The show featured only white kids dancing, so Scruggs wrote him a letter in the fall of 1958 to . Buddy called me up before the cameras, and I wasnt dressed my best. 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. It was similar to Philadelphia's American Bandstand. Yet Joe was a dropout when he went on the show and then, once famous, went back to finish. On August 2, 1924, Winston Joseph Deane was born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. "The Buddy Deane Show," which aired on WJZ-TV in Baltimore from 1957 until 1964. . The night was full of delightful anecdotes, including these ten you may not have heard before. 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. Deane died in Pine Bluff on July 16, 2003, after experiencing complications caused by a stroke. At her appearances at the record hops, kids would actually scream when youd get out of the car: Theres Mary Lou! 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. [citation needed]. Over lunch at the Thunderball Lounge, in East Baltimore, Kathy remembers, I could never get used to signing autographs. The show was a teen dance and music show and ran from 1957 to until 1964 on WJZ-TV until the show was canceled. 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. Many years later they married. The Hairspray Live! On Jan. 4, 1964, "The Buddy Deane Show" aired its last episode. The very first day on the set, I didnt recognize Divine, the filmmaker said. Integration ended The Buddy Deane Show. 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. Theatre producer, Margo Lion, saw a television broadcast of the film in 1998 and started to conceive it as a stage musical. Every rock n roll star of the day (except Elvis) came to town to lip-synch and plug their records on the show: Buddy Holly, Domino, the Supremes, the Marvelettes, Annette Funicello, Frankie Avalon, and Fabian, to name just a few. 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. 'Buddy' Deane; www.WashingtonPost.com -- The Messy Truth of The Real 'Hairspray.' The introductory essay in Dick Clark's American Bandstand (1997) is illustrative in this regard. Ladies and gentlemen, the nicest kids in town!. The first page of the essay, for example, features a full-page picture of black protestors in 1962 in Times . It was the top-rated local TV show in Baltimore and, for several years, the highest rated local TV program in the country. No! she answers, with a conviction that gives me the chills. It's not just about police brutality. Teenagers who appeared on the show every day were known as "The Committee". It was similar to Philadelphia's American Bandstand. Deane began his broadcasting career at KLXR in Little Rock, Arkansas. Just once. Buddy could take his seat beneath the famous Top 20 Board, and the tension would build. Checking back with the studio, no one had information concerning footage of African American dancers. Performances begin at 7 p.m. 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. BLACK MUSIC MOMENT #96: Short-Lived Integration Of The Buddy Deane Show, Jun 1, 2011 By TheUrbanDaily Staff. I am here and on FB as well as NOBLE BRUN in the event the footage can be located. In 1948, Deane married Helen Stevenson, his childhood sweetheart, whom he first met when he was just four years old. . From 1968 into 1973, the public television variety show SOUL! Kathy switched to a great beehive that resembled a trash can sitting on top of her head. As well, a show was broadcast from a local farm in Westminster, Maryland. 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 . 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. Why? Id wonder. She wasnt even a fan of the show. So the NAACP targeted the show for protests. Buddy offered to have three or even four days a week all black, but that wasnt it. The best little jitterbugger in Baltimore. Gene calls it a big loss. It was living in a fantasy world, says Helen. The television news reporter covering the Corny Collins Show in the film sums up the climactic scene: Youre seeing history being made today. My parents didn't talk much about racism, and as a result I grew up learning to love everybody. Get off that furniture!? It was similar to Philadelphia's American Bandstand. The show featured only white kids dancing, so Scruggs wrote him a letter in the fall of 1958 to . I wonder if that applied to Black males as well as White males. 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. Everybody wanted to kick a Buddy Deaners a, says Gene, recalling thugs waiting to jump Deaners outside the studio. WJZ's show aired from 1957 to 1964 and was popular among Baltimore teens, promoting dances like the twist, mashed potato, and the Madison. Almost every rock 'n' roll star except Elvis graced the Deane Show stage. When Barry Levinson, another Baltimore native, requested video from the show for his film Diner, the station told him it had no footage. Buddy returns on a pilgrimage from St. Charles, Arkansas, where he owns a hunting and fishing lodge and sometimes appears on TV, to spin the hits and announce multiplication dances, ladies choice, or even, after a few drinks, the Limbo. Black teens were only allowed to dance on the show one day per month. Neither these AP materials nor any portion thereof may be stored in a computer except for personal and noncommercial use. Most are happily married with kids and maintain the same images they had on the show. Yeah it was Cosenel, says Joe. And none are bitter. Everywhere we went, people would say Theres Mary Lou. I wondered if she had just been released from the penitentiary.. Mary Lou was aware that in some neighborhoods it was not cool to be a Buddy Deaner. 