I had a lot of black friends at the time, so for me this was an awkward thing, says Marie. Deane hosted a morning show at WITH. ' And Evanne still shudders as she recalls, Once I was in the cafeteria. Associated Press text, photo, graphic, audio and/or video material shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium. From 1996 to 2003, he hosted dance events in Baltimore, Pennsylvania and aboard cruise ships. Mr. Deane hosted a crowd of exuberant teens, who danced to the music of live rock bands, including many name acts. Material from the Associated Press is Copyright 2023, Associated Press and may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. By what name was The Buddy Deane Show (1957) officially released in Canada in English? So the NAACP targeted the show for protests. The Buddy Deane.phenomenon is hardly dead. C. Fields in drag.), This movie is the only radical movie I ever made because it snuck in mid-America. It was the era of rock n' roll ducktail, pegged pants, and beehive haridos. Id hook and have to dance in the back so the teachers couldnt see me, says Helen. Why not do The Deane Show on TV again? Kings mention of Funtown is preceded by references to lynch mobs, police brutality, and the airtight cage of poverty, and followed by references to hotel segregation and racial slurs. You learned how to be a teenager from the show. Now a receptionist living near Towson with her husband and two grown children, Arlene remains fiercely loyal, organizing the reunions and keeping notebooks filled with the updated addresses, married names, and phone numbers of my kids. She met Winston J. Everybody wanted to kick a Buddy Deaners a, says Gene, recalling thugs waiting to jump Deaners outside the studio. Buddy called me up before the cameras, and I wasnt dressed my best. Washington D.C.'s The Milt Grant Show offered "Black Tuesday" and Baltimore's The Buddy Deane Show had "Negro Day" because . 2003. That's what really happened, and the show shut down." 3. The first and maybe the biggest Buddy Deane queen of all. 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. 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. It was similar to Philadelphia's American Bandstand. I was a misfit. 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. Powers was a particularly special addition, having disappeared in the years since the films release. Oh, black teens could dancejust not with the white kids. 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 "Buddy" Deane was a broadcaster for more than 50 years, beginning his career in Little Rock, Arkansas, then moving to the Memphis, Tennessee market, before moving on to Baltimore, where he worked at WITH radio. Interviews with leading film and TV creators about their process and craft. 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. He was one of the first to showcase rock and roll music on a continual basis. 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The Funtown reference is powerful because it captures one of the ways that Jim Crow segregation and white supremacy played out for children and teenagers. He just didnt understand., But some have dealt with the problems in good humor. 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). 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. 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 . You Cant Stop the Beat, for example, is an upbeat dance number that resolves the issue of segregation on the Corny Collins Show. The Committee, initially recruited from local teen centers, was to act as hosts and dance with the guests. We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. In 1948, Deane married Helen Stevenson, his childhood sweetheart, whom he first met when he was just four years old. 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. Why? Id wonder. She wasnt even a fan of the show. The star system was born. THE BUDDY DEANE SHOW John Waters based The Corny Collins Show on The Buddy Deane Show, a daily Baltimore dance party show that was very popular throughout the late Fifties and early. 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. Buddy said to me, Well, heres my little girl whos been with me the longest. I hardly ever cried, but I just broke down on camera. The Buddy Deane Show was taken off the air because home station WJZ-TV was unwilling to integrate black and white dancers. Joe remembers a sport coat I bought for $5 from somebody who got it when he got out of prison. When I get depressed, I dont go to the psychiatrist, I go to the jeweler, she says. Joanie, whose mother wanted me to be a child star, hit the show in early 57 at age 13 (you had to be 14 to be eligible, but many lied about their ages to qualify), followed a few months later by Joe, 17. Yes, I miss it very much. Committee members included Mike Miller, Charlie Bledsoe, Ron Osher, Mary Lou Raines, Pat(ricia) Tacey, and Cathy Schmink. 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. And Divine said, What drag queen would allow themselves to look like this?'. 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. 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 Buddy Dean Show was the inspiration for the "Corny Collins Show" in the 2007 musical. IndieWire is a part of Penske Media Corporation. In Hairspray (1988), Tammy Turner assists Corny Collins on the show. Marie Fischer was the first Joe to become a Committee memberchosen simply because she was such a good dancer. 