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. Dick Clark patterned his ABC-TV show, Where the Action Is, after local remotes done by Deane in Maryland. Almost every rock 'n' roll star except Elvis graced the Deane Show stage. Waters would rush home . In my on-going search for African American footage I stumbled across this article in Google. With the nation in a divisive place, he argued, viewers are looking for entertainment that can be really healing. The New York Times critic Michiko Kakutani saw a similar dynamic at play when Hairspray, the musical, debuting shortly after 9/11, won over fans: Hollywood and Broadway producers have decided [what] Americans want is nostalgiathe logic being that people in times of trouble will gravitate toward comfort entertainment that reminds them of simpler, happier times [such as] the candy-colored Broadway musical Hairspray., Hairsprays history of race in America suggests that racism is an issue of attitudes rather than of policies. Deane even played a small role in the movie, which premiered to moderate success but went on to become a cult classic. I wonder if that applied to Black males as well as White males. While he wasnt on the committee, Waters occasionally danced on the show as a guest. 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). 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. You could throw her down on the ground, and her hair would crack, recalls Gene. The early look of the Committee was typically 50s. The Buddy Deane Show was a teen dance television show, similar to Philadelphia's American Bandstand, that was created by Zvi Shoubin and aired on WJZ-TV in Baltimore, Maryland from 1957 until 1964.The show was taken off the air because home station WJZ-TV was unable to integrate black and white dancers. In 1984, he sold the station to a local college but bought it back in 1996. Not a real one. All rights reserved. The introductory essay in Dick Clark's American Bandstand (1997) is illustrative in this regard. You will be redirected back to your article in, Get The Latest IndieWire Alerts And Newsletters Delivered Directly To Your Inbox. Oddly enough, few of the Deaners Ive talked to went on to show biz. I had a lot of black friends at the time, so for me this was an awkward thing, says Marie. But I was never a Deaner. 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.. When the show ended, Deane moved back to Arkansas,. 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. Everywhere we went, people would say Theres Mary Lou. I wondered if she had just been released from the penitentiary.. sively white show. . The white kids parents came and got them. That she has an affluent life-style surprises no one on the Committee. On Wednesday, NBC is broadcasting Hairspray Live! "How 'The Buddy Deane Show' really went off the air is the white kids crashed Negro Day to integrate it. Several local art contests were also held on the show, with viewers submitting their own art work. Oh, black teens could dancejust not with the white kids. If a guy had one beer, it was a big deal. 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. At 21, I married a professional football player, Helen remembers, and he made me burn all the fan mail. In fact, "American Bandstand" was not shown on television in Baltimore because Deane's show was so popular. So I gave it the happy ending that we had, Waters said. 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 . Many parents and local officials were angry. Why Europeans Dont Get Huge Medical Bills. Other vices were likewise eschewed. 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. Joe Cash has Jonas Cash Promotions, in Columbia and Silver Spring.. (my own promotional firmwe represent Warner Brothers, Columbia, Motown85 percent you hear in this market)and Active Industry Research, in Columbia (a research firmIm chairman of the board). 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. 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. It aired for two and a half hours a day, six days a week. "The Buddy Deane Show," which aired on WJZ-TV in Baltimore from 1957 until 1964. . January 4, 1964. 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. 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). Sign up for our Email Newsletters here. Buddy wanted it to end happily, but WJZ angered Deaners when it tried to blame the ratings. I was so embarrassed. Buddy Deane. 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. 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. . One girl yelled Buddy Deaner and then threw her plate at me. It was hilarious., Some of the rumors were fanned on purpose. Buddy could take his seat beneath the famous Top 20 Board, and the tension would build. He was so happy. And they all came together on the Buddy Deane Show, Baltimore's legendary teen dance show. With the show beginning at 2:30 in some years, cutting out of school early was common. 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. Also, read the comments in that same excerpt about the series only wanting "attractive" teenagers as featured dancers. 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. Or the Bob-a Loop? That's what really happened, and the show shut down." 3. Hairspray is John Waters most commercially successful film the 1988 dancing comedy spawned a hit Broadway musical, a movie and TV movie of that musical, plus multiple sequel and TV show offers that never saw the light of day. When the subject comes up today, most loyalists want to go off the record. [citation needed] In several instances, the show went on location to the Milford Mill swim club on the westside of suburban Baltimore County. In 1948, Deane married Helen Stevenson, his childhood sweetheart, whom he first met when he was just four years old. . Special appearances. In her home, near Allentown, Pennsylvania, she serves me a beautiful brunch, models her fur coats, and poses with her Mercedes. 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. He was 16 at the time of filming. 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. They would drive me nuts when theyd come in the door, and Id say Man, youre gone. 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.. 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. Buddy called me up before the cameras, and I wasnt dressed my best. A big strong line!) up the hill to the famous dance party set, the one that now houses People Are Talking. Acts that appeared on the show first were reportedly barred from appearing on Dick Clark's American Bandstand, but if they had been on Bandstand first they could still be on The Buddy Deane Show. My mother used to pick me up after school to make sure nobody hassled me., The adoring fans could also be a hassle. All on Pulaski Highway. Waters grew up with "The Buddy Deane Show" in Baltimore, and modeled his fictitious "Corny Collins Show" after it. Clip from Shake, Rattle, and Roll: The Buddy Deane Scrapbook The school tried to throw me out before. Being a teenage star in Baltimore had its drawbacks. 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. 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. While at WITH, Deane was the first Baltimore disk jockey to capitalize on the new musical phenomenon that was rock 'n' roll. 