I had to get up there on time. Even racists like it, Waters said in his opening remarks. Ninfa O. Barnard Special to The Commercial When I became of age to understand it all I became motivated to make a difference. and later on, growing up, it was a definite blow: reality. I still have a whole box of fan mail, says Evanne. You Cant Stop the Beat, for example, is an upbeat dance number that resolves the issue of segregation on the Corny Collins Show. The show designated every other friday to their black dancers, similar to "Negro Day" on the Corny Collins Show. So a year later when he had his own show, it seemed only right that "Rock Around the Clock" premiered on "The Buddy Deane Show.". Warner, Tony, Buddy's Top 20: The Story of Baltimore's Hottest TV Dance Show and the Guy Who Brought it to Life! 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. Mr. Deane hosted a crowd of exuberant teens, who danced to the music of live rock bands, including many name acts. The Buddy Deane Show was over. Black teens were only allowed to dance on the show one day per month. The Deaners didnt mind. In 2003, "Hairspray" went on to sweep the 57th Annual Tony Awards, winning a total of eight awards. On Negro day a group of black and white kids staged a similar sneak attack on the Buddy Deane Show. Kathy switched to a great beehive that resembled a trash can sitting on top of her head. 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. Sign up for our Email Newsletters here. Black and white together on local TV. "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 . Because Buddy Deanes competition was soap operas, the budding teenage romances were sometimes played up for the camera. Bill Haley and the Comets did their premier perf of "Rock Around the Clock" on Deane's show, and Deane was named the No. The Buddy Deane Show was taken off the air because home station WJZ-TV was unwilling to integrate black and white dancers. The introductory essay in Dick Clark's American Bandstand (1997) is illustrative in this regard. Then we made up on camera.. Before long I started getting lots of fan mail: I think youre neat. 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. That's what really happened, and the show shut down." 3. Originally aired 11/5/1986. As well, a show was broadcast from a local farm in Westminster, Maryland. The Buddy Deane Show was a teenage dance party, on the air from 1957 to 1964. Many years later they married. Buddy Deane was the host of a Baltimore dance show that ran on TV from 1957 to 1964 six days a week. 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 was the host of a Baltimore dance show that ran on TV from 1957 to 1964 six days a week. . If a guy had one beer, it was a big deal. So you cant imagine how excited I was when I finally got a chance to interview these local legends twenty years later. "The Buddy Deane Show," which aired on WJZ-TV in Baltimore from 1957 until 1964. . Mary Lou was aware that in some neighborhoods it was not cool to be a Buddy Deaner. I was a square. 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. The Buddy Deane Show was a highly visible regional program that asserted a racially segregated public culture. It is hosted by the titular Corny Collins, with the exception of the monthly Rhythm and Blues special which is hosted by Motormouth Maybelle . . Many parents and local officials were angry. By what name was The Buddy Deane Show (1957) officially released in Canada in English? It was a fluke. It was very interesting to see my conversation quoted in this article. 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. By representing this realityin bubble-gum, technicolor clarityHairspray does something that pure documentation, at times, cant: It makes a difficult part of a nations history accessible (and entertaining) to millions of viewers. 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. The Deane program was a segregated show: white and Black teenagers danced on separate broadcasts. You will be redirected back to your article in, Get The Latest IndieWire Alerts And Newsletters Delivered Directly To Your Inbox. This discrimination was explicitly or tacitly supported by an array of advertisers, television stations, music producers, city authorities, and federal communications officials. I was honored, touched by it all.. The show was a teen dance and music show and ran from 1957 to until 1964 on WJZ-TV until the show was canceled. 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?'. He just didnt understand., But some have dealt with the problems in good humor. 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. The Corny Collins Show, is a teen dance show in Baltimore's WYZT /WZZT Network. Thats what really happened, and the show shut down.. He was 16 at the time of filming. 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. Buddy could take his seat beneath the famous Top 20 Board, and the tension would build. Rather than integrating, the show was canceled. John Water's himself said that in his movie, he "gave it the happy ending that it didn't have". 1 DJ in 1962 by Billboard mag. The Buddy Deane Show was taken off the air because home station WJZ-TV was unwilling to integrate black and white dancers. "I remember it well," recalls Evanne. (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.) (97) 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. Image Credit: OzNet.com. The first big stars were Bobbi Bums and Freddy Oswinkle, according to Arlene, but no matter how big anyone got, someone came along who was even bigger. Joe Cash and Joan Teves became the shows first royalty. Jones). Here is the new video celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Buddy Deane Show and the former Catonsville Community College (now CCBC). 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. 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. However, unlike during the song "The New Girl in Town" where the Dynamites get there song stolen by 3 committee members, the Buddy . You are out of here. The buddy dean show debuted on Sep. 9. The Buddy Dean Show was the inspiration for the "Corny Collins Show" in the 2007 musical. In her home, near Allentown, Pennsylvania, she serves me a beautiful brunch, models her fur coats, and poses with her Mercedes. The information used was obtained from WJZ. Advertisement. How The Buddy Deane Show really went off the air is the white kids crashed Negro Day to integrate it. 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 times, most remember. In December 1963, producers at Baltimores WJZ-TV cancelled the Buddy Deane Show rather than integrate the popular teen dance program. "If you first appeared on The Buddy Deane Show then you could not appear on The Dick Clark Show," Deane said. 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. 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. This program is a tribute to long-time Maryland radio announcer Buddy Deane, who passed away in August, 2003. 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. Like many couples, Joe and Joan met through the show and became an item for their fans. 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. Buddy Deane was the host of a Baltimore dance show that ran on TV from 1957 to 1964 six days a week. 