnt recognize Divine, the filmmaker said. Buddy could take his seat beneath the famous Top 20 Board, and the tension would build. This program is a tribute to long-time Maryland radio announcer Buddy Deane, who passed away in August, 2003. 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.. Pixie was barely five feet tall, but her hair sometimes added a good six to eight inches to her height. All of those dances were real, they were real dances, we didnt make any of them up and two were cut out. 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. The early look of the Committee was typically 50s. Helens fans flocked to see her at the Buddy Deane Record Hops (Committee members had to make such personal appearances and sign autographs.) In 1957, Deane was chosen by former WITH associate Joel Chaseman to host "The Buddy Deane Show," a dance show for teenagers on WJZ-TV Channel 13. I was honored, touched by it all.. How Actress Rachel Hilsons Baltimore Roots Influence Her Work Today, The Mount Vernon Virtuosi is Much More Than a Chamber Orchestra, Jen Michalski Discusses New Short Story Collection The Company of Strangers. 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. His running joke with listeners was that he ran the town from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. until the city's real mayor took over. This Article is related to: Film and tagged Divine, Hairspray, IFC Center, John Waters. His childhood nickname was Buddy. All rights reserved. You learned how to be a teenager from the show. It was similar to Philadelphia's American Bandstand. Even today Gene and Linda are the quintessential Deaner couple, still socializing with many Committee members, very protective of the memory, and among the first to lead a dance at the emotion-packed reunions. 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. For example, consider the comments of members of the "Committee" [the regularly featured White teenagers on that show] about boys having it worse than girls because boys weren't supposed to dance. Vanessa Udon plays Motormouth Maybelle, who hosts the monthly Negro Day on the Corny Collins Show. I couldnt be bothered with education. 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. See, the fictional Corny Collins Show is actually based on the real Buddy Deane Show, which aired on WJZ-TV in Baltimore, Maryland from 1957 to 1964, and was the inspiration for John Waters . I graduated from an HBCU, lived through racism, marched on Washington with Martin Luther King, and was active in fighting injustices in Baltimore County at the height of the Civil Rights Movement. Buddy himself, the high priest, returned for the event. Several local art contests were also held on the show, with viewers submitting their own art work. . We really sprayed it, remembers Mary Lou today from her home in Pennsylvania. 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. BLACK MUSIC MOMENT #96: Short-Lived Integration Of The Buddy Deane Show, Jun 1, 2011 By TheUrbanDaily Staff. The musical is based on John Waters' 1988 campy movie of the same name. After you sprayed it, youd get toilet paper and blot it. 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. I was totally star-struck and had as much fun that night as I did at the Cannes Film Festival. My mother used to pick me up after school to make sure nobody hassled me., The adoring fans could also be a hassle. On Jan. 4, 1964, "The Buddy Deane Show" aired its last episode. The television news reporter covering the Corny Collins Show in the film sums up the climactic scene: Youre seeing history being made today. He just didnt understand., But some have dealt with the problems in good humor. maintains the basic of Waterss story, but like the Broadway version and musical film, it features more than a dozen songs that help to convey the hopeful narrative. No! she answers, with a conviction that gives me the chills. 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. So the NAACP targeted the show for protests. Waters grew up with "The Buddy Deane Show" in Baltimore, and modeled his fictitious "Corny Collins Show" after it. That was our whole social life, being a Buddy Deaner, says Gene. Once a month the show was all black. Friday, February 19 at 7PM. On the air before Dick Clark debuted, the show was a hit from the beginning, says Arlene today. If you leaned on one side, the next day youd just pick it out into shape. These were the first role models I knew. Last spring, five hundred people quickly snapped up the $23 tickets to the third Buddy Deane Reunion, held at the Eastwind, in Essex, to raise money for the Baltimore Burn Center. 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. Image Credit: OzNet.com. He also left the Army in 1948 and began his radio broadcast career at KLXR station in North Little Rock. 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. Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! I remember it well, recalls Evanne. 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. Every day Id come to the studio in knee-highs, and Id have to take them off. Pancocojams showcases the music, dances, language practices, & customs of African Americans and of other people of Black descent throughout the world. A devoted fan of the Buddy Deane Show, Waters drew on this history to write and direct the original film version of Hairspray. The main thing was your hair was flat, the antithesis of Buddy Deane, she says, chuckling. . Ladies and gentlemen, the nicest kids in town!. has the chance to resurface a forgotten history of how discrimination in pop culture intimately shaped the lives of young people 50 years ago. 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). Joe started working for Buddy as teen assistant and, along with Arlene, oversaw the Committee and enforced the strict rules. The Deane program set aside every other Friday for a show featuring only black teenagers. 