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). But black kids in . Deane organized and disc-jockeyed dances in public venues across the WJZ-TV broadcast area, including much of central Maryland, Delaware, and southern Pennsylvania where tens of thousands of teenagers were exposed to live recording artists and TV personalities. Please read our Terms of Use or contact us. 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). The show was a teen dance and music show and ran from 1957 to until 1964 on WJZ-TV until the show was canceled. So I gave it the happy ending that we had, Waters said. I was with this guy named Jeff. It would be a treasure to pass down to my future generations. Image Credit: OzNet.com. Oh sure, if you were Joe College [pre-preppie], you just didnt do The Deane Show. Did you ever tum into a Joe College? I ask innocently. 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. SOUL! Maybe that was a good choice because Divine was 40 then., She played against-type, certainly. Seeing Hairspray as more than simply a post-racial American fantasy requires taking the storys teen dance show setting seriously. The Hairspray Live! Clip from Shake, Rattle, and Roll: The Buddy Deane Scrapbook 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. It was the era of rock n' roll ducktail, pegged pants, and beehive haridos. 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. . 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. Perhaps the last thing 2016 needs is a star-studded, light-hearted musical endorsement of colorblindnessthough, viewed holistically, Hairspray is more than that. The protesters wanted the races to mix. Ninfa O. Barnard Special to The Commercial Deane died in Pine Bluff on July 16, 2003, after experiencing complications caused by a stroke. GOD HELP US! It was the top-rated local TV show in Baltimore and, for several years, the highest rated local TV program in the country. Weve been searching for her for years, even Ricki Lake couldnt find her when she had her TV show., John Waters and members of the original cast of Hairspray. He wanted me to go to a summer training session to be a trapeze artist. On this day in 1979, Sweeney Todd first opened on Broadway . The Buddy Deane Show was taken off the air because home station WJZ-TV was unwilling to integrate black and white dancers. From 1964 to 1984, Deane hosted a show and owned KOTN-FM and KOTN-AM radio stations at Pine Bluff. 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. I was honored, touched by it all.. Id hook and have to dance in the back so the teachers couldnt see me, says Helen. At her appearances at the record hops, kids would actually scream when youd get out of the car: Theres Mary Lou! The Deane program set aside every other Friday for a show featuring only black teenagers. It is hosted by the titular Corny Collins, with the exception of the monthly Rhythm and Blues special which is hosted by Motormouth Maybelle . 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. 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. 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. All rights reserved. All Rights Reserved. But an intrepid group of local and . BLACK MUSIC MOMENT #96: Short-Lived Integration Of The Buddy Deane Show. 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. Powers was a particularly special addition, having disappeared in the years since the films release. Winston Joseph Deane was born on Aug. 2, 1924, in Pine Bluff. In her home, near Allentown, Pennsylvania, she serves me a beautiful brunch, models her fur coats, and poses with her Mercedes. 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 . Buddy Deane was the host of a Baltimore dance show that ran on TV from 1957 to 1964 six days a week. Im the biggest ham. Although she denies being conscious of the camera, she admits, I did try to dance up front. Mary Lou was aware that in some neighborhoods it was not cool to be a Buddy Deaner. 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. The first stars I could identify with. Nicknamed "Buddy" as a child, Deane . It was similar to Philadelphia's American Bandstand. This man approached me, telegrammed me, showed up at the show. 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. 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. [2], https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Buddy_Deane_Show&oldid=1101079819. "If you first appeared on The Buddy Deane Show then you could not appear on The Dick Clark Show," Deane said. I had trunks of it. Black teens were only allowed to dance on the show one day per month. Interviews with leading film and TV creators about their process and craft. 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. Material from the Associated Press is Copyright 2023, Associated Press and may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. It was similar to Philadelphia's American Bandstand. As well, a show was broadcast from a local farm in Westminster, Maryland. [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. Originally an all-white teen show with a monthly "Negro . No matter how progressive we become, there will always be those who will still hang on to the tradition of hate. It ran two hours a day, six days a week. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it. Mary Lou was the last of the Buddy Deane superstars, true hair-hopper royalty, the ultimate Committee member. BLACK MUSIC MOMENT #96: Short-Lived Integration Of The Buddy Deane Show, Jun 1, 2011 By TheUrbanDaily Staff. Jones). Ladies and Gentleman . No! she answers, with a conviction that gives me the chills. I was a square. 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. The first page of the essay, for example, features a full-page picture of black protestors in 1962 in Times . However, unlike during the song "The New Girl in Town" where the Dynamites get there song stolen by 3 committee members, the Buddy . "I told him I thought it was terrible," Melva Lee Scruggs said about the "Buddy Deane Show." On the show you were either a drape or a square, explains Sharon. Helens fans flocked to see her at the Buddy Deane Record Hops (Committee members had to make such personal appearances and sign autographs.) Washington D.C.'s The Milt Grant Show offered "Black Tuesday" and Baltimore's The Buddy Deane Show had "Negro Day" because . It was hilarious., Some of the rumors were fanned on purpose. I am here and on FB as well as NOBLE BRUN in the event the footage can be located. If you leaned on one side, the next day youd just pick it out into shape. John Waters wrote the screenplay under the title of White Lipstick, with the story loosely based on real events.The Corny Collins Show is based on the real-life Buddy Deane Show, a local dance party program which pre-empted Dick Clark's American Bandstand in the Baltimore area during the 1950s and . The Buddy Deane Show was taken off the air because home station WJZ-TV was unwilling to integrate black and white dancers. I was so embarrassed. You Cant Stop the Beat, for example, is an upbeat dance number that resolves the issue of segregation on the Corny Collins Show. 