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. 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. Joe started working for Buddy as teen assistant and, along with Arlene, oversaw the Committee and enforced the strict rules. . If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it. In 1948, Deane married Helen Stevenson, his childhood sweetheart, whom he first met when he was just four years old. Museum Day; Art; Books; Design; Food; Music & Film; Video; Newsletter; Travel. The Buddy Deane Show: With Channing Wilroy, Buddy Deane. On this day in 1979, Sweeney Todd first opened on Broadway . 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. We really sprayed it, remembers Mary Lou today from her home in Pennsylvania. 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. Buddy offered to have three or even four days a week all black, but that wasnt it. You will be redirected back to your article in, Get The Latest IndieWire Alerts And Newsletters Delivered Directly To Your Inbox. Everybody wanted to kick a Buddy Deaners a, says Gene, recalling thugs waiting to jump Deaners outside the studio. The regulars . 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). I appreciate the contribution that you and NOBLE BRUN, and other Black dancers on the Buddy Dean dance show made on that series. The Buddy Deane Show was taken off the air because home station WJZ-TV was unwilling to integrate black and white dancers. And it was not unique: Dick Reids Record Hop in Charleston, West Virginia; Ginny Paces Saturday Hop in Houston, Texas; John Dixons Dixon on Disc in Mobile, Alabama; Bill Sanderss show in Chattanooga, Tennessee; Dewey Phillipss Pop Shop in Memphis, Tennessee; and Chuck Allens Teen Tempo in Jackson, Mississippi, were all segregated dance shows. This man approached me, telegrammed me, showed up at the show. Also, read the comments in that same excerpt about the series only wanting "attractive" teenagers as featured dancers. I was totally star-struck and had as much fun that night as I did at the Cannes Film Festival. In its version of 1960s Baltimore, teenagers sing and dance their way past race. Every day after school kids would run home, tune in, and dance with the bedpost or refrigerator door as they watched. On Jan. 4, 1964, "The Buddy Deane Show" aired its last episode. Yeah it was Cosenel, says Joe. Almost all dancers wore swim wear and beach attire, with music provided by WJZ-TV. Joanie, whose mother wanted me to be a child star, hit the show in early 57 at age 13 (you had to be 14 to be eligible, but many lied about their ages to qualify), followed a few months later by Joe, 17. 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. Id hook and have to dance in the back so the teachers couldnt see me, says Helen. Although the Committee was a valuable promotional tool for WJZ at the time, and belonging was a full-time job, no one (except teen assistants) was paid a penny. Because Buddy Deanes competition was soap operas, the budding teenage romances were sometimes played up for the camera. We have a telegram, Buddy would shout almost daily, for Mary Lou to lead a dance, and the cameraman seemed to love her. But something unforeseen happened: The home audience soon grew attached to some of these kids. With the show beginning at 2:30 in some years, cutting out of school early was common. It was a family: Buddy was the father, Arlene was the mother.. Deane hosted a morning show at WITH. Pancocojams showcases the music, dances, language practices, & customs of African Americans and of other people of Black descent throughout the world. From 1968 into 1973, the public television variety show SOUL! 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 . 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. My parents didn't talk much about racism, and as a result I grew up learning to love everybody. Hairspray, which started as a camp film with a modest $2.7 million budget, grew into a popular and commercially successful Broadway musical and movie. Mary Lou was the last of the Buddy Deane superstars, true hair-hopper royalty, the ultimate Committee member. It was horrible/ says Joe. That really hit home then., He adde, That scene where Tracy and [Link] are making out outside and the homeless guy walks up the street singing, that is exactly true. Buddy Deane was the host of a Baltimore dance show that ran on TV from 1957 to 1964 six days a week. So I gave it the happy ending that we had, Waters said. I even named some of the characters in my films after them. 'Buddy Deane' really did have "Negro day" once a month -- it was called worse in some neighborhoods in Baltimore. From then on, all bare shoulders were covered with a piece of net. [1], Deane's dance party television show debuted in 1957 and was, for a time, the most popular local show in the United States. Deane died in Pine Bluff, Arkansas on July 16, 2003, after suffering a stroke. However, unlike during the song "The New Girl in Town" where the Dynamites get there song stolen by 3 committee members, the Buddy . 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. Over lunch at the Thunderball Lounge, in East Baltimore, Kathy remembers, I could never get used to signing autographs. 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). And if you dared to dance the obscene Bodie Green (the Dirty Boogie), you were immediately a goner. 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. Deaners seem to come out of the woodwork, drawn by the memory of their stardom. The Buddy Deane show aired 6 times a week and had a dance committee just like in hairspray. three, two, one. It was very interesting to see my conversation quoted in this article. 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. Here is the new video celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Buddy Deane Show and the former Catonsville Community College (now CCBC). For example, Carole King appeared on the show playing her single "It Might as Well Rain Until September", nearly a decade before she burst to popularity with her landmark 1970 album, Tapestry. 