Could it be? One time I was going with this guy, and he was dancing with this guest I didnt like, says Evanne. 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. In early 2003, Deane sold KOTN and three other stations he had acquired over the years. 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. On the air before Dick Clark debuted, the show was a hit from the beginning, says Arlene today. This page was last edited on 29 July 2022, at 06:25. 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. 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. Also, read the comments in that same excerpt about the series only wanting "attractive" teenagers as featured dancers. American Bandstand, one of the most popular television shows ever, broadcast from Philadelphia in the late fifties, a time when that city had become a battleground for civil rights. On the show you were either a drape or a square, explains Sharon. Plot. 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. John Water's himself said that in his movie, he "gave it the happy ending that it didn't have". The Nicest Kids in Town! I was a misfit. I wonder if that applied to Black males as well as White males. At first I was so shy I hid behind the Coke machines., But Evanne used to come right home and head for the TV. Mary Lou was aware that in some neighborhoods it was not cool to be a Buddy Deaner. The Buddy Deane Show was taken off the air because home station WJZ-TV was unwilling to integrate black and white dancers. A devoted fan of the Buddy Deane Show, Waters drew on this history to write and direct the original film version of Hairspray. 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. That's what really happened, and the show shut down." 3. 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. Both entities launche. Every week she had a different dothe Double Bubble, the Artichoke, the Airlifteach topped off by her special trademark, suggested by her mother, the bow. If I have one regret in life, its that I wasnt a Buddy Deaner. Mr. Deane's salary . Ten seconds to airtime. 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. He was one of the first disc jockeys in the area to regularly feature rock and roll. This article is among features at explorepinebluff.com, a program of the Pine Bluff Advertising and Promotion Commission. Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! 'The Buddy Deane Show' was over . So the NAACP targeted the show for protests. The guys who wore sport coats with belts in the back from Lees of Broadway (10 percent discount for Committee members), pegged pants, pointy-toe shoes with the great buckles on the side, and drape (greaser) haircuts that my parents would never allow. "How 'The Buddy Deane Show' really went off the air is the white kids crashed Negro Day to integrate it. 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. They kept their figures, look nice, and are very kind people, says Marie in her lovely home on Falls Road before taking off for the University of Maryland, where she attends law school. Integration ended The Buddy Deane Show. Oddly enough, few of the Deaners Ive talked to went on to show biz. I was totally star-struck and had as much fun that night as I did at the Cannes Film Festival. Buddy Deane. You learned how to be a teenager from the show. I must have had ten different phone numbers, says Helen, and somehow it would get out. This sentiment carries through to the songs lyrics. Im Joe, too. There was a change in the works., Part of that change was the racial integration movement. Pancocojams showcases the music, dances, language practices, & customs of African Americans and of other people of Black descent throughout the world. . In his Letter from a Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke to what it meant for young black people to be excluded from entertainment spaces like the Buddy Deane Show. I still believe that footage is out there somewhere. 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. 2023 IndieWire Media, LLC. Buddy wanted it to end happily, but WJZ angered Deaners when it tried to blame the ratings. 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. But most have settled down to a very straight life. Waters based the main storyline and "The Corny Collins Show" on the real-life "The Buddy Deane Show" and racial events surrounding it. Deane hosted a morning show at WITH. 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. Winston Joseph Deane was born on Aug. 2, 1924, in Pine Bluff. On Wednesday, NBC is broadcasting Hairspray Live! It was difficult with your peers, recalls Peanuts. At just 10 years old, he and a friend set up their own radio station in a chicken coop that belonged to Deane's mother. Advertisement. (They gave her a diamond watch at the last reunion.) The regulars . 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. 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. Committee members included Mike Miller, Charlie Bledsoe, Ron Osher, Mary Lou Raines, Pat(ricia) Tacey, and Cathy Schmink. by When the show ended, Deane moved back to Arkansas,. You are out of here. 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. The Department of Education even withdrew its support of the show, and the show had to be filmed in the parking lot at times because of the threats they received. Not show biz, Arlene answers, hesitating, but the record biz, the people. Hairspray is firmly rooted in 1960s America, but it offers both sophisticated and (tellingly) simplistic ways of understanding racism today. Seeing Hairspray as more than simply a post-racial American fantasy requires taking the storys teen dance show setting seriously. The white kids parents came and got them. Youre in Baltimore. Why not do The Deane Show on TV again? I remember it well, recalls Evanne. I even named some of the characters in my films after them. Im a typical housewife, says Peanuts. The show's format mirrored Philadelphia's . 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. He just didnt understand., But some have dealt with the problems in good humor. The show featured only white kids dancing, so Scruggs wrote him a letter in the fall of. Perhaps the highest bouffants of all belonged to the Committee member who was my personal favorite: Pixie (who died several years later from a drug overdose). 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. Helens fans flocked to see her at the Buddy Deane Record Hops (Committee members had to make such personal appearances and sign autographs.) Neither these AP materials nor any portion thereof may be stored in a computer except for personal and noncommercial use. 