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. It was very interesting to see my conversation quoted in this article. 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/. Bill Haley and the Comets did their premier perf of "Rock Around the Clock" on Deane's show, and Deane was named the No. . 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. MPT did a segment which included interviews with former African American dancers who appeared on the show. In the beginning, there was Arlene. Buddy himself, the high priest, returned for the event. The Corny Collins Show, is a teen dance show in Baltimore's WYZT /WZZT Network. . Theatre producer, Margo Lion, saw a television broadcast of the film in 1998 and started to conceive it as a stage musical. Oh, black teens could dancejust not with the white kids. It was even in the papers. Kathy switched to a great beehive that resembled a trash can sitting on top of her head. 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. Ladies and gentlemen, the nicest kids in town!. 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. Everybody wanted to kick a Buddy Deaners a, says Gene, recalling thugs waiting to jump Deaners outside the studio. Buddy noticed my eyes staring and said, Do the same eyes. And the camera got it. Kathy went even further. I didnt mean to, because I never would have messed up the makeup.. When: Summer 1963. Deane even played a small role in the movie, which premiered to moderate success but went on to become a cult classic. Some do remember a handful of kids getting high on cough medicine. 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. Integration ended The Buddy Deane Show. 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 guess Helen Crist was the first drapette: the DA, the ballet shoes, oogies [tulle scarves], eye shadoweyeliner was big thenand pink lipstick., Helen Crist. While at WITH, Deane was the first Baltimore disk jockey to capitalize on the new musical phenomenon that was rock 'n' roll. It's not just about police brutality. My mother wanted me to go, she took me down to the tryouts. Several local art contests were also held on the show, with viewers submitting their own art work. But something unforeseen happened: The home audience soon grew attached to some of these kids. Yeah it was Cosenel, says Joe. The buddy dean show debuted on Sep. 9. 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 . 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. Buddy wanted it to end happily, but WJZ angered Deaners when it tried to blame the ratings. Joe started working for Buddy as teen assistant and, along with Arlene, oversaw the Committee and enforced the strict rules. 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. 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. . I couldnt be bothered with education. 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. Its host was Winston "Buddy" Deane (1924-2003), who died in Pine Bluff, Arkansas after . The more hair spray, the better. Mary Lou, the Annette Funicello of the show, was the talk of teenage Baltimore. From 1996 to 2003, he hosted dance events in Baltimore, Pennsylvania and aboard cruise ships. Both entities launche. Get off that furniture!? Influencers: Profiles of a Partnership 2022, How to Pitch Stories and Articles to IndieWire, John Waters Shares His 10 Favorite Films of 2022, 'Peter Von Kant' Tops List, John Waters to Write and Direct 'Liarmouth' from His Own Novel, Quentin Tarantino's Favorite Movies: 50 Films the Director Wants You to See, Oscars 2023: Best Animated Feature Predictions. 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. 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. We are kind of like Ozzie and Harriet, says Gene Snyder as Linda nods in agreement. The show featured only white kids dancing, so Scruggs wrote him a letter in the fall of 1958 to . It was a fluke. This sentiment carries through to the songs lyrics. You are out of here. Both black and white activists picketed the . Deane also presented British artist Helen Shapiro, who sang her Baltimore hit, "Tell Me What He Said," at about the time that she was touring England with The Beatles as one of her support acts. The "Buddy Dean Show" was abruptly cancelled. Racism is passed down from one generation to the next. "The Buddy Deane Show" ran on Baltimore's WJZ-TV from 1957 to 1964. In 2003, "Hairspray" went on to sweep the 57th Annual Tony Awards, winning a total of eight awards. "How 'The Buddy Deane Show' really went off the air is the white kids crashed Negro Day to integrate it. 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. There were a lot of obscene phone calls., And the rumors, God, the rumors. We faked a feud. The first and maybe the biggest Buddy Deane queen of all. "How 'The Buddy Deane Show' really went off the air is the white kids crashed Negro Day to integrate it. I had a lot of black friends at the time, so for me this was an awkward thing, says Marie. 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. 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 Once a month the show was all black. I had to get up there on time. In December 1963, producers at Baltimores WJZ-TV cancelled the Buddy Deane Show rather than integrate the popular teen dance program. The Buddy Deane show aired 6 times a week and had a dance committee just like in hairspray. Buddy Deane was the host of a Baltimore dance show that ran on TV from 1957 to 1964 six days a week. Oddly enough, few of the Deaners Ive talked to went on to show biz. 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. Buddy wanted it to end happily, but WJZ angered Deaners when it tried to blame the ratings. "Do You Love Me" by The Contours, or "Hide and Go Seek" by Bunker Hill). 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. Bunker Hill ) buddy deane show negro day Maryland maybe that was a teen dance program was not cool to a. 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