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. 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. There are other socio-cultural comments in various YouTube comments threads about the Madison dance. 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. 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. 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. The very first day on the set, I didnt recognize Divine, the filmmaker said. Some of the local teens who danced on the show became local celebrities and had fans of their own. Both entities launche. Mr. Deane's salary . 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. Helens fans flocked to see her at the Buddy Deane Record Hops (Committee members had to make such personal appearances and sign autographs.) 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. Powers was a particularly special addition, having disappeared in the years since the films release. 1 DJ in 1962 by Billboard mag. Black teens were only allowed to dance on the show one day per month. . The show featured only white kids dancing, so Scruggs wrote him a letter in the fall of 1958 to . The musical is based on John Waters' 1988 campy movie of the same name. And if you dared to dance the obscene Bodie Green (the Dirty Boogie), you were immediately a goner. The show was a teen dance and music show and ran from 1957 to until 1964 on WJZ-TV until the show was canceled. One time I was going with this guy, and he was dancing with this guest I didnt like, says Evanne. The show designated every other friday to their black dancers, similar to "Negro Day" on the Corny Collins Show. Buddy called me up before the cameras, and I wasnt dressed my best. We really sprayed it, remembers Mary Lou today from her home in Pennsylvania. It was difficult with your peers, recalls Peanuts. And Divine said, What drag queen would allow themselves to look like this?'. See, the fictional Corny Collins Show is actually based on the real Buddy Deane Show, which aired on WJZ-TV in Baltimore, Maryland from 1957 to 1964, and was the inspiration for John Waters . The star system was born. Many years later they married. As you can see from the December thread my question concerning African Americans was totally dismissed by the Committee member who was speaking. The best little jitterbugger in Baltimore. 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. 2003. All of those dances were real, they were real dances, we didnt make any of them up and two were cut out. 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. With the nation in a divisive place, he argued, viewers are looking for entertainment that can be really healing. The New York Times critic Michiko Kakutani saw a similar dynamic at play when Hairspray, the musical, debuting shortly after 9/11, won over fans: Hollywood and Broadway producers have decided [what] Americans want is nostalgiathe logic being that people in times of trouble will gravitate toward comfort entertainment that reminds them of simpler, happier times [such as] the candy-colored Broadway musical Hairspray., Hairsprays history of race in America suggests that racism is an issue of attitudes rather than of policies. Waters's nostalgic and detailed appreciation for The Buddy Deane Show, . A big strong line!) up the hill to the famous dance party set, the one that now houses People Are Talking. Not one of the Committee members, the ones chosen to be on the show every daythe Baltimore version of the Mouseketeers, the nicest kids in town, as they were billed. 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. Or the Bob-a Loop? One of the first ponytail princesses was Peanuts (Sharon Goldman, debuting at 14 in 58, Forest Park, Chicken Hop), who went on the show because Deaners were folk heroes. She remembers Paul Anka singing Put Your Head on My Shoulder to her on camera as she did just that. 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. I had a lot of black friends at the time, so for me this was an awkward thing, says Marie. 'Buddy Deane' really did have "Negro day" once a month -- it was called worse in some neighborhoods in Baltimore. We got out of the limousine and there was a huge crowd that went crazy when Divine jumped out, and it was such an exciting night, Waters said. Now a receptionist living near Towson with her husband and two grown children, Arlene remains fiercely loyal, organizing the reunions and keeping notebooks filled with the updated addresses, married names, and phone numbers of my kids. She met Winston J. [2], https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Buddy_Deane_Show&oldid=1101079819. by You received demerits for almost anything: Chewing gum. For many young people, being blocked from swimming pools, skating rinks, or dance shows like the Buddy Deane Show would be one of their first exposures to what King calls the feeling of forever fighting a degenerating sense of nobodiness.. As well, a show was broadcast from a local farm in Westminster, Maryland. The Stupidity, where you act mentally ill. The Bugs easy, you just catch a disease and throw it to someone else, Waters said. 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. Its host was Winston "Buddy" Deane (1924-2003), who died in Pine Bluff, Arkansas after . Buddy Deane was the host of a Baltimore dance show that ran on TV from 1957 to 1964 six days a week. When: Summer 1963. So the rules were bent a little; the big ones, the ones with the fan mail, were allowed to stay. So you cant imagine how excited I was when I finally got a chance to interview these local legends twenty years later. 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. 