Joel Chaseman, also a DJ at WITH, became program manager of WJZ-TV when Westinghouse bought it in the mid-50s. He was one of the first disc jockeys in the area to regularly feature rock and roll. 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. 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. Mary Lou was the last of the Buddy Deane superstars, true hair-hopper royalty, the ultimate Committee member. Buddy could take his seat beneath the famous Top 20 Board, and the tension would build. 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The show was a teen dance and music show and ran from 1957 to until 1964 on WJZ-TV until the show was canceled.The show was a teen dance and music show and ran from 1957 to until 1964 on WJZ-TV until the show was canceled.The show was a teen dance and music show and ran from 1957 to until 1964 on WJZ-TV until the show was canceled. Waters based the main storyline and "The Corny Collins Show" on the real-life "The Buddy Deane Show" and racial events surrounding it. "Hairspray" will continue at East Ridge High School through April 23. Facing controversy over the possibility of more integrated broadcasts, the station canceled the program. After you sprayed it, youd get toilet paper and blot it. Buddy wanted it to end happily, but WJZ angered Deaners when it tried to blame the ratings. The Nicest Kids in Town! In Little Rock, white teens went from protesting integration at Central High School to dancing in the afternoon on Steves Show. It aired for two and a half hours a day, six days a week. In December 1963, producers at Baltimores WJZ-TV cancelled the Buddy Deane Show rather than integrate the popular teen dance program. [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. I wanted to get into the record businessand years later he did. Owing to Deane's mid-South roots and work history, he featured many performers from the ranks of country and western music (e.g., Skeeter Davis, singing "The End of the World" and Brenda Lee singing "Sweet Nothin's"), who then achieved cross-over hits among rock and roll fans. "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. The show designated every other friday to their black dancers, similar to "Negro Day" on the Corny Collins Show. You learned how to be a teenager from the show. We hung around with black and whites together, which you couldnt do. In 1948, Deane married Helen Stevenson, his childhood sweetheart, whom he first met when he was just four years old. Yeah it was Cosenel, says Joe. The Buddy Deane Show was taken off the air because home station WJZ-TV was unwilling to integrate black and white dancers. 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. 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. 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. 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. The Buddy Deane Show was a teenage dance party, on the air from 1957 to 1964. 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. Most are happily married with kids and maintain the same images they had on the show. Clip from Shake, Rattle, and Roll: The Buddy Deane Scrapbook Im still a fana Deaner groupie. As well, a show was broadcast from a local farm in Westminster, Maryland. [1], Deane's dance party television show debuted in 1957 and was, for a time, the most popular local show in the United States. Ten seconds to airtime. From then on, all bare shoulders were covered with a piece of net. 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. Performances begin at 7 p.m. Bill Haley and the Comets did their premier perf of "Rock Around the Clock" on Deane's show, and Deane was named the No. From 1964 to 1984, Deane hosted a show and owned KOTN-FM and KOTN-AM radio stations at Pine Bluff. Each reunion (and a new one is in the works) ls bigger than the last. You will be redirected back to your article in, Get The Latest IndieWire Alerts And Newsletters Delivered Directly To Your Inbox. Plot. Why? Id wonder. She wasnt even a fan of the show. 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. 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. 2003. On this day in 1979, Sweeney Todd first opened on Broadway . Deane began his broadcasting career at KLXR in Little Rock, Arkansas. It was similar to Philadelphia's American Bandstand. Last spring, five hundred people quickly snapped up the $23 tickets to the third Buddy Deane Reunion, held at the Eastwind, in Essex, to raise money for the Baltimore Burn Center. 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 . MPT did a segment which included interviews with former African American dancers who appeared on the show. I havent seen her since we made the movie, said Waters. Im the biggest ham. Although she denies being conscious of the camera, she admits, I did try to dance up front. For the rest of the time, the show's participants were all white. WJZ's show aired from 1957 to 1964 and was popular among Baltimore teens, promoting dances like the twist, mashed potato, and the Madison. When I became of age to understand it all I became motivated to make a difference. She became so popular that she was written up in the nationwide Sixteen Magazine. This weekly time slot became known as "Special Guest Day" by the Deane Show's white performers and "Black Monday" by Baltimore's Black teens. Hairspray is firmly rooted in 1960s America, but it offers both sophisticated and (tellingly) simplistic ways of understanding racism today. Buddy noticed my eyes staring and said, Do the same eyes. And the camera got it. Kathy went even further. The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll, sponsored by Matt Palumbo's MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN for Friday shows that 46% of Likely U.S. And because a new dance was introduced practically every week, you had to watch every day to keep up. . 