Ten seconds to airtime. I was able after a while to afford some clothes from Lees of Broadway (whose selection of belted coats and pegged pants made it the Saks Fifth Avenue of Deaners). Thank you for including me as one of the Buddy Dean family. Buddy wanted it to end happily, but WJZ angered Deaners when it tried to blame the ratings. In fact, "American Bandstand" was not shown on television in Baltimore because Deane's show was so popular. Waters based the main storyline and "The Corny Collins Show" on the real-life "The Buddy Deane Show" and racial events surrounding it. Many years later they married. As with the drapes and squares of the previous decade, she explains, there were two classes of people thenDeaners and Joe College. Arguably the first TV celebrities in Baltimore. The star system was born. Or the Bob-a Loop? This discrimination was explicitly or tacitly supported by an array of advertisers, television stations, music producers, city authorities, and federal communications officials. Six days a week and often two hours a day, Buddy Deane and his Committee Members--the privileged regular teen dancers . 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. January 4, 1964. 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. C. Fields in drag.), This movie is the only radical movie I ever made because it snuck in mid-America. 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.. "How 'The Buddy Deane Show' really went off the air is the white kids crashed Negro Day to integrate it. Only white teens became members of the elite Committee the Buddy Deane equivalent of the Mouseketeers. The Buddy Dean Show was the inspiration for the "Corny Collins Show" in the 2007 musical. So the NAACP targeted the show for protests. The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll, sponsored by Matt Palumbo's MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN for Friday shows that 46% of Likely U.S. I even named some of the characters in my films after them. John Waters, a Baltimore filmmaker and Deane Show fan, loosely based "The Corny Collins' Show" in his movie "Hairspray" on Deane's show. Every day after school kids would run home, tune in, and dance with the bedpost or refrigerator door as they watched. Yeah it was Cosenel, says Joe. Ladies and gentlemen, the nicest kids in town!. The black cops would stop us and say: This isnt Greenwich Village, you know. Unlike the tensions that followed the real integration of the Buddy Deane Show, Waterss Hairspray ends with the protesters triumphing. But I was never a Deaner. 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. It was a fluke. producers hope this story of interracial unity will be appealing to television audiences in 2016. Id get letters saying, If you show up at this particular hop, youre gonna get your face pushed in. Deane began his broadcasting career at KLXR in Little Rock, Arkansas. From 1968 into 1973, the public television variety show SOUL! "I remember it well," recalls Evanne. 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. 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.. It was a family: Buddy was the father, Arlene was the mother.. The Buddy Deane Show was a teen dance television show, created by Zvi Shoubin, hosted by Winston "Buddy" Deane (19242003), and aired on WJZ-TV (Channel 13), the ABC affiliate station in Baltimore from 1957 until 1964. When I became of age to understand it all I became motivated to make a difference. 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. 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. Special appearances. I used to get death threats on the show. Sign up for our Email Newsletters here. 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 . Powers was a particularly special addition, having disappeared in the years since the films release. That's what really happened, and the show shut down." 3. (97) The movie was eventually turned into a musical by the same name. 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. I had to get up there on time. There were a lot of obscene phone calls., And the rumors, God, the rumors. The Buddy Deane Show was taken off the air because home station WJZ-TV was unwilling to integrate black and white dancers. Once a month the show was all black; there was no black Committee. Both black and white activists picketed the . . We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. 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. My mother used to pick me up after school to make sure nobody hassled me., The adoring fans could also be a hassle. We used to go to stand in front of Reads Drugstore, and people would ask for our autograph.. Everybody wanted to kick a Buddy Deaners a, says Gene, recalling thugs waiting to jump Deaners outside the studio. Gene calls it a big loss. It was living in a fantasy world, says Helen. I even won the twist contest with Mary Lou Raines (one of the queens of The Buddy Deane Show) at the Valley Country Club. 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. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached, or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Baltimore Magazine. Like many couples, Joe and Joan met through the show and became an item for their fans. I wanted to get into the record businessand years later he did. From 1957-1965, Deane was chosen as host of WJZ-TV, Baltimore's "The . 