My mother wanted me to go, she took me down to the tryouts. Sources: www.IMDB.com -- Buddy Deane Biography; www.OzNet.com - A Collection of Articles About Buddy Deane; www.Variety.com -- Winston J. . 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. But I was never a Deaner. SOUL! The rivalry with Dick Clark meant that Deane urged all his performers not to mention American Bandstand or visits to Clark in Philadelphia. I had to get up there on time. Not a real one. Motormouth Maybelle, a fictional black deejay and civil-rights activist played in the NBC version by Jennifer Hudson, sings: You cant stop today as it comes speeding down the track / Child, yesterday is history and its never coming back / Cause tomorrow is a brand new day and it dont know white from black. In the films narrative, this utopian vision of a colorblind future solves the problem of segregation and racial injustice. 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. Unlike the tensions that followed the real integration of the Buddy Deane Show, Waterss Hairspray ends with the protesters triumphing. . They sent cakes on my birthday. . The Buddy Deane.phenomenon is hardly dead. 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. (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.) In 1958 the Buddy Deane Show lost support from the Baltimore City Board of Education due to it's segregation policies, and in 1964 it went off the air instead of choosing to integrate. 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. 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. While he wasnt on the committee, Waters occasionally danced on the show as a guest. Racism is passed down from one generation to the next. 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. The show featured only white kids dancing, so Scruggs wrote him a letter in the fall of 1958 to . 2023 IndieWire Media, LLC. Print Headline: Buddy Deane Show was huge hit for young viewers in the late 1950s, Copyright 2023, Northwest Arkansas Newspapers LLC. Its fairly neat, commercialized, and revisionist portrayal of 1960s Baltimore sharply contrasts with the current messy, national discussion of identity politicsa disjunction that could prompt new audiences to reevaluate their assumptions about how racism operates. He left behind his wife, Helen Stevenson Deane; his three daughters, JoEllen, Dawn, and Debbie and their families. We faked a feud. 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. The Deane Show was marketed to a predominantly white audience, but due to integration efforts and the civil rights movement of the time the show first had Black dancers appear once a month then once a week. 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. Theyd stand outside my home. It was hilarious., Some of the rumors were fanned on purpose. Deane even dubbed himself "the morning mayor." My mother used to pick me up after school to make sure nobody hassled me., The adoring fans could also be a hassle. I was totally star-struck and had as much fun that night as I did at the Cannes Film Festival. At first I was so shy I hid behind the Coke machines., But Evanne used to come right home and head for the TV. When I get depressed, I dont go to the psychiatrist, I go to the jeweler, she says. In 1984, he sold the station to a local college but bought it back in 1996. I was aggressive. By what name was The Buddy Deane Show (1957) officially released in Canada in English? It aired for two and a half hours a day, six days a week. When that little red light came on, so did my smile, she says, laughing. [citation needed]. He also left the Army in 1948 and began his radio broadcast career at KLXR station in North Little Rock. Yeah it was Cosenel, says Joe. Baltimore teenagers rushed home to catch the show daily to listen to the popular music, watch their favorite dancers, copy their style and learn the new dances that were introduced almost every week. The film would spawn a 2002 Broadway musical adaptation starring Harvey Fierstein and Marissa Jaret Winokur, and a 2007 film adaptation of the musical starring John Travolta and Nikki Blonsky. 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. 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. I even named some of the characters in my films after them. (I looked like I was taking off.) And Helen, Linda, and Joanie all got out the rat-tail teasing combs. Buddy called me up before the cameras, and I wasnt dressed my best. The Buddy Deane Showwas a teen dancetelevision show, created by Zvi Shoubin, hosted by Winston "Buddy" Deane(1924-2003), and aired on WJZ-TV(Channel 13), the ABCaffiliate station in Baltimorefrom 1957 until 1964. Mary Lou, the Annette Funicello of the show, was the talk of teenage Baltimore. The buddy dean show debuted on Sep. 9. "How 'The Buddy Deane Show' really went off the air is the white kids crashed Negro Day to integrate it. 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. I focused on the 1957-1964 television series The Buddy Deane Show in part because I'm interested in documenting old school African American originated line dances, and the Buddy Deane Show's 1958 or 1959 clip of The Madison appears to be the earliest surviving film of that dance.I believe that The Buddy Deane Show is important in part because it documents aspects of Americana such as the way the teenagers (or at least White teenagers] in the late 1950s and early 1960s dressed, danced, interacted, and also documented (through retrospective interviews such as the one quoted in Excerpt #2 of this post) attitudes and values of that time. I wanted to dance., We had a saying: The show either makes you or breaks you,' says Kathy. 