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. 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. He was one of the first to showcase rock and roll music on a continual basis. 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. Mary Lou laughs at the memory of doing a pimple medicine spot on camera. 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 would be a treasure to pass down to my future generations. One time I was going with this guy, and he was dancing with this guest I didnt like, says Evanne. The Nicest Kids in Town! offered an unfiltered, uncompromising celebration of Black literature, poetry, music, and politics, capturing a critical moment in culture whose impact continues to resonate today. 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. Vanessa Udon plays Motormouth Maybelle, who hosts the monthly Negro Day on the Corny Collins Show. It ran two hours a day, six days a week. Facing controversy over the possibility of more integrated broadcasts, the station canceled the program. Greetings, Pat Brun.Thanks for commenting in this pancocojams discussion thread. . 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. This article is among features at explorepinebluff.com, a program of the Pine Bluff Advertising and Promotion Commission. 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. This sentiment carries through to the songs lyrics. 2003. The "Buddy Dean Show" was abruptly cancelled. Pixie was barely five feet tall, but her hair sometimes added a good six to eight inches to her height. But I was never a Deaner. 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. The regulars . 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. Pancocojams showcases the music, dances, language practices, & customs of African Americans and of other people of Black descent throughout the world. 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! The Buddy Deane Show was a teenage dance party, on the air from 1957 to 1964. 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 taken off the air because home station WJZ-TV was unwilling to integrate black and white dancers. I was really mad. Not show biz, Arlene answers, hesitating, but the record biz, the people. Mr. Deane's salary . Joe Cash has Jonas Cash Promotions, in Columbia and Silver Spring.. (my own promotional firmwe represent Warner Brothers, Columbia, Motown85 percent you hear in this market)and Active Industry Research, in Columbia (a research firmIm chairman of the board). 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. Checking back with the studio, no one had information concerning footage of African American dancers. 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. The Corny Collins Show, it turns out, was lifted almost literally from the extremely popular Buddy Deane Show, Baltimore's answer to Dick Clark's American Bandstand. For the rest of the time, the show's participants were all white. 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. "How 'The Buddy Deane Show' really went off the air is the white kids crashed Negro Day to integrate it. http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2016/03/how-madison-line-dance-got-its-name-and.html, http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2016/03/al-brown-and-ray-bryant-madison-records.html, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_Deane_Show, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hairspray_(2007_film), http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2015/06/timeline-for-cultural-use-of-saying.html, https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/tv/on-hairsprays-25th-anniversary-buddydeane-committee-looks-back/2013/01/17/a45a1cc2-5c23-11e2-88d0-c4cf65c3ad15_story.html, http://theurbandaily.com/2011/06/01/black-music-moment-96-short-lived-integration-of-the-buddy-deane-show/. When that little red light came on, so did my smile, she says, laughing. Ninfa O. Barnard wrote this article for explorepinebluff.com. ' And Evanne still shudders as she recalls, Once I was in the cafeteria. They kept their figures, look nice, and are very kind people, says Marie in her lovely home on Falls Road before taking off for the University of Maryland, where she attends law school. When Barry Levinson, another Baltimore native, requested video from the show for his film Diner, the station told him it had no footage. Image Credit: OzNet.com Winston Joseph Deane was born on August 2, 1924, in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. All on Pulaski Highway. In 1950, he moved to Baltimore to WITH. The musical is based on John Waters' 1988 campy movie of the same name. In 2003, "Hairspray" went on to sweep the 57th Annual Tony Awards, winning a total of eight awards. Joe remembers a sport coat I bought for $5 from somebody who got it when he got out of prison. Or Hartford Motor Coach Company? At first I was so shy I hid behind the Coke machines., But Evanne used to come right home and head for the TV. Like many couples, Joe and Joan met through the show and became an item for their fans. Warner, Tony, Buddy's Top 20: The Story of Baltimore's Hottest TV Dance Show and the Guy Who Brought it to Life! On Jan. 4, 1964, nearly five months after the first -- and only -- day that black and white kids danced cheek to cheek on TV in WJZ's studios, Buddy Deane put "The Party's Over" on the record player. "Where: 800 N. Charles St, Baltimore, MD 21201. Deane fought in the Battle of the Bulge and was awarded a Purple Heart during his time in the Europe. 1 DJ in 1962 by Billboard mag. 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. While at WITH, Deane was the first Baltimore disk jockey to capitalize on the new musical phenomenon that was rock 'n' roll. By what name was The Buddy Deane Show (1957) officially released in Canada in English? Perhaps the last thing 2016 needs is a star-studded, light-hearted musical endorsement of colorblindnessthough, viewed holistically, Hairspray is more than that. On August 2, 1924, Winston Joseph Deane was born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. On Wednesday, NBC is broadcasting Hairspray Live! Maybe that was a good choice because Divine was 40 then., She played against-type, certainly. . 