Perhaps the last thing 2016 needs is a star-studded, light-hearted musical endorsement of colorblindnessthough, viewed holistically, Hairspray is more than that. Joe remembers a sport coat I bought for $5 from somebody who got it when he got out of prison. Girl Scout leader, very active in my kids school. Mary Lou is still a star. . I got a little power-crazed, admits Joe. 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. I was playing bongos on them in between takes because it was hilarious and he thought it was hilarious and I didnt stop to think, what the hell am I doing?, shared actor Holter Graham, who was 15 years old during filming. 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. 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. Before long I started getting lots of fan mail: I think youre neat. I had trunks of it. She was one of the chosen few who went to New York to learn how to demonstrate the Madison, and was selected for the exchange committee that represented Baltimores best on American Bandstand. The first page of the essay, for example, features a full-page picture of black protestors in 1962 in Times . 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. Why not do The Deane Show on TV again? 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. three, two, one. Originally an all-white teen show with a monthly "Negro . 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. On Negro day a group of black and white kids staged a similar sneak attack on the Buddy Deane Show. Marie Fischer was the first Joe to become a Committee memberchosen simply because she was such a good dancer. Facing controversy over the possibility of more integrated broadcasts, the station canceled the program. 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. Teenagers who appeared on the show every day were known as "The Committee". I remember it well, recalls Evanne. 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 . 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. as its newest live-television musical adaptation. That's one of the things that the Black Lives Matter movement is talking about. You received demerits for almost anything: Chewing gum. Here is the new video celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Buddy Deane Show and the former Catonsville Community College (now CCBC). Some fifty years later, the mindset is STILL the same. Buddy Deane was the host of a Baltimore dance show that ran on TV from 1957 to 1964 six days a week. The school tried to throw me out before. He wanted me to go to a summer training session to be a trapeze artist. . 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). Yet Joe was a dropout when he went on the show and then, once famous, went back to finish. Thats what really happened, and the show shut down.. They just wanted to know if you were real. And Divine said, What drag queen would allow themselves to look like this?'. That's what really happened, and the show shut down." 3. When the subject comes up today, most loyalists want to go off the record. . "I told him I thought it was terrible," Melva Lee Scruggs said about the "Buddy Deane Show." Integration ended The Buddy Deane Show. When I became of age to understand it all I became motivated to make a difference. C. Fields in drag.), This movie is the only radical movie I ever made because it snuck in mid-America. I had to get up there on time. We would always do The Dirty Boogie, the one you arent allowed to do, he said. Ninfa O. Barnard Special to The Commercial 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. He was one of the first disc jockeys in the area to regularly feature rock and roll. In her home, near Allentown, Pennsylvania, she serves me a beautiful brunch, models her fur coats, and poses with her Mercedes. Buddy Deane was the host of a Baltimore dance show that ran on TV from 1957 to 1964 six days a week. On the show you were either a drape or a square, explains Sharon. Although he never appeared on Deane's show, Waters attended high school with a "Buddy Deaner" and later gave Deane a cameo in the film, in which Deane played a TV reporter who tried to interview the governor who was besieged by integration protesters. Vanessa Udon plays Motormouth Maybelle, who hosts the monthly Negro Day on the Corny Collins Show. Advertisement. The musical is based on John Waters' 1988 campy movie of the same name. Get off that furniture!? The Buddy Deane Show was a teen dance television show, similar to Philadelphia's American Bandstand, that was created by Zvi Shoubin and aired on WJZ-TV in Baltimore, Maryland from 1957 until 1964.The show was taken off the air because home station WJZ-TV was unable to integrate black and white dancers. . Deane even dubbed himself "the morning mayor." Many parents and local officials were angry. In 1985 the Committee members are for the most part happy and healthy, living in Baltimore, and still recognized on the street. The ultimate reunion.From all over the country, the Deaners could rise again, congregate at the bottom of Television Hill, and start Madison-ing their way (Youre looking good. That she has an affluent life-style surprises no one on the Committee. But most have settled down to a very straight life. 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. Most are happily married with kids and maintain the same images they had on the show. Mary Lou, the Annette Funicello of the show, was the talk of teenage Baltimore. In 1942, Deane enrolled at Cornell University in New York. This page was last edited on 29 July 2022, at 06:25. 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 . 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. Some of the old Committee kept up with the times and made the transition with ease. This program is a tribute to long-time Maryland radio announcer Buddy Deane, who passed away in August, 2003. The Buddy Deane.phenomenon is hardly dead. Some of the local teens who danced on the show became local celebrities and had fans of their own. Everywhere we went, people would say Theres Mary Lou. I wondered if she had just been released from the penitentiary.. 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. These dances included the Mashed Potato, the Stroll, the Pony, the Waddle, the Locomotion, the Bug, the Handjive, the New Continental and the Madison. 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. So you cant imagine how excited I was when I finally got a chance to interview these local legends twenty years later. 