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. The "Buddy Dean Show" was abruptly cancelled. Even doing commercials was expected. So that was all true in a way, in a weird way., The girls hair was higher, the pants were tighter, and in real life it went off the air because they wouldnt integrate it. 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. Committee members included Mike Miller, Charlie Bledsoe, Ron Osher, Mary Lou Raines, Pat(ricia) Tacey, and Cathy Schmink. It was horrible/ says Joe. Originally aired 11/5/1986. Deane even played a small role in the movie, which premiered to moderate success but went on to become a cult classic. 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). Over lunch at the Thunderball Lounge, in East Baltimore, Kathy remembers, I could never get used to signing autographs. "Do You Love Me" by The Contours, or "Hide and Go Seek" by Bunker Hill). 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.. I even named some of the characters in my films after them. Ten seconds to airtime. [citation needed]. 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. Romance was one thing; sex was another. They just wanted to know if you were real. Buddy offered to have three or even four days a week all black, but that wasnt it. Im still a fana Deaner groupie. Why not do The Deane Show on TV again? I must have had ten different phone numbers, says Helen, and somehow it would get out. The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll, sponsored by Matt Palumbo's MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN for Friday shows that 46% of Likely U.S. Originally an all-white teen show with a monthly "Negro . Both black and white activists picketed the . Associated Press text, photo, graphic, audio and/or video material shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium. Ric Ocasek as the Beatnik cat; Pia Zadora as the Beatnik chick; Production. The Hairspray Live! Kathy switched to a great beehive that resembled a trash can sitting on top of her head. Deane organized and disc-jockeyed dances in public venues across the WJZ-TV broadcast area, including much of central Maryland, Delaware, and southern Pennsylvania where tens of thousands of teenagers were exposed to live recording artists and TV personalities. I am here and on FB as well as NOBLE BRUN in the event the footage can be located. The whole day on the show was devoted to me.. Youre in Baltimore. 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 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. They all thought all the girls were pregnant by Buddy Deane, remember several. Rather than integrating, the show was canceled. MPT did a segment which included interviews with former African American dancers who appeared on the show. Weve been searching for her for years, even Ricki Lake couldnt find her when she had her TV show., John Waters and members of the original cast of Hairspray. It was similar to Philadelphia's American Bandstand. 'Buddy' Deane; www.WashingtonPost.com -- The Messy Truth of The Real 'Hairspray.' The Buddy Deane Show: With Channing Wilroy, Buddy Deane. and later on, growing up, it was a definite blow: reality. I still have a whole box of fan mail, says Evanne. The more hair spray, the better. The best little jitterbugger in Baltimore. Sign up for our Email Newsletters here. Because Buddy Deanes competition was soap operas, the budding teenage romances were sometimes played up for the camera. See more ideas about buddy, historic baltimore, baltimore. But black kids in . In December 1963, producers at Baltimores WJZ-TV cancelled the Buddy Deane Show rather than integrate the popular teen dance program. By what name was The Buddy Deane Show (1957) officially released in Canada in English? 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). Buddy Deane was the host of a Baltimore dance show that ran on TV from 1957 to 1964 six days a week. You had to wear nylons. Friday, February 24, 2023. And who could forget those great ads for the plastic furniture slipcovers that opened with the kids jumping up and down on the sofa and Royal Parker screaming, Hey kids! Some of the local teens who danced on the show became local celebrities and had fans of their own. Sure, as a teenager I was a guest on the show. At first I was so shy I hid behind the Coke machines., But Evanne used to come right home and head for the TV. You are watching the "Buddy Deane Show." "The Buddy Deane Show" defined a new generation of rock & roll as well as dance on television in the late 1950s. (Special to The Commercial/OzNet.com/ExplorePineBluff.com). The star system was born. Only white teens became members of the elite Committee the Buddy Deane equivalent of the Mouseketeers. While he wasnt on the committee, Waters occasionally danced on the show as a guest. BLACK MUSIC MOMENT #96: Short-Lived Integration Of The Buddy Deane Show. "Where: 800 N. Charles St, Baltimore, MD 21201. It suggests a way of understanding race that allows viewers to disavow bigotryframed in the story as the belief that white and black Americans should live in separate sphereswithout acknowledging, confronting, or seeking to overturn the actual structures of discrimination. And because a new dance was introduced practically every week, you had to watch every day to keep up. It was very interesting to see my conversation quoted in this article. You will be redirected back to your article in, Get The Latest IndieWire Alerts And Newsletters Delivered Directly To Your Inbox. 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. From 1957 to 1963, only white teens were allowed to attend the weekday broadcasts of the Buddy Deane Show, with the exception of one Monday each month when black teenagers filled the In 1984, he sold the station to a local college but bought it back in 1996. Clip from Shake, Rattle, and Roll: The Buddy Deane Scrapbook From then on, all bare shoulders were covered with a piece of net. You received demerits for almost anything: Chewing gum. "How 'The Buddy Deane Show' really went off the air is the white kids crashed Negro Day to integrate it. 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