Both entities launche. 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. We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. You had to wear nylons. 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. You are history. The television news reporter covering the Corny Collins Show in the film sums up the climactic scene: Youre seeing history being made today. See production, box office & company info. Mr. Deane's salary . Many parents and local officials were angry. The Buddy Deane Show was taken off the air because home station WJZ-TV was unwilling to integrate black and white dancers. Mr. Deane hosted a crowd of exuberant teens, who danced to the music of live rock bands, including many name acts. [1], Deane's dance party television show debuted in 1957 and was, for a time, the most popular local show in the United States. The Stupidity, where you act mentally ill. The Bugs easy, you just catch a disease and throw it to someone else, Waters said. We got more mail: Oh, please dont break up! Somebody even sent us a miniature pair of boxing gloves. The school tried to throw me out before. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached, or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Baltimore Magazine. 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. Everybody wanted to kick a Buddy Deaners a, says Gene, recalling thugs waiting to jump Deaners outside the studio. I must have had ten different phone numbers, says Helen, and somehow it would get out. Gene calls it a big loss. It was living in a fantasy world, says Helen. John Water's himself said that in his movie, he "gave it the happy ending that it didn't have". 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. 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. And the whole concept of the Committee changed. and later on, growing up, it was a definite blow: reality. I still have a whole box of fan mail, says Evanne. But an intrepid group of local and . NBCs Hairspray Live! The Corny Collins Show, is a teen dance show in Baltimore's WYZT /WZZT Network. 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. On Jan. 4, 1964, "The Buddy Deane Show" aired its last episode. 2023 IndieWire Media, LLC. I was Tracy, said Waters. And because a new dance was introduced practically every week, you had to watch every day to keep up. [citation needed] In several instances, the show went on location to the Milford Mill swim club on the westside of suburban Baltimore County. The show was a teen dance and music show and ran from 1957 to until 1964 on WJZ-TV until the show was canceled. 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. So you cant imagine how excited I was when I finally got a chance to interview these local legends twenty years later. In December 1963, producers at Baltimores WJZ-TV cancelled the Buddy Deane Show rather than integrate the popular teen dance program. "I remember it well," recalls Evanne. 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. The best little jitterbugger in Baltimore. 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. Joanie, whose mother wanted me to be a child star, hit the show in early 57 at age 13 (you had to be 14 to be eligible, but many lied about their ages to qualify), followed a few months later by Joe, 17. Almost every rock 'n' roll star except Elvis graced the Deane Show stage. Helens fans flocked to see her at the Buddy Deane Record Hops (Committee members had to make such personal appearances and sign autographs.) Black teens were only allowed to dance on the show one day per month. 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. I wanted to get into the record businessand years later he did. As you can see from the December thread my question concerning African Americans was totally dismissed by the Committee member who was speaking. But black kids in . The Hairspray Live! One girl yelled Buddy Deaner and then threw her plate at me. August 8, 2022 at 3:55 a.m. They sent cakes on my birthday. 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. by 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. This town just wasnt ready for that. 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. All rights reserved. In 1942, Deane enrolled at Cornell University in New York. Oddly enough, few of the Deaners Ive talked to went on to show biz. . (I looked like I was taking off.) And Helen, Linda, and Joanie all got out the rat-tail teasing combs. 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. She was the one of the biggies who refused to be on the Board (they had power; a liked because of it). 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. (NWA Media). 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. Warner, Tony, Buddy's Top 20: The Story of Baltimore's Hottest TV Dance Show and the Guy Who Brought it to Life! 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. . 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 featured only white kids dancing, so Scruggs wrote him a letter in the fall of 1958 to . It was even in the papers. Some fifty years later, the mindset is STILL the same. Because Buddy Deanes competition was soap operas, the budding teenage romances were sometimes played up for the camera. They all thought all the girls were pregnant by Buddy Deane, remember several. I wanted to dance., We had a saying: The show either makes you or breaks you,' says Kathy. Hairspray encourages its audience to take the fight to integrate a teenage TV show seriously, but it does so through songs, dances, and costumes that celebrate and satirize the 60s. In my on-going search for African American footage I stumbled across this article in Google. Being a teenage star in Baltimore had its drawbacks. Even racists like it, Waters said in his opening remarks. Arguably the first TV celebrities in Baltimore. 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. 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. This Article is related to: Film and tagged Divine, Hairspray, IFC Center, John Waters. A big strong line!) up the hill to the famous dance party set, the one that now houses People Are Talking. I had a lot of black friends at the time, so for me this was an awkward thing, says Marie. [2], https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Buddy_Deane_Show&oldid=1101079819. 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. . This page was last edited on 29 July 2022, at 06:25. Racism is passed down from one generation to the next. . It was similar to Philadelphia's American Bandstand. The show featured only white kids dancing, so Scruggs wrote him a letter in the fall of 1958 to . I'm sure they could have reached out to me via these posts, but did not. The first stars I could identify with. 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. However, unlike during the song "The New Girl in Town" where the Dynamites get there song stolen by 3 committee members, the Buddy . The main thing was your hair was flat, the antithesis of Buddy Deane, she says, chuckling. Every day Id come to the studio in knee-highs, and Id have to take them off. Theyd stand outside my home. And if you dared to dance the obscene Bodie Green (the Dirty Boogie), you were immediately a goner. Once I was off the show for a while, and they said I had joined the nunnery, says Helen, laughing. I wanted to join the circus., Two other ponytail princesses who went on to the Buddy Dean hall of fame were Evanne Robinson, the committee member on the show the longest, and Kathy Schmink. I was a misfit. Greetings, Pat Brun.Thanks for commenting in this pancocojams discussion thread. 