That show featured local teens who danced to the. 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 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. Several local art contests were also held on the show, with viewers submitting their own art work. And more important, so did the Committee, still entering by a special door, still doing the dances from the period with utmost precision. The whole day on the show was devoted to me.. "How 'The Buddy Deane Show' really went off the air is the white kids crashed Negro Day to integrate it. 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. The introductory essay in Dick Clark's American Bandstand (1997) is illustrative in this regard. You will be redirected back to your article in, Get The Latest IndieWire Alerts And Newsletters Delivered Directly To Your Inbox. 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. 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 rivalry with Dick Clark meant that Deane urged all his performers not to mention American Bandstand or visits to Clark in Philadelphia. Over lunch at the Thunderball Lounge, in East Baltimore, Kathy remembers, I could never get used to signing autographs. Mr. 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. Deane died in Pine Bluff on July 16, 2003, after experiencing complications caused by a stroke. Joe started working for Buddy as teen assistant and, along with Arlene, oversaw the Committee and enforced the strict rules. Soon after, he and his family moved to Memphis, Tenn. 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. Yet Joe was a dropout when he went on the show and then, once famous, went back to finish. (97) The Buddy Deane show aired 6 times a week and had a dance committee just like in hairspray. Marie Fischer was the first Joe to become a Committee memberchosen simply because she was such a good dancer. 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. 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. 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. In her home, near Allentown, Pennsylvania, she serves me a beautiful brunch, models her fur coats, and poses with her Mercedes. 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 Hairspray (1988), Tammy Turner assists Corny Collins on the show. Joe remembers a sport coat I bought for $5 from somebody who got it when he got out of prison. Hairspray is John Waters most commercially successful film the 1988 dancing comedy spawned a hit Broadway musical, a movie and TV movie of that musical, plus multiple sequel and TV show offers that never saw the light of day. 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 Show was a teenage dance party, on the air from 1957 to 1964. Washington D.C.'s The Milt Grant Show offered "Black Tuesday" and Baltimore's The Buddy Deane Show had "Negro Day" because . When I get depressed, I dont go to the psychiatrist, I go to the jeweler, she says. In fact, "American Bandstand" was not shown on television in Baltimore because Deane's show was so popular. These dances included the Mashed Potato, the Stroll, the Pony, the Waddle, the Locomotion, the Bug, the Handjive, the New Continental and the Madison. The Committee, initially recruited from local teen centers, was to act as hosts and dance with the guests. So there you have it. 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 now integrated! Waters himself commented on the films revisionist history, I gave it a happy ending that it didnt have., Hairsprays happy ending gave the story an arc that appealed to Broadway and Hollywood producers. The Deane program set aside every other Friday for a show featuring only black teenagers. Buddy Deane. January 4, 1964. I was totally star-struck and had as much fun that night as I did at the Cannes Film Festival. producers hope this story of interracial unity will be appealing to television audiences in 2016. 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. They would drive me nuts when theyd come in the door, and Id say Man, youre gone. 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. Once I was off the show for a while, and they said I had joined the nunnery, says Helen, laughing. Then we made up on camera.. It was a family: Buddy was the father, Arlene was the mother.. If you were a Buddy Deane Committee member, you were on TV six days a week for as many as three hours a dayenough media exposure to make Marshall McLuhans head spin. 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). 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. Arlene Kozak, Buddys assistant and den mother to the Committee. 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. The white kids parents came and got them. We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. On the air before Dick Clark debuted, the show was a hit from the beginning, says Arlene today. That was our whole social life, being a Buddy Deaner, says Gene. 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. From 1957-1965, Deane was chosen as host of WJZ-TV, Baltimore's "The . Many parents and local officials were angry. 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. 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. Only white teens became members of the elite Committee the Buddy Deane equivalent of the Mouseketeers. WJZ's show aired from 1957 to 1964 and was popular among Baltimore teens, promoting dances like the twist, mashed potato, and the Madison. Nicknamed "Buddy" as a child, Deane developed an early love for radio. Another royal Deaner couple who met on the air and later married was Gene Snyder and Linda Warehime. It would be a treasure to pass down to my future generations. . I wonder if that applied to Black males as well as White males. Deane fought in the Battle of the Bulge and was awarded a Purple Heart during his time in the Europe. Most are happily married with kids and maintain the same images they had on the show. All of those dances were real, they were real dances, we didnt make any of them up and two were cut out. As well, a show was broadcast from a local farm in Westminster, Maryland. In 1948, Deane married Helen Stevenson, his childhood sweetheart, whom he first met when he was just four years old. Ten seconds to airtime. You are history. The Corny Collins Show, is a teen dance show in Baltimore's WYZT /WZZT Network. At 21, I married a professional football player, Helen remembers, and he made me burn all the fan mail. Integration ended The Buddy Deane Show. 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. So I gave it the happy ending that we had, Waters said. Black and white together on local TV. Voters approve of . 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 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. . . We are kind of like Ozzie and Harriet, says Gene Snyder as Linda nods in agreement. 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. There were a lot of obscene phone calls., And the rumors, God, the rumors. 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. Some of the old Committee kept up with the times and made the transition with ease. (They gave her a diamond watch at the last reunion.) It was difficult with your peers, recalls Peanuts. "How 'The Buddy Deane Show' really went off the air is the white kids crashed Negro Day to integrate it. This Article is related to: Film and tagged Divine, Hairspray, IFC Center, John Waters. "Where: 800 N. Charles St, Baltimore, MD 21201. "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. Was it really twenty years ago? I was a square. The first and maybe the biggest Buddy Deane queen of all. GOD HELP US! 