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. My parents didn't talk much about racism, and as a result I grew up learning to love everybody. [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. 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. But I was never a Deaner. As you can see from the December thread my question concerning African Americans was totally dismissed by the Committee member who was speaking. 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. 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. 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. Racism is passed down from one generation to the next. On the other, Hairspray Live! So there you have it. You are history. Several local art contests were also held on the show, with viewers submitting their own art work. Being a teenage star in Baltimore had its drawbacks. 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 Funtown reference is powerful because it captures one of the ways that Jim Crow segregation and white supremacy played out for children and teenagers. . He just didnt understand., But some have dealt with the problems in good humor. . Marie Fischer was the first Joe to become a Committee memberchosen simply because she was such a good dancer. C. Fields in drag.), This movie is the only radical movie I ever made because it snuck in mid-America. [2], https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Buddy_Deane_Show&oldid=1101079819. At her appearances at the record hops, kids would actually scream when youd get out of the car: Theres Mary Lou! 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. The first page of the essay, for example, features a full-page picture of black protestors in 1962 in Times . 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. . I remember it well, recalls Evanne. Jones). 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. 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. One girl yelled Buddy Deaner and then threw her plate at me. On Jan. 4, 1964, "The Buddy Deane Show" aired its last episode. 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. Helens fans flocked to see her at the Buddy Deane Record Hops (Committee members had to make such personal appearances and sign autographs.) 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.. 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. three, two, one. It was horrible/ says Joe. 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. 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. And the girl Deaners, God, hair-hoppers as we called them in Towson, the ones with the Etta Gowns, bouffant hairdos, and cha-cha heels. 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. Buddy wanted it to end happily, but WJZ angered Deaners when it tried to blame the ratings. It was even in the papers. Clip from Shake, Rattle, and Roll: The Buddy Deane Scrapbook Rather than integrating, the show was canceled. Here is the new video celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Buddy Deane Show and the former Catonsville Community College (now CCBC). It was similar to Philadelphia's American Bandstand. At 21, I married a professional football player, Helen remembers, and he made me burn all the fan mail. (97) . 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. 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. 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. Oh, black teens could dancejust not with the white kids. I had trunks of it. Buddy Deane was the host of a Baltimore dance show that ran on TV from 1957 to 1964 six days a week. It was the times, most remember. After a surprise interracial broadcast, WJZ-TV received bomb and arson threats, hate mail, and complaints from white parents. If I have one regret in life, its that I wasnt a Buddy Deaner. Voters approve of . 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. offered an unfiltered, uncompromising celebration of Black literature, poetry, music, and politics, capturing a critical moment in culture whose impact continues to resonate today. IndieWire is a part of Penske Media Corporation. 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. Buddy Deane was the host of a Baltimore dance show that ran on TV from 1957 to 1964 six days a week. 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. But an intrepid group of local and . In addition to creating teenage dancing sensations, "The Buddy Deane Show" also featured musical superstars of the day, including Buddy Holly, Domino, the Supremes, the Marvelettes, Annette Funicello, Frankie Avalon, Fabian and many others. . Even racists like it, Waters said in his opening remarks. The Buddy Deane Show was over. I was aggressive. "How 'The Buddy Deane Show' really went off the air is the white kids crashed Negro Day to integrate it. 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 . The night was full of delightful anecdotes, including these ten you may not have heard before. But it went something like this: Buddy Deane was an exclusively white show. Only white teens became members of the elite Committee the Buddy Deane equivalent of the Mouseketeers. Not show biz, Arlene answers, hesitating, but the record biz, the people. The buddy dean show debuted on Sep. 9. 1957, it was a huge success as it was portrayed in the musical. 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. Facing controversy over the possibility of more integrated broadcasts, the station canceled the program. So the NAACP targeted the show for protests. For the rest of the time, the show's participants were all white. . It was the top-rated local TV show in Baltimore and, for several years, the highest rated local TV program in the country. The Buddy Deane Show was taken off the air because home station WJZ-TV was unwilling to integrate black and white dancers. When that little red light came on, so did my smile, she says, laughing. producers hope this story of interracial unity will be appealing to television audiences in 2016. Get off that furniture!? The show featured only white kids dancing, so Scruggs wrote him a letter in the fall of. Deaners seem to come out of the woodwork, drawn by the memory of their stardom. Why? Id wonder. She wasnt even a fan of the show. 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. I still believe that footage is out there somewhere. Teenagers who appeared on the show every day were known as "The Committee". Nicknamed "Buddy" as a child, Deane developed an early love for radio. I saw the show as a vehicle to make something of myself, remembers Joe. Youre in Baltimore. 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. Deane died in Pine Bluff on July 16, 2003, after experiencing complications caused by a stroke. Theyd stand outside my home. 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 Deane Show was a highly visible regional program that asserted a racially segregated public culture. In mixed marriages (with non-Deaners), many of the outsiders resented their spouses pasts. "Where: 800 N. Charles St, Baltimore, MD 21201. Though black and white . 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. and later on, growing up, it was a definite blow: reality. I still have a whole box of fan mail, says Evanne. In Little Rock, white teens went from protesting integration at Central High School to dancing in the afternoon on Steves Show. Pancocojams showcases the music, dances, language practices, & customs of African Americans and of other people of Black descent throughout the world. 