On the show you were either a drape or a square, explains Sharon. The show featured only white kids dancing, so Scruggs wrote him a letter in the fall of 1958 to . Plot. Then we made up on camera.. Deane also held dances at various Maryland American Legion posts and National Guard armories which were not taped or broadcast on television. has the chance to resurface a forgotten history of how discrimination in pop culture intimately shaped the lives of young people 50 years ago. Here, Clark's memories of American Bandstand are nested in an overview of important events in U.S. history from the 1950s and 1960s. Not a real one. . 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. These dances included the Mashed Potato, the Stroll, the Pony, the Waddle, the Locomotion, the Bug, the Handjive, the New Continental and the Madison. I had a lot of black friends at the time, so for me this was an awkward thing, says Marie. When the subject comes up today, most loyalists want to go off the record. SOUL! Buddy Deane was the host of a Baltimore dance show that ran on TV from 1957 to 1964 six days a week. "If you first appeared on The Buddy Deane Show then you could not appear on The Dick Clark Show," Deane said. 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. A devoted fan of the Buddy Deane Show, Waters drew on this history to write and direct the original film version of Hairspray. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it. So you cant imagine how excited I was when I finally got a chance to interview these local legends twenty years later. And because a new dance was introduced practically every week, you had to watch every day to keep up. Romance was one thing; sex was another. Or the Bob-a Loop? 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.. Ironically, The Buddy Deane Show introduced black music and artists into the lives of white Baltimore teenagers, many of whom learned to dance from black friends and listened to black radio. 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. 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. sively white show. I must have had ten different phone numbers, says Helen, and somehow it would get out. In 1950, Deane moved to Baltimore to host 1230 AM WITH after Stan Kenton, a performer and guest he was interviewing, informed him of the opening at the radio station. The Hairspray Live! They all thought all the girls were pregnant by Buddy Deane, remember several. People already were excited about it, but after the election they were saying, Boy, do we need this now, Meron said while promoting the new television musical. . He got a great review in The New York Times. "Hairspray" will continue at East Ridge High School through April 23. I even won the twist contest with Mary Lou Raines (one of the queens of The Buddy Deane Show) at the Valley Country Club. Image Credit: OzNet.com. Nicknamed "Buddy" as a child, Deane developed an early love for radio. But an intrepid group of local and . In its version of 1960s Baltimore, teenagers sing and dance their way past race. Everywhere we went, people would say Theres Mary Lou. I wondered if she had just been released from the penitentiary.. When: Summer 1963. In 1950, he moved to Baltimore to WITH. All on Pulaski Highway. 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. 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. Jul 24, 2017 - Explore Bruce Clarke's board "Buddy Dean Show", followed by 154 people on Pinterest. Originally known as The Buddy Deane Bandstand, the show first went on the air at 3 p.m. Sept. 9, 1957, and aired for two hours; the show often preceded the Mickey Mouse Club. In 1942, Deane enrolled at Cornell University in New York. Pauline Kael praised him. (The rave appeared in The New Yorker, where Kael said it was really Divines movie, calling him W. If "The Buddy Deane Show" didn't exactly end happily (canceled in 1964, it never did integrate the dancers), Waters remains a fan. 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. 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. 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 first page of the essay, for example, features a full-page picture of black protestors in 1962 in Times . Youre in Baltimore. In the beginning, there was Arlene. "Do You Love Me" by The Contours, or "Hide and Go Seek" by Bunker Hill). We are kind of like Ozzie and Harriet, says Gene Snyder as Linda nods in agreement. (They gave her a diamond watch at the last reunion.) It was similar to Philadelphia's American Bandstand. Waters's nostalgic and detailed appreciation for The Buddy Deane Show, . . You received demerits for almost anything: Chewing gum. [citation needed] In several instances, the show went on location to the Milford Mill swim club on the westside of suburban Baltimore County. After the screening, he was joined by Michael Musto and original cast membersLeslie Ann Powers (Penny Pingleton), JoAnn Havrilla (Prudence Pingleton), and Holter Graham (I.Q. 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. Sign Up: Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Both black and white activists picketed the . Warner, Tony, Buddy's Top 20: The Story of Baltimore's Hottest TV Dance Show and the Guy Who Brought it to Life! Clip from Shake, Rattle, and Roll: The Buddy Deane Scrapbook Ric Ocasek as the Beatnik cat; Pia Zadora as the Beatnik chick; Production. 