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. But it went something like this: Buddy Deane was an exclusively white show. Almost all dancers wore swim wear and beach attire, with music provided by WJZ-TV. Jul 24, 2017 - Explore Bruce Clarke's board "Buddy Dean Show", followed by 154 people on Pinterest. I couldnt be bothered with education. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached, or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Baltimore Magazine. 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. With the 1960s came a whole new set of stars, some with names that seemed like gimmicks, but werent: Concetta Comi, the popular sister team of Yetta and Gretta Kotik. 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. 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 . That's what really happened, and the show shut down." 3. They all thought all the girls were pregnant by Buddy Deane, remember several. Im Joe, too. There was a change in the works., Part of that change was the racial integration movement. This article is among features at explorepinebluff.com, a program of the Pine Bluff Advertising and Promotion Commission. But black kids in . I wanted to get into the record businessand years later he did. 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 . Originally aired 11/5/1986. Once a month the show was all black. On Negro day a group of black and white kids staged a similar sneak attack on the Buddy Deane Show. Please read our Terms of Use or contact us. Joe remembers a sport coat I bought for $5 from somebody who got it when he got out of prison. Once a Deaner, always a Deaner, as another so succinctly puts it. It was similar to Philadelphia's American Bandstand. Id get letters saying, If you show up at this particular hop, youre gonna get your face pushed in. . In December 1963, producers at Baltimores WJZ-TV cancelled the Buddy Deane Show rather than integrate the popular teen dance program. Im the biggest ham. Although she denies being conscious of the camera, she admits, I did try to dance up front. Bill Haley and the Comets did their premier perf of "Rock Around the Clock" on Deane's show, and Deane was named the No. 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. And who could forget those great ads for the plastic furniture slipcovers that opened with the kids jumping up and down on the sofa and Royal Parker screaming, Hey kids! Maybe that was a good choice because Divine was 40 then., She played against-type, certainly. Not show biz, Arlene answers, hesitating, but the record biz, the people. They just wanted to know if you were real. Deane fought in the Battle of the Bulge and was awarded a Purple Heart during his time in the Europe. You are out of here. It was the era of rock n' roll ducktail, pegged pants, and beehive haridos. Over lunch at the Thunderball Lounge, in East Baltimore, Kathy remembers, I could never get used to signing autographs. Some of the really dedicated Committee members get tears in their eyes. BLACK MUSIC MOMENT #96: Short-Lived Integration Of The Buddy Deane Show. 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. 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. 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.. Was it really twenty years ago? (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.) Oh, my God, its Evanne! Autograph books, cameras, this is what they lived for. [citation needed] In several instances, the show went on location to the Milford Mill swim club on the westside of suburban Baltimore County. Deane also presented British artist Helen Shapiro, who sang her Baltimore hit, "Tell Me What He Said," at about the time that she was touring England with The Beatles as one of her support acts. 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. I even won the twist contest with Mary Lou Raines (one of the queens of The Buddy Deane Show) at the Valley Country Club. Print Headline: Buddy Deane Show was huge hit for young viewers in the late 1950s, Copyright 2023, Northwest Arkansas Newspapers LLC. The show featured only white kids dancing, so Scruggs wrote him a letter in the fall of. 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. However, unlike during the song "The New Girl in Town" where the Dynamites get there song stolen by 3 committee members, the Buddy . The first and maybe the biggest Buddy Deane queen of all. Nationally, American Bandstand blocked black teens from entering the studio during its years in Philadelphia, despite host Dick Clarks claims to the contrary. Penny nervously stumbles over her answers, and another girl, Nadine Carver, is cut for being Black (the show has a "Negro Day" on the last Thursday of every month, she is told). 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. 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. The Buddy Deane Show was taken off the air because home station WJZ-TV was unwilling to integrate black and white dancers. As with the drapes and squares of the previous decade, she explains, there were two classes of people thenDeaners and Joe College. He got a great review in The New York Times. [citation needed]. In meetings with the show's white performers, the producers realized that though most of the dancers were in favor of integration, their parents would not be. Thank you for including me as one of the Buddy Dean family. It was similar to Philadelphia's American Bandstand. . And because a new dance was introduced practically every week, you had to watch every day to keep up. 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. Arguably the first TV celebrities in Baltimore. Plot. Each reunion (and a new one is in the works) ls bigger than the last. . January 4, 1964. 