"If you first appeared on The Buddy Deane Show then you could not appear on The Dick Clark Show," Deane said. Deane even played a small role in the movie, which premiered to moderate success but went on to become a cult classic. Buddy offered to have three or even four days a week all black, but that wasnt it. One time I was going with this guy, and he was dancing with this guest I didnt like, says Evanne. In 1958 the Buddy Deane Show lost support from the Baltimore City Board of Education due to it's segregation policies, and in 1964 it went off the air instead of choosing to integrate. 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. Id hook and have to dance in the back so the teachers couldnt see me, says Helen. Not show biz, Arlene answers, hesitating, but the record biz, the people. 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. It was hilarious., Some of the rumors were fanned on purpose. With the rising pressures of integration, the producers decided that the show must either be integrated or canceled. He wanted me to go to a summer training session to be a trapeze artist. If "The Buddy Deane Show" didn't exactly end happily (canceled in 1964, it never did integrate the dancers), Waters remains a fan. Ten seconds to airtime. Hairspray was the actors first film, before Dead Poets Society, which came out the next year. Joe remembers a sport coat I bought for $5 from somebody who got it when he got out of prison. Thats what really happened, and the show shut down.. "I still go to the Buddy Deane reunions," he says. The Buddy Deane Show was over. 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 show was a teen dance and music show and ran from 1957 to until 1964 on WJZ-TV until the show was canceled. and later on, growing up, it was a definite blow: reality. I still have a whole box of fan mail, says Evanne. By representing this realityin bubble-gum, technicolor clarityHairspray does something that pure documentation, at times, cant: It makes a difficult part of a nations history accessible (and entertaining) to millions of viewers. 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. I must have had ten different phone numbers, says Helen, and somehow it would get out. We are kind of like Ozzie and Harriet, says Gene Snyder as Linda nods in agreement. As well, a show was broadcast from a local farm in Westminster, Maryland. 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.". Only white teens became members of the elite Committee the Buddy Deane equivalent of the Mouseketeers. 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. It is hosted by the titular Corny Collins, with the exception of the monthly Rhythm and Blues special which is hosted by Motormouth Maybelle . Deane hosted a morning show at WITH. Eating the refreshments (Ameches Powerhouses, the premiere teenage hangouts forerunner of the Big Mac), which were for guests only. Oddly enough, few of the Deaners Ive talked to went on to show biz. On the show you were either a drape or a square, explains Sharon. The Deaners didnt mind. 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. In my on-going search for African American footage I stumbled across this article in Google. I wonder if that applied to Black males as well as White males. WJZ's show aired from 1957 to 1964 and was popular among Baltimore teens, promoting dances like the twist, mashed potato, and the Madison. It was even in the papers. We got more mail: Oh, please dont break up! Somebody even sent us a miniature pair of boxing gloves. It was similar to Philadelphia's American Bandstand. I even named some of the characters in my films after them. 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. The Nicest Kids in Town! Deane helped the Bill Haley and the Comets song "Rock Around the Clock" become a hit in Baltimore a full year before it became a worldwide success by promoting their music while at WITH. . It was the era of rock n' roll ducktail, pegged pants, and beehive haridos. 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. Just once. MPT did a segment which included interviews with former African American dancers who appeared on the show. I didnt mean to, because I never would have messed up the makeup.. Buddy himself, the high priest, returned for the event. sively white show. . Ninfa O. Barnard wrote this article for explorepinebluff.com. Pauline Kael praised him. (The rave appeared in The New Yorker, where Kael said it was really Divines movie, calling him W. The Corny Collins Show, is a teen dance show in Baltimore's WYZT /WZZT Network. Hairspray movie was inspired by this show and was based off of the the events but unlike the movies, instead of the show being integrated, it was cancelled. Buddy said to me, Well, heres my little girl whos been with me the longest. I hardly ever cried, but I just broke down on camera. It was very interesting to see my conversation quoted in this article. Girl Scout leader, very active in my kids school. Mary Lou is still a star. Perhaps the highest bouffants of all belonged to the Committee member who was my personal favorite: Pixie (who died several years later from a drug overdose). Pixie was barely five feet tall, but her hair sometimes added a good six to eight inches to her height. 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. The star system was born. [2], https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Buddy_Deane_Show&oldid=1101079819. My parents didn't talk much about racism, and as a result I grew up learning to love everybody. 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. Some fifty years later, the mindset is STILL the same. This discrimination was explicitly or tacitly supported by an array of advertisers, television stations, music producers, city authorities, and federal communications officials. Most are happily married with kids and maintain the same images they had on the show. All the choreography in the movie prior to this was segregated by race, and now its all together, which is a very, very subtle reference to the theme of this movie.. And more important, so did the Committee, still entering by a special door, still doing the dances from the period with utmost precision. January 4, 1964. Or Hartford Motor Coach Company? 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. 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. Here, Clark's memories of American Bandstand are nested in an overview of important events in U.S. history from the 1950s and 1960s. The first and maybe the biggest Buddy Deane queen of all. In 1984, he sold the station to a local college but bought it back in 1996. The "Buddy Dean Show" was abruptly cancelled. We used to go to stand in front of Reads Drugstore, and people would ask for our autograph.. Buddy Deane was the host of a Baltimore dance show that ran on TV from 1957 to 1964 six days a week. Evanne and her brother run the John Brock Benson Dance Studios, in Pasadena, and have a line of dancers who appear at clubs all over the state. The first stars I could identify with. The Buddy Deane Show was a teenage dance party, on the air from 1957 to 1964. Racism is passed down from one generation to the next. He was one of the first disc jockeys in the area to regularly feature rock and roll. 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). It was difficult with your peers, recalls Peanuts. Print Headline: Buddy Deane Show was huge hit for young viewers in the late 1950s, Copyright 2023, Northwest Arkansas Newspapers LLC. Black and white together on local TV. So there you have it. You received demerits for almost anything: Chewing gum. Bill Haley and the Comets did their premier perf of "Rock Around the Clock" on Deane's show, and Deane was named the No. 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. Oh, my God, its Evanne! Autograph books, cameras, this is what they lived for. A devoted fan of the Buddy Deane Show, Waters drew on this history to write and direct the original film version of Hairspray. They all thought all the girls were pregnant by Buddy Deane, remember several. Buddy Deane was the host of a Baltimore dance show that ran on TV from 1957 to 1964 six days a week. The white kids parents came and got them. 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. They just wanted to know if you were real. Performances begin at 7 p.m. 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. Joel Chaseman, also a DJ at WITH, became program manager of WJZ-TV when Westinghouse bought it in the mid-50s. On the other, Hairspray Live! On August 2, 1924, Winston Joseph Deane was born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. 2023 IndieWire Media, LLC. 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. Teenagers who appeared on the show every day were known as "The Committee". The racial integration of a take-off of the show, dubbed The Corny Collins Show, provides the backdrop to the 1988 John Waters film Hairspray. That she has an affluent life-style surprises no one on the Committee. 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 . . Mr. Deane's salary . I took off my steady ring and threw it down. Winston Joseph Deane was born on Aug. 2, 1924, in Pine Bluff. 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. It was similar to Philadelphia's American Bandstand. Everybody wanted to kick a Buddy Deaners a, says Gene, recalling thugs waiting to jump Deaners outside the studio. Im the biggest ham. Although she denies being conscious of the camera, she admits, I did try to dance up front. 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