Each reunion (and a new one is in the works) ls bigger than the last. Everywhere we went, people would say Theres Mary Lou. I wondered if she had just been released from the penitentiary.. If a guy had one beer, it was a big deal. Today they seem opposites. "The Buddy Deane Show," which aired on WJZ-TV in Baltimore from 1957 until 1964. . Some fifty years later, the mindset is STILL the same. 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 more hair spray, the better. We faked a feud. And the whole concept of the Committee changed. It was very interesting to see my conversation quoted in this article. Here is the new video celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Buddy Deane Show and the former Catonsville Community College (now CCBC). You received demerits for almost anything: Chewing gum. Do you miss show biz? I ask her. Jul 24, 2017 - Explore Bruce Clarke's board "Buddy Dean Show", followed by 154 people on Pinterest. One time I was going with this guy, and he was dancing with this guest I didnt like, says Evanne. But by far the most popular hairdo queen on Buddy Deane was a 14-year-old Pimlico Junior High School student named Mary Lou Raines. 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. Special appearances. 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. Once a month the show was all black. Buddy himself, the high priest, returned for the event. Warner, Tony, Buddy's Top 20: The Story of Baltimore's Hottest TV Dance Show and the Guy Who Brought it to Life! 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 1958. I only saw Divine alive one more time after that night, so it was a great, great night to remember. Mary Lou laughs at the memory of doing a pimple medicine spot on camera. And because a new dance was introduced practically every week, you had to watch every day to keep up. 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.. 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. It was horrible/ says Joe. Joe remembers a sport coat I bought for $5 from somebody who got it when he got out of prison. It ran two hours a day, six days a week. 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. Ric Ocasek as the Beatnik cat; Pia Zadora as the Beatnik chick; Production. Deane died in Pine Bluff, Arkansas on July 16, 2003, after suffering a stroke. Black teens were only allowed to dance on the show one day per month. 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. 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. In 2003, "Hairspray" went on to sweep the 57th Annual Tony Awards, winning a total of eight awards. Material from the Associated Press is Copyright 2023, Associated Press and may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The Corny Collins Show, is a teen dance show in Baltimore's WYZT /WZZT Network. Sign Up: Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! The television news reporter covering the Corny Collins Show in the film sums up the climactic scene: Youre seeing history being made today. . Baltimore teenagers rushed home to catch the show daily to listen to the popular music, watch their favorite dancers, copy their style and learn the new dances that were introduced almost every week. Deane also held dances at various Maryland American Legion posts and National Guard armories which were not taped or broadcast on television. But most have settled down to a very straight life. He was mad because I was as popular as he was. The Buddy Deane Show was taken off the air because home station WJZ-TV was unwilling to integrate black and white dancers. Deane even dubbed himself "the morning mayor." 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. Performances begin at 7 p.m. I had trunks of it. 'Buddy Deane' really did have "Negro day" once a month -- it was called worse in some neighborhoods in Baltimore. But black kids in . 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. 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. 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. All of those dances were real, they were real dances, we didnt make any of them up and two were cut out. 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. The Buddy Dean Show was the inspiration for the "Corny Collins Show" in the 2007 musical. Before long I started getting lots of fan mail: I think youre neat. After a surprise interracial broadcast, WJZ-TV received bomb and arson threats, hate mail, and complaints from white parents. 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. The whole day on the show was devoted to me.. I had to get up there on time. I wanted to dance., We had a saying: The show either makes you or breaks you,' says Kathy. 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. 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. 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. You could throw her down on the ground, and her hair would crack, recalls Gene. 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. Powers was a particularly special addition, having disappeared in the years since the films release. The information used was obtained from WJZ. 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. In 1942, Deane enrolled at Cornell University in New York. When that little red light came on, so did my smile, she says, laughing. Please read our Terms of Use or contact us. Thats what really happened, and the show shut down.. 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. 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. The Buddy Deane.phenomenon is hardly dead. Id hook and have to dance in the back so the teachers couldnt see me, says Helen. In Hairspray (1988), Tammy Turner assists Corny Collins on the show. The show featured only white kids dancing, so Scruggs wrote him a letter in the fall of 1958 to . The rivalry with Dick Clark meant that Deane urged all his performers not to mention American Bandstand or visits to Clark in Philadelphia. Buddy Deane. In its version of 1960s Baltimore, teenagers sing and dance their way past race. [citation needed]. 