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. 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. After a surprise interracial broadcast, WJZ-TV received bomb and arson threats, hate mail, and complaints from white parents. Even doing commercials was expected. With the rising pressures of integration, the producers decided that the show must either be integrated or canceled. 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. He got a great review in The New York Times. If I have one regret in life, its that I wasnt a Buddy Deaner. So there you have it. From then on, all bare shoulders were covered with a piece of net. In 1984, he sold the station to a local college but bought it back in 1996. Oh, black teens could dancejust not with the white kids. The black cops would stop us and say: This isnt Greenwich Village, you know. Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! At her appearances at the record hops, kids would actually scream when youd get out of the car: Theres Mary Lou! Ironically, The Buddy Deane Show introduced black music and artists into the lives of white Baltimore teenagers, many of whom learned to dance from black friends and listened to black radio. The Buddy Deane Show was a highly visible regional program that asserted a racially segregated public culture. 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. 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. With the show beginning at 2:30 in some years, cutting out of school early was common. Buddy Deane was the host of a Baltimore dance show that ran on TV from 1957 to 1964 six days a week. Before long I started getting lots of fan mail: I think youre neat. Nicknamed "Buddy" as a child, Deane . Advertisement. "Do You Love Me" by The Contours, or "Hide and Go Seek" by Bunker Hill). In her home, near Allentown, Pennsylvania, she serves me a beautiful brunch, models her fur coats, and poses with her Mercedes. The musical is based on John Waters' 1988 campy movie of the same name. This program is a tribute to long-time Maryland radio announcer Buddy Deane, who passed away in August, 2003. The Buddy Deane Show was taken off the air because home station WJZ-TV was unwilling to integrate black and white dancers. He eventually became one of the most respected programmers in the country and was even written up in Time magazine. Joe remembers a sport coat I bought for $5 from somebody who got it when he got out of prison. 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 . I got a little power-crazed, admits Joe. 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. You learned how to be a teenager from the show. Maybe that was a good choice because Divine was 40 then., She played against-type, certainly. When I get depressed, I dont go to the psychiatrist, I go to the jeweler, she says. 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. Pauline Kael praised him. (The rave appeared in The New Yorker, where Kael said it was really Divines movie, calling him W. 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. 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. 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. To this day, Im reluctant to tell some of my black friends I was on Buddy Deane because they look at it as a terrible time.. As with the drapes and squares of the previous decade, she explains, there were two classes of people thenDeaners and Joe College. Once a month the show was all black. [1], As with many other local TV shows, little footage of the show is known to have survived. Buddy himself, the high priest, returned for the event. It was the top-rated local TV show in Baltimore and, for several years, the highest rated local TV program in the country. Why? Id wonder. She wasnt even a fan of the show. Was it really twenty years ago? There are other socio-cultural comments in various YouTube comments threads about the Madison dance. The show featured only white kids dancing, so Scruggs wrote him a letter in the fall of 1958 to . Buddy noticed my eyes staring and said, Do the same eyes. And the camera got it. Kathy went even further. sively white show. Eating the refreshments (Ameches Powerhouses, the premiere teenage hangouts forerunner of the Big Mac), which were for guests only. . It was very interesting to see my conversation quoted in this article. Checking back with the studio, no one had information concerning footage of African American dancers. Jones). 1 DJ in 1962 by Billboard mag. 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. We hung around with black and whites together, which you couldnt do. 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). In Little Rock, white teens went from protesting integration at Central High School to dancing in the afternoon on Steves Show. 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. Material from the Associated Press is Copyright 2023, Associated Press and may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. 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. Black and white together on local TV. As well, a show was broadcast from a local farm in Westminster, Maryland. 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. 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). Most are happily married with kids and maintain the same images they had on the show. You will be redirected back to your article in, Get The Latest IndieWire Alerts And Newsletters Delivered Directly To Your Inbox. We have a telegram, Buddy would shout almost daily, for Mary Lou to lead a dance, and the cameraman seemed to love her. It was a fluke. I was able after a while to afford some clothes from Lees of Broadway (whose selection of belted coats and pegged pants made it the Saks Fifth Avenue of Deaners). He was 16 at the time of filming. 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. 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). 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. In the beginning, there was Arlene. Im the biggest ham. Although she denies being conscious of the camera, she admits, I did try to dance up front. 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 . 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. has the chance to resurface a forgotten history of how discrimination in pop culture intimately shaped the lives of young people 50 years ago. Also, read the comments in that same excerpt about the series only wanting "attractive" teenagers as featured dancers. Mary Lou, the Annette Funicello of the show, was the talk of teenage Baltimore. 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. Some of the local teens who danced on the show became local celebrities and had fans of their own. The information used was obtained from WJZ. The whole day on the show was devoted to me.. The night was full of delightful anecdotes, including these ten you may not have heard before. The movie was eventually turned into a musical by the same name. It was a real kick! Her fame even brought an offer to join the circus. We used to go to stand in front of Reads Drugstore, and people would ask for our autograph.. But something unforeseen happened: The home audience soon grew attached to some of these kids. Sign up for our Email Newsletters here. Image Credit: OzNet.com. From 1957-1965, Deane was chosen as host of WJZ-TV, Baltimore's "The . Washington D.C.'s The Milt Grant Show offered "Black Tuesday" and Baltimore's The Buddy Deane Show had "Negro Day" because . 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. All Rights Reserved. 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. 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