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. It was similar to Philadelphia's American Bandstand. The regulars . In 1948, Deane married Helen Stevenson, his childhood sweetheart, whom he first met when he was just four years old. The Deane program set aside every other Friday for a show featuring only black teenagers. [1] He was 78. 'Buddy' Deane; www.WashingtonPost.com -- The Messy Truth of The Real 'Hairspray.' When the show ended, Deane moved back to Arkansas,. 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. But an intrepid group of local and . Everywhere we went, people would say Theres Mary Lou. I wondered if she had just been released from the penitentiary.. It was horrible/ says Joe. January 4, 1964. 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. That's what really happened, and the show shut down." 3. 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. Ric Ocasek as the Beatnik cat; Pia Zadora as the Beatnik chick; Production. The protesters wanted the races to mix. . And if you dared to dance the obscene Bodie Green (the Dirty Boogie), you were immediately a goner. 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. Motormouth Maybelle, a fictional black deejay and civil-rights activist played in the NBC version by Jennifer Hudson, sings: You cant stop today as it comes speeding down the track / Child, yesterday is history and its never coming back / Cause tomorrow is a brand new day and it dont know white from black. In the films narrative, this utopian vision of a colorblind future solves the problem of segregation and racial injustice. His show became one of the highest rated stations in the country. She became so popular that she was written up in the nationwide Sixteen Magazine. Arguably the first TV celebrities in Baltimore. 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 show's format mirrored Philadelphia's . 'Buddy Deane' really did have "Negro day" once a month -- it was called worse in some neighborhoods in Baltimore. 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. All of those dances were real, they were real dances, we didnt make any of them up and two were cut out. 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. When I get depressed, I dont go to the psychiatrist, I go to the jeweler, she says. In fact, "American Bandstand" was not shown on television in Baltimore because Deane's show was so popular. I am here and on FB as well as NOBLE BRUN in the event the footage can be located. Ladies and Gentleman . Some of the really dedicated Committee members get tears in their eyes. He was so happy. I used to get death threats on the show. 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. 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. Id hook and have to dance in the back so the teachers couldnt see me, says Helen. I was a misfit. "The Buddy Deane Show" ran on Baltimore's WJZ-TV from 1957 to 1964. by 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. Im a typical housewife, says Peanuts. 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. The Buddy Deane Show was taken off the air because home station WJZ-TV was unwilling to integrate black and white dancers. All on Pulaski Highway. (Special to The Commercial/OzNet.com/ExplorePineBluff.com). Mary Lou laughs at the memory of doing a pimple medicine spot on camera. On Jan. 4, 1964, "The Buddy Deane Show" aired its last episode. 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. 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. Here, Clark's memories of American Bandstand are nested in an overview of important events in U.S. history from the 1950s and 1960s. This article is among features at explorepinebluff.com, a program of the Pine Bluff Advertising and Promotion Commission. Why not do The Deane Show on TV again? It was similar to Philadelphia's American Bandstand. Friday, February 19 at 7PM. A devoted fan of the Buddy Deane Show, Waters drew on this history to write and direct the original film version of Hairspray. ' And Evanne still shudders as she recalls, Once I was in the cafeteria. Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Powers was a particularly special addition, having disappeared in the years since the films release. The early look of the Committee was typically 50s. three, two, one. 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. I had trunks of it. 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). It was similar to Philadelphia's American Bandstand. . So the NAACP targeted the show for protests. Actor: Hairspray. The rivalry with Dick Clark meant that Deane urged all his performers not to mention American Bandstand or visits to Clark in Philadelphia. Neither these AP materials nor any portion thereof may be stored in a computer except for personal and noncommercial use. On this day in 1979, Sweeney Todd first opened on Broadway . 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. This sentiment carries through to the songs lyrics. 1957, it was a huge success as it was portrayed in the musical. It was even in the papers. Hopefully, some footage of you and the other Black dancers will be found and published online.Best wishes to you and yes, GOD HELP US! 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. Sign up for our Email Newsletters here. When the subject comes up today, most loyalists want to go off the record. Perhaps the last thing 2016 needs is a star-studded, light-hearted musical endorsement of colorblindnessthough, viewed holistically, Hairspray is more than that. Deane began his broadcasting career at KLXR in Little Rock, Arkansas. And more important, so did the Committee, still entering by a special door, still doing the dances from the period with utmost precision. Waters based the main storyline and "The Corny Collins Show" on the real-life "The Buddy Deane Show" and racial events surrounding it. Both entities launche. 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. 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 . Nationally, American Bandstand blocked black teens from entering the studio during its years in Philadelphia, despite host Dick Clarks claims to the contrary. . I focused on the 1957-1964 television series The Buddy Deane Show in part because I'm interested in documenting old school African American originated line dances, and the Buddy Deane Show's 1958 or 1959 clip of The Madison appears to be the earliest surviving film of that dance.I believe that The Buddy Deane Show is important in part because it documents aspects of Americana such as the way the teenagers (or at least White teenagers] in the late 1950s and early 1960s dressed, danced, interacted, and also documented (through retrospective interviews such as the one quoted in Excerpt #2 of this post) attitudes and values of that time. In 1942, Deane enrolled at Cornell University in New York. We are kind of like Ozzie and Harriet, says Gene Snyder as Linda nods in agreement. Buddy called me up before the cameras, and I wasnt dressed my best. 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). 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. [citation needed] In several instances, the show went on location to the Milford Mill swim club on the westside of suburban Baltimore County. From 1964 to 1984, Deane hosted a show and owned KOTN-FM and KOTN-AM radio stations at Pine Bluff. 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. 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