The black cops would stop us and say: This isnt Greenwich Village, you know. In 1948, Deane married Helen Stevenson, his childhood sweetheart, whom he first met when he was just four years old. has the chance to resurface a forgotten history of how discrimination in pop culture intimately shaped the lives of young people 50 years ago. The main thing was your hair was flat, the antithesis of Buddy Deane, she says, chuckling. The rivalry with Dick Clark meant that Deane urged all his performers not to mention American Bandstand or visits to Clark in Philadelphia. That's one of the things that the Black Lives Matter movement is talking about. His show became one of the highest rated stations in the country. 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. Oddly enough, few of the Deaners Ive talked to went on to show biz. 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. 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.. The producers of Diner wanted to include Buddy Deane footage in their film, but most of the shows were live and any tapes of this local period piece have been erased. He was so happy. Both entities launche. The very first day on the set, I didnt recognize Divine, the filmmaker said. If "The Buddy Deane Show" didn't exactly end happily (canceled in 1964, it never did integrate the dancers), Waters remains a fan. 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. Originally known as The Buddy Deane Bandstand, the show first went on the air at 3 p.m. Sept. 9, 1957, and aired for two hours; the show often preceded the Mickey Mouse Club. When the show ended, Deane moved back to Arkansas,. On Negro day a group of black and white kids staged a similar sneak attack on the Buddy Deane Show. They are still referred to, good naturedly by some, as the Ken and Barbie of the show. Gene, a member of the first Committee, and I underline first, later became president of the Board. three, two, one. . 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. 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. We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. When: Summer 1963. Most are happily married with kids and maintain the same images they had on the show. 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). 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. I appreciate the contribution that you and NOBLE BRUN, and other Black dancers on the Buddy Dean dance show made on that series. ' And Evanne still shudders as she recalls, Once I was in the cafeteria. 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. It was so painful. 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. 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. Originally aired 11/5/1986. It would be a treasure to pass down to my future generations. 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. That's what really happened, and the show shut down." 3. He left behind his wife, Helen Stevenson Deane; his three daughters, JoEllen, Dawn, and Debbie and their families. 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). MPT did a segment which included interviews with former African American dancers who appeared on the show. 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. 'Buddy' Deane; www.WashingtonPost.com -- The Messy Truth of The Real 'Hairspray.' 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. 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. Thats what really happened, and the show shut down.. The night was full of delightful anecdotes, including these ten you may not have heard before. Like many couples, Joe and Joan met through the show and became an item for their fans. This page was last edited on 29 July 2022, at 06:25. 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. He just didnt understand., But some have dealt with the problems in good humor. No matter how progressive we become, there will always be those who will still hang on to the tradition of hate. It was the era of rock n' roll ducktail, pegged pants, and beehive haridos. You are history. While he wasnt on the committee, Waters occasionally danced on the show as a guest. It was horrible/ says Joe. . 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. For the rest of the time, the show's participants were all white. Print Headline: Buddy Deane Show was huge hit for young viewers in the late 1950s, Copyright 2023, Northwest Arkansas Newspapers LLC. 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. Hairspray is firmly rooted in 1960s America, but it offers both sophisticated and (tellingly) simplistic ways of understanding racism today. We are kind of like Ozzie and Harriet, says Gene Snyder as Linda nods in agreement. . [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. On the air before Dick Clark debuted, the show was a hit from the beginning, says Arlene today. At first I was so shy I hid behind the Coke machines., But Evanne used to come right home and head for the TV. . It was the top-rated local TV show in Baltimore and, for several years, the highest rated local TV program in the country. . It was similar to Philadelphia's American Bandstand. That's what really happened, and the show shut down." 3. The early look of the Committee was typically 50s. Deane also held dances at various Maryland American Legion posts and National Guard armories which were not taped or broadcast on television. 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. 1 DJ in 1962 by Billboard mag. Museum Day; Art; Books; Design; Food; Music & Film; Video; Newsletter; Travel. And because a new dance was introduced practically every week, you had to watch every day to keep up. "Where: 800 N. Charles St, Baltimore, MD 21201. 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 school tried to throw me out before. A devoted fan of the Buddy Deane Show, Waters drew on this history to write and direct the original film version of Hairspray. How The Buddy Deane Show really went off the air is the white kids crashed Negro Day to integrate it. With the rising pressures of integration, the producers decided that the show must either be integrated or canceled. Im Joe, too. There was a change in the works., Part of that change was the racial integration movement. It was even in the papers. Yet Joe was a dropout when he went on the show and then, once famous, went back to finish. When I became of age to understand it all I became motivated to make a difference. But most have settled down to a very straight life. It is hosted by the titular Corny Collins, with the exception of the monthly Rhythm and Blues special which is hosted by Motormouth Maybelle . On Wednesday, NBC is broadcasting Hairspray Live! The Buddy Deane.phenomenon is hardly dead. 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. 