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 . This article is among features at explorepinebluff.com, a program of the Pine Bluff Advertising and Promotion Commission. [citation needed]. Buddy Deane, a native of Pine Bluff, was one of the first radio hosts to understand the appeal of Rock n' Roll in its infancy, the host of a popular 60s teen dance show, the inspiration for a film and musical character in Hairspray, and so much more. The 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. (97) Originally an all-white teen show with a monthly "Negro . Im Joe, too. There was a change in the works., Part of that change was the racial integration movement. Oddly enough, few of the Deaners Ive talked to went on to show biz. 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. GOD HELP US! John Water's himself said that in his movie, he "gave it the happy ending that it didn't have". They all thought all the girls were pregnant by Buddy Deane, remember several. Image Credit: OzNet.com Winston Joseph Deane was born on August 2, 1924, in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. Im still a fana Deaner groupie. One girl yelled Buddy Deaner and then threw her plate at me. 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. 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 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. Waters grew up with "The Buddy Deane Show" in Baltimore, and modeled his fictitious "Corny Collins Show" after it. 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 Buddy Deane Show was taken off the air because home station WJZ-TV was unwilling to integrate black and white dancers. Marie Fischer was the first Joe to become a Committee memberchosen simply because she was such a good dancer. But black kids in . I was a misfit. The Committee, initially recruited from local teen centers, was to act as hosts and dance with the guests. 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. Ric Ocasek as the Beatnik cat; Pia Zadora as the Beatnik chick; Production. 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. And none are bitter. Every day Id come to the studio in knee-highs, and Id have to take them off. Yes, I miss it very much. The star system was born. . Buddy noticed my eyes staring and said, Do the same eyes. And the camera got it. Kathy went even further. Friday, February 19 at 7PM. This assessment proved true when on Aug. 12, 1963 a group of black and white kids stormed the stage of "The Buddy Deane Show" and danced together. The 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. by I am here and on FB as well as NOBLE BRUN in the event the footage can be located. Other vices were likewise eschewed. Vanessa Udon plays Motormouth Maybelle, who hosts the monthly Negro Day on the Corny Collins Show. Once a Deaner, always a Deaner, as another so succinctly puts it. The white kids parents came and got them. . Sometimes youd wrap your hair at night. Performances begin at 7 p.m. Deane helped the Bill Haley and the Comets song "Rock Around the Clock" become a hit in Baltimore a full year before it became a worldwide success by promoting their music while at WITH. In fact, "American Bandstand" was not shown on television in Baltimore because Deane's show was so popular. 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. Youre in Baltimore. But most have settled down to a very straight life. Nationally, American Bandstand blocked black teens from entering the studio during its years in Philadelphia, despite host Dick Clarks claims to the contrary. 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. I was with this guy named Jeff. A special. Please read our Terms of Use or contact us. Winston Joseph Deane was born on Aug. 2, 1924, in Pine Bluff. And because a new dance was introduced practically every week, you had to watch every day to keep up. Some do remember a handful of kids getting high on cough medicine. "Buddy" Deane was a broadcaster for more than 50 years, beginning his career in Little Rock, Arkansas, then moving to the Memphis, Tennessee market, before moving on to Baltimore, where he worked at WITH radio. They just wanted to know if you were real. 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. (I looked like I was taking off.) And Helen, Linda, and Joanie all got out the rat-tail teasing combs. 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. 1957, it was a huge success as it was portrayed in the musical. 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. That's what really happened, and the show shut down." 3. 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. "Where: 800 N. Charles St, Baltimore, MD 21201. 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. Black and white together on local TV. 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. 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. 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. Actor: Hairspray. Buddy himself, the high priest, returned for the event. The rivalry with Dick Clark meant that Deane urged all his performers not to mention American Bandstand or visits to Clark in Philadelphia. 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. The early look of the Committee was typically 50s. In Little Rock, white teens went from protesting integration at Central High School to dancing in the afternoon on Steves Show. You received demerits for almost anything: Chewing gum. 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. 