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. Advertisement. Mary Lou laughs at the memory of doing a pimple medicine spot on camera. The Buddy Deane Show was taken off the air because home station WJZ-TV was unwilling to integrate black and white dancers. 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. This page was last edited on 29 July 2022, at 06:25. This program is a tribute to long-time Maryland radio announcer Buddy Deane, who passed away in August, 2003. Integration ended The Buddy Deane Show. Was it really twenty years ago? The more hair spray, the better. Please read our Terms of Use or contact us. Some of the old Committee kept up with the times and made the transition with ease. I was able after a while to afford some clothes from Lees of Broadway (whose selection of belted coats and pegged pants made it the Saks Fifth Avenue of Deaners). Waters would rush home . It was similar to Philadelphia's American Bandstand. Even doing commercials was expected. Mary Lou was the last of the Buddy Deane superstars, true hair-hopper royalty, the ultimate Committee member. Buddy noticed my eyes staring and said, Do the same eyes. And the camera got it. Kathy went even further. It was similar to Philadelphia's American Bandstand. In 1942, Deane enrolled at Cornell University in New York. On the other, Hairspray Live! On this day in 1979, Sweeney Todd first opened on Broadway . On the air before Dick Clark debuted, the show was a hit from the beginning, says Arlene today. It was similar to Philadelphia's American Bandstand. Black teens were only allowed to dance on the show one day per month. The first page of the essay, for example, features a full-page picture of black protestors in 1962 in Times . 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. 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. 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. Friday, February 24, 2023. Clip from Shake, Rattle, and Roll: The Buddy Deane Scrapbook Almost all dancers wore swim wear and beach attire, with music provided by WJZ-TV. Every day Id come to the studio in knee-highs, and Id have to take them off. If I have one regret in life, its that I wasnt a Buddy Deaner. In my on-going search for African American footage I stumbled across this article in Google. In December 1963, producers at Baltimores WJZ-TV cancelled the Buddy Deane Show rather than integrate the popular teen dance program. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it. Later that year he enlisted in the Army, where he served in Europe involved in some of the most intense battles of World War II. [citation needed] With an ear for music seasoned by many more years as a disc jockey than Clark, Deane also brought to his audience a wider array of white musical acts than were seen on American Bandstand. Buddy wanted it to end happily, but WJZ angered Deaners when it tried to blame the ratings. I saw the show as a vehicle to make something of myself, remembers Joe. 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. ', Although many parents and WJZ insisted that Committee members had to keep up their grades to stay on the show, the reality could be quite different. Counter to host Dick Clark's claims that he integrated American Bandstand, this book reveals how the first national television program directed at teens discriminated against black youth during its early years . The Buddy Deane Show was over. 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. This man approached me, telegrammed me, showed up at the show. Originally an all-white teen show with a monthly "Negro . . I was playing bongos on them in between takes because it was hilarious and he thought it was hilarious and I didnt stop to think, what the hell am I doing?, shared actor Holter Graham, who was 15 years old during filming. I dont think Ill ever get over missing it, if you want to know the truth., Many of the Committee members spouses faced an even bigger adjustment. But most have settled down to a very straight life. Why Europeans Dont Get Huge Medical Bills. This sentiment carries through to the songs lyrics. But black kids in . Pancocojams showcases the music, dances, language practices, & customs of African Americans and of other people of Black descent throughout the world. In 1948, Deane married Helen Stevenson, his childhood sweetheart, whom he first met when he was just four years old. Deane hosted a morning show at WITH. 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. Some fifty years later, the mindset is STILL the same. 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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 . But an intrepid group of local and . 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. Perhaps the last thing 2016 needs is a star-studded, light-hearted musical endorsement of colorblindnessthough, viewed holistically, Hairspray is more than that. 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. Then we made up on camera.. 