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. Not show biz, Arlene answers, hesitating, but the record biz, the people. I even named some of the characters in my films after them. At 21, I married a professional football player, Helen remembers, and he made me burn all the fan mail. MPT did a segment which included interviews with former African American dancers who appeared on the show. (NWA Media). I wanted to dance., We had a saying: The show either makes you or breaks you,' says Kathy. The Deaners didnt mind. Or dancing with other Committee members when you were supposed to be dancing with the guests (a very unpopular rule allowed this only every fourth dance). . . I had always studied dance, and I wanted to go on [the show]. . Here is the new video celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Buddy Deane Show and the former Catonsville Community College (now CCBC). | 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. [citation needed]. 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. In my on-going search for African American footage I stumbled across this article in Google. I appreciate the contribution that you and NOBLE BRUN, and other Black dancers on the Buddy Dean dance show made on that series. [citation needed] In several instances, the show went on location to the Milford Mill swim club on the westside of suburban Baltimore County. I was Tracy, said Waters. The guys who wore sport coats with belts in the back from Lees of Broadway (10 percent discount for Committee members), pegged pants, pointy-toe shoes with the great buckles on the side, and drape (greaser) haircuts that my parents would never allow. It was maddening: the Mashed Potatoes, the Stroll, the Pony, the Waddle, the Locomotion, the Bug, the Handjive, the New Continental, and, most important, the Madison, a complicated line dance that started here and later swept the country. Waters would rush home . The introductory essay in Dick Clark's American Bandstand (1997) is illustrative in this regard. Buddy Deane was the host of a Baltimore dance show that ran on TV from 1957 to 1964 six days a week. In December 1963, producers at Baltimores WJZ-TV cancelled the Buddy Deane Show rather than integrate the popular teen dance program. On the show you were either a drape or a square, explains Sharon. The Deane program set aside every other Friday for a show featuring only black teenagers. 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. 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 . The 1988 John Waters film, newly adapted into an NBC live musical, presents a view of racial discrimination thats by turns nave and enlightening. The main thing was your hair was flat, the antithesis of Buddy Deane, she says, chuckling. At first I was so shy I hid behind the Coke machines., But Evanne used to come right home and head for the TV. 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. My mother wanted me to go, she took me down to the tryouts. Buddy Deane. Deane died in Pine Bluff on July 16, 2003, after experiencing complications caused by a stroke. He also left the Army in 1948 and began his radio broadcast career at KLXR station in North Little Rock. 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. 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. I remember it well, recalls Evanne. 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. "Do You Love Me" by The Contours, or "Hide and Go Seek" by Bunker Hill). Once a month the show was all black; there was no black Committee. "Hairspray" will continue at East Ridge High School through April 23. 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. Pancocojams showcases the music, dances, language practices, & customs of African Americans and of other people of Black descent throughout the world. 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. 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. Ric Ocasek as the Beatnik cat; Pia Zadora as the Beatnik chick; Production. Buddy Deane was the host of a Baltimore dance show that ran on TV from 1957 to 1964 six days a week. I must have had ten different phone numbers, says Helen, and somehow it would get out. 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. It was similar to Philadelphia's American Bandstand. She became so popular that she was written up in the nationwide Sixteen Magazine. These were the first role models I knew. 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 big garage-type door they remember would open, and theyd all pile in, past George and Mom, the Pinkerton guards who used to keep attendance, and crowd into Arlenes office to comb their hair, confide their problems, and touch up their make-up. I even won the twist contest with Mary Lou Raines (one of the queens of The Buddy Deane Show) at the Valley Country Club. Black teens were only allowed to dance on the show one day per month. Every day Id come to the studio in knee-highs, and Id have to take them off. We have a telegram, Buddy would shout almost daily, for Mary Lou to lead a dance, and the cameraman seemed to love her. 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. 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. The Stupidity, where you act mentally ill. The Bugs easy, you just catch a disease and throw it to someone else, Waters said. He got a great review in The New York Times. The first page of the essay, for example, features a full-page picture of black protestors in 1962 in Times . Mr. "How 'The Buddy Deane Show' really went off the air is the white kids crashed Negro Day to integrate it. 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.. 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. All of those dances were real, they were real dances, we didnt make any of them up and two were cut out. So you cant imagine how excited I was when I finally got a chance to interview these local legends twenty years later. A special. I had trunks of it. Several local art contests were also held on the show, with viewers submitting their own art work. Every week she had a different dothe Double Bubble, the Artichoke, the Airlifteach topped off by her special trademark, suggested by her mother, the bow. That was our whole social life, being a Buddy Deaner, says Gene. 