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. The protesters wanted the races to mix. It was similar to Philadelphia's American Bandstand. I didnt mean to, because I never would have messed up the makeup.. Because Buddy Deanes competition was soap operas, the budding teenage romances were sometimes played up for the camera. And none are bitter. Winston Joseph Deane was born on Aug. 2, 1924, in Pine Bluff. My parents didn't talk much about racism, and as a result I grew up learning to love everybody. And if you dared to dance the obscene Bodie Green (the Dirty Boogie), you were immediately a goner. 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. I was really mad. Girl Scout leader, very active in my kids school. Mary Lou is still a star. On August 2, 1924, Winston Joseph Deane was born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. The main thing was your hair was flat, the antithesis of Buddy Deane, she says, chuckling. Museum Day; Art; Books; Design; Food; Music & Film; Video; Newsletter; Travel. When Barry Levinson, another Baltimore native, requested video from the show for his film Diner, the station told him it had no footage. August 8, 2022 at 3:55 a.m. These dances included the Mashed Potato, the Stroll, the Pony, the Waddle, the Locomotion, the Bug, the Handjive, the New Continental and the Madison. 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 buddy dean show debuted on Sep. 9. In 1950, Deane moved to Baltimore to host 1230 AM WITH after Stan Kenton, a performer and guest he was interviewing, informed him of the opening at the radio station. On the air before Dick Clark debuted, the show was a hit from the beginning, says Arlene today. Oddly enough, few of the Deaners Ive talked to went on to show biz. 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. Please read our Terms of Use or contact us. 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. John Water's himself said that in his movie, he "gave it the happy ending that it didn't have". 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.. The rivalry with Dick Clark meant that Deane urged all his performers not to mention American Bandstand or visits to Clark in Philadelphia. Before long I started getting lots of fan mail: I think youre neat. That was our whole social life, being a Buddy Deaner, says Gene. 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. "Do You Love Me" by The Contours, or "Hide and Go Seek" by Bunker Hill). You are out of here. The television news reporter covering the Corny Collins Show in the film sums up the climactic scene: Youre seeing history being made today. Dick Clark patterned his ABC-TV show, Where the Action Is, after local remotes done by Deane in Maryland. I remember it well, recalls Evanne. 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. Sign Up: Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! He wanted me to go to a summer training session to be a trapeze artist. Though black and white . But it went something like this: Buddy Deane was an exclusively white show. 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. The Deane program set aside every other Friday for a show featuring only black teenagers. 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 . The show's format mirrored Philadelphia's "American Bandstand." 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. [2], https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Buddy_Deane_Show&oldid=1101079819. 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. When the show ended, Deane moved back to Arkansas,. The Buddy Deane Show was over. . 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. Joel Chaseman, also a DJ at WITH, became program manager of WJZ-TV when Westinghouse bought it in the mid-50s. It is hosted by the titular Corny Collins, with the exception of the monthly Rhythm and Blues special which is hosted by Motormouth Maybelle . Deane died in Pine Bluff on July 16, 2003, after experiencing complications caused by a stroke. 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. I had a lot of black friends at the time, so for me this was an awkward thing, says Marie. Black teens were only allowed to dance on the show one day per month. In early 2003, Deane sold KOTN and three other stations he had acquired over the years. 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. My mother wanted me to go, she took me down to the tryouts. I saw the show as a vehicle to make something of myself, remembers Joe. 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. 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. The best little jitterbugger in Baltimore. That show featured local teens who danced to the hits of the era, although the entire cast was white except for one episode every other Friday for Black kids. Waters's nostalgic and detailed appreciation for The Buddy Deane Show, . The Buddy Deane show aired 6 times a week and had a dance committee just like in hairspray. Waters grew up with "The Buddy Deane Show" in Baltimore, and modeled his fictitious "Corny Collins Show" after it. Voters approve of . 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. [citation needed]. At her appearances at the record hops, kids would actually scream when youd get out of the car: Theres Mary Lou! While at WITH, Deane was the first Baltimore disk jockey to capitalize on the new musical phenomenon that was rock 'n' roll. In 1942, Deane enrolled at Cornell University in New York. Some fifty years later, the mindset is STILL the same. 