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/. Ten seconds to airtime. . The Buddy Deane Show: With Channing Wilroy, Buddy Deane. Buddy wanted it to end happily, but WJZ angered Deaners when it tried to blame the ratings. 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. Sign up for our Email Newsletters here. Just once. The Buddy Deane Show was a teenage dance party, on the air from 1957 to 1964. 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 . . 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. 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). Im still a fana Deaner groupie. 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. Jones). My mother wanted me to go, she took me down to the tryouts. No! she answers, with a conviction that gives me the chills. You Cant Stop the Beat, for example, is an upbeat dance number that resolves the issue of segregation on the Corny Collins Show. [1] He was 78. three, two, one. BLACK MUSIC MOMENT #96: Short-Lived Integration Of The Buddy Deane Show. I used to get death threats on the show. 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. When the show ended, Deane moved back to Arkansas,. 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. Oh, black teens could dancejust not with the white kids. 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. When the subject comes up today, most loyalists want to go off the record. Committee members included Mike Miller, Charlie Bledsoe, Ron Osher, Mary Lou Raines, Pat(ricia) Tacey, and Cathy Schmink. 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. Some do remember a handful of kids getting high on cough medicine. I thought I was running the world, so they developed a Board, and the Committee began governing itself. Being elected to the Board became the ultimate status symbol. The show's format mirrored Philadelphia's "American Bandstand." I didnt mean to, because I never would have messed up the makeup.. Being a teenage star in Baltimore had its drawbacks. 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. Why Europeans Dont Get Huge Medical Bills. . A devoted fan of the Buddy Deane Show, Waters drew on this history to write and direct the original film version of Hairspray. This man approached me, telegrammed me, showed up at the show. Buddy Deane was the host of a Baltimore dance show that ran on TV from 1957 to 1964 six days a week. Romance was one thing; sex was another. Nationally, American Bandstand blocked black teens from entering the studio during its years in Philadelphia, despite host Dick Clarks claims to the contrary. 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. 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. This article is among features at explorepinebluff.com, a program of the Pine Bluff Advertising and Promotion Commission. The Buddy Deane Show was taken off the air because home station WJZ-TV was unwilling to integrate black and white dancers. And Divine said, What drag queen would allow themselves to look like this?'. On August 2, 1924, Winston Joseph Deane was born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. Though black and white . 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. 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. In Baltimore, Maryland in the year 1962, Tracy Turnblad and her best friend, Penny Pingleton, audition for The Corny Collins Show, a popular Baltimore teenage dance show (based on the real-life Buddy Deane Show). BLACK MUSIC MOMENT #96: Short-Lived Integration Of The Buddy Deane Show, Jun 1, 2011 By TheUrbanDaily Staff. 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. Girl Scout leader, very active in my kids school. Mary Lou is still a star. 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. Or Snuggle Dolls? I was with this guy named Jeff. Marie Fischer was the first Joe to become a Committee memberchosen simply because she was such a good dancer. Hairspray, which started as a camp film with a modest $2.7 million budget, grew into a popular and commercially successful Broadway musical and movie. Like many couples, Joe and Joan met through the show and became an item for their fans. "I told him I thought it was terrible," Melva Lee Scruggs said about the "Buddy Deane Show." The first big stars were Bobbi Bums and Freddy Oswinkle, according to Arlene, but no matter how big anyone got, someone came along who was even bigger. Joe Cash and Joan Teves became the shows first royalty. I was a misfit. He got a great review in The New York Times. Arlene Kozak, Buddys assistant and den mother to the Committee. The school tried to throw me out before. Id get letters saying, If you show up at this particular hop, youre gonna get your face pushed in. I wanted to join the circus., Two other ponytail princesses who went on to the Buddy Dean hall of fame were Evanne Robinson, the committee member on the show the longest, and Kathy Schmink. 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. Kathy switched to a great beehive that resembled a trash can sitting on top of her head. That show featured local teens who danced to the hits of the era, although the entire cast was white except for one episode every other Friday for Black kids. On the other, Hairspray Live! He also left the Army in 1948 and began his radio broadcast career at KLXR station in North Little Rock. ', Although many parents and WJZ insisted that Committee members had to keep up their grades to stay on the show, the reality could be quite different. Sometimes youd wrap your hair at night. Several local art contests were also held on the show, with viewers submitting their own art work. I must have had ten different phone numbers, says Helen, and somehow it would get out. The AP will not be held liable for any delays, inaccuracies, errors or omissions therefrom or in the transmission or delivery of all or any part thereof or for any damages arising from any of the foregoing. In Little Rock, white teens went from protesting integration at Central High School to dancing in the afternoon on Steves Show. All rights reserved. For many young people, being blocked from swimming pools, skating rinks, or dance shows like the Buddy Deane Show would be one of their first exposures to what King calls the feeling of forever fighting a degenerating sense of nobodiness.. I had a lot of black friends at the time, so for me this was an awkward thing, says Marie. 