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. From 1996 to 2003, he hosted dance events in Baltimore, Pennsylvania and aboard cruise ships. So you cant imagine how excited I was when I finally got a chance to interview these local legends twenty years later. Originally an all-white teen show with a monthly "Negro . Oh sure, if you were Joe College [pre-preppie], you just didnt do The Deane Show. Did you ever tum into a Joe College? I ask innocently. And if you dared to dance the obscene Bodie Green (the Dirty Boogie), you were immediately a goner. Nicknamed "Buddy" as a child, Deane . John Waters, a Baltimore filmmaker and Deane Show fan, loosely based "The Corny Collins' Show" in his movie "Hairspray" on Deane's show. The Corny Collins Show, it turns out, was lifted almost literally from the extremely popular Buddy Deane Show, Baltimore's answer to Dick Clark's American Bandstand. We would always do The Dirty Boogie, the one you arent allowed to do, he said. GOD HELP US! It was similar to Philadelphia's American Bandstand. The Buddy Deane Show was a teen dance television show, created by Zvi Shoubin, hosted by Winston "Buddy" Deane (19242003), and aired on WJZ-TV (Channel 13), the ABC affiliate station in Baltimore from 1957 until 1964. 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.. 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. 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. But it went something like this: Buddy Deane was an exclusively white show. Because Buddy Deanes competition was soap operas, the budding teenage romances were sometimes played up for the camera. Facing controversy over the possibility of more integrated broadcasts, the station canceled the program. (NWA Media). Once a month the show was all black. From then on, all bare shoulders were covered with a piece of net. An then there was teased hair, replacing the 50s drape with a Buddy Deane look that so pervaded Baltimore culture (especially in East and South Baltimore) that its effect is still seen in certain neighborhoods of this great Hairdo Capital of the World. Oh, my God, its Evanne! Autograph books, cameras, this is what they lived for. | Do you miss show biz? I ask her. 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. On Sept. 13, 1964, he introduced The Beatles before their concert at the Baltimore Civic Center, and a few days later, he and his family moved back to Arkansas. No! she answers, with a conviction that gives me the chills. American Bandstand, one of the most popular television shows ever, broadcast from Philadelphia in the late fifties, a time when that city had become a battleground for civil rights. "Hairspray" will continue at East Ridge High School through April 23. They kept their figures, look nice, and are very kind people, says Marie in her lovely home on Falls Road before taking off for the University of Maryland, where she attends law school. Mr. Deane's salary . 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. And more important, so did the Committee, still entering by a special door, still doing the dances from the period with utmost precision. That show featured local teens who danced to the. Deaners seem to come out of the woodwork, drawn by the memory of their stardom. And the whole concept of the Committee changed. How The Buddy Deane Show really went off the air is the white kids crashed Negro Day to integrate it. The Corny Collins Show, is a teen dance show in Baltimore's WYZT /WZZT Network. When Barry Levinson, another Baltimore native, requested video from the show for his film Diner, the station told him it had no footage. 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.. and later on, growing up, it was a definite blow: reality. I still have a whole box of fan mail, says Evanne. . For the rest of the time, the show's participants were all white. Hairspray is the gift that never stops giving, Waters told an adoring crowd at New Yorks IFC Center this past weekend, the theater where Hairspray first opened thirty years ago. We got more mail: Oh, please dont break up! Somebody even sent us a miniature pair of boxing gloves. 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. Plot. The musical is based on John Waters' 1988 campy movie of the same name. Several local art contests were also held on the show, with viewers submitting their own art work. The show featured only white kids dancing, so Scruggs wrote him a letter in the fall of 1958 to . Maybe that was a good choice because Divine was 40 then., She played against-type, certainly. The Buddy Deane Show was over. They would drive me nuts when theyd come in the door, and Id say Man, youre gone. Buddy wanted it to end happily, but WJZ angered Deaners when it tried to blame the ratings. The Buddy Dean Show was the inspiration for the "Corny Collins Show" in the 2007 musical. On Negro day a group of black and white kids staged a similar sneak attack on the Buddy Deane Show. 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). 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. No matter how progressive we become, there will always be those who will still hang on to the tradition of hate. 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). Ninfa O. Barnard Special to The Commercial I'm sure they could have reached out to me via these posts, but did not. 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. 