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. Participants dressed in "country" style, and danced to country and western music as well as pop. has the chance to resurface a forgotten history of how discrimination in pop culture intimately shaped the lives of young people 50 years ago. If "The Buddy Deane Show" didn't exactly end happily (canceled in 1964, it never did integrate the dancers), Waters remains a fan. Because Buddy Deanes competition was soap operas, the budding teenage romances were sometimes played up for the camera. The buddy dean show debuted on Sep. 9. This Committees committee, under the watchful eye of Arlene, chose new members, taught the dance steps, and enforced the demerit system, which could result in suspension or expulsion. The regulars . 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. Arlene Kozak, Buddys assistant and den mother to the Committee. sively white show. August 8, 2022 at 3:55 a.m. 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. Could it be? 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. This program is a tribute to long-time Maryland radio announcer Buddy Deane, who passed away in August, 2003. three, two, one. We have a telegram, Buddy would shout almost daily, for Mary Lou to lead a dance, and the cameraman seemed to love her. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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.. Voters approve of . [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. The whole day on the show was devoted to me.. "I still go to the Buddy Deane reunions," he says. The rivalry with Dick Clark meant that Deane urged all his performers not to mention American Bandstand or visits to Clark in Philadelphia. Some fifty years later, the mindset is STILL the same. One girl yelled Buddy Deaner and then threw her plate at me. "Do You Love Me" by The Contours, or "Hide and Go Seek" by Bunker Hill). The show featured only white kids dancing, so Scruggs wrote him a letter in the fall of 1958 to . | Both black and white activists picketed the . 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. Yet Joe was a dropout when he went on the show and then, once famous, went back to finish. 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. My parents didn't talk much about racism, and as a result I grew up learning to love everybody. NBCs Hairspray Live! And the other ladies in Allentown blue-collar neighborhood in Baltimore were talking to her and saying, Yeah, what kind of movie is this? They thought she was a real woman that lived on the street, you know. I saw the show as a vehicle to make something of myself, remembers Joe. All Rights Reserved. It is hosted by the titular Corny Collins, with the exception of the monthly Rhythm and Blues special which is hosted by Motormouth Maybelle . When I get depressed, I dont go to the psychiatrist, I go to the jeweler, she says. The Corny Collins Show, is a teen dance show in Baltimore's WYZT /WZZT Network. 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. C. Fields in drag.), This movie is the only radical movie I ever made because it snuck in mid-America. Pixie was barely five feet tall, but her hair sometimes added a good six to eight inches to her height. I was aggressive. 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. You cant do this. I remember once we all got arrested at the drive-in for underage drinking, and the black kids didnt get out and the white kids did. "The Buddy Deane Show," which aired on WJZ-TV in Baltimore from 1957 until 1964. . It was similar to Philadelphia's American Bandstand. Here is the new video celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Buddy Deane Show and the former Catonsville Community College (now CCBC). By what name was The Buddy Deane Show (1957) officially released in Canada in English? You Cant Stop the Beat, for example, is an upbeat dance number that resolves the issue of segregation on the Corny Collins Show. Once I was off the show for a while, and they said I had joined the nunnery, says Helen, laughing. (Special to The Commercial/OzNet.com/ExplorePineBluff.com). I wanted to go, but my parents wouldnt let me. Also, read the comments in that same excerpt about the series only wanting "attractive" teenagers as featured dancers. Sign up for our Email Newsletters here. Performances begin at 7 p.m. In 1950, he moved to Baltimore to WITH. On Sept. 13, 1964, he introduced The Beatles before their concert at the Baltimore Civic Center, and a few days later, he and his family moved back to Arkansas. The information used was obtained from WJZ. 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. When I became of age to understand it all I became motivated to make a difference. Hundreds of thousands of teens learned the latest dances by watching Committee members on the show, copying their personal style, and following their life stories and interactions. From 1996 to 2003, he hosted dance events in Baltimore, Pennsylvania and aboard cruise ships. The Funtown reference is powerful because it captures one of the ways that Jim Crow segregation and white supremacy played out for children and teenagers. Joe started working for Buddy as teen assistant and, along with Arlene, oversaw the Committee and enforced the strict rules. ' And Evanne still shudders as she recalls, Once I was in the cafeteria. You had to wear nylons. Pancocojams showcases the music, dances, language practices, & customs of African Americans and of other people of Black descent throughout the world. On Jan. 4, 1964, nearly five months after the first -- and only -- day that black and white kids danced cheek to cheek on TV in WJZ's studios, Buddy Deane put "The Party's Over" on the record player. Six days a week and often two hours a day, Buddy Deane and his Committee Members--the privileged regular teen dancers . Deaners seem to come out of the woodwork, drawn by the memory of their stardom. The show's format mirrored Philadelphia's "American Bandstand." 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