Some do remember a handful of kids getting high on cough medicine. It was horrible/ says Joe. 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. 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. I wonder if that applied to Black males as well as White males. Joel Chaseman, also a DJ at WITH, became program manager of WJZ-TV when Westinghouse bought it in the mid-50s. Vanessa Udon plays Motormouth Maybelle, who hosts the monthly Negro Day on the Corny Collins Show. It was a family: Buddy was the father, Arlene was the mother.. 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. 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. To be selected you had to bring a character reference letter from your pastor, priest, or rabbi, qualify in a dance audition, and show in an interview (the Spotlight) that you had personality. At first the Committee had a revolving membership with no one serving longer than three months. Or the Bob-a Loop? Deane died in Pine Bluff, Arkansas on July 16, 2003, after suffering a stroke. Plot. The Deane program was a segregated show: white and Black teenagers danced on separate broadcasts. Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! How The Buddy Deane Show really went off the air is the white kids crashed Negro Day to integrate it. But something unforeseen happened: The home audience soon grew attached to some of these kids. The Deane program set aside every other Friday for a show featuring only black teenagers. In Hairspray (1988), Tammy Turner assists Corny Collins on the show. The whole day on the show was devoted to me.. 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. 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 . 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. This man approached me, telegrammed me, showed up at the show. 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. The more hair spray, the better. Almost all dancers wore swim wear and beach attire, with music provided by WJZ-TV. [1], As with many other local TV shows, little footage of the show is known to have survived. One girl yelled Buddy Deaner and then threw her plate at me. This article is among features at explorepinebluff.com, a program of the Pine Bluff Advertising and Promotion Commission. Perhaps the last thing 2016 needs is a star-studded, light-hearted musical endorsement of colorblindnessthough, viewed holistically, Hairspray is more than that. A big strong line!) up the hill to the famous dance party set, the one that now houses People Are Talking. I still believe that footage is out there somewhere. He was 16 at the time of filming. All rights reserved. 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. I must have had ten different phone numbers, says Helen, and somehow it would get out. 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. Once I was off the show for a while, and they said I had joined the nunnery, says Helen, laughing. If Im ever depressed, sometimes I think, Well this will make me feel better, and I go and dig in the box., Holding onto the memories more than anyone is Arlene Kozak, who is by far the most loved by all the Committee members. 2023 IndieWire Media, LLC. As well, a show was broadcast from a local farm in Westminster, Maryland. The Buddy Deane Show was a show from the late 50's to the mid 60's. The show was a teen dance television show, similar to Philadelphia's American Bandstand. 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. Debuting at a mere 11 years of age, taking three buses every day to get to the show, wearing that wonderful white DA (created by her hairdresser father), and causing the first real sensation. We hung around with black and whites together, which you couldnt do. A special. 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. Just once. 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. Soon after, he and his family moved to Memphis, Tenn. 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. In early 2003, Deane sold KOTN and three other stations he had acquired over the years. I even named some of the characters in my films after them. Every day Id come to the studio in knee-highs, and Id have to take them off. These were the first role models I knew. There were a lot of obscene phone calls., And the rumors, God, the rumors. He was so happy. 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. 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. "I told him I thought it was terrible," Melva Lee Scruggs said about the "Buddy Deane Show." It is hosted by the titular Corny Collins, with the exception of the monthly Rhythm and Blues special which is hosted by Motormouth Maybelle . It was the top-rated local TV show in Baltimore and, for several years, the highest rated local TV program in the country. 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. The very first day on the set, I didnt recognize Divine, the filmmaker said. Ladies and gentlemen, the nicest kids in town!. . It aired for two and a half hours a day, six days a week. The movie was eventually turned into a musical by the same name. Deane also presented British artist Helen Shapiro, who sang her Baltimore hit, "Tell Me What He Said," at about the time that she was touring England with The Beatles as one of her support acts. And who could forget those great ads for the plastic furniture slipcovers that opened with the kids jumping up and down on the sofa and Royal Parker screaming, Hey kids! The first and maybe the biggest Buddy Deane queen of all. At first I was so shy I hid behind the Coke machines., But Evanne used to come right home and head for the TV. Was it really twenty years ago? 