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. Thats what really happened, and the show shut down.. My mother used to pick me up after school to make sure nobody hassled me., The adoring fans could also be a hassle. We got out of the limousine and there was a huge crowd that went crazy when Divine jumped out, and it was such an exciting night, Waters said. When I became of age to understand it all I became motivated to make a difference. 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. It was called The Waverly Theater back then, and Waters, looking dapper in a purple pinstriped suit, recalled that night as one of the last times he saw his friend and muse Divine before his death. 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). Many years later they married. It was similar to Philadelphia's American Bandstand. 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. "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. Buddy noticed my eyes staring and said, Do the same eyes. And the camera got it. Kathy went even further. From then on, all bare shoulders were covered with a piece of net. 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. 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. 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 Buddy Deane Show" ran on Baltimore's WJZ-TV from 1957 to 1964. Hairspray was the actors first film, before Dead Poets Society, which came out the next year. He just didnt understand., But some have dealt with the problems in good humor. Every weekday afternoon, in each of these broadcast markets, these shows presented images of exclusively white dancers and rendered black youth as second-class teenagers. . I was aggressive. [1], As with many other local TV shows, little footage of the show is known to have survived. This page was last edited on 29 July 2022, at 06:25. 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 had to get up there on time. Though black and white . 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. 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 Little Rock, white teens went from protesting integration at Central High School to dancing in the afternoon on Steves Show. The Best Picture Race Got a Lot More Confusing This Week, Tom Cruise Made the Rounds This Week, but Other Oscar Nominees Got More Applause Than Top Gun: Maverick, These Oscar Categories Are the Hardest to Predict, Translating the Unconscious Into Images: The Cinematography of Bardo, Poker Face Takes Viewers on a Cross-Country Road Trip Without Leaving New York, Why TR Looks Different from Every Other Movie of 2022, The 50 Best Movies of 2022, According to 165 Critics from Around the World, All 81 Titles Unceremoniously Removed from HBO Max (So Far), 10 Shows Canceled but Not Forgotten in 2022. What: The Buddy Deane Show was a teen rock-and-roll dance television show that aired on WJZ-TV in Baltimore, Maryland from 1957 until 1964. 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. Clip from Shake, Rattle, and Roll: The Buddy Deane Scrapbook Museum Day; Art; Books; Design; Food; Music & Film; Video; Newsletter; Travel. He was mad because I was as popular as he was. [1] He was 78. August 8, 2022 at 3:55 a.m. . Once a month the show was all black. Performances begin at 7 p.m. 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. 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. On the other, Hairspray Live! I used to get death threats on the show. 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. I even named some of the characters in my films after them. They all thought all the girls were pregnant by Buddy Deane, remember several. Washington D.C.'s The Milt Grant Show offered "Black Tuesday" and Baltimore's The Buddy Deane Show had "Negro Day" because . Neither these AP materials nor any portion thereof may be stored in a computer except for personal and noncommercial use. This move would have been a footnote in the annals of television if not for the director and Baltimore native John Waters, whose 1988 film Hairspray offered up an alternate history, with its fictional Corny Collins Show and rose-tinted, lets-all-dance-together ending. That show featured local teens who danced to the. To this day, Im reluctant to tell some of my black friends I was on Buddy Deane because they look at it as a terrible time.. Yeah it was Cosenel, says Joe. BLACK MUSIC MOMENT #96: Short-Lived Integration Of The Buddy Deane Show. As Marie puts it, The rewards were so great emotionally that you didnt have to ask for a monetary award., Many had difficulties dealing with the void when the show went off the air. 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. 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 Buddy Deane Showwas a teen dancetelevision show, created by Zvi Shoubin, hosted by Winston "Buddy" Deane(1924-2003), and aired on WJZ-TV(Channel 13), the ABCaffiliate station in Baltimorefrom 1957 until 1964. I wanted to get into the record businessand years later he did. What: The Buddy Deane Show was a teen rock-and-roll dance television show that aired on WJZ-TV in Baltimore, Maryland from 1957 until 1964. 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 . Kathy switched to a great beehive that resembled a trash can sitting on top of her head. Buddy Deane was the host of a Baltimore dance show that ran on TV from 1957 to 1964 six days a week. 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 inspiration for this movie was born out of an afternoon teen dance show, The Buddy Deane Show, which aired on Baltimore's WJZ-TV from 1957-1964 until it was taken off the air because the owner did not want to integrate. Why? Id wonder. She wasnt even a fan of the show. Being a teenage star in Baltimore had its drawbacks. I had always studied dance, and I wanted to go on [the show]. "The Buddy Deane Show," which aired on WJZ-TV in Baltimore from 1957 until 1964. . I took off my steady ring and threw it down. "Do You Love Me" by The Contours, or "Hide and Go Seek" by Bunker Hill). And they all came together on the Buddy Deane Show, Baltimore's legendary teen dance show. . The more hair spray, the better. She became so popular that she was written up in the nationwide Sixteen Magazine. Perhaps the highest bouffants of all belonged to the Committee member who was my personal favorite: Pixie (who died several years later from a drug overdose). Today they seem opposites. WJZ's show aired from 1957 to 1964 and was popular among Baltimore teens, promoting dances like the twist, mashed potato, and the Madison. Friday, February 19 at 7PM. Originally an all-white teen show with a monthly "Negro . 