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. Here is the new video celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Buddy Deane Show and the former Catonsville Community College (now CCBC). 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 so-called Black Monday). 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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. While he wasnt on the committee, Waters occasionally danced on the show as a guest. 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. Joe remembers a sport coat I bought for $5 from somebody who got it when he got out of prison. When Barry Levinson, another Baltimore native, requested video from the show for his film Diner, the station told him it had no footage. The Committee, initially recruited from local teen centers, was to act as hosts and dance with the guests. 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. 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. At 21, I married a professional football player, Helen remembers, and he made me burn all the fan mail. The Buddy Deane Show was a show from the late 50's to the mid 60's. The show was a teen dance television show, similar to Philadelphia's American Bandstand. The white kids parents came and got them. We would always do The Dirty Boogie, the one you arent allowed to do, he said. 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. Sign Up: Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Was it really twenty years ago? The Buddy Deane Show was a highly visible regional program that asserted a racially segregated public culture. That show featured local teens who danced to the. 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. In 2003, "Hairspray" went on to sweep the 57th Annual Tony Awards, winning a total of eight awards. Yes, I miss it very much. Arguably the first TV celebrities in Baltimore. All Rights Reserved. The very first day on the set, I didnt recognize Divine, the filmmaker said. 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. Why not do The Deane Show on TV again? 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. Jones). Some of the local teens who danced on the show became local celebrities and had fans of their own. He was so happy. Gene calls it a big loss. It was living in a fantasy world, says Helen. So I gave it the happy ending that we had, Waters said. I only saw Divine alive one more time after that night, so it was a great, great night to remember. You had to wear nylons. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it. His childhood nickname was Buddy. John Water's himself said that in his movie, he "gave it the happy ending that it didn't have". BLACK MUSIC MOMENT #96: Short-Lived Integration Of The Buddy Deane Show. The Buddy Dean Show was the inspiration for the "Corny Collins Show" in the 2007 musical. Not a real one. Then we made up on camera.. Another royal Deaner couple who met on the air and later married was Gene Snyder and Linda Warehime. Almost all dancers wore swim wear and beach attire, with music provided by WJZ-TV. "I still go to the Buddy Deane reunions," he says. 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. Theyd stand outside my home. 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. Not show biz, Arlene answers, hesitating, but the record biz, the people. Or the Bob-a Loop? Actor: Hairspray. At her appearances at the record hops, kids would actually scream when youd get out of the car: Theres Mary Lou! Deane also held dances at various Maryland American Legion posts and National Guard armories which were not taped or broadcast on television. by After a surprise interracial broadcast, WJZ-TV received bomb and arson threats, hate mail, and complaints from white parents. Several local art contests were also held on the show, with viewers submitting their own art work. Id get letters saying, If you show up at this particular hop, youre gonna get your face pushed in. Print Headline: Buddy Deane Show was huge hit for young viewers in the late 1950s, Copyright 2023, Northwest Arkansas Newspapers LLC. So a year later when he had his own show, it seemed only right that "Rock Around the Clock" premiered on "The Buddy Deane Show.". Like many couples, Joe and Joan met through the show and became an item for their fans. The Deaners didnt mind. Other vices were likewise eschewed. I was Tracy, said Waters. 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 must have had ten different phone numbers, says Helen, and somehow it would get out. NBCs Hairspray Live! Deane hosted a morning show at WITH. There are other socio-cultural comments in various YouTube comments threads about the Madison dance. Vanessa Udon plays Motormouth Maybelle, who hosts the monthly Negro Day on the Corny Collins Show. So the NAACP targeted the show for protests. I couldnt be bothered with education. He was one of the first to showcase rock and roll music on a continual basis. 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 Stupidity, where you act mentally ill. The Bugs easy, you just catch a disease and throw it to someone else, Waters said. But I was never a Deaner. It was hilarious., Some of the rumors were fanned on purpose. 