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. They are still referred to, good naturedly by some, as the Ken and Barbie of the show. Gene, a member of the first Committee, and I underline first, later became president of the Board. Dick Clark patterned his ABC-TV show, Where the Action Is, after local remotes done by Deane in Maryland. Black History Month . In the beginning, there was Arlene. 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. Pancocojams showcases the music, dances, language practices, & customs of African Americans and of other people of Black descent throughout the world. 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. This program is a tribute to long-time Maryland radio announcer Buddy Deane, who passed away in August, 2003. offered an unfiltered, uncompromising celebration of Black literature, poetry, music, and politics, capturing a critical moment in culture whose impact continues to resonate today. These dances included the Mashed Potato, the Stroll, the Pony, the Waddle, the Locomotion, the Bug, the Handjive, the New Continental and the Madison. Waters grew up with "The Buddy Deane Show" in Baltimore, and modeled his fictitious "Corny Collins Show" after it. It was even in the papers. "Do You Love Me" by The Contours, or "Hide and Go Seek" by Bunker Hill). 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. It would be a treasure to pass down to my future generations. 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. Last spring, five hundred people quickly snapped up the $23 tickets to the third Buddy Deane Reunion, held at the Eastwind, in Essex, to raise money for the Baltimore Burn Center. Sources: www.IMDB.com -- Buddy Deane Biography; www.OzNet.com - A Collection of Articles About Buddy Deane; www.Variety.com -- Winston J. In 1950, he moved to Baltimore to WITH. Deaners seem to come out of the woodwork, drawn by the memory of their stardom. In mixed marriages (with non-Deaners), many of the outsiders resented their spouses pasts. [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. Not show biz, Arlene answers, hesitating, but the record biz, the people. I only saw Divine alive one more time after that night, so it was a great, great night to remember. The show's format mirrored Philadelphia's . Nicknamed "Buddy" as a child, Deane . Some of the old Committee kept up with the times and made the transition with ease. . 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. 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. We would always do The Dirty Boogie, the one you arent allowed to do, he said. In my on-going search for African American footage I stumbled across this article in Google. All of those dances were real, they were real dances, we didnt make any of them up and two were cut out. I wanted to dance., We had a saying: The show either makes you or breaks you,' says Kathy. 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). Oh, my God, its Evanne! Autograph books, cameras, this is what they lived for. 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. We used to go to stand in front of Reads Drugstore, and people would ask for our autograph.. For the rest of the time, the show's participants were all white. Powers was a particularly special addition, having disappeared in the years since the films release. I got a little power-crazed, admits Joe. 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. This article is among features at explorepinebluff.com, a program of the Pine Bluff Advertising and Promotion Commission. Joe started working for Buddy as teen assistant and, along with Arlene, oversaw the Committee and enforced the strict rules. Buddy noticed my eyes staring and said, Do the same eyes. And the camera got it. Kathy went even further. "Where: 800 N. Charles St, Baltimore, MD 21201. Sometimes youd wrap your hair at night. [1], Deane's dance party television show debuted in 1957 and was, for a time, the most popular local show in the United States. [1], As with many other local TV shows, little footage of the show is known to have survived. Mr. They would drive me nuts when theyd come in the door, and Id say Man, youre gone. 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. It was a real kick! Her fame even brought an offer to join the circus. 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 . 