The Buddy Deane Show was taken off the air because home station WJZ-TV was unwilling to integrate black and white dancers. Black teens were only allowed to dance on the show one day per month. The "Buddy Dean Show" was abruptly cancelled. Plot. 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.. You had to wear nylons. MPT did a segment which included interviews with former African American dancers who appeared on the show. [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. I got a little power-crazed, admits Joe. So the NAACP targeted the show for protests. When Barry Levinson, another Baltimore native, requested video from the show for his film Diner, the station told him it had no footage. Voters approve of . I'll include some of those comments in an upcoming pancocojams series about that dance.However, it seems to me that The Buddy Deane Show is more important because it exemplifies the need to go back and understand how the past has influenced the present with regard to systemic racism in Baltimore, Maryland and elsewhere in the United States. That was our whole social life, being a Buddy Deaner, says Gene. 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. 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 show featured only white kids dancing, so Scruggs wrote him a letter in the fall of 1958 to . and later on, growing up, it was a definite blow: reality. I still have a whole box of fan mail, says Evanne. Rather than integrating, the show was canceled. 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. Or the Bob-a Loop? The more hair spray, the better. All Rights Reserved. See more ideas about buddy, historic baltimore, baltimore. Clip from Shake, Rattle, and Roll: The Buddy Deane Scrapbook His childhood nickname was Buddy. Many top acts of the day, both black and white, appeared on The Buddy Deane Show. Waters would rush home . Though black and white . Everywhere we went, people would say Theres Mary Lou. I wondered if she had just been released from the penitentiary.. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached, or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Baltimore Magazine. Marie Fischer was the first Joe to become a Committee memberchosen simply because she was such a good dancer. 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. 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. 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. One time I was going with this guy, and he was dancing with this guest I didnt like, says Evanne. 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). Originally an all-white teen show with a monthly "Negro . Powers was a particularly special addition, having disappeared in the years since the films release. If "The Buddy Deane Show" didn't exactly end happily (canceled in 1964, it never did integrate the dancers), Waters remains a fan. It is hosted by the titular Corny Collins, with the exception of the monthly Rhythm and Blues special which is hosted by Motormouth Maybelle . John Water's himself said that in his movie, he "gave it the happy ending that it didn't have". See production, box office & company info. 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. 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. 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 introductory essay in Dick Clark's American Bandstand (1997) is illustrative in this regard. Jones). 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). 2023 IndieWire Media, LLC. Kathy switched to a great beehive that resembled a trash can sitting on top of her head. 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. 1 DJ in 1962 by Billboard mag. 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. Hairspray is firmly rooted in 1960s America, but it offers both sophisticated and (tellingly) simplistic ways of understanding racism today. 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). Deane began his broadcasting career at KLXR in Little Rock, Arkansas. 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 . 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. They just wanted to know if you were real. 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 . As well, a show was broadcast from a local farm in Westminster, Maryland. It was the top-rated local TV show in Baltimore and, for several years, the highest rated local TV program in the country. The information used was obtained from WJZ. 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. Six days a week and often two hours a day, Buddy Deane and his Committee Members--the privileged regular teen dancers . Deane even played a small role in the movie, which premiered to moderate success but went on to become a cult classic. But it went something like this: Buddy Deane was an exclusively white show. August 8, 2022 at 3:55 a.m. And the whole concept of the Committee changed. 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. It's not just about police brutality. Mr. This program is a tribute to long-time Maryland radio announcer Buddy Deane, who passed away in August, 2003. I even named some of the characters in my films after them. IndieWire is a part of Penske Media Corporation. Sure, as a teenager I was a guest on the show. From 1996 to 2003, he hosted dance events in Baltimore, Pennsylvania and aboard cruise ships. 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. Waters: We used to go to the hotel and hed say, Come in, and hed be in bed with a cleaning woman smoking pot., It was Tracy saying to Link: Please dont look at my legs without the benefit of nylons.. The Buddy Deane Show was over. The Deaners didnt mind. 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. But I was never a Deaner. For example, Carole King appeared on the show playing her single "It Might as Well Rain Until September", nearly a decade before she burst to popularity with her landmark 1970 album, Tapestry. 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. 