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. This assessment proved true when on Aug. 12, 1963 a group of black and white kids stormed the stage of "The Buddy Deane Show" and danced together. Yet Joe was a dropout when he went on the show and then, once famous, went back to finish. [2], https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Buddy_Deane_Show&oldid=1101079819. I was really mad. It was the era of rock n' roll ducktail, pegged pants, and beehive haridos. It was the times, most remember. Or Hartford Motor Coach Company? 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. In 1950, he moved to Baltimore to WITH. You received demerits for almost anything: Chewing gum. 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. 1 DJ in 1962 by Billboard mag. He was mad because I was as popular as he was. Image Credit: OzNet.com. Marie Fischer was the first Joe to become a Committee memberchosen simply because she was such a good dancer. If you leaned on one side, the next day youd just pick it out into shape. 1957, it was a huge success as it was portrayed in the musical. Though black and white . Winston Joseph Deane was born on Aug. 2, 1924, in Pine Bluff. I wonder if that applied to Black males as well as White males. 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. 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. Each reunion (and a new one is in the works) ls bigger than the last. Nationally, American Bandstand blocked black teens from entering the studio during its years in Philadelphia, despite host Dick Clarks claims to the contrary. [1] He was 78. Hairspray is firmly rooted in 1960s America, but it offers both sophisticated and (tellingly) simplistic ways of understanding racism today. Many parents and local officials were angry. 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). My parents didn't talk much about racism, and as a result I grew up learning to love everybody. Museum Day; Art; Books; Design; Food; Music & Film; Video; Newsletter; Travel. When the show ended, Deane moved back to Arkansas,. Originally aired 11/5/1986. 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. 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. Buddy Deane was the host of a Baltimore dance show that ran on TV from 1957 to 1964 six days a week. Once a Deaner, always a Deaner, as another so succinctly puts it. Although the Committee was a valuable promotional tool for WJZ at the time, and belonging was a full-time job, no one (except teen assistants) was paid a penny. 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. Gene calls it a big loss. It was living in a fantasy world, says Helen. 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. 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. Powers was a particularly special addition, having disappeared in the years since the films release. 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 was a teen dance and music show and ran from 1957 to until 1964 on WJZ-TV until the show was canceled.The show was a teen dance and music show and ran from 1957 to until 1964 on WJZ-TV until the show was canceled. Owing to Deane's mid-South roots and work history, he featured many performers from the ranks of country and western music (e.g., Skeeter Davis, singing "The End of the World" and Brenda Lee singing "Sweet Nothin's"), who then achieved cross-over hits among rock and roll fans. . The introductory essay in Dick Clark's American Bandstand (1997) is illustrative in this regard. She was the one of the biggies who refused to be on the Board (they had power; a liked because of it). It was even in the papers. Theatre producer, Margo Lion, saw a television broadcast of the film in 1998 and started to conceive it as a stage musical. The very first day on the set, I didnt recognize Divine, the filmmaker said. 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. In Little Rock, white teens went from protesting integration at Central High School to dancing in the afternoon on Steves Show. Rather than integrating, the show was canceled. I didnt mean to, because I never would have messed up the makeup.. 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). Deane died in Pine Bluff on July 16, 2003, after experiencing complications caused by a stroke. In his Letter from a Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke to what it meant for young black people to be excluded from entertainment spaces like the Buddy Deane Show. A big strong line!) up the hill to the famous dance party set, the one that now houses People Are Talking. He was 16 at the time of filming. All Rights Reserved. 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. Id get letters saying, If you show up at this particular hop, youre gonna get your face pushed in. Many top acts of the day, both black and white, appeared on The Buddy Deane Show. 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. John Waters with Divine (Harris Glen Milstead) at the Baltimore premiere of Hairspray, Originally, I had it, the idea was Divine was gonna play the mother and the daughter like in The Parent Trap. New Line [Cinema] wouldnt let me, he said. Everywhere we went, people would say Theres Mary Lou. I wondered if she had just been released from the penitentiary.. Waters: We used to go to the hotel and hed say, Come in, and hed be in bed with a cleaning woman smoking pot., It was Tracy saying to Link: Please dont look at my legs without the benefit of nylons.. MPT did a segment which included interviews with former African American dancers who appeared on the show. 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