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. The information used was obtained from WJZ. It was hilarious., Some of the rumors were fanned on purpose. But I was never a Deaner. In addition to creating teenage dancing sensations, "The Buddy Deane Show" also featured musical superstars of the day, including Buddy Holly, Domino, the Supremes, the Marvelettes, Annette Funicello, Frankie Avalon, Fabian and many others. Oh, my God, its Evanne! Autograph books, cameras, this is what they lived for. American Bandstand, one of the most popular television shows ever, broadcast from Philadelphia in the late fifties, a time when that city had become a battleground for civil rights. So that was all true in a way, in a weird way., The girls hair was higher, the pants were tighter, and in real life it went off the air because they wouldnt integrate it. Buddy Deane was the host of a Baltimore dance show that ran on TV from 1957 to 1964 six days a week. Deaners seem to come out of the woodwork, drawn by the memory of their stardom. Get off that furniture!? We have a telegram, Buddy would shout almost daily, for Mary Lou to lead a dance, and the cameraman seemed to love her. The star system was born. These were the first role models I knew. Rather than integrating, the show was canceled. 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. Sign up for our Email Newsletters here. "Buddy" Deane was a broadcaster for more than 50 years, beginning his career in Little Rock, Arkansas, then moving to the Memphis, Tennessee market, before moving on to Baltimore, where he worked at WITH radio. Buddy himself, the high priest, returned for the event. In Little Rock, white teens went from protesting integration at Central High School to dancing in the afternoon on Steves Show. Joe started working for Buddy as teen assistant and, along with Arlene, oversaw the Committee and enforced the strict rules. 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. I was a square. 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. Mary Lou was the last of the Buddy Deane superstars, true hair-hopper royalty, the ultimate Committee member. Actor: Hairspray. So the NAACP targeted the show for protests. This Article is related to: Film and tagged Divine, Hairspray, IFC Center, John Waters. Girl Scout leader, very active in my kids school. Mary Lou is still a star. It was a fluke. "I still go to the Buddy Deane reunions," he says. 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. She was the one of the biggies who refused to be on the Board (they had power; a liked because of it). 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. 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. So there you have it. Hairspray, which started as a camp film with a modest $2.7 million budget, grew into a popular and commercially successful Broadway musical and movie. Voters approve of . Eating the refreshments (Ameches Powerhouses, the premiere teenage hangouts forerunner of the Big Mac), which were for guests only. Not a real one. Youre in Baltimore. Waters based the main storyline and "The Corny Collins Show" on the real-life "The Buddy Deane Show" and racial events surrounding it. 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. Some do remember a handful of kids getting high on cough medicine. You are out of here. 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. But it went something like this: Buddy Deane was an exclusively white show. It was a family: Buddy was the father, Arlene was the mother.. The Buddy Deane Show was a teenage dance party, on the air from 1957 to 1964. Some fifty years later, the mindset is STILL the same. 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.. SOUL! "Hairspray" will continue at East Ridge High School through April 23. So the NAACP targeted the show for protests. And more important, so did the Committee, still entering by a special door, still doing the dances from the period with utmost precision. Seeing Hairspray as more than simply a post-racial American fantasy requires taking the storys teen dance show setting seriously. His childhood nickname was Buddy. Every day after school kids would run home, tune in, and dance with the bedpost or refrigerator door as they watched. Deane fought in the Battle of the Bulge and was awarded a Purple Heart during his time in the Europe. Do you miss show biz? I ask her. I havent seen her since we made the movie, said Waters. Then we made up on camera.. 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. 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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 . Once I was off the show for a while, and they said I had joined the nunnery, says Helen, laughing. I used to get death threats on the show. So the rules were bent a little; the big ones, the ones with the fan mail, were allowed to stay. Some of the local teens who danced on the show became local celebrities and had fans of their own. The Hairspray Live! I thought I was running the world, so they developed a Board, and the Committee began governing itself. Being elected to the Board became the ultimate status symbol. 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. In 2003, "Hairspray" went on to sweep the 57th Annual Tony Awards, winning a total of eight awards. The Buddy Deane Show was a highly visible regional program that asserted a racially segregated public culture. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached, or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Baltimore Magazine. I must have had ten different phone numbers, says Helen, and somehow it would get out. "I remember it well," recalls Evanne. My mother wanted me to go, she took me down to the tryouts. 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. The Buddy Deane Show was over. 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. On the show you were either a drape or a square, explains Sharon. 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. 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. [1], As with many other local TV shows, little footage of the show is known to have survived. 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. 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. Teenagers who appeared on the show every day were known as "The Committee". When I get depressed, I dont go to the psychiatrist, I go to the jeweler, she says. At 21, I married a professional football player, Helen remembers, and he made me burn all the fan mail. NBCs Hairspray Live! [2], https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Buddy_Deane_Show&oldid=1101079819. Kings mention of Funtown is preceded by references to lynch mobs, police brutality, and the airtight cage of poverty, and followed by references to hotel segregation and racial slurs. This program is a tribute to long-time Maryland radio announcer Buddy Deane, who passed away in August, 2003. 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 . C. Fields in drag.), This movie is the only radical movie I ever made because it snuck in mid-America. Black teens were only allowed to dance on the show one day per month. Originally an all-white teen show with a monthly "Negro . Pauline Kael praised him. (The rave appeared in The New Yorker, where Kael said it was really Divines movie, calling him W. It was similar to Philadelphia's American Bandstand. Black History Month . 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. 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. In her home, near Allentown, Pennsylvania, she serves me a beautiful brunch, models her fur coats, and poses with her Mercedes. It was similar to Philadelphia's American Bandstand. Waters: We used to go to the hotel and hed say, Come in, and hed be in bed with a cleaning woman smoking pot., It was Tracy saying to Link: Please dont look at my legs without the benefit of nylons.. 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