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. You cant do this. I remember once we all got arrested at the drive-in for underage drinking, and the black kids didnt get out and the white kids did. Image Credit: OzNet.com. 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 Buddy Deane Show was taken off the air because home station WJZ-TV was unwilling to integrate black and white dancers. Thank you for including me as one of the Buddy Dean family. There were a lot of obscene phone calls., And the rumors, God, the rumors. In early 2003, Deane sold KOTN and three other stations he had acquired over the years. 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. . I had always studied dance, and I wanted to go on [the show]. I had a lot of black friends at the time, so for me this was an awkward thing, says Marie. However, unlike during the song "The New Girl in Town" where the Dynamites get there song stolen by 3 committee members, the Buddy . It's not just about police brutality. From then on, all bare shoulders were covered with a piece of net. Many top acts of the day, both black and white, appeared on The Buddy Deane Show. If a guy had one beer, it was a big deal. The Deane program was a segregated show: white and Black teenagers danced on separate broadcasts. The show's format mirrored Philadelphia's . But it went something like this: Buddy Deane was an exclusively white show. Friday, February 19 at 7PM. At her appearances at the record hops, kids would actually scream when youd get out of the car: Theres Mary Lou! I was so embarrassed. 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. The Buddy Deane Show was taken off the air because home station WJZ-TV was unwilling to integrate black and white dancers. Winston Joseph Deane was born on Aug. 2, 1924, in Pine Bluff. Originally aired 11/5/1986. 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. 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. The Hairspray Live! Please read our Terms of Use or contact us. (NWA Media). 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. And more important, so did the Committee, still entering by a special door, still doing the dances from the period with utmost precision. It was similar to Philadelphia's American Bandstand. In 1957, Deane was chosen by former WITH associate Joel Chaseman to host "The Buddy Deane Show," a dance show for teenagers on WJZ-TV Channel 13. [citation needed] In several instances, the show went on location to the Milford Mill swim club on the westside of suburban Baltimore County. 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. Id get letters saying, If you show up at this particular hop, youre gonna get your face pushed in. It was a family: Buddy was the father, Arlene was the mother.. 'Buddy' Deane; www.WashingtonPost.com -- The Messy Truth of The Real 'Hairspray.' were the highest rated local TV show in America." Amazingly, Deane's show was aired live, two-and-a-half hours each day on five days a week with three hours on Saturday. (97) So I gave it the happy ending that we had, Waters said. By what name was The Buddy Deane Show (1957) officially released in Canada in English? 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.. 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 . Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! All of those dances were real, they were real dances, we didnt make any of them up and two were cut out. He got a great review in The New York Times. Hairspray is firmly rooted in 1960s America, but it offers both sophisticated and (tellingly) simplistic ways of understanding racism today. I took off my steady ring and threw it down. 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. As well, a show was broadcast from a local farm in Westminster, Maryland. With the show beginning at 2:30 in some years, cutting out of school early was common. [1], As with many other local TV shows, little footage of the show is known to have survived. Buddy noticed my eyes staring and said, Do the same eyes. And the camera got it. Kathy went even further. GOD HELP US! He also left the Army in 1948 and began his radio broadcast career at KLXR station in North Little Rock. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached, or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Baltimore Magazine. Yeah it was Cosenel, says Joe. 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. As you can see from the December thread my question concerning African Americans was totally dismissed by the Committee member who was speaking. 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. 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. 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. Once a month the show was all black. 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. The 1988 John Waters film, newly adapted into an NBC live musical, presents a view of racial discrimination thats by turns nave and enlightening. 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. But an intrepid group of local and . . Checking back with the studio, no one had information concerning footage of African American dancers. Kings mention of Funtown is preceded by references to lynch mobs, police brutality, and the airtight cage of poverty, and followed by references to hotel segregation and racial slurs. Soon after, he and his family moved to Memphis, Tenn. 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. Black History Month . Counter to host Dick Clark's claims that he integrated American Bandstand, this book reveals how the first national television program directed at teens discriminated against black youth during its early years . While he wasnt on the committee, Waters occasionally danced on the show as a guest. It was similar to Philadelphia's American Bandstand. . Here, Clark's memories of American Bandstand are nested in an overview of important events in U.S. history from the 1950s and 1960s. 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. Nationally, American Bandstand blocked black teens from entering the studio during its years in Philadelphia, despite host Dick Clarks claims to the contrary. Hairspray, which started as a camp film with a modest $2.7 million budget, grew into a popular and commercially successful Broadway musical and movie. NBCs Hairspray Live! 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. Each reunion (and a new one is in the works) ls bigger than the last. 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 Buddy Deane Show: With Channing Wilroy, Buddy Deane. 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. The Buddy Deane Show was a teenage dance party, on the air from 1957 to 1964. 