(I looked like I was taking off.) And Helen, Linda, and Joanie all got out the rat-tail teasing combs. 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. 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 got a little power-crazed, admits Joe. It was difficult with your peers, recalls Peanuts. Hairspray is John Waters most commercially successful film the 1988 dancing comedy spawned a hit Broadway musical, a movie and TV movie of that musical, plus multiple sequel and TV show offers that never saw the light of day. Many parents and local officials were angry. 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. 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. 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. I had always studied dance, and I wanted to go on [the show]. The introductory essay in Dick Clark's American Bandstand (1997) is illustrative in this regard. It was horrible/ says Joe. Image Credit: OzNet.com Winston Joseph Deane was born on August 2, 1924, in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. Deane hosted a morning show at WITH. Waters based the main storyline and "The Corny Collins Show" on the real-life "The Buddy Deane Show" and racial events surrounding it. On August 2, 1924, Winston Joseph Deane was born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. Its host was Winston "Buddy" Deane (1924-2003), who died in Pine Bluff, Arkansas after . offered an unfiltered, uncompromising celebration of Black literature, poetry, music, and politics, capturing a critical moment in culture whose impact continues to resonate today. Each reunion (and a new one is in the works) ls bigger than the last. 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. The ultimate reunion.From all over the country, the Deaners could rise again, congregate at the bottom of Television Hill, and start Madison-ing their way (Youre looking good. The Deaners didnt mind. 2023 IndieWire Media, LLC. A big strong line!) up the hill to the famous dance party set, the one that now houses People Are Talking. You are history. Originally an all-white teen show with a monthly "Negro . 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. Yeah it was Cosenel, says Joe. Arlene Kozak, Buddys assistant and den mother to the Committee. . "Do You Love Me" by The Contours, or "Hide and Go Seek" by Bunker Hill). 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. The inspiration for this movie was born out of an afternoon teen dance show, The Buddy Deane Show, which aired on Baltimore's WJZ-TV from 1957-1964 until it was taken off the air because the owner did not want to integrate. 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. Every week she had a different dothe Double Bubble, the Artichoke, the Airlifteach topped off by her special trademark, suggested by her mother, the bow. 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. He just didnt understand., But some have dealt with the problems in good humor. 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. It aired for two and a half hours a day, six days a week. 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. Mary Lou laughs at the memory of doing a pimple medicine spot on camera. On the other, Hairspray Live! My mother wanted me to go, she took me down to the tryouts. Soon after, he and his family moved to Memphis, Tenn. 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. Buddy wanted it to end happily, but WJZ angered Deaners when it tried to blame the ratings. Washington D.C.'s The Milt Grant Show offered "Black Tuesday" and Baltimore's The Buddy Deane Show had "Negro Day" because . So you cant imagine how excited I was when I finally got a chance to interview these local legends twenty years later. Many parents and local officials were angry. In 1984, he sold the station to a local college but bought it back in 1996. I had a lot of black friends at the time, so for me this was an awkward thing, says Marie. 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. Hairspray is firmly rooted in 1960s America, but it offers both sophisticated and (tellingly) simplistic ways of understanding racism today. 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. 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. . We faked a feud. The AP will not be held liable for any delays, inaccuracies, errors or omissions therefrom or in the transmission or delivery of all or any part thereof or for any damages arising from any of the foregoing. 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. Over lunch at the Thunderball Lounge, in East Baltimore, Kathy remembers, I could never get used to signing autographs. "The Buddy Deane Show" ran on Baltimore's WJZ-TV from 1957 to 1964. In 1942, Deane enrolled at Cornell University in New York. Or Hartford Motor Coach Company? When: Summer 1963. 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 show featured only white kids dancing, so Scruggs wrote him a letter in the fall of 1958 to . Sure, as a teenager I was a guest on the show. 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. Deane also held dances at various Maryland American Legion posts and National Guard armories which were not taped or broadcast on television. It was similar to Philadelphia's American Bandstand. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it. The Corny Collins Show, is a teen dance show in Baltimore's WYZT /WZZT Network. "I told him I thought it was terrible," Melva Lee Scruggs said about the "Buddy Deane Show." Originally aired 11/5/1986. That show featured local teens who danced to the. That's what really happened, and the show shut down." 3. 