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. Everybody wanted to kick a Buddy Deaners a, says Gene, recalling thugs waiting to jump Deaners outside the studio. 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 . 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. 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. . 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. All on Pulaski Highway. 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. The Buddy Deane Show was taken off the air because home station WJZ-TV was unwilling to integrate black and white dancers. 'Buddy Deane' really did have "Negro day" once a month -- it was called worse in some neighborhoods in Baltimore. The Committee, initially recruited from local teen centers, was to act as hosts and dance with the guests. Still, as an historian of the television era that Hairspray so lovingly recreates, I believe the story also presents a more nuanced vision of how popular culture helped to educate white and black teenagers about racial hierarchies. And Divine said, What drag queen would allow themselves to look like this?'. I am here and on FB as well as NOBLE BRUN in the event the footage can be located. 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. Facing controversy over the possibility of more integrated broadcasts, the station canceled the program. 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. Thank you for including me as one of the Buddy Dean family. 'Buddy' Deane; www.WashingtonPost.com -- The Messy Truth of The Real 'Hairspray.' Performances begin at 7 p.m. The Buddy Deane Show was a highly visible regional program that asserted a racially segregated public culture. 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. The show was a teen dance and music show and ran from 1957 to until 1964 on WJZ-TV until the show was canceled. . But as more and more kids (even Deane fans) did tum Joe College, many of the Committee made the mistake of not keeping up with the times. 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. Acts that appeared on the show first were reportedly barred from appearing on Dick Clark's American Bandstand, but if they had been on Bandstand first they could still be on The Buddy Deane Show. From 1964 to 1984, Deane hosted a show and owned KOTN-FM and KOTN-AM radio stations at Pine Bluff. 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. Once a month the show was all black; there was no black 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. Checking back with the studio, no one had information concerning footage of African American dancers. We are kind of like Ozzie and Harriet, says Gene Snyder as Linda nods in agreement. 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 . Hairspray was the actors first film, before Dead Poets Society, which came out the next year. Both black and white activists picketed the . What: The Buddy Deane Show was a teen rock-and-roll dance television show that aired on WJZ-TV in Baltimore, Maryland from 1957 until 1964. Image Credit: OzNet.com. The best little jitterbugger in Baltimore. Buddy noticed my eyes staring and said, Do the same eyes. And the camera got it. Kathy went even further. He was so happy. Special appearances. See production, box office & company info. They sent cakes on my birthday. 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. Perhaps the last thing 2016 needs is a star-studded, light-hearted musical endorsement of colorblindnessthough, viewed holistically, Hairspray is more than that. 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. That was our whole social life, being a Buddy Deaner, says Gene. Racism is passed down from one generation to the next. 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. Sure, as a teenager I was a guest on the show. Then we made up on camera.. She became so popular that she was written up in the nationwide Sixteen Magazine. 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. Maybe that was a good choice because Divine was 40 then., She played against-type, certainly. And although few will now admit to having been drapes, the styles at first were DAs (slicked back into the shape of a ducks tail), Detroits, and Waterfalls (flowing down the front) for the guys and ponytails and DAs for the girls, who wore full skirts with crinolins and three or four pairs of bobby socks. The first page of the essay, for example, features a full-page picture of black protestors in 1962 in Times . BLACK MUSIC MOMENT #96: Short-Lived Integration Of The Buddy Deane Show. Theyd stand outside my home. 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). Dick Clark patterned his ABC-TV show, Where the Action Is, after local remotes done by Deane in Maryland. 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. 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. | Most are happily married with kids and maintain the same images they had on the show. Nicknamed "Buddy" as a child, Deane developed an early love for radio. On the other, Hairspray Live! Six days a week and often two hours a day, Buddy Deane and his Committee Members--the privileged regular teen dancers . 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 Corny Collins Show, is a teen dance show in Baltimore's WYZT /WZZT Network. Buddy Deane was the host of a Baltimore dance show that ran on TV from 1957 to 1964 six days a week. 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. People already were excited about it, but after the election they were saying, Boy, do we need this now, Meron said while promoting the new television musical. No matter how progressive we become, there will always be those who will still hang on to the tradition of hate. . ' And Evanne still shudders as she recalls, Once I was in the cafeteria. 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. 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. When the subject comes up today, most loyalists want to go off the record. 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. All rights reserved. (97) 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. 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.. It suggests a way of understanding race that allows viewers to disavow bigotryframed in the story as the belief that white and black Americans should live in separate sphereswithout acknowledging, confronting, or seeking to overturn the actual structures of discrimination. You could throw her down on the ground, and her hair would crack, recalls Gene. 