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. The movie was eventually turned into a musical by the same name. And it was not unique: Dick Reids Record Hop in Charleston, West Virginia; Ginny Paces Saturday Hop in Houston, Texas; John Dixons Dixon on Disc in Mobile, Alabama; Bill Sanderss show in Chattanooga, Tennessee; Dewey Phillipss Pop Shop in Memphis, Tennessee; and Chuck Allens Teen Tempo in Jackson, Mississippi, were all segregated dance shows. Seeing Hairspray as more than simply a post-racial American fantasy requires taking the storys teen dance show setting seriously. 'Buddy Deane' really did have "Negro day" once a month -- it was called worse in some neighborhoods in Baltimore. Based loosely on the 1988 film by John Waters, Hairspray centres on Baltimore teen Tracy Turnblad (Carmel Rodrigues), who in 1962 wants nothing more than a chance to dance on the local pop music TV. Motormouth Maybelle, a fictional black deejay and civil-rights activist played in the NBC version by Jennifer Hudson, sings: You cant stop today as it comes speeding down the track / Child, yesterday is history and its never coming back / Cause tomorrow is a brand new day and it dont know white from black. In the films narrative, this utopian vision of a colorblind future solves the problem of segregation and racial injustice. Or the Bob-a Loop? The show featured only white kids dancing, so Scruggs wrote him a letter in the fall of. 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. I used to get death threats on the show. One girl yelled Buddy Deaner and then threw her plate at me. Pixie was barely five feet tall, but her hair sometimes added a good six to eight inches to her height. The night was full of delightful anecdotes, including these ten you may not have heard before. Im Joe, too. There was a change in the works., Part of that change was the racial integration movement. Youre in Baltimore. 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. That was our whole social life, being a Buddy Deaner, says Gene. Every day Id come to the studio in knee-highs, and Id have to take them off. Mr. 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. 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. Why? Id wonder. She wasnt even a fan of the show. August 8, 2022 at 3:55 a.m. His childhood nickname was Buddy. My mother used to pick me up after school to make sure nobody hassled me., The adoring fans could also be a hassle. Unlike the tensions that followed the real integration of the Buddy Deane Show, Waterss Hairspray ends with the protesters triumphing. Mr. Deane's salary . Even racists like it, Waters said in his opening remarks. 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.. 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. 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. I'll include some of those comments in an upcoming pancocojams series about that dance.However, it seems to me that The Buddy Deane Show is more important because it exemplifies the need to go back and understand how the past has influenced the present with regard to systemic racism in Baltimore, Maryland and elsewhere in the United States. I couldnt be bothered with education. The first stars I could identify with. In its version of 1960s Baltimore, teenagers sing and dance their way past race. The show's format mirrored Philadelphia's "American Bandstand." I must have had ten different phone numbers, says Helen, and somehow it would get out. Waters grew up with "The Buddy Deane Show" in Baltimore, and modeled his fictitious "Corny Collins Show" after it. 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. If "The Buddy Deane Show" didn't exactly end happily (canceled in 1964, it never did integrate the dancers), Waters remains a fan. In fact, "American Bandstand" was not shown on television in Baltimore because Deane's show was so popular. 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. The Buddy Deane show aired 6 times a week and had a dance committee just like in hairspray. Racism is passed down from one generation to the next. The Committee, initially recruited from local teen centers, was to act as hosts and dance with the guests. My mother wanted me to go, she took me down to the tryouts. Pauline Kael praised him. (The rave appeared in The New Yorker, where Kael said it was really Divines movie, calling him W. A special. How Actress Rachel Hilsons Baltimore Roots Influence Her Work Today, The Mount Vernon Virtuosi is Much More Than a Chamber Orchestra, Jen Michalski Discusses New Short Story Collection The Company of Strangers. You had to wear nylons. In Hairspray (1988), Tammy Turner assists Corny Collins on the show. 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. It was even in the papers. 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. 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Deane fought in the Battle of the Bulge and was awarded a Purple Heart during his time in the Europe. Waters would rush home . 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 . We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. I only saw Divine alive one more time after that night, so it was a great, great night to remember. 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. Waters based the main storyline and "The Corny Collins Show" on the real-life "The Buddy Deane Show" and racial events surrounding it. You are out of here. 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. 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. 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. So the rules were bent a little; the big ones, the ones with the fan mail, were allowed to stay. So the NAACP targeted the show for protests. "Do You Love Me" by The Contours, or "Hide and Go Seek" by Bunker Hill). It was the era of rock n' roll ducktail, pegged pants, and beehive haridos. As with the drapes and squares of the previous decade, she explains, there were two classes of people thenDeaners and Joe College. Ric Ocasek as the Beatnik cat; Pia Zadora as the Beatnik chick; Production. He was mad because I was as popular as he was. 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. 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 . Friday, February 24, 2023. 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. Why Europeans Dont Get Huge Medical Bills. From 1968 into 1973, the public television variety show SOUL! Oddly enough, few of the Deaners Ive talked to went on to show biz. 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