This program is a tribute to long-time Maryland radio announcer Buddy Deane, who passed away in August, 2003. So the NAACP targeted the show for protests. 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. Eating the refreshments (Ameches Powerhouses, the premiere teenage hangouts forerunner of the Big Mac), which were for guests only. So I gave it the happy ending that we had, Waters said. 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.". Yes, I miss it very much. 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. Associated Press text, photo, graphic, audio and/or video material shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium. I couldnt be bothered with education. [2], https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Buddy_Deane_Show&oldid=1101079819. Buddy wanted it to end happily, but WJZ angered Deaners when it tried to blame the ratings. And they all came together on the Buddy Deane Show, Baltimore's legendary teen dance show. 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/. Being a teenage star in Baltimore had its drawbacks. The Committee, initially recruited from local teen centers, was to act as hosts and dance with the guests. In 1984, he sold the station to a local college but bought it back in 1996. Facing controversy over the possibility of more integrated broadcasts, the station canceled the program. So you cant imagine how excited I was when I finally got a chance to interview these local legends twenty years later. Originally an all-white teen show with a monthly "Negro . The introductory essay in Dick Clark's American Bandstand (1997) is illustrative in this regard. "I told him I thought it was terrible," Melva Lee Scruggs said about the "Buddy Deane Show." 'Buddy Deane' really did have "Negro day" once a month -- it was called worse in some neighborhoods in Baltimore. See production, box office & company info. Why not do The Deane Show on TV again? I even won the twist contest with Mary Lou Raines (one of the queens of The Buddy Deane Show) at the Valley Country Club. My mother used to pick me up after school to make sure nobody hassled me., The adoring fans could also be a hassle. 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. 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 movie was eventually turned into a musical by the same name. It was the times, most remember. 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. I dont think Ill ever get over missing it, if you want to know the truth., Many of the Committee members spouses faced an even bigger adjustment. Ladies and Gentleman . [1], Deane's dance party television show debuted in 1957 and was, for a time, the most popular local show in the United States. When: Summer 1963. 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. The whole day on the show was devoted to me.. . The musical is based on John Waters' 1988 campy movie of the same name. C. Fields in drag.), This movie is the only radical movie I ever made because it snuck in mid-America. 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. Neither these AP materials nor any portion thereof may be stored in a computer except for personal and noncommercial use. 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. Why? Id wonder. She wasnt even a fan of the show. Im Joe, too. There was a change in the works., Part of that change was the racial integration movement. Interviews with leading film and TV creators about their process and craft. With the show beginning at 2:30 in some years, cutting out of school early was common. 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. These dances included the Mashed Potato, the Stroll, the Pony, the Waddle, the Locomotion, the Bug, the Handjive, the New Continental and the Madison. 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. 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. 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. Mary Lou was the last of the Buddy Deane superstars, true hair-hopper royalty, the ultimate Committee member. 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. Almost every rock 'n' roll star except Elvis graced the Deane Show stage. 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 Buddy Deane Show," which aired on WJZ-TV in Baltimore from 1957 until 1964. . See more ideas about buddy, historic baltimore, baltimore. The show's format mirrored Philadelphia's "American Bandstand." Mary Lou laughs at the memory of doing a pimple medicine spot on camera. Mr. Deane hosted a crowd of exuberant teens, who danced to the music of live rock bands, including many name acts. Joel Chaseman, also a DJ at WITH, became program manager of WJZ-TV when Westinghouse bought it in the mid-50s. Unlike the tensions that followed the real integration of the Buddy Deane Show, Waterss Hairspray ends with the protesters triumphing. 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. 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. 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. The early look of the Committee was typically 50s. I had trunks of it. Integration ended The Buddy Deane Show. 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. 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. (NWA Media). It was the top-rated local TV show in Baltimore and, for several years, the highest rated local TV program in the country. 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. "I remember it well," recalls Evanne. I was Tracy, said Waters. August 8, 2022 at 3:55 a.m. Once I was off the show for a while, and they said I had joined the nunnery, says Helen, laughing. The Stupidity, where you act mentally ill. The Bugs easy, you just catch a disease and throw it to someone else, Waters said. has the chance to resurface a forgotten history of how discrimination in pop culture intimately shaped the lives of young people 50 years ago. It was a fluke. I havent seen her since we made the movie, said Waters. 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. January 4, 1964. In 1950, he moved to Baltimore to WITH. Just once. The first stars I could identify with. 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. However, unlike during the song "The New Girl in Town" where the Dynamites get there song stolen by 3 committee members, the Buddy . Arguably the first TV celebrities in Baltimore. . 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. 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. Mary Lou, the Annette Funicello of the show, was the talk of teenage Baltimore. 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. 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. [citation needed]. He was 16 at the time of filming. 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. Deane hosted a morning show at WITH. 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 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. The first page of the essay, for example, features a full-page picture of black protestors in 1962 in Times . 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.. 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 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. Sign up for our Email Newsletters here. I used to get death threats on the show. Deane died in Pine Bluff, Arkansas on July 16, 2003, after suffering a stroke. Buddy Deane was the host of a Baltimore dance show that ran on TV from 1957 to 1964 six days a week. On Jan. 4, 1964, "The Buddy Deane Show" aired its last episode. . 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. Buddy Deane. His childhood nickname was Buddy. I got these letters from the Naval Academy, Helen remembers, so I went there one day, and all the midshipmen were hanging out the windows. Pixie was barely five feet tall, but her hair sometimes added a good six to eight inches to her height. BLACK MUSIC MOMENT #96: Short-Lived Integration Of The Buddy Deane Show, Jun 1, 2011 By TheUrbanDaily Staff. The show was a teen dance and music show and ran from 1957 to until 1964 on WJZ-TV until the show was canceled. Deane even dubbed himself "the morning mayor." 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. We really sprayed it, remembers Mary Lou today from her home in Pennsylvania. I was totally star-struck and had as much fun that night as I did at the Cannes Film Festival. All rights reserved. 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. He was one of the first disc jockeys in the area to regularly feature rock and roll. Once a month the show was all black. Buddy noticed my eyes staring and said, Do the same eyes. And the camera got it. Kathy went even further. A devoted fan of the Buddy Deane Show, Waters drew on this history to write and direct the original film version of Hairspray. All Rights Reserved. Deaners seem to come out of the woodwork, drawn by the memory of their stardom. Ten seconds to airtime. Black teens were only allowed to dance on the show one day per month. After the screening, he was joined by Michael Musto and original cast membersLeslie Ann Powers (Penny Pingleton), JoAnn Havrilla (Prudence Pingleton), and Holter Graham (I.Q. I wanted to dance., We had a saying: The show either makes you or breaks you,' says Kathy. It was very interesting to see my conversation quoted in this article. 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. The white kids parents came and got them. 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. 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. Because Buddy Deanes competition was soap operas, the budding teenage romances were sometimes played up for the camera. They just wanted to know if you were real. 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. Please read our Terms of Use or contact us. 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. 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 taken off the air because home station WJZ-TV was unwilling to integrate black and white dancers. But something unforeseen happened: The home audience soon grew attached to some of these kids. The Deane Show was marketed to a predominantly white audience, but due to integration efforts and the civil rights movement of the time the show first had Black dancers appear once a month then once a week. But it went something like this: Buddy Deane was an exclusively white show. I appreciate the contribution that you and NOBLE BRUN, and other Black dancers on the Buddy Dean dance show made on that series. 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