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. It was hilarious., Some of the rumors were fanned on purpose. At 21, I married a professional football player, Helen remembers, and he made me burn all the fan mail. Id hook and have to dance in the back so the teachers couldnt see me, says Helen. John Waters, a Baltimore filmmaker and Deane Show fan, loosely based "The Corny Collins' Show" in his movie "Hairspray" on Deane's show. The information used was obtained from WJZ. 2003. Ten seconds to airtime. This discrimination was explicitly or tacitly supported by an array of advertisers, television stations, music producers, city authorities, and federal communications officials. "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. I was so embarrassed. By what name was The Buddy Deane Show (1957) officially released in Canada in English? I wanted to dance., We had a saying: The show either makes you or breaks you,' says Kathy. I still believe that footage is out there somewhere. The main thing was your hair was flat, the antithesis of Buddy Deane, she says, chuckling. 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. Its host was Winston "Buddy" Deane (1924-2003), who died in Pine Bluff, Arkansas after . Do you miss show biz? I ask her. It was horrible/ says Joe. 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. 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. Thank you for including me as one of the Buddy Dean family. The show was a teen dance and music show and ran from 1957 to until 1964 on WJZ-TV until the show was canceled. and later on, growing up, it was a definite blow: reality. I still have a whole box of fan mail, says Evanne. Almost all dancers wore swim wear and beach attire, with music provided by WJZ-TV. BLACK MUSIC MOMENT #96: Short-Lived Integration Of The Buddy Deane Show. On Jan. 4, 1964, "The Buddy Deane Show" aired its last episode. Buddy noticed my eyes staring and said, Do the same eyes. And the camera got it. Kathy went even further. 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. And if you dared to dance the obscene Bodie Green (the Dirty Boogie), you were immediately a goner. 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. "I still go to the Buddy Deane reunions," he says. It was the era of rock n' roll ducktail, pegged pants, and beehive haridos. Mr. Deane's salary . On this day in 1979, Sweeney Todd first opened on Broadway . Every weekday afternoon, in each of these broadcast markets, these shows presented images of exclusively white dancers and rendered black youth as second-class teenagers. If I have one regret in life, its that I wasnt a Buddy Deaner. . There were a lot of obscene phone calls., And the rumors, God, the rumors. That's what really happened, and the show shut down." 3. 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. 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. 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. "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 . 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. Print Headline: Buddy Deane Show was huge hit for young viewers in the late 1950s, Copyright 2023, Northwest Arkansas Newspapers LLC. 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. (Special to The Commercial/OzNet.com/ExplorePineBluff.com). Buddy wanted it to end happily, but WJZ angered Deaners when it tried to blame the ratings. 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. Seeing Hairspray as more than simply a post-racial American fantasy requires taking the storys teen dance show setting seriously. It was similar to Philadelphia's American Bandstand. He left behind his wife, Helen Stevenson Deane; his three daughters, JoEllen, Dawn, and Debbie and their families. 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. This program is a tribute to long-time Maryland radio announcer Buddy Deane, who passed away in August, 2003. 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. I had trunks of it. Participants dressed in "country" style, and danced to country and western music as well as pop. How The Buddy Deane Show really went off the air is the white kids crashed Negro Day to integrate it. He just didnt understand., But some have dealt with the problems in good humor. 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. The Buddy Deane Show was taken off the air because home station WJZ-TV was unwilling to integrate black and white dancers. IndieWire is a part of Penske Media Corporation. And the whole concept of the Committee changed. The whole day on the show was devoted to me.. 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. Interviews with leading film and TV creators about their process and craft. When I became of age to understand it all I became motivated to make a difference. I had to get up there on time. I couldnt be bothered with education. 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. Everybody wanted to kick a Buddy Deaners a, says Gene, recalling thugs waiting to jump Deaners outside the studio. 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 August 2, 1924, Winston Joseph Deane was born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. Waters grew up with "The Buddy Deane Show" in Baltimore, and modeled his fictitious "Corny Collins Show" after it. The "Corny Collins Show" in Hairspray is loosely based on the Baltimore teen dance program called the "Buddy Deane Show." One Baltimore woman fought to get black teens on the popular show back in . 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. 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 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. All of those dances were real, they were real dances, we didnt make any of them up and two were cut out. Neither these AP materials nor any portion thereof may be stored in a computer except for personal and noncommercial use. But as more and more kids (even Deane fans) did tum Joe College, many of the Committee made the mistake of not keeping up with the times. 