Committee members included Mike Miller, Charlie Bledsoe, Ron Osher, Mary Lou Raines, Pat(ricia) Tacey, and Cathy Schmink. The Stupidity, where you act mentally ill. The Bugs easy, you just catch a disease and throw it to someone else, Waters said. The film would spawn a 2002 Broadway musical adaptation starring Harvey Fierstein and Marissa Jaret Winokur, and a 2007 film adaptation of the musical starring John Travolta and Nikki Blonsky. I had trunks of it. Vanessa Udon plays Motormouth Maybelle, who hosts the monthly Negro Day on the Corny Collins Show. The introductory essay in Dick Clark's American Bandstand (1997) is illustrative in this regard. A special. I had always studied dance, and I wanted to go on [the show]. Waters's nostalgic and detailed appreciation for The Buddy Deane Show, . It is hosted by the titular Corny Collins, with the exception of the monthly Rhythm and Blues special which is hosted by Motormouth Maybelle . The school tried to throw me out before. [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. Many parents and local officials were angry. I wonder if that applied to Black males as well as White males. I graduated from an HBCU, lived through racism, marched on Washington with Martin Luther King, and was active in fighting injustices in Baltimore County at the height of the Civil Rights Movement. 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. On the air before Dick Clark debuted, the show was a hit from the beginning, says Arlene today. (I looked like I was taking off.) And Helen, Linda, and Joanie all got out the rat-tail teasing combs. The protesters wanted the races to mix. Why Europeans Dont Get Huge Medical Bills. 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. Waters grew up with "The Buddy Deane Show" in Baltimore, and modeled his fictitious "Corny Collins Show" after it. Ten seconds to airtime. Im the biggest ham. Although she denies being conscious of the camera, she admits, I did try to dance up front. In the beginning, there was Arlene. But I was never a Deaner. In her home, near Allentown, Pennsylvania, she serves me a beautiful brunch, models her fur coats, and poses with her Mercedes. 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. 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. Both entities launche. He was 16 at the time of filming. 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 . At 21, I married a professional football player, Helen remembers, and he made me burn all the fan mail. Powers was a particularly special addition, having disappeared in the years since the films release. "Where: 800 N. Charles St, Baltimore, MD 21201. Later that year he enlisted in the Army, where he served in Europe involved in some of the most intense battles of World War II. 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. I only saw Divine alive one more time after that night, so it was a great, great night to remember. With the show beginning at 2:30 in some years, cutting out of school early was common. 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. Joe started working for Buddy as teen assistant and, along with Arlene, oversaw the Committee and enforced the strict rules. We would always do The Dirty Boogie, the one you arent allowed to do, he said. . 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. The early look of the Committee was typically 50s. 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. The show's format mirrored Philadelphia's "American Bandstand." He also left the Army in 1948 and began his radio broadcast career at KLXR station in North Little Rock. Originally aired 11/5/1986. 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 . I took off my steady ring and threw it down. The Buddy Deane Show: With Channing Wilroy, Buddy Deane. Or Snuggle Dolls? 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. 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 . Please read our Terms of Use or contact us. 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. . 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. 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. And although few will now admit to having been drapes, the styles at first were DAs (slicked back into the shape of a ducks tail), Detroits, and Waterfalls (flowing down the front) for the guys and ponytails and DAs for the girls, who wore full skirts with crinolins and three or four pairs of bobby socks. 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 my on-going search for African American footage I stumbled across this article in Google. Actor: Hairspray. And the whole concept of the Committee changed. 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. Marie Fischer was the first Joe to become a Committee memberchosen simply because she was such a good dancer. I appreciate the contribution that you and NOBLE BRUN, and other Black dancers on the Buddy Dean dance show made on that series. 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. Plot. In fact, "American Bandstand" was not shown on television in Baltimore because Deane's show was so popular. 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. 1 DJ in 1962 by Billboard mag. 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. 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. In Hairspray (1988), Tammy Turner assists Corny Collins on the show. Today they seem opposites. 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. All rights reserved. 2023 IndieWire Media, LLC. I couldnt be bothered with education. And more important, so did the Committee, still entering by a special door, still doing the dances from the period with utmost precision. 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. It was difficult with your peers, recalls Peanuts. This page was last edited on 29 July 2022, at 06:25. The Buddy Deane.phenomenon is hardly dead. 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. Girl Scout leader, very active in my kids school. Mary Lou is still a star. Sign up for our Email Newsletters here. Being a teenage star in Baltimore had its drawbacks. They just wanted to know if you were real. 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). The information used was obtained from WJZ. I wanted to dance., We had a saying: The show either makes you or breaks you,' says Kathy. 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. 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. It was the times, most remember. 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. Pancocojams showcases the music, dances, language practices, & customs of African Americans and of other people of Black descent throughout the world. http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2016/03/how-madison-line-dance-got-its-name-and.html, http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2016/03/al-brown-and-ray-bryant-madison-records.html, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_Deane_Show, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hairspray_(2007_film), http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2015/06/timeline-for-cultural-use-of-saying.html, https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/tv/on-hairsprays-25th-anniversary-buddydeane-committee-looks-back/2013/01/17/a45a1cc2-5c23-11e2-88d0-c4cf65c3ad15_story.html, http://theurbandaily.com/2011/06/01/black-music-moment-96-short-lived-integration-of-the-buddy-deane-show/. The show featured only white kids dancing, so Scruggs wrote him a letter in the fall of. 