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. The regulars . . Ninfa O. Barnard Special to The Commercial The Buddy Deane Show was taken off the air because home station WJZ-TV was unwilling to integrate black and white dancers. 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. The Buddy Deane Show: With Channing Wilroy, Buddy Deane. Mr. I used to lie in bed at my parents house, and there was an African-American community up the street and they went by singing along to the radio. 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. Black History Month . On Wednesday, NBC is broadcasting Hairspray Live! They would drive me nuts when theyd come in the door, and Id say Man, youre gone. All of those dances were real, they were real dances, we didnt make any of them up and two were cut out. 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. 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. Could it be? And Divine said, What drag queen would allow themselves to look like this?'. 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). (NWA Media). It's not just about police brutality. 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. You received demerits for almost anything: Chewing gum. 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. 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. 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And they all came together on the Buddy Deane Show, Baltimore's legendary teen dance show. 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.. Deane even played a small role in the movie, which premiered to moderate success but went on to become a cult classic. On this day in 1979, Sweeney Todd first opened on Broadway . It aired for two and a half hours a day, six days a week. (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.) 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. 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. 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. Arlene Kozak, Buddys assistant and den mother to the Committee. 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. 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. 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. The very first day on the set, I didnt recognize Divine, the filmmaker said. BLACK MUSIC MOMENT #96: Short-Lived Integration Of The Buddy Deane Show. Deane also held dances at various Maryland American Legion posts and National Guard armories which were not taped or broadcast on television. She was the one of the biggies who refused to be on the Board (they had power; a liked because of it). All on Pulaski Highway. The show began in September of 1957 when an Arkansan named Winston Joe "Buddy" Deane was approached by Joel Chaseman, the head of programming at WJZ-TV. Many parents and local officials were angry. 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). He was one of the first disc jockeys in the area to regularly feature rock and roll. I had trunks of it. I wanted to go, but my parents wouldnt let me. 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. 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. The Buddy Deane Show was over. Some do remember a handful of kids getting high on cough medicine. The 1988 John Waters film, newly adapted into an NBC live musical, presents a view of racial discrimination thats by turns nave and enlightening. 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. Buddy called me up before the cameras, and I wasnt dressed my best. We faked a feud. I was a misfit. 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! I couldnt be bothered with education. MPT did a segment which included interviews with former African American dancers who appeared on the show. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it. 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. He just didnt understand., But some have dealt with the problems in good humor. I havent seen her since we made the movie, said Waters. The information used was obtained from WJZ. 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. 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). Deane fought in the Battle of the Bulge and was awarded a Purple Heart during his time in the Europe. We would always do The Dirty Boogie, the one you arent allowed to do, he said. Do you miss show biz? I ask her. Both entities launche. Some of the local teens who danced on the show became local celebrities and had fans of their own. 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. 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. 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. Romance was one thing; sex was another. Id hook and have to dance in the back so the teachers couldnt see me, says Helen. With the rising pressures of integration, the producers decided that the show must either be integrated or canceled. When: Summer 1963. 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. I had always studied dance, and I wanted to go on [the show]. I still believe that footage is out there somewhere. Marie Fischer was the first Joe to become a Committee memberchosen simply because she was such a good dancer. 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 . The introductory essay in Dick Clark's American Bandstand (1997) is illustrative in this regard. Jones). Theatre producer, Margo Lion, saw a television broadcast of the film in 1998 and started to conceive it as a stage musical. "The Buddy Deane Show," which aired on WJZ-TV in Baltimore from 1957 until 1964. . 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