I had a lot of black friends at the time, so for me this was an awkward thing, says Marie. Deane began his broadcasting career at KLXR in Little Rock, Arkansas. Though black and white . The school tried to throw me out before. "Do You Love Me" by The Contours, or "Hide and Go Seek" by Bunker Hill). 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. One girl yelled Buddy Deaner and then threw her plate at me. MPT did a segment which included interviews with former African American dancers who appeared on the show. Winston Joseph Deane was born on Aug. 2, 1924, in Pine Bluff. The very first day on the set, I didnt recognize Divine, the filmmaker said. and later on, growing up, it was a definite blow: reality. I still have a whole box of fan mail, says Evanne. Once a month the show was all black; there was no black Committee. Deane fought in the Battle of the Bulge and was awarded a Purple Heart during his time in the Europe. Joe remembers a sport coat I bought for $5 from somebody who got it when he got out of prison. . The Deane program set aside every other Friday for a show featuring only black teenagers. I had always studied dance, and I wanted to go on [the show]. . Buddy Deane was the host of a Baltimore dance show that ran on TV from 1957 to 1964 six days a week. . 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. Pauline Kael praised him. (The rave appeared in The New Yorker, where Kael said it was really Divines movie, calling him W. 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. 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. "Hairspray" will continue at East Ridge High School through April 23. 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. Once I was off the show for a while, and they said I had joined the nunnery, says Helen, laughing. If I have one regret in life, its that I wasnt a Buddy Deaner. The show featured only white kids dancing, so Scruggs wrote him a letter in the fall of 1958 to . So the NAACP targeted the show for protests. Being a teenage star in Baltimore had its drawbacks. "I remember it well," recalls Evanne. The Committee, initially recruited from local teen centers, was to act as hosts and dance with the guests. Deane died in Pine Bluff, Arkansas on July 16, 2003, after suffering a stroke. The white kids parents came and got them. 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. [1], As with many other local TV shows, little footage of the show is known to have survived. The show was a teen dance and music show and ran from 1957 to until 1964 on WJZ-TV until the show was canceled.The show was a teen dance and music show and ran from 1957 to until 1964 on WJZ-TV until the show was canceled.The show was a teen dance and music show and ran from 1957 to until 1964 on WJZ-TV until the show was canceled. The Buddy Deane Show was a teenage dance party, on the air from 1957 to 1964. These were the first role models I knew. 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! 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. 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. The introductory essay in Dick Clark's American Bandstand (1997) is illustrative in this regard. It ran two hours a day, six days a week. 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. 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). The first page of the essay, for example, features a full-page picture of black protestors in 1962 in Times . One time I was going with this guy, and he was dancing with this guest I didnt like, says Evanne. No! she answers, with a conviction that gives me the chills. When the subject comes up today, most loyalists want to go off the record. I wanted to go, but my parents wouldnt let me. 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 "If you first appeared on The Buddy Deane Show then you could not appear on The Dick Clark Show," Deane said. SOUL! My mother wanted me to go, she took me down to the tryouts. I was a square. Clip from Shake, Rattle, and Roll: The Buddy Deane Scrapbook He wanted me to go to a summer training session to be a trapeze artist. Some fifty years later, the mindset is STILL the same. Dick Clark patterned his ABC-TV show, Where the Action Is, after local remotes done by Deane in Maryland. All rights reserved. I had trunks of it. I remember it well, recalls Evanne. sively white 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. It was similar to Philadelphia's American Bandstand. 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. Each reunion (and a new one is in the works) ls bigger than the last. You could throw her down on the ground, and her hair would crack, recalls Gene. Originally an all-white teen show with a monthly "Negro . John Waters with Divine (Harris Glen Milstead) at the Baltimore premiere of Hairspray, Originally, I had it, the idea was Divine was gonna play the mother and the daughter like in The Parent Trap. New Line [Cinema] wouldnt let me, he said. Ninfa O. Barnard Special to The Commercial On Negro day a group of black and white kids staged a similar sneak attack on the Buddy Deane Show. I wonder if that applied to Black males as well as White males. I had to get up there on time. The Buddy Deane Show was over. Image Credit: OzNet.com. 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. Buddy himself, the high priest, returned for the event. Buddy offered to have three or even four days a week all black, but that wasnt it. The early look of the Committee was typically 50s. It aired for two and a half hours a day, six days a week. 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. Racism is passed down from one generation to the next. The show was a teen dance and music show and ran from 1957 to until 1964 on WJZ-TV until the show was canceled. This discrimination was explicitly or tacitly supported by an array of advertisers, television stations, music producers, city authorities, and federal communications officials. Hundreds of thousands of teens learned the latest dances by watching Committee members on the show, copying their personal style, and following their life stories and interactions. Today they seem opposites. He just didnt understand., But some have dealt with the problems in good humor. Almost all dancers wore swim wear and beach attire, with music provided by WJZ-TV. . These dances included the Mashed Potato, the Stroll, the Pony, the Waddle, the Locomotion, the Bug, the Handjive, the New Continental and the Madison. By what name was The Buddy Deane Show (1957) officially released in Canada in English? You werent one of them anymore. Outsiders envied the fame, especially if they lost their steadies to Deaners, and many were put off by boys who loved to dance. Rather than integrating, the show was canceled. WJZ's show aired from 1957 to 1964 and was popular among Baltimore teens, promoting dances like the twist, mashed potato, and the Madison. Facing controversy over the possibility of more integrated broadcasts, the station canceled the program. 