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. Image Credit: OzNet.com Winston Joseph Deane was born on August 2, 1924, in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. 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. 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. She became so popular that she was written up in the nationwide Sixteen Magazine. Advertisement. [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. 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. 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.. 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. 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. And Divine said, What drag queen would allow themselves to look like this?'. 1957, it was a huge success as it was portrayed in the musical. I was honored, touched by it all.. 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. 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. Performances begin at 7 p.m. Kathy switched to a great beehive that resembled a trash can sitting on top of her head. 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. He eventually became one of the most respected programmers in the country and was even written up in Time magazine. 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. Joe started working for Buddy as teen assistant and, along with Arlene, oversaw the Committee and enforced the strict rules. See production, box office & company info. This page was last edited on 29 July 2022, at 06:25. 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 . NBCs Hairspray Live! Id get letters saying, If you show up at this particular hop, youre gonna get your face pushed in. Deane even dubbed himself "the morning mayor." We have a telegram, Buddy would shout almost daily, for Mary Lou to lead a dance, and the cameraman seemed to love her. As you can see from the December thread my question concerning African Americans was totally dismissed by the Committee member who was speaking. Pancocojams showcases the music, dances, language practices, & customs of African Americans and of other people of Black descent throughout the world. Just once. 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. On Wednesday, NBC is broadcasting Hairspray Live! He was so happy. Both entities launche. After you sprayed it, youd get toilet paper and blot it. The protesters wanted the races to mix. So there you have it. You Cant Stop the Beat, for example, is an upbeat dance number that resolves the issue of segregation on the Corny Collins Show. So I gave it the happy ending that we had, Waters said. 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. Oh, black teens could dancejust not with the white kids. 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 am here and on FB as well as NOBLE BRUN in the event the footage can be located. Or Snuggle Dolls? The Buddy Deane Show was over. Every day Id come to the studio in knee-highs, and Id have to take them off. He was mad because I was as popular as he was. 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). I wanted to get into the record businessand years later he did. 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. 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. Please read our Terms of Use or contact us. His show became one of the highest rated stations in the country. 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 1988 John Waters film, newly adapted into an NBC live musical, presents a view of racial discrimination thats by turns nave and enlightening. "The Buddy Deane Show" ran on Baltimore's WJZ-TV from 1957 to 1964. 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. In a long list of reasons why we find it difficult to wait for freedom, King writes: When you suddenly find your tongue twisted and your speech stammering as you seek to explain to your six year old daughter why she cant go to the public amusement park that has just been advertised on television, and see tears welling up in her eyes when she is told that Funtown is closed to colored children, and see ominous clouds of inferiority beginning to form in her little mental sky then you will understand why we find it difficult to wait. 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. Every day after school kids would run home, tune in, and dance with the bedpost or refrigerator door as they watched. And they all came together on the Buddy Deane Show, Baltimore's legendary teen dance show. Deane died in Pine Bluff, Arkansas on July 16, 2003, after suffering a stroke. When that little red light came on, so did my smile, she says, laughing. I was with this guy named Jeff. Yes, I miss it very much. 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. . The Stupidity, where you act mentally ill. The Bugs easy, you just catch a disease and throw it to someone else, Waters said. My mother used to pick me up after school to make sure nobody hassled me., The adoring fans could also be a hassle. Oh, my God, its Evanne! Autograph books, cameras, this is what they lived for. . 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. Buddy called me up before the cameras, and I wasnt dressed my best. In mixed marriages (with non-Deaners), many of the outsiders resented their spouses pasts. Theyd stand outside my home. Buddy wanted it to end happily, but WJZ angered Deaners when it tried to blame the ratings. Though black and white . It was the times, most remember. [1] He was 78. 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. Like many couples, Joe and Joan met through the show and became an item for their fans. The "Buddy Dean Show" was abruptly cancelled. Teenagers who appeared on the show every day were known as "The Committee". 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