In 1950, he moved to Baltimore to WITH. Checking back with the studio, no one had information concerning footage of African American dancers. Deaners seem to come out of the woodwork, drawn by the memory of their stardom. The "Buddy Dean Show" was abruptly cancelled. Today they seem opposites. Not show biz, Arlene answers, hesitating, but the record biz, the people. I was totally star-struck and had as much fun that night as I did at the Cannes Film Festival. Originally an all-white teen show with a monthly "Negro . 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.. Oh, my God, its Evanne! Autograph books, cameras, this is what they lived for. 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. Buddy Deane was the host of a Baltimore dance show that ran on TV from 1957 to 1964 six days a week. John Waters, a Baltimore filmmaker and Deane Show fan, loosely based "The Corny Collins' Show" in his movie "Hairspray" on Deane's show. Winston Joseph Deane was born on Aug. 2, 1924, in Pine Bluff. 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. 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. He was one of the first to showcase rock and roll music on a continual basis. There were a lot of obscene phone calls., And the rumors, God, the rumors. In fact, "American Bandstand" was not shown on television in Baltimore because Deane's show was so popular. Gene calls it a big loss. It was living in a fantasy world, says Helen. . If you leaned on one side, the next day youd just pick it out into shape. 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. 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. "If you first appeared on The Buddy Deane Show then you could not appear on The Dick Clark Show," Deane said. The show's format mirrored Philadelphia's . GOD HELP US! He was 16 at the time of filming. I had a lot of black friends at the time, so for me this was an awkward thing, says Marie. See more ideas about buddy, historic baltimore, baltimore. For the rest of the time, the show's participants were all white. This Article is related to: Film and tagged Divine, Hairspray, IFC Center, John Waters. by Just once. The Best Picture Race Got a Lot More Confusing This Week, Tom Cruise Made the Rounds This Week, but Other Oscar Nominees Got More Applause Than Top Gun: Maverick, These Oscar Categories Are the Hardest to Predict, Translating the Unconscious Into Images: The Cinematography of Bardo, Poker Face Takes Viewers on a Cross-Country Road Trip Without Leaving New York, Why TR Looks Different from Every Other Movie of 2022, The 50 Best Movies of 2022, According to 165 Critics from Around the World, All 81 Titles Unceremoniously Removed from HBO Max (So Far), 10 Shows Canceled but Not Forgotten in 2022. Romance was one thing; sex was another. In 1948, Deane married Helen Stevenson, his childhood sweetheart, whom he first met when he was just four years old. So the NAACP targeted the show for protests. Deane even dubbed himself "the morning mayor." Buddy Deane was the host of a Baltimore dance show that ran on TV from 1957 to 1964 six days a week. I couldnt be bothered with education. 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. For example, Carole King appeared on the show playing her single "It Might as Well Rain Until September", nearly a decade before she burst to popularity with her landmark 1970 album, Tapestry. The guys who wore sport coats with belts in the back from Lees of Broadway (10 percent discount for Committee members), pegged pants, pointy-toe shoes with the great buckles on the side, and drape (greaser) haircuts that my parents would never allow. Every weekday afternoon, in each of these broadcast markets, these shows presented images of exclusively white dancers and rendered black youth as second-class teenagers. On this day in 1979, Sweeney Todd first opened on Broadway . . Deane died in Pine Bluff on July 16, 2003, after experiencing complications caused by a stroke. It was horrible/ says Joe. But black kids in . That was our whole social life, being a Buddy Deaner, says Gene. You Cant Stop the Beat, for example, is an upbeat dance number that resolves the issue of segregation on the Corny Collins Show. If a guy had one beer, it was a big deal. The Buddy Deane Show was taken off the air because home station WJZ-TV was unwilling to integrate black and white dancers. Although WJZ-TV, owned by Westinghouse Broadcasting (now CBS since January 2, 1995), was an ABC affiliate, the station "blacked out" the network broadcast of American Bandstand in Baltimore and broadcast the Deane program instead, reportedly because Bandstand showed black teenagers dancing on the show (although black and white teenagers were not allowed to dance together until the show was moved to California in 1964). 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. Not a real one. I havent seen her since we made the movie, said Waters. Im a typical housewife, says Peanuts. At 21, I married a professional football player, Helen remembers, and he made me burn all the fan mail. Buddy called me up before the cameras, and I wasnt dressed my best. I was with this guy named Jeff. Buddy Deane was the host of a Baltimore dance show that ran on TV from 1957 to 1964 six days a week. On the other, Hairspray Live! 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. I was Tracy, said Waters. As well, a show was broadcast from a local farm in Westminster, Maryland. The Deane program was a segregated show: white and Black teenagers danced on separate broadcasts. . Im still a fana Deaner groupie. three, two, one. Maybe ''The Buddy Deane Show,'' the teen-dance-party that ran on local television in Baltimore from 1957 to 1964 and inspired ''Hairspray,'' was the only wholesome obsession that ever led to one . From 1964 to 1984, Deane hosted a show and owned KOTN-FM and KOTN-AM radio stations at Pine Bluff. Facing controversy over the possibility of more integrated broadcasts, the station canceled the program. It aired for two and a half hours a day, six days a week. If I have one regret in life, its that I wasnt a Buddy Deaner. Some kids on the show went a little nuts, with stars in their eyes; they thought they were going to go to Hollywood and be moviestars.. From 1957-1965, Deane was chosen as host of WJZ-TV, Baltimore's "The . In 2003, "Hairspray" went on to sweep the 57th Annual Tony Awards, winning a total of eight awards. Waters would rush home . 