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. At her appearances at the record hops, kids would actually scream when youd get out of the car: Theres Mary Lou! Buddy Deane was the host of a Baltimore dance show that ran on TV from 1957 to 1964 six days a week. 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. This man approached me, telegrammed me, showed up at the show. The first stars I could identify with. 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. Over lunch at the Thunderball Lounge, in East Baltimore, Kathy remembers, I could never get used to signing autographs. 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 . 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. It was called The Waverly Theater back then, and Waters, looking dapper in a purple pinstriped suit, recalled that night as one of the last times he saw his friend and muse Divine before his death. SOUL! I couldnt be bothered with education. 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. 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. Joe remembers a sport coat I bought for $5 from somebody who got it when he got out of prison. three, two, one. As you can see from the December thread my question concerning African Americans was totally dismissed by the Committee member who was speaking. Why? Id wonder. She wasnt even a fan of the show. Advertisement. And none are bitter. Ten seconds to airtime. Yeah it was Cosenel, says Joe. It aired for two and a half hours a day, six days a week. You learned how to be a teenager from the show. (There was a token all-black program once a month on the show called "Negro Day" in the movie, a phrase that now drips with surreal period flavor but no black Committee, and the protests called for integrating the show.) 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 movie was eventually turned into a musical by the same name. The Buddy Deane Show was over. But something unforeseen happened: The home audience soon grew attached to some of these kids. In early 2003, Deane sold KOTN and three other stations he had acquired over the years. 'The Buddy Deane Show' was over . 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. Joe Cash has Jonas Cash Promotions, in Columbia and Silver Spring.. (my own promotional firmwe represent Warner Brothers, Columbia, Motown85 percent you hear in this market)and Active Industry Research, in Columbia (a research firmIm chairman of the board). Here is the new video celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Buddy Deane Show and the former Catonsville Community College (now CCBC). The first and maybe the biggest Buddy Deane queen of all. 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. We faked a feud. . Thats what really happened, and the show shut down.. Was it really twenty years ago? It was even in the papers. The regulars . January 4, 1964. I was a misfit. The musical is based on John Waters' 1988 campy movie of the same name. 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. These dances included the Mashed Potato, the Stroll, the Pony, the Waddle, the Locomotion, the Bug, the Handjive, the New Continental and the Madison. We really sprayed it, remembers Mary Lou today from her home in Pennsylvania. If I have one regret in life, its that I wasnt a Buddy Deaner. 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. But most have settled down to a very straight life. Some of the local teens who danced on the show became local celebrities and had fans of their own. I was so embarrassed. 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. On the air before Dick Clark debuted, the show was a hit from the beginning, says Arlene today. So the NAACP targeted the show for protests. 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. Gene calls it a big loss. It was living in a fantasy world, says Helen. 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. 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. In its version of 1960s Baltimore, teenagers sing and dance their way past race. Buddy Deane, a native of Pine Bluff, was one of the first radio hosts to understand the appeal of Rock n' Roll in its infancy, the host of a popular 60s teen dance show, the inspiration for a film and musical character in Hairspray, and so much more. Arlene Kozak, Buddys assistant and den mother to the Committee. 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. [citation needed]. It was similar to Philadelphia's American Bandstand. No! she answers, with a conviction that gives me the chills. Some of the really dedicated Committee members get tears in their eyes. The television news reporter covering the Corny Collins Show in the film sums up the climactic scene: Youre seeing history being made today. 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. 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). Associated Press text, photo, graphic, audio and/or video material shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium. 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. 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! 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.. The Deane program was a segregated show: white and Black teenagers danced on separate broadcasts. by I had to get up there on time. Ninfa O. Barnard wrote this article for explorepinebluff.com. 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 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. It was the era of rock n' roll ducktail, pegged pants, and beehive haridos. 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. 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. Girl Scout leader, very active in my kids school. Mary Lou is still a star. It was similar to Philadelphia's American Bandstand. Originally an all-white teen show with a monthly "Negro . I was a square. as its newest live-television musical adaptation. Theatre producer, Margo Lion, saw a television broadcast of the film in 1998 and started to conceive it as a stage musical. 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. Integration ended The Buddy Deane Show. Do you miss show biz? I ask her. 