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. It was similar to Philadelphia's American Bandstand. NBCs Hairspray Live! 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? The Buddy Deane Show was taken off the air because home station WJZ-TV was unwilling to integrate black and white dancers. The Buddy Deane Show was taken off the air because home station WJZ-TV was unwilling to integrate black and white dancers. Bill Haley and the Comets did their premier perf of "Rock Around the Clock" on Deane's show, and Deane was named the No. After a surprise interracial broadcast, WJZ-TV received bomb and arson threats, hate mail, and complaints from white parents. The first and maybe the biggest Buddy Deane queen of all. Unlike the tensions that followed the real integration of the Buddy Deane Show, Waterss Hairspray ends with the protesters triumphing. Waters's nostalgic and detailed appreciation for The Buddy Deane Show, . 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. Buddy wanted it to end happily, but WJZ angered Deaners when it tried to blame the ratings. But I was never a Deaner. 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 action of the musical takes place in 1962 and centers around Baltimore's teenage obsession with the television program The Corny Collins Show, a stand-in for an actual Baltimore production of the day, The Buddy Deane Show. And they all came together on the Buddy Deane Show, Baltimore's legendary teen dance show. This discrimination was explicitly or tacitly supported by an array of advertisers, television stations, music producers, city authorities, and federal communications officials. How The Buddy Deane Show really went off the air is the white kids crashed Negro Day to integrate it. 2003. I was Tracy, said Waters. [2], https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Buddy_Deane_Show&oldid=1101079819. 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. "The Buddy Deane Show" ran on Baltimore's WJZ-TV from 1957 to 1964. 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.. Once I was off the show for a while, and they said I had joined the nunnery, says Helen, laughing. When I get depressed, I dont go to the psychiatrist, I go to the jeweler, she says. Greetings, Pat Brun.Thanks for commenting in this pancocojams discussion thread. He left behind his wife, Helen Stevenson Deane; his three daughters, JoEllen, Dawn, and Debbie and their families. 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. It was the times, most remember. One time I was going with this guy, and he was dancing with this guest I didnt like, says Evanne. The show designated every other friday to their black dancers, similar to "Negro Day" on the Corny Collins Show. [citation needed]. Sure, as a teenager I was a guest on the show. The Deane program set aside every other Friday for a show featuring only black teenagers. As with the drapes and squares of the previous decade, she explains, there were two classes of people thenDeaners and Joe College. And more important, so did the Committee, still entering by a special door, still doing the dances from the period with utmost precision. One girl yelled Buddy Deaner and then threw her plate at me. 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. Linda reverently describes her Committee membership as the best experience I ever had in my life. They later became members of the Permanent Committee, the hall of fame that could come back to dance even after retiring. The buddy dean show debuted on Sep. 9. I saw the show as a vehicle to make something of myself, remembers Joe. 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. In her home, near Allentown, Pennsylvania, she serves me a beautiful brunch, models her fur coats, and poses with her Mercedes. 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. 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. When: Summer 1963. I havent seen her since we made the movie, said Waters. The Buddy Deane.phenomenon is hardly dead. Today they seem opposites. It aired for two and a half hours a day, six days a week. So the NAACP targeted the show for protests. Every day after school kids would run home, tune in, and dance with the bedpost or refrigerator door as they watched. "How 'The Buddy Deane Show' really went off the air is the white kids crashed Negro Day to integrate it. 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. 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 still believe that footage is out there somewhere. Voters approve of . The Buddy Deane Show was taken off the air because home station WJZ-TV was unwilling to integrate black and white dancers. The Deane program was a segregated show: white and Black teenagers danced on separate broadcasts. The regulars . So there you have it. 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. "I told him I thought it was terrible," Melva Lee Scruggs said about the "Buddy Deane Show." . 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. Image Credit: OzNet.com Winston Joseph Deane was born on August 2, 1924, in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. Friday, February 24, 2023. 