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. 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. The television news reporter covering the Corny Collins Show in the film sums up the climactic scene: Youre seeing history being made today. 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. Clip from Shake, Rattle, and Roll: The Buddy Deane Scrapbook From then on, all bare shoulders were covered with a piece of net. Buddy offered to have three or even four days a week all black, but that wasnt it. Buddy Deane was the host of a Baltimore dance show that ran on TV from 1957 to 1964 six days a week. It was similar to Philadelphia's American Bandstand. 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. 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. Nationally, American Bandstand blocked black teens from entering the studio during its years in Philadelphia, despite host Dick Clarks claims to the contrary. Advertisement. ', Although many parents and WJZ insisted that Committee members had to keep up their grades to stay on the show, the reality could be quite different. 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.. 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. It was similar to Philadelphia's American Bandstand. We really sprayed it, remembers Mary Lou today from her home in Pennsylvania. Buddy returns on a pilgrimage from St. Charles, Arkansas, where he owns a hunting and fishing lodge and sometimes appears on TV, to spin the hits and announce multiplication dances, ladies choice, or even, after a few drinks, the Limbo. I had a lot of black friends at the time, so for me this was an awkward thing, says Marie. Six days a week and often two hours a day, Buddy Deane and his Committee Members--the privileged regular teen dancers . 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. Mr. Deane's salary . Deane died in Pine Bluff, Arkansas on July 16, 2003, after suffering a stroke. He just didnt understand., But some have dealt with the problems in good humor. These were the first role models I knew. Oh, black teens could dancejust not with the white kids. An then there was teased hair, replacing the 50s drape with a Buddy Deane look that so pervaded Baltimore culture (especially in East and South Baltimore) that its effect is still seen in certain neighborhoods of this great Hairdo Capital of the World. 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. Or Hartford Motor Coach Company? Waters would rush home . Some of the local teens who danced on the show became local celebrities and had fans of their own. Once I was off the show for a while, and they said I had joined the nunnery, says Helen, laughing. Sources: www.IMDB.com -- Buddy Deane Biography; www.OzNet.com - A Collection of Articles About Buddy Deane; www.Variety.com -- Winston J. It was similar to Philadelphia's American Bandstand. Interviews with leading film and TV creators about their process and craft. 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. The Buddy Deane Show was taken off the air because home station WJZ-TV was unwilling to integrate black and white dancers. 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. 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. 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. He got a great review in The New York Times. He was mad because I was as popular as he was. In his Letter from a Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke to what it meant for young black people to be excluded from entertainment spaces like the Buddy Deane Show. The Buddy Deane Show was a highly visible regional program that asserted a racially segregated public culture. So a year later when he had his own show, it seemed only right that "Rock Around the Clock" premiered on "The Buddy Deane Show.". I was aggressive. Over the next several years, Deane's show became the top-rated local TV show in Baltimore and the highest rated local show in the United States. . We used to go to stand in front of Reads Drugstore, and people would ask for our autograph.. Performances begin at 7 p.m. The 1988 John Waters film, newly adapted into an NBC live musical, presents a view of racial discrimination thats by turns nave and enlightening. My mother used to pick me up after school to make sure nobody hassled me., The adoring fans could also be a hassle. 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.. Helens fans flocked to see her at the Buddy Deane Record Hops (Committee members had to make such personal appearances and sign autographs.) Perhaps the last thing 2016 needs is a star-studded, light-hearted musical endorsement of colorblindnessthough, viewed holistically, Hairspray is more than that. [1] He was 78. The Buddy Deane Show was taken off the air because home station WJZ-TV was unwilling to integrate black and white dancers. [citation needed] In several instances, the show went on location to the Milford Mill swim club on the westside of suburban Baltimore County. GOD HELP US! Here, Clark's memories of American Bandstand are nested in an overview of important events in U.S. history from the 1950s and 1960s. . You learned how to be a teenager from the show. It was horrible/ says Joe. 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. It was the era of rock n' roll ducktail, pegged pants, and beehive haridos. Special appearances. When Barry Levinson, another Baltimore native, requested video from the show for his film Diner, the station told him it had no footage. 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! We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. Even doing commercials was expected. He left behind his wife, Helen Stevenson Deane; his three daughters, JoEllen, Dawn, and Debbie and their families. And Divine said, What drag queen would allow themselves to look like this?'. Everywhere we went, people would say Theres Mary Lou. I wondered if she had just been released from the penitentiary.. From 1968 into 1973, the public television variety show SOUL! Why not do The Deane Show on TV again? I got a little power-crazed, admits Joe. Buddy Deane was the host of a Baltimore dance show that ran on TV from 1957 to 1964 six days a week. As with the drapes and squares of the previous decade, she explains, there were two classes of people thenDeaners and Joe College. Deane hosted a morning show at WITH. Jones). Although the Committee was a valuable promotional tool for WJZ at the time, and belonging was a full-time job, no one (except teen assistants) was paid a penny. 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. . Mr. This man approached me, telegrammed me, showed up at the show. The Buddy Deane Show was taken off the air because home station WJZ-TV was unwilling to integrate black and white dancers. 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