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. 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. Like many couples, Joe and Joan met through the show and became an item for their fans. Some do remember a handful of kids getting high on cough medicine. I was really mad. Black History Month . 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. 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. Deane even played a small role in the movie, which premiered to moderate success but went on to become a cult classic. 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. Hairspray is firmly rooted in 1960s America, but it offers both sophisticated and (tellingly) simplistic ways of understanding racism today. three, two, one. Not a real one. 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 show featured only white kids dancing, so Scruggs wrote him a letter in the fall of 1958 to . 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. I wanted to get into the record businessand years later he did. 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. Special appearances. And they all came together on the Buddy Deane Show, Baltimore's legendary teen dance show. 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. 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. . Sign Up: Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! In 2003, "Hairspray" went on to sweep the 57th Annual Tony Awards, winning a total of eight awards. . 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. The first big stars were Bobbi Bums and Freddy Oswinkle, according to Arlene, but no matter how big anyone got, someone came along who was even bigger. Joe Cash and Joan Teves became the shows first royalty. Why? Id wonder. She wasnt even a fan of the show. One girl yelled Buddy Deaner and then threw her plate at me. On Wednesday, NBC is broadcasting Hairspray Live! Mary Lou laughs at the memory of doing a pimple medicine spot on camera. 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 . 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. 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. We faked a feud. . 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. We got more mail: Oh, please dont break up! Somebody even sent us a miniature pair of boxing gloves. 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. 'The Buddy Deane Show' was over . Helens fans flocked to see her at the Buddy Deane Record Hops (Committee members had to make such personal appearances and sign autographs.) 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. 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. WJZ's show aired from 1957 to 1964 and was popular among Baltimore teens, promoting dances like the twist, mashed potato, and the Madison. Id get letters saying, If you show up at this particular hop, youre gonna get your face pushed in. It was the era of rock n' roll ducktail, pegged pants, and beehive haridos. That's what really happened, and the show shut down." 3. 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 . 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 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. Sometimes youd wrap your hair at night. Mary Lou was the last of the Buddy Deane superstars, true hair-hopper royalty, the ultimate Committee member. While at WITH, Deane was the first Baltimore disk jockey to capitalize on the new musical phenomenon that was rock 'n' roll. Get off that furniture!? As with the drapes and squares of the previous decade, she explains, there were two classes of people thenDeaners and Joe College. Warner, Tony, Buddy's Top 20: The Story of Baltimore's Hottest TV Dance Show and the Guy Who Brought it to Life! It was similar to Philadelphia's American Bandstand. Material from the Associated Press is Copyright 2023, Associated Press and may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. At just 10 years old, he and a friend set up their own radio station in a chicken coop that belonged to Deane's mother. 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. When that little red light came on, so did my smile, she says, laughing. Buddy Deane was the host of a Baltimore dance show that ran on TV from 1957 to 1964 six days a week. 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. . My mother wanted me to go, she took me down to the tryouts. 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. THE BUDDY DEANE SHOW John Waters based The Corny Collins Show on The Buddy Deane Show, a daily Baltimore dance party show that was very popular throughout the late Fifties and early. They all thought all the girls were pregnant by Buddy Deane, remember several. Youre in Baltimore. Theyd stand outside my home. At her appearances at the record hops, kids would actually scream when youd get out of the car: Theres Mary Lou! 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. C. Fields in drag.), This movie is the only radical movie I ever made because it snuck in mid-America. On Negro day a group of black and white kids staged a similar sneak attack on the Buddy Deane Show. I saw the show as a vehicle to make something of myself, remembers Joe. From then on, all bare shoulders were covered with a piece of net. Here is the new video celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Buddy Deane Show and the former Catonsville Community College (now CCBC). Or dancing with other Committee members when you were supposed to be dancing with the guests (a very unpopular rule allowed this only every fourth dance). Or Snuggle Dolls? Both black and white activists picketed the . . We hung around with black and whites together, which you couldnt do. 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. Rather than integrating, the show was canceled. Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! I am here and on FB as well as NOBLE BRUN in the event the footage can be located. As you can see from the December thread my question concerning African Americans was totally dismissed by the Committee member who was speaking. Not show biz, Arlene answers, hesitating, but the record biz, the people. 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. Buddy Deane was the host of a Baltimore dance show that ran on TV from 1957 to 1964 six days a week. 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. 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. [1], Deane's dance party television show debuted in 1957 and was, for a time, the most popular local show in the United States. Greetings, Pat Brun.Thanks for commenting in this pancocojams discussion thread. Some of the really dedicated Committee members get tears in their eyes. On the other, Hairspray Live! | The Buddy Deane Show was taken off the air because home station WJZ-TV was unwilling to integrate black and white dancers. Even doing commercials was expected. Once a month the show was all black; there was no black Committee. 2023 IndieWire Media, LLC. 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 sent cakes on my birthday. While the rest of the nation grew up on Dick Clarks American Bandstand, (which was not even shown here because Channel 13 already had Buddy Deane), Baltimoreans, true to form, had their own eccentric version. I even won the twist contest with Mary Lou Raines (one of the queens of The Buddy Deane Show) at the Valley Country Club. This man approached me, telegrammed me, showed up at the show. Ninfa O. Barnard wrote this article for explorepinebluff.com. 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.. From 1968 into 1973, the public television variety show SOUL! Though black and white . 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