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. The Buddy Deane Show: With Channing Wilroy, Buddy Deane. Clip from Shake, Rattle, and Roll: The Buddy Deane Scrapbook 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. The rivalry with Dick Clark meant that Deane urged all his performers not to mention American Bandstand or visits to Clark in Philadelphia. All rights reserved. Both black and white activists picketed the . 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. Even doing commercials was expected. Like many couples, Joe and Joan met through the show and became an item for their fans. 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. Facing controversy over the possibility of more integrated broadcasts, the station canceled the program. 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. Museum Day; Art; Books; Design; Food; Music & Film; Video; Newsletter; Travel. The Committee, initially recruited from local teen centers, was to act as hosts and dance with the guests. 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. They sent cakes on my birthday. 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.. 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. 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. The 1988 John Waters film, newly adapted into an NBC live musical, presents a view of racial discrimination thats by turns nave and enlightening. Sign up for our Email Newsletters here. A big strong line!) up the hill to the famous dance party set, the one that now houses People Are Talking. Thats what really happened, and the show shut down.. Maybe that was a good choice because Divine was 40 then., She played against-type, certainly. I got these letters from the Naval Academy, Helen remembers, so I went there one day, and all the midshipmen were hanging out the windows. Sign up for our Email Newsletters here. This sentiment carries through to the songs lyrics. At 21, I married a professional football player, Helen remembers, and he made me burn all the fan mail. The Buddy Dean Show was the inspiration for the "Corny Collins Show" in the 2007 musical. Influencers: Profiles of a Partnership 2022, How to Pitch Stories and Articles to IndieWire, John Waters Shares His 10 Favorite Films of 2022, 'Peter Von Kant' Tops List, John Waters to Write and Direct 'Liarmouth' from His Own Novel, Quentin Tarantino's Favorite Movies: 50 Films the Director Wants You to See, Oscars 2023: Best Animated Feature Predictions. August 8, 2022 at 3:55 a.m. The protesters wanted the races to mix. The show's format mirrored Philadelphia's "American Bandstand." Im the biggest ham. Although she denies being conscious of the camera, she admits, I did try to dance up front. 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. He was mad because I was as popular as he was. Please read our Terms of Use or contact us. A special. 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. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached, or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Baltimore Magazine. . 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. That's one of the things that the Black Lives Matter movement is talking about. It was hilarious., Some of the rumors were fanned on purpose. . The film would spawn a 2002 Broadway musical adaptation starring Harvey Fierstein and Marissa Jaret Winokur, and a 2007 film adaptation of the musical starring John Travolta and Nikki Blonsky. has the chance to resurface a forgotten history of how discrimination in pop culture intimately shaped the lives of young people 50 years ago. All Rights Reserved. There are other socio-cultural comments in various YouTube comments threads about the Madison dance. The show featured only white kids dancing, so Scruggs wrote him a letter in the fall of 1958 to . Im still a fana Deaner groupie. 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. by [1] He was 78. 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. Here is the new video celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Buddy Deane Show and the former Catonsville Community College (now CCBC). Deane even dubbed himself "the morning mayor." It was the era of rock n' roll ducktail, pegged pants, and beehive haridos. Waters would rush home . 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. On the air before Dick Clark debuted, the show was a hit from the beginning, says Arlene today. 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. 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 . Friday, February 19 at 7PM. He just didnt understand., But some have dealt with the problems in good humor. 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. The Buddy Deane Show was a highly visible regional program that asserted a racially segregated public culture. If I have one regret in life, its that I wasnt a Buddy Deaner. Some fifty years later, the mindset is STILL the same. 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