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). They kept their figures, look nice, and are very kind people, says Marie in her lovely home on Falls Road before taking off for the University of Maryland, where she attends law school. Some kids on the show went a little nuts, with stars in their eyes; they thought they were going to go to Hollywood and be moviestars.. 2023 IndieWire Media, LLC. . Print Headline: Buddy Deane Show was huge hit for young viewers in the late 1950s, Copyright 2023, Northwest Arkansas Newspapers LLC. The Stupidity, where you act mentally ill. The Bugs easy, you just catch a disease and throw it to someone else, Waters said. Oddly enough, few of the Deaners Ive talked to went on to show biz. The introductory essay in Dick Clark's American Bandstand (1997) is illustrative in this regard. The Department of Education even withdrew its support of the show, and the show had to be filmed in the parking lot at times because of the threats they received. I wanted to go, but my parents wouldnt let me. So I gave it the happy ending that we had, Waters said. It was the era of rock n' roll ducktail, pegged pants, and beehive haridos. Even racists like it, Waters said in his opening remarks. How The Buddy Deane Show really went off the air is the white kids crashed Negro Day to integrate it. Waters grew up with "The Buddy Deane Show" in Baltimore, and modeled his fictitious "Corny Collins Show" after it. Friday, February 24, 2023. 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. On Sept. 13, 1964, he introduced The Beatles before their concert at the Baltimore Civic Center, and a few days later, he and his family moved back to Arkansas. 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! I even won the twist contest with Mary Lou Raines (one of the queens of The Buddy Deane Show) at the Valley Country Club. The Nicest Kids in Town! Hairspray is firmly rooted in 1960s America, but it offers both sophisticated and (tellingly) simplistic ways of understanding racism today. We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. Rather than integrating, the show was canceled. (Special to The Commercial/OzNet.com/ExplorePineBluff.com). In December 1963, producers at Baltimores WJZ-TV cancelled the Buddy Deane Show rather than integrate the popular teen dance program. Buddy Deane was the host of a Baltimore dance show that ran on TV from 1957 to 1964 six days a week. Some of the old Committee kept up with the times and made the transition with ease. 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. 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. Deane began his broadcasting career at KLXR in Little Rock, Arkansas. SOUL! We have a telegram, Buddy would shout almost daily, for Mary Lou to lead a dance, and the cameraman seemed to love her. Teenagers who appeared on the show every day were known as "The Committee". Once a Deaner, always a Deaner, as another so succinctly puts it. Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! I was Tracy, said Waters. I got a little power-crazed, admits Joe. This sentiment carries through to the songs lyrics. maintains the basic of Waterss story, but like the Broadway version and musical film, it features more than a dozen songs that help to convey the hopeful narrative. She was the one of the biggies who refused to be on the Board (they had power; a liked because of it). On Wednesday, NBC is broadcasting Hairspray Live! This Article is related to: Film and tagged Divine, Hairspray, IFC Center, John Waters. The first page of the essay, for example, features a full-page picture of black protestors in 1962 in Times . Vanessa Udon plays Motormouth Maybelle, who hosts the monthly Negro Day on the Corny Collins Show. Integration ended The Buddy Deane Show. Only white teens became members of the elite Committee the Buddy Deane equivalent of the Mouseketeers. The Buddy Deane Show was taken off the air because home station WJZ-TV was unwilling to integrate black and white dancers. 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. There were a lot of obscene phone calls., And the rumors, God, the rumors. 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. 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 . 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. Maybe ''The Buddy Deane Show,'' the teen-dance-party that ran on local television in Baltimore from 1957 to 1964 and inspired ''Hairspray,'' was the only wholesome obsession that ever led to one . 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. 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. Both black and white activists picketed the . 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. You learned how to be a teenager from the show. Mr. Deane hosted a crowd of exuberant teens, who danced to the music of live rock bands, including many name acts. Nicknamed "Buddy" as a child, Deane . I saw the show as a vehicle to make something of myself, remembers Joe. 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 . He was 16 at the time of filming. 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. 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.. 'The Buddy Deane Show' was over . 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. Died in Pine Bluff Advertising and Promotion Commission some fifty years later the. 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