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. It was hilarious., Some of the rumors were fanned on purpose. Some of the really dedicated Committee members get tears in their eyes. Almost every rock 'n' roll star except Elvis graced the Deane Show stage. I appreciate the contribution that you and NOBLE BRUN, and other Black dancers on the Buddy Dean dance show made on that series. Ironically, The Buddy Deane Show introduced black music and artists into the lives of white Baltimore teenagers, many of whom learned to dance from black friends and listened to black radio. 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. 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. 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. When that little red light came on, so did my smile, she says, laughing. So the rules were bent a little; the big ones, the ones with the fan mail, were allowed to stay. Deane also held dances at various Maryland American Legion posts and National Guard armories which were not taped or broadcast on television. Buddy wanted it to end happily, but WJZ angered Deaners when it tried to blame the ratings. They all thought all the girls were pregnant by Buddy Deane, remember several. 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 so painful. NBCs Hairspray Live! We really sprayed it, remembers Mary Lou today from her home in Pennsylvania. You are history. It was similar to Philadelphia's American Bandstand. These dances included the Mashed Potato, the Stroll, the Pony, the Waddle, the Locomotion, the Bug, the Handjive, the New Continental and the Madison. As you can see from the December thread my question concerning African Americans was totally dismissed by the Committee member who was speaking. 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. I was so embarrassed. It was even in the papers. If "The Buddy Deane Show" didn't exactly end happily (canceled in 1964, it never did integrate the dancers), Waters remains a fan. There were a lot of obscene phone calls., And the rumors, God, the rumors. There are other socio-cultural comments in various YouTube comments threads about the Madison dance. 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. Eating the refreshments (Ameches Powerhouses, the premiere teenage hangouts forerunner of the Big Mac), which were for guests only. It was very interesting to see my conversation quoted in this article. If you leaned on one side, the next day youd just pick it out into shape. We used to go to stand in front of Reads Drugstore, and people would ask for our autograph.. [citation needed]. In its version of 1960s Baltimore, teenagers sing and dance their way past race. 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. Black teens were only allowed to dance on the show one day per month. Only white teens became members of the elite Committee the Buddy Deane equivalent of the Mouseketeers. Thats what really happened, and the show shut down.. Its host was Winston "Buddy" Deane (1924-2003), who died in Pine Bluff, Arkansas after . Nicknamed "Buddy" as a child, Deane . This document may not be reprinted without the express written permission of Northwest Arkansas Newspapers LLC. So the NAACP targeted the show for protests. BLACK MUSIC MOMENT #96: Short-Lived Integration Of The Buddy Deane Show, Jun 1, 2011 By TheUrbanDaily Staff. We have a telegram, Buddy would shout almost daily, for Mary Lou to lead a dance, and the cameraman seemed to love her. And none are bitter. At 21, I married a professional football player, Helen remembers, and he made me burn all the fan mail. Originally an all-white teen show with a monthly "Negro . SOUL! [citation needed] In several instances, the show went on location to the Milford Mill swim club on the westside of suburban Baltimore County. The very first day on the set, I didnt recognize Divine, the filmmaker said. The story also locates racial prejudice in a single character, Velma Von Tussle (played in the live musical by Kristin Chenoweth), which enables the other white characters to remain largely innocent bystanders to the discrimination faced by the programs black teenagers. In 1950, he moved to Baltimore to WITH. We would always do The Dirty Boogie, the one you arent allowed to do, he said. Being a teenage star in Baltimore had its drawbacks. I wanted to go, but my parents wouldnt let me. If you were a Buddy Deane Committee member, you were on TV six days a week for as many as three hours a dayenough media exposure to make Marshall McLuhans head spin. Mr. 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. While he wasnt on the committee, Waters occasionally danced on the show as a guest. Once I was off the show for a while, and they said I had joined the nunnery, says Helen, laughing. He was mad because I was as popular as he was. And they all came together on the Buddy Deane Show, Baltimore's legendary teen dance show. Ladies and Gentleman . Sources: www.IMDB.com -- Buddy Deane Biography; www.OzNet.com - A Collection of Articles About Buddy Deane; www.Variety.com -- Winston J. Even racists like it, Waters said in his opening remarks. His childhood nickname was Buddy. 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. At her appearances at the record hops, kids would actually scream when youd get out of the car: Theres Mary Lou! Deaners seem to come out of the woodwork, drawn by the memory of their stardom. 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. 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. The show featured only white kids dancing, so Scruggs wrote him a letter in the fall of 1958 to . I had a lot of black friends at the time, so for me this was an awkward thing, says Marie. 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. The first stars I could identify with. My mother used to pick me up after school to make sure nobody hassled me., The adoring fans could also be a hassle. Joe started working for Buddy as teen assistant and, along with Arlene, oversaw the Committee and enforced the strict rules. Warner, Tony, Buddy's Top 20: The Story of Baltimore's Hottest TV Dance Show and the Guy Who Brought it to Life! Friday, February 24, 2023. As with the drapes and squares of the previous decade, she explains, there were two classes of people thenDeaners and Joe College. . Teenagers who appeared on the show every day were known as "The Committee". My mother wanted me to go, she took me down to the tryouts. 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. 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. Get off that furniture!? 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. After you sprayed it, youd get toilet paper and blot it. Originally an all-white teen show with a monthly "Negro . The show was a teen dance and music show and ran from 1957 to until 1964 on WJZ-TV until the show was canceled. 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