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. I had a lot of black friends at the time, so for me this was an awkward thing, says Marie. 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. 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. (97) This article is among features at explorepinebluff.com, a program of the Pine Bluff Advertising and Promotion Commission. I was a square. 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 night was full of delightful anecdotes, including these ten you may not have heard before. But an intrepid group of local and . The Buddy Deane Show was a highly visible regional program that asserted a racially segregated public culture. 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. 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.. In its version of 1960s Baltimore, teenagers sing and dance their way past race. Sign up for our Email Newsletters here. On August 2, 1924, Winston Joseph Deane was born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. On Jan. 4, 1964, "The Buddy Deane Show" aired its last episode. This weekly time slot became known as "Special Guest Day" by the Deane Show's white performers and "Black Monday" by Baltimore's Black teens. Mary Lou was aware that in some neighborhoods it was not cool to be a Buddy Deaner. On the air before Dick Clark debuted, the show was a hit from the beginning, says Arlene today. Perhaps the last thing 2016 needs is a star-studded, light-hearted musical endorsement of colorblindnessthough, viewed holistically, Hairspray is more than that. Yet Joe was a dropout when he went on the show and then, once famous, went back to finish. Black History Month . 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 The "Buddy Dean Show" was abruptly cancelled. Seeing Hairspray as more than simply a post-racial American fantasy requires taking the storys teen dance show setting seriously. Buddy Deane. And the whole concept of the Committee changed. That's one of the things that the Black Lives Matter movement is talking about. 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 . We really sprayed it, remembers Mary Lou today from her home in Pennsylvania. (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.) 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. Arguably the first TV celebrities in Baltimore. 2003. They sent cakes on my birthday. The Corny Collins Show, is a teen dance show in Baltimore's WYZT /WZZT Network. I'm sure they could have reached out to me via these posts, but did not. Many parents and local officials were angry. Please read our Terms of Use or contact us. Performances begin at 7 p.m. With the 1960s came a whole new set of stars, some with names that seemed like gimmicks, but werent: Concetta Comi, the popular sister team of Yetta and Gretta Kotik. 'Buddy Deane' really did have "Negro day" once a month -- it was called worse in some neighborhoods in Baltimore. 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 appreciate the contribution that you and NOBLE BRUN, and other Black dancers on the Buddy Dean dance show made on that series. [1], As with many other local TV shows, little footage of the show is known to have survived. In Little Rock, white teens went from protesting integration at Central High School to dancing in the afternoon on Steves Show. I wanted to dance., We had a saying: The show either makes you or breaks you,' says Kathy. These were the first role models I knew. Actor: Hairspray. The main thing was your hair was flat, the antithesis of Buddy Deane, she says, chuckling. Waters's nostalgic and detailed appreciation for The Buddy Deane Show, . In the beginning, there was Arlene. 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. We are kind of like Ozzie and Harriet, says Gene Snyder as Linda nods in agreement. and later on, growing up, it was a definite blow: reality. I still have a whole box of fan mail, says Evanne. Jones). On the other, Hairspray Live! It's not just about police brutality. 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. 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). The show designated every other friday to their black dancers, similar to "Negro Day" on the Corny Collins Show. Hairspray is John Waters most commercially successful film the 1988 dancing comedy spawned a hit Broadway musical, a movie and TV movie of that musical, plus multiple sequel and TV show offers that never saw the light of day. You are out of here. Mr. Deane's salary . On Wednesday, NBC is broadcasting Hairspray Live! "The Buddy Deane Show," which aired on WJZ-TV in Baltimore from 1957 until 1964. . 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. 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. It was similar to Philadelphia's American Bandstand. The Hairspray Live! 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. I havent seen her since we made the movie, said Waters. There are other socio-cultural comments in various YouTube comments threads about the Madison dance. . The producers of Diner wanted to include Buddy Deane footage in their film, but most of the shows were live and any tapes of this local period piece have been erased. Once a month the show was all black. In 1942, Deane enrolled at Cornell University in New York. Some do remember a handful of kids getting high on cough medicine. Soon after, he and his family moved to Memphis, Tenn. He was so happy. Oh, black teens could dancejust not with the white kids. Originally an all-white teen show with a monthly "Negro . 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. Warner, Tony, Buddy's Top 20: The Story of Baltimore's Hottest TV Dance Show and the Guy Who Brought it to Life! Chaseman had this idea for a dance party show, with Buddy as the disc jockey, and Buddy asked Arlene to go to work for him. I had to get up there on time. has the chance to resurface a forgotten history of how discrimination in pop culture intimately shaped the lives of young people 50 years ago. The more hair spray, the better. Deane organized and disc-jockeyed dances in public venues across the WJZ-TV broadcast area, including much of central Maryland, Delaware, and southern Pennsylvania where tens of thousands of teenagers were exposed to live recording artists and TV personalities. The show was a teen dance and music show and ran from 1957 to until 1964 on WJZ-TV until the show was canceled. 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. The Best Picture Race Got a Lot More Confusing This Week, Tom Cruise Made the Rounds This Week, but Other Oscar Nominees Got More Applause Than Top Gun: Maverick, These Oscar Categories Are the Hardest to Predict, Translating the Unconscious Into Images: The Cinematography of Bardo, Poker Face Takes Viewers on a Cross-Country Road Trip Without Leaving New York, Why TR Looks Different from Every Other Movie of 2022, The 50 Best Movies of 2022, According to 165 Critics from Around the World, All 81 Titles Unceremoniously Removed from HBO Max (So Far), 10 Shows Canceled but Not Forgotten in 2022. The Buddy Deane Show was taken off the air because home station WJZ-TV was unwilling to integrate black and white dancers. Although WJZ-TV, owned by Westinghouse Broadcasting (now CBS since January 2, 1995), was an ABC affiliate, the station "blacked out" the network broadcast of American Bandstand in Baltimore and broadcast the Deane program instead, reportedly because Bandstand showed black teenagers dancing on the show (although black and white teenagers were not allowed to dance together until the show was moved to California in 1964). As you can see from the December thread my question concerning African Americans was totally dismissed by the Committee member who was speaking. Marie Fischer was the first Joe to become a Committee memberchosen simply because she was such a good dancer. He left behind his wife, Helen Stevenson Deane; his three daughters, JoEllen, Dawn, and Debbie and their families. She became so popular that she was written up in the nationwide Sixteen Magazine. At first I was so shy I hid behind the Coke machines., But Evanne used to come right home and head for the TV. 