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 . [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. 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. My mother wanted me to go, she took me down to the tryouts. The protesters wanted the races to mix. You are history. On the show you were either a drape or a square, explains Sharon. The white kids parents came and got them. But I was never a Deaner. Unlike the tensions that followed the real integration of the Buddy Deane Show, Waterss Hairspray ends with the protesters triumphing. Sign up for our Email Newsletters here. [1], Deane's dance party television show debuted in 1957 and was, for a time, the most popular local show in the United States. (They gave her a diamond watch at the last reunion.) We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. 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. Teenagers who appeared on the show every day were known as "The Committee". This Article is related to: Film and tagged Divine, Hairspray, IFC Center, John Waters. "Do You Love Me" by The Contours, or "Hide and Go Seek" by Bunker Hill). 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. From 1996 to 2003, he hosted dance events in Baltimore, Pennsylvania and aboard cruise ships. 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. All on Pulaski Highway. On this day in 1979, Sweeney Todd first opened on Broadway . From then on, all bare shoulders were covered with a piece of net. I used to lie in bed at my parents house, and there was an African-American community up the street and they went by singing along to the radio. BLACK MUSIC MOMENT #96: Short-Lived Integration Of The Buddy Deane Show. 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. Black teens were only allowed to dance on the show one day per month. It was the times, most remember. Many years later they married. Most are happily married with kids and maintain the same images they had on the show. Im still a fana Deaner groupie. John Waters, a Baltimore filmmaker and Deane Show fan, loosely based "The Corny Collins' Show" in his movie "Hairspray" on Deane's show. John Waters wrote the screenplay under the title of White Lipstick, with the story loosely based on real events.The Corny Collins Show is based on the real-life Buddy Deane Show, a local dance party program which pre-empted Dick Clark's American Bandstand in the Baltimore area during the 1950s and . Neither these AP materials nor any portion thereof may be stored in a computer except for personal and noncommercial use. Print Headline: Buddy Deane Show was huge hit for young viewers in the late 1950s, Copyright 2023, Northwest Arkansas Newspapers LLC. It was broadcast for two hours a day, six days a week and featured local teenagers dancing to their favorite music played by live bands. 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. Nationally, American Bandstand blocked black teens from entering the studio during its years in Philadelphia, despite host Dick Clarks claims to the contrary. It was hilarious., Some of the rumors were fanned on purpose. This discrimination was explicitly or tacitly supported by an array of advertisers, television stations, music producers, city authorities, and federal communications officials. It was a fluke. Museum Day; Art; Books; Design; Food; Music & Film; Video; Newsletter; Travel. The Buddy Deane Show was a teenage dance party, on the air from 1957 to 1964. So the rules were bent a little; the big ones, the ones with the fan mail, were allowed to stay. I am here and on FB as well as NOBLE BRUN in the event the footage can be located. The Buddy Deane Show was over. 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. But it went something like this: Buddy Deane was an exclusively white 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. Hairspray is firmly rooted in 1960s America, but it offers both sophisticated and (tellingly) simplistic ways of understanding racism today. My parents didn't talk much about racism, and as a result I grew up learning to love everybody. 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. You are out of here. I was really mad. . All Rights Reserved. So there you have it. 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. In December 1963, producers at Baltimores WJZ-TV cancelled the Buddy Deane Show rather than integrate the popular teen dance program. 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. August 8, 2022 at 3:55 a.m. 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. Ninfa O. Barnard Special to The Commercial Some of the really dedicated Committee members get tears in their eyes. Many top acts of the day, both black and white, appeared on The Buddy Deane Show. 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. I wanted to get into the record businessand years later he did. Advertisement. Buddy Deane was the host of a Baltimore dance show that ran on TV from 1957 to 1964 six days a week. I was so embarrassed. I had to get up there on time. Though black and white . (I looked like I was taking off.) And Helen, Linda, and Joanie all got out the rat-tail teasing combs. The Deaners didnt mind. IndieWire is a part of Penske Media Corporation. 