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. Gene calls it a big loss. It was living in a fantasy world, says Helen. Here, Clark's memories of American Bandstand are nested in an overview of important events in U.S. history from the 1950s and 1960s. By what name was The Buddy Deane Show (1957) officially released in Canada in English? I remember it well, recalls Evanne. (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.) Ten seconds to airtime. If you couldnt do the Buddy Dean jitterbug, (always identifiable by the girls ever-so-subtle dip of her head each time she was twirled around), you were a social outcast. Originally an all-white teen show with a monthly "Negro . 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. 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 highly visible regional program that asserted a racially segregated public culture. Most Deaner girls wouldnt even tongue-kiss, claims Arlene, remembering the ruckus caused by a Catholic priest when the Committee modeled strapless Etta gowns on TV. [2], https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Buddy_Deane_Show&oldid=1101079819. That show featured local teens who danced to the. If "The Buddy Deane Show" didn't exactly end happily (canceled in 1964, it never did integrate the dancers), Waters remains a fan. 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. Ninfa O. Barnard Special to The Commercial And the whole concept of the Committee changed. and later on, growing up, it was a definite blow: reality. I still have a whole box of fan mail, says Evanne. . I appreciate the contribution that you and NOBLE BRUN, and other Black dancers on the Buddy Dean dance show made on that series. 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. Thats what really happened, and the show shut down.. On Jan. 4, 1964, "The Buddy Deane Show" aired its last episode. 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. . I was really mad. The Buddy Deane Show: With Channing Wilroy, Buddy Deane. I was Tracy, said Waters. The information used was obtained from WJZ. [citation needed]. After you sprayed it, youd get toilet paper and blot it. The night was full of delightful anecdotes, including these ten you may not have heard before. 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. 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. See production, box office & company info. 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. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached, or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Baltimore Magazine. Arlene Kozak, Buddys assistant and den mother to the Committee. 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. Actor: Hairspray. 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. Or Hartford Motor Coach Company? Checking back with the studio, no one had information concerning footage of African American dancers. Im the biggest ham. Although she denies being conscious of the camera, she admits, I did try to dance up front. . He was one of the first to showcase rock and roll music on a continual basis. 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. He eventually became one of the most respected programmers in the country and was even written up in Time magazine. . This sort of nearsighted, if not disingenuous, framing persists today, whether in affluent parents in New York City insisting their opposition to school rezoning proposals is not about race, or in arguments suggesting that the best way to address racism is to stop accusing people of being racists.. I 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. Id get letters saying, If you show up at this particular hop, youre gonna get your face pushed in. Powers was a particularly special addition, having disappeared in the years since the films release. Buddy offered to have three or even four days a week all black, but that wasnt it. [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. 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. You cant do this. I remember once we all got arrested at the drive-in for underage drinking, and the black kids didnt get out and the white kids did. This town just wasnt ready for that. 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. 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. Many parents and local officials were angry. Not show biz, Arlene answers, hesitating, but the record biz, the people. They sent cakes on my birthday. Was it really twenty years ago? The Deaners didnt mind. 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. 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. Buddy noticed my eyes staring and said, Do the same eyes. And the camera got it. Kathy went even further. The show featured only white kids dancing, so Scruggs wrote him a letter in the fall of 1958 to . I was with this guy named Jeff. I wanted to go, but my parents wouldnt let me. And if you dared to dance the obscene Bodie Green (the Dirty Boogie), you were immediately a goner. Im still a fana Deaner groupie. When that little red light came on, so did my smile, she says, laughing. 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. Mary Lou was aware that in some neighborhoods it was not cool to be a Buddy Deaner. Before long I started getting lots of fan mail: I think youre neat. . Black History Month . 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. My parents didn't talk much about racism, and as a result I grew up learning to love everybody. 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. . And none are bitter. 'Buddy Deane' really did have "Negro day" once a month -- it was called worse in some neighborhoods in Baltimore. Jul 24, 2017 - Explore Bruce Clarke's board "Buddy Dean Show", followed by 154 people on Pinterest. 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. I guess Helen Crist was the first drapette: the DA, the ballet shoes, oogies [tulle scarves], eye shadoweyeliner was big thenand pink lipstick., Helen Crist. But black kids in . 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 . 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. Buddy Deane was the host of a Baltimore dance show that ran on TV from 1957 to 1964 six days a week. It was similar to Philadelphia's American Bandstand. were the highest rated local TV show in America." Amazingly, Deane's show was aired live, two-and-a-half hours each day on five days a week with three hours on Saturday. Winston Joseph Deane was born on Aug. 2, 1924, in Pine Bluff. Sometimes youd wrap your hair at night. "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. 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. 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. (Special to The Commercial/OzNet.com/ExplorePineBluff.com). I couldnt be bothered with education. 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. 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/. 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. (They gave her a diamond watch at the last reunion.) 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. producers hope this story of interracial unity will be appealing to television audiences in 2016. In Hairspray (1988), Tammy Turner assists Corny Collins on the show. Hopefully, some footage of you and the other Black dancers will be found and published online.Best wishes to you and yes, GOD HELP US! I 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. He was mad because I was as popular as he was. In early 2003, Deane sold KOTN and three other stations he had acquired over the years. It was the times, most remember. Deane hosted a morning show at WITH. GOD HELP US! And the other ladies in Allentown blue-collar neighborhood in Baltimore were talking to her and saying, Yeah, what kind of movie is this? 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