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. If Im ever depressed, sometimes I think, Well this will make me feel better, and I go and dig in the box., Holding onto the memories more than anyone is Arlene Kozak, who is by far the most loved by all the Committee members. Unlike the tensions that followed the real integration of the Buddy Deane Show, Waterss Hairspray ends with the protesters triumphing. Ninfa O. Barnard Special to The Commercial At just 10 years old, he and a friend set up their own radio station in a chicken coop that belonged to Deane's mother. He eventually became one of the most respected programmers in the country and was even written up in Time magazine. as its newest live-television musical adaptation. Ladies and gentlemen, the nicest kids in town!. The Hairspray Live! On the show you were either a drape or a square, explains Sharon. [citation needed]. Many years later they married. The Deane program set aside every other Friday for a show featuring only black teenagers. The show began in September of 1957 when an Arkansan named Winston Joe "Buddy" Deane was approached by Joel Chaseman, the head of programming at WJZ-TV. I was really mad. From then on, all bare shoulders were covered with a piece of net. Once a month the show was all black; there was no black Committee. Buddy Deane. Warner, Tony, Buddy's Top 20: The Story of Baltimore's Hottest TV Dance Show and the Guy Who Brought it to Life! So there you have it. So you cant imagine how excited I was when I finally got a chance to interview these local legends twenty years later. In 1985 the Committee members are for the most part happy and healthy, living in Baltimore, and still recognized on the street. has the chance to resurface a forgotten history of how discrimination in pop culture intimately shaped the lives of young people 50 years ago. In mixed marriages (with non-Deaners), many of the outsiders resented their spouses pasts. You learned how to be a teenager from the show. Deane hosted a morning show at WITH. 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. You had to wear nylons. 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. BLACK MUSIC MOMENT #96: Short-Lived Integration Of The Buddy Deane Show. Some of the really dedicated Committee members get tears in their eyes. . 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. . Perhaps the last thing 2016 needs is a star-studded, light-hearted musical endorsement of colorblindnessthough, viewed holistically, Hairspray is more than that. Oddly enough, few of the Deaners Ive talked to went on to show biz. 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. As Marie puts it, The rewards were so great emotionally that you didnt have to ask for a monetary award., Many had difficulties dealing with the void when the show went off the air. Rather than integrating, the show was canceled. Yet Joe was a dropout when he went on the show and then, once famous, went back to finish. When: Summer 1963. NBCs Hairspray Live! Eating the refreshments (Ameches Powerhouses, the premiere teenage hangouts forerunner of the Big Mac), which were for guests only. It was maddening: the Mashed Potatoes, the Stroll, the Pony, the Waddle, the Locomotion, the Bug, the Handjive, the New Continental, and, most important, the Madison, a complicated line dance that started here and later swept the country. Seeing Hairspray as more than simply a post-racial American fantasy requires taking the storys teen dance show setting seriously. Pauline Kael praised him. (The rave appeared in The New Yorker, where Kael said it was really Divines movie, calling him W. Mr. Deane hosted a crowd of exuberant teens, who danced to the music of live rock bands, including many name acts. 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. Sources: www.IMDB.com -- Buddy Deane Biography; www.OzNet.com - A Collection of Articles About Buddy Deane; www.Variety.com -- Winston J. John Waters with Divine (Harris Glen Milstead) at the Baltimore premiere of Hairspray, Originally, I had it, the idea was Divine was gonna play the mother and the daughter like in The Parent Trap. New Line [Cinema] wouldnt let me, he said. . And according to Arlene, Buddy encouraged one popular Committee member (Buzzy Bennet) to teach himself to read so he could realize his dream of being a disc jockey. Even racists like it, Waters said in his opening remarks. I am here and on FB as well as NOBLE BRUN in the event the footage can be located. 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. Could it be? MPT did a segment which included interviews with former African American dancers who appeared on the show. (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.) 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. 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. Museum Day; Art; Books; Design; Food; Music & Film; Video; Newsletter; Travel. . ' And Evanne still shudders as she recalls, Once I was in the cafeteria. "The Buddy Deane Show" ran on Baltimore's WJZ-TV from 1957 to 1964. Sign up for our Email Newsletters here. 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. They sent cakes on my birthday. It was even in the papers. You will be redirected back to your article in, Get The Latest IndieWire Alerts And Newsletters Delivered Directly To Your Inbox. This page was last edited on 29 July 2022, at 06:25. When the show ended, Deane moved back to Arkansas,. and later on, growing up, it was a definite blow: reality. I still have a whole box of fan mail, says Evanne. BLACK MUSIC MOMENT #96: Short-Lived Integration Of The Buddy Deane Show, Jun 1, 2011 By TheUrbanDaily Staff. Buddy noticed my eyes staring and said, Do the same eyes. And the camera got it. Kathy went even further. The show featured only white kids dancing, so Scruggs wrote him a letter in the fall of 1958 to . 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). We used to go to stand in front of Reads Drugstore, and people would ask for our autograph.. I wanted to dance., We had a saying: The show either makes you or breaks you,' says Kathy. 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. So the rules were bent a little; the big ones, the ones with the fan mail, were allowed to stay. Sign Up: Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! (I looked like I was taking off.) And Helen, Linda, and Joanie all got out the rat-tail teasing combs. 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. 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. Here is the new video celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Buddy Deane Show and the former Catonsville Community College (now CCBC). When the subject comes up today, most loyalists want to go off the record. 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.. Deane even played a small role in the movie, which premiered to moderate success but went on to become a cult classic. . It was hilarious., Some of the rumors were fanned on purpose. 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