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. 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. 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. GOD HELP US! 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. At her appearances at the record hops, kids would actually scream when youd get out of the car: Theres Mary Lou! The Buddy Deane Show was a highly visible regional program that asserted a racially segregated public culture. But most have settled down to a very straight life. Mr. Almost all dancers wore swim wear and beach attire, with music provided by WJZ-TV. The Buddy Deane Show was a teen dance television show, similar to Philadelphia's American Bandstand, that was created by Zvi Shoubin and aired on WJZ-TV in Baltimore, Maryland from 1957 until 1964.The show was taken off the air because home station WJZ-TV was unable to integrate black and white dancers. 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. It's not just about police brutality. Ninfa O. Barnard Special to The Commercial Powers was a particularly special addition, having disappeared in the years since the films release. Sign up for our Email Newsletters here. You are watching the "Buddy Deane Show." "The Buddy Deane Show" defined a new generation of rock & roll as well as dance on television in the late 1950s. The musical is based on John Waters' 1988 campy movie of the same name. 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. The "Corny Collins Show" in Hairspray is loosely based on the Baltimore teen dance program called the "Buddy Deane Show." One Baltimore woman fought to get black teens on the popular show back in . And more important, so did the Committee, still entering by a special door, still doing the dances from the period with utmost precision. 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. 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. Everywhere we went, people would say Theres Mary Lou. I wondered if she had just been released from the penitentiary.. This document may not be reprinted without the express written permission of Northwest Arkansas Newspapers LLC. 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. And Divine said, What drag queen would allow themselves to look like this?'. Buddy Deane was the host of a Baltimore dance show that ran on TV from 1957 to 1964 six days a week. In mixed marriages (with non-Deaners), many of the outsiders resented their spouses pasts. The early look of the Committee was typically 50s. 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. The protesters wanted the races to mix. 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. I havent seen her since we made the movie, said Waters. 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. 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. 'Buddy' Deane; www.WashingtonPost.com -- The Messy Truth of The Real 'Hairspray.' Still, as an historian of the television era that Hairspray so lovingly recreates, I believe the story also presents a more nuanced vision of how popular culture helped to educate white and black teenagers about racial hierarchies. He wanted me to go to a summer training session to be a trapeze artist. 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. 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. 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. After a surprise interracial broadcast, WJZ-TV received bomb and arson threats, hate mail, and complaints from white parents. Please read our Terms of Use or contact us. "Hairspray" is set in the 1960s and is based on a TV show called "The Buddy Deane Show," which featured Baltimore-area teenagers dancing to popular music but was canceled in 1964, after the . (I looked like I was taking off.) And Helen, Linda, and Joanie all got out the rat-tail teasing combs. Joel Chaseman, also a DJ at WITH, became program manager of WJZ-TV when Westinghouse bought it in the mid-50s. When the subject comes up today, most loyalists want to go off the record. On August 2, 1924, Winston Joseph Deane was born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. The "Buddy Dean Show" was abruptly cancelled. 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. Id hook and have to dance in the back so the teachers couldnt see me, says Helen. Theatre producer, Margo Lion, saw a television broadcast of the film in 1998 and started to conceive it as a stage musical. The night was full of delightful anecdotes, including these ten you may not have heard before. Facing controversy over the possibility of more integrated broadcasts, the station canceled the program. 'The Buddy Deane Show' was over . Because Buddy Deanes competition was soap operas, the budding teenage romances were sometimes played up for the camera. He was 16 at the time of filming. I even won the twist contest with Mary Lou Raines (one of the queens of The Buddy Deane Show) at the Valley Country Club. I wonder if that applied to Black males as well as White males. In my on-going search for African American footage I stumbled across this article in Google. Ninfa O. Barnard wrote this article for explorepinebluff.com. I still believe that footage is out there somewhere. Once a month the show was all black. Only white teens became members of the elite Committee the Buddy Deane equivalent of the Mouseketeers. 2023 IndieWire Media, LLC. 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. Black and white together on local TV. A big strong line!) up the hill to the famous dance party set, the one that now houses People Are Talking. Was it really twenty years ago? But I was never a Deaner. I got a little power-crazed, admits Joe. On the one hand, the storys feel-good conclusion implies that colorblindness is the silver bullet that ends racial discrimination, that good intentions and individual acts of bravery are enough to bring about harmony. That's one of the things that the Black Lives Matter movement is talking about. 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. has the chance to resurface a forgotten history of how discrimination in pop culture intimately shaped the lives of young people 50 years ago. Pixie was barely five feet tall, but her hair sometimes added a good six to eight inches to her height. With the rising pressures of integration, the producers decided that the show must either be integrated or canceled. 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. 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. Girl Scout leader, very active in my kids school. Mary Lou is still a star. If you leaned on one side, the next day youd just pick it out into shape. 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. Before long I started getting lots of fan mail: I think youre neat. 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. Soon after, he and his family moved to Memphis, Tenn. 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. 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. 