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. Winston Joseph Deane was born on Aug. 2, 1924, in Pine Bluff. 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. Perhaps the last thing 2016 needs is a star-studded, light-hearted musical endorsement of colorblindnessthough, viewed holistically, Hairspray is more than that. Performances begin at 7 p.m. The main thing was your hair was flat, the antithesis of Buddy Deane, she says, chuckling. "How 'The Buddy Deane Show' really went off the air is the white kids crashed Negro Day to integrate it. In Baltimore, Maryland in the year 1962, Tracy Turnblad and her best friend, Penny Pingleton, audition for The Corny Collins Show, a popular Baltimore teenage dance show (based on the real-life Buddy Deane Show). Many years later they married. Deane began his broadcasting career at KLXR in Little Rock, Arkansas. 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. Here, Clark's memories of American Bandstand are nested in an overview of important events in U.S. history from the 1950s and 1960s. Participants dressed in "country" style, and danced to country and western music as well as pop. [1] He was 78. It was the top-rated local TV show in Baltimore and, for several years, the highest rated local TV program in the country. Sources: www.IMDB.com -- Buddy Deane Biography; www.OzNet.com - A Collection of Articles About Buddy Deane; www.Variety.com -- Winston J. 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. It would be a treasure to pass down to my future generations. 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 wanted to go, but my parents wouldnt let me. But an intrepid group of local and . . If a guy had one beer, it was a big deal. 2003. The first page of the essay, for example, features a full-page picture of black protestors in 1962 in Times . 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 I wanted to get into the record businessand years later he did. Both entities launche. It is hosted by the titular Corny Collins, with the exception of the monthly Rhythm and Blues special which is hosted by Motormouth Maybelle . Ninfa O. Barnard wrote this article for explorepinebluff.com. Thank you for including me as one of the Buddy Dean family. In the beginning, there was Arlene. From 1968 into 1973, the public television variety show SOUL! 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 . The black cops would stop us and say: This isnt Greenwich Village, you know. I havent seen her since we made the movie, said Waters. 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. Even racists like it, Waters said in his opening remarks. Unlike the tensions that followed the real integration of the Buddy Deane Show, Waterss Hairspray ends with the protesters triumphing. "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 . (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 Buddy Dean Show was the inspiration for the "Corny Collins Show" in the 2007 musical. Another royal Deaner couple who met on the air and later married was Gene Snyder and Linda Warehime. In Little Rock, white teens went from protesting integration at Central High School to dancing in the afternoon on Steves Show. You are out of here. If you leaned on one side, the next day youd just pick it out into shape. 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. 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. | 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. Oddly enough, few of the Deaners Ive talked to went on to show biz. 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. 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. 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. Buddy wanted it to end happily, but WJZ angered Deaners when it tried to blame the ratings. One girl yelled Buddy Deaner and then threw her plate at me. Im the biggest ham. Although she denies being conscious of the camera, she admits, I did try to dance up front. . From 1964 to 1984, Deane hosted a show and owned KOTN-FM and KOTN-AM radio stations at Pine Bluff. I was with this guy named Jeff. 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. The show was a teen dance and music show and ran from 1957 to until 1964 on WJZ-TV until the show was canceled. 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. We used to go to stand in front of Reads Drugstore, and people would ask for our autograph.. All of those dances were real, they were real dances, we didnt make any of them up and two were cut out. 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. I was Tracy, said Waters. The Deane program set aside every other Friday for a show featuring only black teenagers. When the subject comes up today, most loyalists want to go off the record. The best little jitterbugger in Baltimore. I didnt mean to, because I never would have messed up the makeup.. has the chance to resurface a forgotten history of how discrimination in pop culture intimately shaped the lives of young people 50 years ago. 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. Buddy Deane was the host of a Baltimore dance show that ran on TV from 1957 to 1964 six days a week. Buddy noticed my eyes staring and said, Do the same eyes. And the camera got it. Kathy went even further. Some fifty years later, the mindset is STILL the same. We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. 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