[1], As with many other local TV shows, little footage of the show is known to have survived. 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. 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). 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.. [1] He was 78. 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.. I wanted to dance., We had a saying: The show either makes you or breaks you,' says Kathy. 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. Here is the new video celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Buddy Deane Show and the former Catonsville Community College (now CCBC). 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. 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. She was the one of the biggies who refused to be on the Board (they had power; a liked because of it). BLACK MUSIC MOMENT #96: Short-Lived Integration Of The Buddy Deane Show. When Barry Levinson, another Baltimore native, requested video from the show for his film Diner, the station told him it had no footage. Perhaps the last thing 2016 needs is a star-studded, light-hearted musical endorsement of colorblindnessthough, viewed holistically, Hairspray is more than that. I was Tracy, said Waters. 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. 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. 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. "Hairspray" will continue at East Ridge High School through April 23. You are history. It was called The Waverly Theater back then, and Waters, looking dapper in a purple pinstriped suit, recalled that night as one of the last times he saw his friend and muse Divine before his death. 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. "The Buddy Deane Show" ran on Baltimore's WJZ-TV from 1957 to 1964. Facing controversy over the possibility of more integrated broadcasts, the station canceled the program. If I have one regret in life, its that I wasnt a Buddy Deaner. I was totally star-struck and had as much fun that night as I did at the Cannes Film Festival. 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.. 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. "Hairspray" is set in the 1960s and is based on a TV show called "The Buddy Deane Show," which featured Baltimore-area teenagers dancing to popular music but was canceled in 1964, after the . After you sprayed it, youd get toilet paper and blot it. It was similar to Philadelphia's American Bandstand. But black kids in . Also, read the comments in that same excerpt about the series only wanting "attractive" teenagers as featured dancers. by as its newest live-television musical adaptation. One girl yelled Buddy Deaner and then threw her plate at me. The show's format mirrored Philadelphia's "American Bandstand." Neither these AP materials nor any portion thereof may be stored in a computer except for personal and noncommercial use. Today they seem opposites. 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. A special. Most are happily married with kids and maintain the same images they had on the show. Some of the local teens who danced on the show became local celebrities and had fans of their own. 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. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached, or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Baltimore Magazine. Material from the Associated Press is Copyright 2023, Associated Press and may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. 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. Joe remembers a sport coat I bought for $5 from somebody who got it when he got out of prison. IndieWire is a part of Penske Media Corporation. 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. The very first day on the set, I didnt recognize Divine, the filmmaker said. 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. In her home, near Allentown, Pennsylvania, she serves me a beautiful brunch, models her fur coats, and poses with her Mercedes. "The Buddy Deane Show," which aired on WJZ-TV in Baltimore from 1957 until 1964. . In December 1963, producers at Baltimores WJZ-TV cancelled the Buddy Deane Show rather than integrate the popular teen dance program. Some fifty years later, the mindset is STILL the same. In 1985 the Committee members are for the most part happy and healthy, living in Baltimore, and still recognized on the street. 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. Oh, black teens could dancejust not with the white kids. This page was last edited on 29 July 2022, at 06:25. 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 introductory essay in Dick Clark's American Bandstand (1997) is illustrative in this regard. . 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. 'The Buddy Deane Show' was over . 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. WJZ's show aired from 1957 to 1964 and was popular among Baltimore teens, promoting dances like the twist, mashed potato, and the Madison. 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. Sure, as a teenager I was a guest on the show. It was difficult with your peers, recalls Peanuts. You Cant Stop the Beat, for example, is an upbeat dance number that resolves the issue of segregation on the Corny Collins Show. In 2003, "Hairspray" went on to sweep the 57th Annual Tony Awards, winning a total of eight awards. Buddy: Deane in the 50s when she worked for a record wholesaler and he was the top-rated disc jockey on WITHthe only DJ in town who played rock n roll for the kids. 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. 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. 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. On this day in 1979, Sweeney Todd first opened on Broadway . . I was a misfit. The Nicest Kids in Town! The star system was born. On the air before Dick Clark debuted, the show was a hit from the beginning, says Arlene today. In 1950, he moved to Baltimore to WITH. In 1948, Deane married Helen Stevenson, his childhood sweetheart, whom he first met when he was just four years old. 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. I only saw Divine alive one more time after that night, so it was a great, great night to remember. 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. It was the top-rated local TV show in Baltimore and, for several years, the highest rated local TV program in the country. offered an unfiltered, uncompromising celebration of Black literature, poetry, music, and politics, capturing a critical moment in culture whose impact continues to resonate today. 