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. This Article is related to: Film and tagged Divine, Hairspray, IFC Center, John Waters. From 1996 to 2003, he hosted dance events in Baltimore, Pennsylvania and aboard cruise ships. 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. Arlene Kozak, Buddys assistant and den mother to the Committee. So the NAACP targeted the show for protests. 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. The information used was obtained from WJZ. 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. I must have had ten different phone numbers, says Helen, and somehow it would get out. three, two, one. and later on, growing up, it was a definite blow: reality. I still have a whole box of fan mail, says Evanne. [1], As with many other local TV shows, little footage of the show is known to have survived. It ran two hours a day, six days a week. Its host was Winston "Buddy" Deane (1924-2003), who died in Pine Bluff, Arkansas after . Unlike the tensions that followed the real integration of the Buddy Deane Show, Waterss Hairspray ends with the protesters triumphing. He got a great review in The New York Times. 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. John Waters wrote the screenplay under the title of White Lipstick, with the story loosely based on real events.The Corny Collins Show is based on the real-life Buddy Deane Show, a local dance party program which pre-empted Dick Clark's American Bandstand in the Baltimore area during the 1950s and . The Department of Education even withdrew its support of the show, and the show had to be filmed in the parking lot at times because of the threats they received. 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. 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. 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. See production, box office & company info. The action of the musical takes place in 1962 and centers around Baltimore's teenage obsession with the television program The Corny Collins Show, a stand-in for an actual Baltimore production of the day, The Buddy Deane Show. Why not do The Deane Show on TV again? I am here and on FB as well as NOBLE BRUN in the event the footage can be located. 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). Originally an all-white teen show with a monthly "Negro . You learned how to be a teenager from the show. The "Corny Collins Show" in Hairspray is loosely based on the Baltimore teen dance program called the "Buddy Deane Show." One Baltimore woman fought to get black teens on the popular show back in 1958. And if you dared to dance the obscene Bodie Green (the Dirty Boogie), you were immediately a goner. This man approached me, telegrammed me, showed up at the show. 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. Six days a week and often two hours a day, Buddy Deane and his Committee Members--the privileged regular teen dancers . Pancocojams showcases the music, dances, language practices, & customs of African Americans and of other people of Black descent throughout the world. So I gave it the happy ending that we had, Waters said. Voters approve of . He was mad because I was as popular as he was. 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. 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. And they all came together on the Buddy Deane Show, Baltimore's legendary teen dance show. It was difficult with your peers, recalls Peanuts. Based loosely on the 1988 film by John Waters, Hairspray centres on Baltimore teen Tracy Turnblad (Carmel Rodrigues), who in 1962 wants nothing more than a chance to dance on the local pop music TV. He was one of the first disc jockeys in the area to regularly feature rock and roll. 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. 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. NBCs Hairspray Live! (97) The white kids parents came and got them. From 1957-1965, Deane was chosen as host of WJZ-TV, Baltimore's "The . 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 horrible/ says Joe. "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. The show featured only white kids dancing, so Scruggs wrote him a letter in the fall of. We have a telegram, Buddy would shout almost daily, for Mary Lou to lead a dance, and the cameraman seemed to love her. 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 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. My mother wanted me to go, she took me down to the tryouts. The Deaners didnt mind. By what name was The Buddy Deane Show (1957) officially released in Canada in English? I was a misfit. 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. It was even in the papers. . The big garage-type door they remember would open, and theyd all pile in, past George and Mom, the Pinkerton guards who used to keep attendance, and crowd into Arlenes office to comb their hair, confide their problems, and touch up their make-up. That's what really happened, and the show shut down." 3. (Special to The Commercial/OzNet.com/ExplorePineBluff.com). A devoted fan of the Buddy Deane Show, Waters drew on this history to write and direct the original film version of Hairspray. Every day after school kids would run home, tune in, and dance with the bedpost or refrigerator door as they watched. 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. Other vices were likewise eschewed. 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). So the NAACP targeted the show for protests. (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.) Here is the new video celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Buddy Deane Show and the former Catonsville Community College (now CCBC). 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. Deane even played a small role in the movie, which premiered to moderate success but went on to become a cult classic. 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. 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 . I had to get up there on time. I wanted to get into the record businessand years later he did. Or Hartford Motor Coach Company? Sources: www.IMDB.com -- Buddy Deane Biography; www.OzNet.com - A Collection of Articles About Buddy Deane; www.Variety.com -- Winston J. Neither these AP materials nor any portion thereof may be stored in a computer except for personal and noncommercial use. Oh, my God, its Evanne! Autograph books, cameras, this is what they lived for. 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. 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. 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. Some fifty years later, the mindset is STILL the same. The rivalry with Dick Clark meant that Deane urged all his performers not to mention American Bandstand or visits to Clark in Philadelphia. 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. C. Fields in drag.), This movie is the only radical movie I ever made because it snuck in mid-America. 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