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. But by far the most popular hairdo queen on Buddy Deane was a 14-year-old Pimlico Junior High School student named Mary Lou Raines. 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 . The Deane Show was marketed to a predominantly white audience, but due to integration efforts and the civil rights movement of the time the show first had Black dancers appear once a month then once a week. His running joke with listeners was that he ran the town from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. until the city's real mayor took over. So there you have it. Deane also held dances at various Maryland American Legion posts and National Guard armories which were not taped or broadcast on television. Kathy switched to a great beehive that resembled a trash can sitting on top of her head. Everybody wanted to kick a Buddy Deaners a, says Gene, recalling thugs waiting to jump Deaners outside the studio. And they all came together on the Buddy Deane Show, Baltimore's legendary teen dance show. Once a Deaner, always a Deaner, as another so succinctly puts it. 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. 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. 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. On August 2, 1924, Winston Joseph Deane was born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. If you couldnt do the Buddy Dean jitterbug, (always identifiable by the girls ever-so-subtle dip of her head each time she was twirled around), you were a social outcast. They are still referred to, good naturedly by some, as the Ken and Barbie of the show. Gene, a member of the first Committee, and I underline first, later became president of the Board. Six days a week and often two hours a day, Buddy Deane and his Committee Members--the privileged regular teen dancers . 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. as its newest live-television musical adaptation. Sure, as a teenager I was a guest on the show. 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. In 1942, Deane enrolled at Cornell University in New York. We faked a feud. . It was very interesting to see my conversation quoted in this article. And none are bitter. His childhood nickname was Buddy. three, two, one. The 1988 John Waters film, newly adapted into an NBC live musical, presents a view of racial discrimination thats by turns nave and enlightening. That's what really happened, and the show shut down." 3. 1957, it was a huge success as it was portrayed in the musical. In my on-going search for African American footage I stumbled across this article in Google. A special. 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. Deaners seem to come out of the woodwork, drawn by the memory of their stardom. Helens fans flocked to see her at the Buddy Deane Record Hops (Committee members had to make such personal appearances and sign autographs.) ', 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. On this day in 1979, Sweeney Todd first opened on Broadway . 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. He was mad because I was as popular as he was. Buddy noticed my eyes staring and said, Do the same eyes. And the camera got it. Kathy went even further. The protesters wanted the races to mix. He eventually became one of the most respected programmers in the country and was even written up in Time magazine. 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 . Baltimore teenagers rushed home to catch the show daily to listen to the popular music, watch their favorite dancers, copy their style and learn the new dances that were introduced almost every week. "The Buddy Deane Show" ran on Baltimore's WJZ-TV from 1957 to 1964. The show's format mirrored Philadelphia's . Bill Haley and the Comets did their premier perf of "Rock Around the Clock" on Deane's show, and Deane was named the No. From 1957-1965, Deane was chosen as host of WJZ-TV, Baltimore's "The . Every day after school kids would run home, tune in, and dance with the bedpost or refrigerator door as they watched. 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. But I was never a Deaner. Whats great about the choreography in [You Cant Stop the Beat] is that, subtly, the black dancers and the white dancers have the same choreography, the executive producer Neil Meron said in the DVD commentary for the 2007 film. Everywhere we went, people would say Theres Mary Lou. I wondered if she had just been released from the penitentiary.. Hairspray is firmly rooted in 1960s America, but it offers both sophisticated and (tellingly) simplistic ways of understanding racism today. 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. Buddy Deane used to boast that every major rock 'n' roll star of the era appeared on the show, except Elvis Presley and Rick Nelson. A devoted fan of the Buddy Deane Show, Waters drew on this history to write and direct the original film version of Hairspray. 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. 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. We hung around with black and whites together, which you couldnt do. Material from the Associated Press is Copyright 2023, Associated Press and may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Here, Clark's memories of American Bandstand are nested in an overview of important events in U.S. history from the 1950s and 1960s. 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. Hairspray movie was inspired by this show and was based off of the the events but unlike the movies, instead of the show being integrated, it was cancelled. So I gave it the happy ending that we had, Waters said. I was so embarrassed. In its version of 1960s Baltimore, teenagers sing and dance their way past race. It was similar to Philadelphia's American Bandstand. 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. On the last day of the show, January 4, 1964, all the most popular Committee members through the years came back for one last appearance. 