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. 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. 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 also left the Army in 1948 and began his radio broadcast career at KLXR station in North Little Rock. 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.. You learned how to be a teenager from the show. Rather than integrating, the show was canceled. So the NAACP targeted the show for protests. There were a lot of obscene phone calls., And the rumors, God, the rumors. Buddy offered to have three or even four days a week all black, but that wasnt it. On this day in 1979, Sweeney Todd first opened on Broadway . 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. Powers was a particularly special addition, having disappeared in the years since the films release. My parents didn't talk much about racism, and as a result I grew up learning to love everybody. Friday, February 24, 2023. All the choreography in the movie prior to this was segregated by race, and now its all together, which is a very, very subtle reference to the theme of this movie.. It aired for two and a half hours a day, six days a week. 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. You are out of here. 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. I even won the twist contest with Mary Lou Raines (one of the queens of The Buddy Deane Show) at the Valley Country Club. The information used was obtained from WJZ. Id get letters saying, If you show up at this particular hop, youre gonna get your face pushed in. Im still a fana Deaner groupie. It was similar to Philadelphia's American Bandstand. I was honored, touched by it all.. Ninfa O. Barnard Special to The Commercial 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. "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 . 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. 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. 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. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it. John Waters, a Baltimore filmmaker and Deane Show fan, loosely based "The Corny Collins' Show" in his movie "Hairspray" on Deane's show. 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 . 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. Committee members included Mike Miller, Charlie Bledsoe, Ron Osher, Mary Lou Raines, Pat(ricia) Tacey, and Cathy Schmink. [citation needed] With an ear for music seasoned by many more years as a disc jockey than Clark, Deane also brought to his audience a wider array of white musical acts than were seen on American Bandstand. Or the Bob-a Loop? If you leaned on one side, the next day youd just pick it out into shape. Gene calls it a big loss. It was living in a fantasy world, says Helen. 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. I was a misfit. When the subject comes up today, most loyalists want to go off the record. The rivalry with Dick Clark meant that Deane urged all his performers not to mention American Bandstand or visits to Clark in Philadelphia. . Buddy wanted it to end happily, but WJZ angered Deaners when it tried to blame the ratings. I must have had ten different phone numbers, says Helen, and somehow it would get out. The television news reporter covering the Corny Collins Show in the film sums up the climactic scene: Youre seeing history being made today. One girl yelled Buddy Deaner and then threw her plate at me. I didnt mean to, because I never would have messed up the makeup.. NBCs Hairspray Live! However, unlike during the song "The New Girl in Town" where the Dynamites get there song stolen by 3 committee members, the Buddy . His childhood nickname was Buddy. [citation needed]. He was 16 at the time of filming. | sively white show. has the chance to resurface a forgotten history of how discrimination in pop culture intimately shaped the lives of young people 50 years ago. So the rules were bent a little; the big ones, the ones with the fan mail, were allowed to stay. We have a telegram, Buddy would shout almost daily, for Mary Lou to lead a dance, and the cameraman seemed to love her. In her home, near Allentown, Pennsylvania, she serves me a beautiful brunch, models her fur coats, and poses with her Mercedes. Also, read the comments in that same excerpt about the series only wanting "attractive" teenagers as featured dancers. This discrimination was explicitly or tacitly supported by an array of advertisers, television stations, music producers, city authorities, and federal communications officials. 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. While he wasnt on the committee, Waters occasionally danced on the show as a guest. It was similar to Philadelphia's American Bandstand. The Corny Collins Show, is a teen dance show in Baltimore's WYZT /WZZT Network. Deane also played songs that other disc jockeys, including Dick Clark, refused to present to mostly white teen TV audiences because the acts sounded "too black" (e.g. . When I get depressed, I dont go to the psychiatrist, I go to the jeweler, she says. With the show beginning at 2:30 in some years, cutting out of school early was common. The Buddy Deane Show was over. . And the whole concept of the Committee changed. We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. So there you have it. 'The Buddy Deane Show' was over . The show featured only white kids dancing, so Scruggs wrote him a letter in the fall of 1958 to . And more important, so did the Committee, still entering by a special door, still doing the dances from the period with utmost precision. Voters approve of . The Buddy Deane Show was taken off the air because home station WJZ-TV was unwilling to integrate black and white dancers. 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. The show's format mirrored Philadelphia's . 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