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. Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! 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. Checking back with the studio, no one had information concerning footage of African American dancers. 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. 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. . Mr. 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. Here, Clark's memories of American Bandstand are nested in an overview of important events in U.S. history from the 1950s and 1960s. Romance was one thing; sex was another. The regulars . In mixed marriages (with non-Deaners), many of the outsiders resented their spouses pasts. 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 . It was similar to Philadelphia's American Bandstand. were the highest rated local TV show in America." Amazingly, Deane's show was aired live, two-and-a-half hours each day on five days a week with three hours on Saturday. producers hope this story of interracial unity will be appealing to television audiences in 2016. Mr. Deane hosted a crowd of exuberant teens, who danced to the music of live rock bands, including many name acts. WJZ's show aired from 1957 to 1964 and was popular among Baltimore teens, promoting dances like the twist, mashed potato, and the Madison. The Buddy Deane Show: With Channing Wilroy, Buddy Deane. If "The Buddy Deane Show" didn't exactly end happily (canceled in 1964, it never did integrate the dancers), Waters remains a fan. 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. Some fifty years later, the mindset is STILL the same. So the rules were bent a little; the big ones, the ones with the fan mail, were allowed to stay. 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. When: Summer 1963. . Dick Clark patterned his ABC-TV show, Where the Action Is, after local remotes done by Deane in Maryland. 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 . [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. The very first day on the set, I didnt recognize Divine, the filmmaker said. Arlene Kozak, Buddys assistant and den mother to the Committee. Teenagers who appeared on the show every day were known as "The Committee". 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. 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. From 1996 to 2003, he hosted dance events in Baltimore, Pennsylvania and aboard cruise ships. Id get letters saying, If you show up at this particular hop, youre gonna get your face pushed in. sively white show. Buddy wanted it to end happily, but WJZ angered Deaners when it tried to blame the ratings. 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. The Corny Collins Show, it turns out, was lifted almost literally from the extremely popular Buddy Deane Show, Baltimore's answer to Dick Clark's American Bandstand. In 1985 the Committee members are for the most part happy and healthy, living in Baltimore, and still recognized on the street. 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. It was very interesting to see my conversation quoted in this article. 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. 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.. 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. ', 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. Several local art contests were also held on the show, with viewers submitting their own art work. And because a new dance was introduced practically every week, you had to watch every day to keep up. 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. 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. 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). I was so embarrassed. as its newest live-television musical adaptation. Greetings, Pat Brun.Thanks for commenting in this pancocojams discussion thread. 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. Also, read the comments in that same excerpt about the series only wanting "attractive" teenagers as featured dancers. Deane died in Pine Bluff on July 16, 2003, after experiencing complications caused by a stroke. "Where: 800 N. Charles St, Baltimore, MD 21201. If a guy had one beer, it was a big deal. Jul 24, 2017 - Explore Bruce Clarke's board "Buddy Dean Show", followed by 154 people on Pinterest. His show became one of the highest rated stations in the country. John Waters, a Baltimore filmmaker and Deane Show fan, loosely based "The Corny Collins' Show" in his movie "Hairspray" on Deane's show. But black kids in . And the other ladies in Allentown blue-collar neighborhood in Baltimore were talking to her and saying, Yeah, what kind of movie is this? They thought she was a real woman that lived on the street, you know. "Do You Love Me" by The Contours, or "Hide and Go Seek" by Bunker Hill). All the choreography in the movie prior to this was segregated by race, and now its all together, which is a very, very subtle reference to the theme of this movie.. 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. Washington D.C.'s The Milt Grant Show offered "Black Tuesday" and Baltimore's The Buddy Deane Show had "Negro Day" because . It was difficult with your peers, recalls Peanuts. 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. 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. offered an unfiltered, uncompromising celebration of Black literature, poetry, music, and politics, capturing a critical moment in culture whose impact continues to resonate today. (They gave her a diamond watch at the last reunion.) So there you have it. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it. It was a family: Buddy was the father, Arlene was the mother.. 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. 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. Other vices were likewise eschewed. Almost all dancers wore swim wear and beach attire, with music provided by WJZ-TV. My mother used to pick me up after school to make sure nobody hassled me., The adoring fans could also be a hassle. "Hairspray" will continue at East Ridge High School through April 23. The show was a teen dance and music show and ran from 1957 to until 1964 on WJZ-TV until the show was canceled. Many parents and local officials were angry. Pixie was barely five feet tall, but her hair sometimes added a good six to eight inches to her height. 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.. Buddy called me up before the cameras, and I wasnt dressed my best. SOUL! Rather than integrating, the show was canceled. Racism is passed down from one generation to the next. 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. The first stars I could identify with. He got a great review in The New York Times. 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. 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