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. After you sprayed it, youd get toilet paper and blot it. At first I was so shy I hid behind the Coke machines., But Evanne used to come right home and head for the TV. And more important, so did the Committee, still entering by a special door, still doing the dances from the period with utmost precision. Buddy wanted it to end happily, but WJZ angered Deaners when it tried to blame the ratings. Hundreds of thousands of teens learned the latest dances by watching Committee members on the show, copying their personal style, and following their life stories and interactions. The Buddy Deane Show was taken off the air because home station WJZ-TV was unwilling to integrate black and white dancers. 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. 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. We are kind of like Ozzie and Harriet, says Gene Snyder as Linda nods in agreement. 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. producers hope this story of interracial unity will be appealing to television audiences in 2016. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it. On Jan. 4, 1964, "The Buddy Deane Show" aired its last episode. 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. Its host was Winston "Buddy" Deane (1924-2003), who died in Pine Bluff, Arkansas after . 2003. Deane also played songs that other disc jockeys, including Dick Clark, refused to present to mostly white teen TV audiences because the acts sounded "too black" (e.g. If you leaned on one side, the next day youd just pick it out into shape. The Corny Collins Show is now integrated! Waters himself commented on the films revisionist history, I gave it a happy ending that it didnt have., Hairsprays happy ending gave the story an arc that appealed to Broadway and Hollywood producers. We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. (I looked like I was taking off.) And Helen, Linda, and Joanie all got out the rat-tail teasing combs. 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 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. 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. Buddy Deane, a native of Pine Bluff, was one of the first radio hosts to understand the appeal of Rock n Roll in its infancy, the host of a popular 60s teen dance show, the inspiration for a film and musical character in Hairspray, and so much more. The very first day on the set, I didnt recognize Divine, the filmmaker said. ', 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. Pixie was barely five feet tall, but her hair sometimes added a good six to eight inches to her height. Friday, February 24, 2023. He just didnt understand., But some have dealt with the problems in good humor. 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. Performances begin at 7 p.m. Just once. 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. Almost all dancers wore swim wear and beach attire, with music provided by WJZ-TV. I wanted to go, but my parents wouldnt let me. We got more mail: Oh, please dont break up! Somebody even sent us a miniature pair of boxing gloves. Print Headline: Buddy Deane Show was huge hit for young viewers in the late 1950s, Copyright 2023, Northwest Arkansas Newspapers LLC. Hairspray was the actors first film, before Dead Poets Society, which came out the next year. The 1988 John Waters film, newly adapted into an NBC live musical, presents a view of racial discrimination thats by turns nave and enlightening. Seeing Hairspray as more than simply a post-racial American fantasy requires taking the storys teen dance show setting seriously. A devoted fan of the Buddy Deane Show, Waters drew on this history to write and direct the original film version of Hairspray. Image Credit: OzNet.com. It was difficult with your peers, recalls Peanuts. 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. She was the one of the biggies who refused to be on the Board (they had power; a liked because of it). The whole day on the show was devoted to me.. When that little red light came on, so did my smile, she says, laughing. 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). 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. The protesters wanted the races to mix. I was aggressive. 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. Unlike the tensions that followed the real integration of the Buddy Deane Show, Waterss Hairspray ends with the protesters triumphing. 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. We have a telegram, Buddy would shout almost daily, for Mary Lou to lead a dance, and the cameraman seemed to love her. . | "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 . 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. The Buddy Deane Show was a teenage dance party, on the air from 1957 to 1964. The show's format mirrored Philadelphia's "American Bandstand." Sign Up: Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Even racists like it, Waters said in his opening remarks. 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 Buddy Deane Show: With Channing Wilroy, Buddy Deane. Deaners seem to come out of the woodwork, drawn by the memory of their stardom. Teenagers who appeared on the show every day were known as "The Committee". Sign up for our Email Newsletters here. His running joke with listeners was that he ran the town from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. until the city's real mayor took over. Could it be? GOD HELP US! One of the first ponytail princesses was Peanuts (Sharon Goldman, debuting at 14 in 58, Forest Park, Chicken Hop), who went on the show because Deaners were folk heroes. She remembers Paul Anka singing Put Your Head on My Shoulder to her on camera as she did just that. Ninfa O. Barnard Special to The Commercial 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. Several local art contests were also held on the show, with viewers submitting their own art work. 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