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. ', 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. The show designated every other friday to their black dancers, similar to "Negro Day" on the Corny Collins Show. "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 . It was so painful. Oh, my God, its Evanne! Autograph books, cameras, this is what they lived for. The "Buddy Dean Show" was abruptly cancelled. So you cant imagine how excited I was when I finally got a chance to interview these local legends twenty years later. Why not do The Deane Show on TV again? Ten seconds to airtime. 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. 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. [1], As with many other local TV shows, little footage of the show is known to have survived. 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. Nicknamed "Buddy" as a child, Deane . While the rest of the nation grew up on Dick Clarks American Bandstand, (which was not even shown here because Channel 13 already had Buddy Deane), Baltimoreans, true to form, had their own eccentric version. We faked a feud. Im a typical housewife, says Peanuts. Mary Lou laughs at the memory of doing a pimple medicine spot on camera. In Hairspray (1988), Tammy Turner assists Corny Collins on the show. Before long I started getting lots of fan mail: I think youre neat. 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. Ninfa O. Barnard wrote this article for explorepinebluff.com. 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). The black cops would stop us and say: This isnt Greenwich Village, you know. Washington D.C.'s The Milt Grant Show offered "Black Tuesday" and Baltimore's The Buddy Deane Show had "Negro Day" because . Once a month the show was all black; there was no black Committee. These were the first role models I knew. 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. 'Buddy' Deane; www.WashingtonPost.com -- The Messy Truth of The Real 'Hairspray.' While other radio hosts thought rock 'n' roll music was just a passing trend, refusing to play it in favor of pop songs, Deane played rock 'n' roll music on a regular basis. It was 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. Sign up for our Email Newsletters here. I remember it well, recalls Evanne. Several local art contests were also held on the show, with viewers submitting their own art work. Yet Joe was a dropout when he went on the show and then, once famous, went back to finish. Later that year he enlisted in the Army, where he served in Europe involved in some of the most intense battles of World War II. 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. Buddy said to me, Well, heres my little girl whos been with me the longest. I hardly ever cried, but I just broke down on camera. 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. He wanted me to go to a summer training session to be a trapeze artist. Originally an all-white teen show with a monthly "Negro . The more hair spray, the better. 'The Buddy Deane Show' was over . An then there was teased hair, replacing the 50s drape with a Buddy Deane look that so pervaded Baltimore culture (especially in East and South Baltimore) that its effect is still seen in certain neighborhoods of this great Hairdo Capital of the World. "The Buddy Deane Show," which aired on WJZ-TV in Baltimore from 1957 until 1964. . The show featured only white kids dancing, so Scruggs wrote him a letter in the fall of 1958 to . Friday, February 24, 2023. He left behind his wife, Helen Stevenson Deane; his three daughters, JoEllen, Dawn, and Debbie and their families. Some kids on the show went a little nuts, with stars in their eyes; they thought they were going to go to Hollywood and be moviestars.. The show was a teen dance and music show and ran from 1957 to until 1964 on WJZ-TV until the show was canceled. In mixed marriages (with non-Deaners), many of the outsiders resented their spouses pasts. Warner, Tony, Buddy's Top 20: The Story of Baltimore's Hottest TV Dance Show and the Guy Who Brought it to Life! 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.. Print Headline: Buddy Deane Show was huge hit for young viewers in the late 1950s, Copyright 2023, Northwest Arkansas Newspapers LLC. 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. Thats what really happened, and the show shut down.. I had trunks of it. offered an unfiltered, uncompromising celebration of Black literature, poetry, music, and politics, capturing a critical moment in culture whose impact continues to resonate today. [1] He was 78. ' And Evanne still shudders as she recalls, Once I was in the cafeteria. (NWA Media). . This sentiment carries through to the songs lyrics. While he wasnt on the committee, Waters occasionally danced on the show as a guest. You Cant Stop the Beat, for example, is an upbeat dance number that resolves the issue of segregation on the Corny Collins Show. When Barry Levinson, another Baltimore native, requested video from the show for his film Diner, the station told him it had no footage. 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. Perhaps the last thing 2016 needs is a star-studded, light-hearted musical endorsement of colorblindnessthough, viewed holistically, Hairspray is more than that. 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. 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[citation needed] In several instances, the show went on location to the Milford Mill swim club on the westside of suburban Baltimore County. This town just wasnt ready for that. There were threats and bomb scares; integrationists smuggled whites into the all-black shows to dance cheek to cheek on camera with blacks, and that was it. The show was a teen dance and music show and ran from 1957 to until 1964 on WJZ-TV until the show was canceled. 1 DJ in 1962 by Billboard mag. Get off that furniture!? Sign Up: Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! The Deaners didnt mind. 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. Advertisement. It was the era of rock n' roll ducktail, pegged pants, and beehive haridos. 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. . 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