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. three, two, one. The rivalry with Dick Clark meant that Deane urged all his performers not to mention American Bandstand or visits to Clark in Philadelphia. The show was a teen dance and music show and ran from 1957 to until 1964 on WJZ-TV until the show was canceled. 1957, it was a huge success as it was portrayed in the musical. 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. But most have settled down to a very straight life. On Negro day a group of black and white kids staged a similar sneak attack on the Buddy Deane Show. It was similar to Philadelphia's American Bandstand. With the show beginning at 2:30 in some years, cutting out of school early was common. 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. sively white show. ' And Evanne still shudders as she recalls, Once I was in the cafeteria. It was the times, most remember. A big strong line!) up the hill to the famous dance party set, the one that now houses People Are Talking. (Special to The Commercial/OzNet.com/ExplorePineBluff.com). Once I was off the show for a while, and they said I had joined the nunnery, says Helen, laughing. My parents didn't talk much about racism, and as a result I grew up learning to love everybody. 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. 'Buddy Deane' really did have "Negro day" once a month -- it was called worse in some neighborhoods in Baltimore. Deane even dubbed himself "the morning mayor." The AP will not be held liable for any delays, inaccuracies, errors or omissions therefrom or in the transmission or delivery of all or any part thereof or for any damages arising from any of the foregoing. 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). Deaners seem to come out of the woodwork, drawn by the memory of their stardom. The show featured only white kids dancing, so Scruggs wrote him a letter in the fall of 1958 to . 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. August 8, 2022 at 3:55 a.m. 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. Here, Clark's memories of American Bandstand are nested in an overview of important events in U.S. history from the 1950s and 1960s. Friday, February 24, 2023. 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. The 1988 John Waters film, newly adapted into an NBC live musical, presents a view of racial discrimination thats by turns nave and enlightening. 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. 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 was totally star-struck and had as much fun that night as I did at the Cannes Film Festival. 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. From 1957-1965, Deane was chosen as host of WJZ-TV, Baltimore's "The . Yet Joe was a dropout when he went on the show and then, once famous, went back to finish. My mother used to pick me up after school to make sure nobody hassled me., The adoring fans could also be a hassle. The black cops would stop us and say: This isnt Greenwich Village, you know. 2023 IndieWire Media, LLC. (They gave her a diamond watch at the last reunion.) I used to get death threats on the show. This sentiment carries through to the songs lyrics. . They would drive me nuts when theyd come in the door, and Id say Man, youre gone. Even doing commercials was expected. 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. (There was a token all-black program once a month on the show called "Negro Day" in the movie, a phrase that now drips with surreal period flavor but no black Committee, and the protests called for integrating the show.) From 1968 into 1973, the public television variety show SOUL! Acts that appeared on the show first were reportedly barred from appearing on Dick Clark's American Bandstand, but if they had been on Bandstand first they could still be on The Buddy Deane Show. So the rules were bent a little; the big ones, the ones with the fan mail, were allowed to stay. Today they seem opposites. I was honored, touched by it all.. It was a family: Buddy was the father, Arlene was the mother.. Girl Scout leader, very active in my kids school. Mary Lou is still a star. Thank you for including me as one of the Buddy Dean family. 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. 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. In 1963, the Civic Interest Group, an student integrationist group founded at Morgan State University, challenged this policy by obtaining tickets for black and white teens to attend the show on a day reserved for black teenagers. . Once a Deaner, always a Deaner, as another so succinctly puts 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/. I wanted to go, but my parents wouldnt let me. WJZ's show aired from 1957 to 1964 and was popular among Baltimore teens, promoting dances like the twist, mashed potato, and the Madison. If "The Buddy Deane Show" didn't exactly end happily (canceled in 1964, it never did integrate the dancers), Waters remains a fan. Everybody wanted to kick a Buddy Deaners a, says Gene, recalling thugs waiting to jump Deaners outside the studio. . We are kind of like Ozzie and Harriet, says Gene Snyder as Linda nods in agreement. 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. Deane fought in the Battle of the Bulge and was awarded a Purple Heart during his time in the Europe. Fran Nedeloff (debuting at 14 in 61, Mervo, cha-cha) remembers the look: Straight skirt to the knee, cardigan sweater buttoned up the back, cha-cha heels, lots of heavy black eyeliner, definitely Clearasil on the lips, white nail polish. Warner, Tony, Buddy's Top 20: The Story of Baltimore's Hottest TV Dance Show and the Guy Who Brought it to Life! 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