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. Youre in Baltimore. The more hair spray, the better. It was the top-rated local TV show in Baltimore and, for several years, the highest rated local TV program in the country. Romance was one thing; sex was another. Rather than integrating, the show was canceled. We are kind of like Ozzie and Harriet, says Gene Snyder as Linda nods in agreement. This document may not be reprinted without the express written permission of Northwest Arkansas Newspapers LLC. The Buddy Deane Show was a highly visible regional program that asserted a racially segregated public culture. The Buddy Deane Show was taken off the air because home station WJZ-TV was unwilling to integrate black and white dancers. 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. Facing controversy over the possibility of more integrated broadcasts, the station canceled the program. Joe started working for Buddy as teen assistant and, along with Arlene, oversaw the Committee and enforced the strict rules. 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. 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. Deane began his broadcasting career at KLXR in Little Rock, Arkansas. Im Joe, too. There was a change in the works., Part of that change was the racial integration movement. 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). . Originally an all-white teen show with a monthly "Negro . I was aggressive. 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. This man approached me, telegrammed me, showed up at the show. 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. Another royal Deaner couple who met on the air and later married was Gene Snyder and Linda Warehime. 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. 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. Over lunch at the Thunderball Lounge, in East Baltimore, Kathy remembers, I could never get used to signing autographs. Checking back with the studio, no one had information concerning footage of African American dancers. I had to get up there on time. The show featured only white kids dancing, so Scruggs wrote him a letter in the fall of 1958 to . 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. 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 . From 1964 to 1984, Deane hosted a show and owned KOTN-FM and KOTN-AM radio stations at Pine Bluff. I only saw Divine alive one more time after that night, so it was a great, great night to remember. 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. In mixed marriages (with non-Deaners), many of the outsiders resented their spouses pasts. Mary Lou was the last of the Buddy Deane superstars, true hair-hopper royalty, the ultimate Committee member. 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. You are history. It was a family: Buddy was the father, Arlene was the mother.. Not a real one. Museum Day; Art; Books; Design; Food; Music & Film; Video; Newsletter; Travel. Image Credit: OzNet.com Winston Joseph Deane was born on August 2, 1924, in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. Teenagers who appeared on the show every day were known as "The Committee". 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. We used to go to stand in front of Reads Drugstore, and people would ask for our autograph.. His show became one of the highest rated stations in the country. Winston Joseph Deane was born on Aug. 2, 1924, in Pine Bluff. 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. 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. 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. But most have settled down to a very straight life. 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. The Buddy Deane Show: With Channing Wilroy, Buddy Deane. As Marie puts it, The rewards were so great emotionally that you didnt have to ask for a monetary award., Many had difficulties dealing with the void when the show went off the air. Pauline Kael praised him. (The rave appeared in The New Yorker, where Kael said it was really Divines movie, calling him W. . On the air before Dick Clark debuted, the show was a hit from the beginning, says Arlene today. The Corny Collins Show, is a teen dance show in Baltimore's WYZT /WZZT Network. I wanted to go, but my parents wouldnt let me. Theatre producer, Margo Lion, saw a television broadcast of the film in 1998 and started to conceive it as a stage musical. 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. As well, a show was broadcast from a local farm in Westminster, Maryland. 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. This page was last edited on 29 July 2022, at 06:25. Originally aired 11/5/1986. 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. All on Pulaski Highway. The show featured only white kids dancing, so Scruggs wrote him a letter in the fall of 1958 to . Waters's nostalgic and detailed appreciation for The Buddy Deane Show, . 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. The musical is based on John Waters' 1988 campy movie of the same name. January 4, 1964. Sign up for our Email Newsletters here. Friday, February 24, 2023. You werent one of them anymore. Outsiders envied the fame, especially if they lost their steadies to Deaners, and many were put off by boys who loved to dance. So the NAACP targeted the show for protests. 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! 1957, it was a huge success as it was portrayed in the musical. On August 2, 1924, Winston Joseph Deane was born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. The show's format mirrored Philadelphia's "American Bandstand." It was so painful. 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. Though black and white . 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. 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.. 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