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.. For many young people, being blocked from swimming pools, skating rinks, or dance shows like the Buddy Deane Show would be one of their first exposures to what King calls the feeling of forever fighting a degenerating sense of nobodiness.. We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. I must have had ten different phone numbers, says Helen, and somehow it would get out. 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. . I graduated from an HBCU, lived through racism, marched on Washington with Martin Luther King, and was active in fighting injustices in Baltimore County at the height of the Civil Rights Movement. Why Europeans Dont Get Huge Medical Bills. Thats what really happened, and the show shut down.. Arguably the first TV celebrities in Baltimore. The Nicest Kids in Town! Please read our Terms of Use or contact us. The show designated every other friday to their black dancers, similar to "Negro Day" on the Corny Collins Show. Theatre producer, Margo Lion, saw a television broadcast of the film in 1998 and started to conceive it as a stage musical. Once a month the show was all black. Originally aired 11/5/1986. It was similar to Philadelphia's American Bandstand. Why? Id wonder. She wasnt even a fan of the show. Some of the really dedicated Committee members get tears in their eyes. In her home, near Allentown, Pennsylvania, she serves me a beautiful brunch, models her fur coats, and poses with her Mercedes. Sign up for our Email Newsletters here. 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. From 1968 into 1973, the public television variety show SOUL! Here is the new video celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Buddy Deane Show and the former Catonsville Community College (now CCBC). Gene calls it a big loss. It was living in a fantasy world, says Helen. Nicknamed "Buddy" as a child, Deane developed an early love for radio. So you cant imagine how excited I was when I finally got a chance to interview these local legends twenty years later. 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. It was even in the papers. The Buddy Deane Show was taken off the air because home station WJZ-TV was unwilling to integrate black and white dancers. Teenagers who appeared on the show every day were known as "The Committee". In December 1963, producers at Baltimores WJZ-TV cancelled the Buddy Deane Show rather than integrate the popular teen dance program. Maybe that was a good choice because Divine was 40 then., She played against-type, certainly. Ladies and Gentleman . 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. And the whole concept of the Committee changed. You learned how to be a teenager from the show. My parents didn't talk much about racism, and as a result I grew up learning to love everybody. 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. However, unlike during the song "The New Girl in Town" where the Dynamites get there song stolen by 3 committee members, the Buddy . From then on, all bare shoulders were covered with a piece of net. 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. 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 . This document may not be reprinted without the express written permission of Northwest Arkansas Newspapers LLC. I got a little power-crazed, admits Joe. 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. 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. But Hairspray also resonates for at least one of the same reasons it did in the 80s: It shows how seemingly innocent moments in popular culture were also sites of struggle over who was worthy of being a counted as a somebody in America. I didnt mean to, because I never would have messed up the makeup.. 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. 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.. Waters grew up with "The Buddy Deane Show" in Baltimore, and modeled his fictitious "Corny Collins Show" after it. From 1964 to 1984, Deane hosted a show and owned KOTN-FM and KOTN-AM radio stations at Pine Bluff. Seeing Hairspray as more than simply a post-racial American fantasy requires taking the storys teen dance show setting seriously. 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 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. The best little jitterbugger in Baltimore. 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. 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. 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. 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. . Buddy wanted it to end happily, but WJZ angered Deaners when it tried to blame the ratings. 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. The Buddy Deane Show was a highly visible regional program that asserted a racially segregated public culture. On the last day of the show, January 4, 1964, all the most popular Committee members through the years came back for one last appearance. I used to get death threats on the show. We got more mail: Oh, please dont break up! Somebody even sent us a miniature pair of boxing gloves. Deane died in Pine Bluff on July 16, 2003, after experiencing complications caused by a stroke. Nationally, American Bandstand blocked black teens from entering the studio during its years in Philadelphia, despite host Dick Clarks claims to the contrary. producers hope this story of interracial unity will be appealing to television audiences in 2016. 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. On the show you were either a drape or a square, explains Sharon. 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. 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. It was a real kick! Her fame even brought an offer to join the circus. 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. Vanessa Udon plays Motormouth Maybelle, who hosts the monthly Negro Day on the Corny Collins Show. 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. 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 Stupidity, where you act mentally ill. The Bugs easy, you just catch a disease and throw it to someone else, Waters said. The rivalry with Dick Clark meant that Deane urged all his performers not to mention American Bandstand or visits to Clark in Philadelphia. 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. Or the Bob-a Loop? Arlene Kozak, Buddys assistant and den mother to the Committee. But most have settled down to a very straight life. This page was last edited on 29 July 2022, at 06:25. 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