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. The show designated every other friday to their black dancers, similar to "Negro Day" on the Corny Collins Show. Yet Joe was a dropout when he went on the show and then, once famous, went back to finish. However, unlike during the song "The New Girl in Town" where the Dynamites get there song stolen by 3 committee members, the Buddy . When I get depressed, I dont go to the psychiatrist, I go to the jeweler, she says. The early look of the Committee was typically 50s. He was mad because I was as popular as he was. 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. I had a lot of black friends at the time, so for me this was an awkward thing, says Marie. . I got a little power-crazed, admits Joe. 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 . "I told him I thought it was terrible," Melva Lee Scruggs said about the "Buddy Deane Show." Gene calls it a big loss. It was living in a fantasy world, says Helen. In 2003, "Hairspray" went on to sweep the 57th Annual Tony Awards, winning a total of eight awards. They would drive me nuts when theyd come in the door, and Id say Man, youre gone. Romance was one thing; sex was another. The musical is based on John Waters' 1988 campy movie of the same name. Washington D.C.'s The Milt Grant Show offered "Black Tuesday" and Baltimore's The Buddy Deane Show had "Negro Day" because . 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. When: Summer 1963. 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. And because a new dance was introduced practically every week, you had to watch every day to keep up. I wanted to go, but my parents wouldnt let me. Integration ended The Buddy Deane Show. It was similar to Philadelphia's American Bandstand. Deane even played a small role in the movie, which premiered to moderate success but went on to become a cult classic. "Hairspray" will continue at East Ridge High School through April 23. In 1942, Deane enrolled at Cornell University in New York. From then on, all bare shoulders were covered with a piece of net. It was broadcast for two hours a day, six days a week and featured local teenagers dancing to their favorite music played by live bands. 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. Like many couples, Joe and Joan met through the show and became an item for their fans. I had to get up there on time. The Buddy Deane Show was taken off the air because home station WJZ-TV was unwilling to integrate black and white dancers. . Everywhere we went, people would say Theres Mary Lou. I wondered if she had just been released from the penitentiary.. I am here and on FB as well as NOBLE BRUN in the event the footage can be located. Theatre producer, Margo Lion, saw a television broadcast of the film in 1998 and started to conceive it as a stage musical. We really sprayed it, remembers Mary Lou today from her home in Pennsylvania. 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. Do you miss show biz? I ask her. Seeing Hairspray as more than simply a post-racial American fantasy requires taking the storys teen dance show setting seriously. He got a great review in The New York Times. 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. Id get letters saying, If you show up at this particular hop, youre gonna get your face pushed in. as its newest live-television musical adaptation. 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. 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. Deane fought in the Battle of the Bulge and was awarded a Purple Heart during his time in the Europe. You will be redirected back to your article in, Get The Latest IndieWire Alerts And Newsletters Delivered Directly To Your Inbox. The Nicest Kids in Town! Image Credit: OzNet.com Winston Joseph Deane was born on August 2, 1924, in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. 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. 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. Sure, as a teenager I was a guest on the show. 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. Just once. Every day Id come to the studio in knee-highs, and Id have to take them off. I dont think Ill ever get over missing it, if you want to know the truth., Many of the Committee members spouses faced an even bigger adjustment. And if you dared to dance the obscene Bodie Green (the Dirty Boogie), you were immediately a goner. The first stars I could identify with. Buddy Deane. You had to wear nylons. Special appearances. The Buddy Deane Show: With Channing Wilroy, Buddy Deane. Oddly enough, few of the Deaners Ive talked to went on to show biz. The main thing was your hair was flat, the antithesis of Buddy Deane, she says, chuckling. Everybody wanted to kick a Buddy Deaners a, says Gene, recalling thugs waiting to jump Deaners outside the studio. 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.. All on Pulaski Highway. 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. Joel Chaseman, also a DJ at WITH, became program manager of WJZ-TV when Westinghouse bought it in the mid-50s. A special. The Corny Collins Show, is a teen dance show in Baltimore's WYZT /WZZT Network. But something unforeseen happened: The home audience soon grew attached to some of these kids. 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. Not one of the Committee members, the ones chosen to be on the show every daythe Baltimore version of the Mouseketeers, the nicest kids in town, as they were billed. And none are bitter. I havent seen her since we made the movie, said Waters. 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. sively white show. 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). Mary Lou, the Annette Funicello of the show, was the talk of teenage Baltimore. 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. 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! 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. That's what really happened, and the show shut down." 3. Kathy switched to a great beehive that resembled a trash can sitting on top of her head. 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. Ninfa O. Barnard Special to The Commercial 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 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. On the last day of the show, January 4, 1964, all the most popular Committee members through the years came back for one last appearance. The 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. The very first day on the set, I didnt recognize Divine, the filmmaker said. The introductory essay in Dick Clark's American Bandstand (1997) is illustrative in this regard. You learned how to be a teenager from the show. Many years later they married. I didnt mean to, because I never would have messed up the makeup.. His show became one of the highest rated stations in the country. The Committee, initially recruited from local teen centers, was to act as hosts and dance with the guests. We have a telegram, Buddy would shout almost daily, for Mary Lou to lead a dance, and the cameraman seemed to love her. SOUL! It ran two hours a day, six days a week. In 1984, he sold the station to a local college but bought it back in 1996. 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 . Even doing commercials was expected. 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. 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