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). These dances included the Mashed Potato, the Stroll, the Pony, the Waddle, the Locomotion, the Bug, the Handjive, the New Continental and the Madison. So a year later when he had his own show, it seemed only right that "Rock Around the Clock" premiered on "The Buddy Deane Show.". January 4, 1964. Helens fans flocked to see her at the Buddy Deane Record Hops (Committee members had to make such personal appearances and sign autographs.) 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. [2], https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Buddy_Deane_Show&oldid=1101079819. 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. But black kids in . Once a Deaner, always a Deaner, as another so succinctly puts it. When the show ended, Deane moved back to Arkansas,. offered an unfiltered, uncompromising celebration of Black literature, poetry, music, and politics, capturing a critical moment in culture whose impact continues to resonate today. Or Hartford Motor Coach Company? The Buddy Deane show aired 6 times a week and had a dance committee just like in hairspray. I got a little power-crazed, admits Joe. The Buddy Deane Show was taken off the air because home station WJZ-TV was unwilling to integrate black and white dancers. 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 . Rather than integrating, the show was canceled. Mr. Get off that furniture!? And Divine said, What drag queen would allow themselves to look like this?'. Later that year he enlisted in the Army, where he served in Europe involved in some of the most intense battles of World War II. "Hairspray" will continue at East Ridge High School through April 23. On August 2, 1924, Winston Joseph Deane was born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. I had a lot of black friends at the time, so for me this was an awkward thing, says Marie. The Corny Collins Show, is a teen dance show in Baltimore's WYZT /WZZT Network. Image Credit: OzNet.com Winston Joseph Deane was born on August 2, 1924, in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. Dick Clark patterned his ABC-TV show, Where the Action Is, after local remotes done by Deane in Maryland. In fact, "American Bandstand" was not shown on television in Baltimore because Deane's show was so popular. by And more important, so did the Committee, still entering by a special door, still doing the dances from the period with utmost precision. "How 'The Buddy Deane Show' really went off the air is the white kids crashed Negro Day to integrate it. Im Joe, too. There was a change in the works., Part of that change was the racial integration movement. 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. 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. 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. Girl Scout leader, very active in my kids school. Mary Lou is still a star. The black cops would stop us and say: This isnt Greenwich Village, you know. For the rest of the time, the show's participants were all white. 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 racial integration of a take-off of the show, dubbed The Corny Collins Show, provides the backdrop to the 1988 John Waters film Hairspray. "The Buddy Deane Show," which aired on WJZ-TV in Baltimore from 1957 until 1964. . Nicknamed "Buddy" as a child, Deane . . There are other socio-cultural comments in various YouTube comments threads about the Madison dance. I wanted to go, but my parents wouldnt let me. 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. 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. Committee members included Mike Miller, Charlie Bledsoe, Ron Osher, Mary Lou Raines, Pat(ricia) Tacey, and Cathy Schmink. Thats what really happened, and the show shut down.. They all thought all the girls were pregnant by Buddy Deane, remember several. Because Buddy Deanes competition was soap operas, the budding teenage romances were sometimes played up for the camera. They would drive me nuts when theyd come in the door, and Id say Man, youre gone. Youre in 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. The best little jitterbugger in Baltimore. Sometimes youd wrap your hair at night. While at WITH, Deane was the first Baltimore disk jockey to capitalize on the new musical phenomenon that was rock 'n' roll. It was similar to Philadelphia's American Bandstand. This sentiment carries through to the songs lyrics. 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. Like many couples, Joe and Joan met through the show and became an item for their fans. 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. And if you dared to dance the obscene Bodie Green (the Dirty Boogie), you were immediately a goner. Voters approve of . . That show featured local teens who danced to the. Originally aired 11/5/1986. I took off my steady ring and threw it down. 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. 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. Friday, February 19 at 7PM. 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/. And because a new dance was introduced practically every week, you had to watch every day to keep up. . 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. 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