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. "I remember it well," recalls Evanne. 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. So I gave it the happy ending that we had, Waters said. In Hairspray (1988), Tammy Turner assists Corny Collins on the show. It was a family: Buddy was the father, Arlene was the mother.. I was honored, touched by it all.. Warner, Tony, Buddy's Top 20: The Story of Baltimore's Hottest TV Dance Show and the Guy Who Brought it to Life! 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). The regulars . In 1942, Deane enrolled at Cornell University in New York. 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. There were a lot of obscene phone calls., And the rumors, God, the rumors. The Buddy Deane Show was taken off the air because home station WJZ-TV was unwilling to integrate black and white dancers. Once a month the show was all black. Integration ended The Buddy Deane Show. Oh, my God, its Evanne! Autograph books, cameras, this is what they lived for. Youre in Baltimore. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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.. I wanted to get into the record businessand years later he did. 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. On Jan. 4, 1964, "The Buddy Deane Show" aired its last episode. Dick Clark patterned his ABC-TV show, Where the Action Is, after local remotes done by Deane in Maryland. Once a Deaner, always a Deaner, as another so succinctly puts it. The Buddy Deane Show was taken off the air because home station WJZ-TV was unwilling to integrate black and white dancers. We hung around with black and whites together, which you couldnt do. It was a fluke. You could throw her down on the ground, and her hair would crack, recalls Gene. He left behind his wife, Helen Stevenson Deane; his three daughters, JoEllen, Dawn, and Debbie and their families. January 4, 1964. 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 the rules were bent a little; the big ones, the ones with the fan mail, were allowed to stay. But by far the most popular hairdo queen on Buddy Deane was a 14-year-old Pimlico Junior High School student named Mary Lou Raines. It ran two hours a day, six days a week. 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. 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. Because Buddy Deanes competition was soap operas, the budding teenage romances were sometimes played up for the camera. We would always do The Dirty Boogie, the one you arent allowed to do, he said. Image Credit: OzNet.com Winston Joseph Deane was born on August 2, 1924, in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. You had to wear nylons. 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 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. See more ideas about buddy, historic baltimore, baltimore. 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. Teenagers who appeared on the show every day were known as "The Committee". Participants dressed in "country" style, and danced to country and western music as well as pop. And more important, so did the Committee, still entering by a special door, still doing the dances from the period with utmost precision. Once a month the show was all black; there was no black Committee. 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 my on-going search for African American footage I stumbled across this article in Google. Its host was Winston "Buddy" Deane (1924-2003), who died in Pine Bluff, Arkansas after . Buddy Deane was the host of a Baltimore dance show that ran on TV from 1957 to 1964 six days a week. On Negro day a group of black and white kids staged a similar sneak attack on the Buddy Deane Show. 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. Im a typical housewife, says Peanuts. three, two, one. WJZ's show aired from 1957 to 1964 and was popular among Baltimore teens, promoting dances like the twist, mashed potato, and the Madison. John Waters, a Baltimore filmmaker and Deane Show fan, loosely based "The Corny Collins' Show" in his movie "Hairspray" on Deane's show. Not show biz, Arlene answers, hesitating, but the record biz, the people. Yeah it was Cosenel, says Joe. 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. Over lunch at the Thunderball Lounge, in East Baltimore, Kathy remembers, I could never get used to signing autographs. And Divine said, What drag queen would allow themselves to look like this?'. 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. 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. It is hosted by the titular Corny Collins, with the exception of the monthly Rhythm and Blues special which is hosted by Motormouth Maybelle . A big strong line!) up the hill to the famous dance party set, the one that now houses People Are Talking. 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. . That she has an affluent life-style surprises no one on the Committee. 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 . Vanessa Udon plays Motormouth Maybelle, who hosts the monthly Negro Day on the Corny Collins Show. http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2016/03/how-madison-line-dance-got-its-name-and.html, http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2016/03/al-brown-and-ray-bryant-madison-records.html, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_Deane_Show, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hairspray_(2007_film), http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2015/06/timeline-for-cultural-use-of-saying.html, https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/tv/on-hairsprays-25th-anniversary-buddydeane-committee-looks-back/2013/01/17/a45a1cc2-5c23-11e2-88d0-c4cf65c3ad15_story.html, http://theurbandaily.com/2011/06/01/black-music-moment-96-short-lived-integration-of-the-buddy-deane-show/. It aired for two and a half hours a day, six days a week. 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. For the rest of the time, the show's participants were all white. Helens fans flocked to see her at the Buddy Deane Record Hops (Committee members had to make such personal appearances and sign autographs.) "How 'The Buddy Deane Show' really went off the air is the white kids crashed Negro Day to integrate it. . Many top acts of the day, both black and white, appeared on The Buddy Deane Show. Buddy could take his seat beneath the famous Top 20 Board, and the tension would build. 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. The Stupidity, where you act mentally ill. 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