Didnt you dance on the Buddy Deane Show? This is 50 years later.. Snyder said she choreographed the Madison, a popular line dance of the time, for . Even doing commercials was expected. Sections of this page Frani & Wayne. I was nervous because I was celebrating a great moment in their youth, but I was bringing up something theyve swept under the rug, because they were kids. After saying goodbye to the Committee members . Enjoy our. 'Buddy Deane' Committee members - The Washington Post 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. 8600 LaSalle Road . Eating the refreshments (Ameches Powerhouses, the premiere teenage hangouts forerunner of the Big Mac), which were for guests only. This post was contributed by a community member. This was the adults, who didnt know what to do, so they shut the whole thing down.. At 21, I married a professional football player, Helen remembers, and he made me burn all the fan mail. Arguably the first TV celebrities in Baltimore. Deane and Kozak were advised by a small group of committee members on final cuts. My father had forbidden me to try out for the Buddy Deane Committee -- fearing, perhaps, that it would interfere with my becoming a national scholar at City College high school or prevent me from one day discovering the Internet -- so I had to sneak on the show, courtesy of girlfriends who sent away for tickets and took me as their guest. Buddy Deane Committee: 2009 - Blogger And they told us we were going to go off the air because of it. Eva Anne and Mike Marcellino were my favories. [citation needed]. 1 talking about this. Mary Lou Barber: Ive only been able to watch [Hairspray] a couple of times because so much of it hits home. Vicki Defeo: My favorite was James Brown. Buddy called me up before the cameras, and I wasnt dressed my best. [1] He was 78. It was your personality and your thoughts. The Nicest Kids in Town! "None of my friends dressed in the Continental style, it was uncool to be a Buddy Deaner," said Waters, whose movie Hairspray is based on that era in Baltimore and was adapted into the successful Broadway musical. When that little red light came on, so did my smile, she says, laughing. And there was a big problem with that. The views expressed here are the author's own. This undated photo shows dancers on "The Buddy Deane Show." The views expressed in this post are the author's own. 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. It was 1961 and I was on television, successfully building my teen-aged reputation. Some committee guys bought their shoes at Manchester's on Howard Street, pointy-toed footwear that sported various buckles, flaps and other avant-garde touches. 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. Mary Lou Barber: Because I was on the Committee and I was president, [I went to] these summit meetings. He was one of the first to showcase rock and roll music on a continual basis. And my mother would pack a little paper bag with my cha-cha heels and my pastel pink lipstick. John Waters: I put the spotlight on [the integration controversy] . Vicki Defeo: I thought they did a great job with portraying the kids dancing. Another royal Deaner couple who met on the air and later married was Gene Snyder and Linda Warehime. 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. People laugh and I go, I remember that, I remember that.. The Buddy Deane Show was over. The 25th anniversary of the movie Hairspray provides an opportunity for members of the dance group of Baltimores The Buddy Deane Show to get back together and reminisce about the TV show that the movie is based upon. You had to be able to jitterbug and you had to be able to cha-cha, and do whatever dance was popular then, the mashed potato or the pony. No long hair, only pompadours, hurriedly combed during commercials. (The Washington Post), Almost 20 of the original stars of The Buddy Deane Show show off their signature dance, The Madison. (Jessica Goldstein/The Washington Post). Arlene [Kozak, his production assistant], Ricki Lakes character goes down to audition. She was the one of the biggies who refused to be on the Board (they had power; a liked because of it). Register for a user account. But I was never a Deaner. Sometimes youd wrap your hair at night. . You have to ease into it. What happened Buddy Dean? It's so nice that we all have great friendships to remember & it's so great to sta y in touch. My dad use to pick myself and Eva Anne up from Gwynns Falls Junior High and her Mom would then pick us up after the show. I found out that my father was on this show. Most of them are pushing 70 now. 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. In mixed marriages (with non-Deaners), many of the outsiders resented their spouses pasts. In Baltimore, Buddy Deane was so strong in his time slot. MOJO Time Machine: The Buddy Deane Show Rocks Baltimore The Deane program set aside every other Friday for a show featuring only black teenagers. . Wayne Hahn: Us kids, we all went to school with black people and had black friends. '.Watch this and go back in time to the Baltimore of the late 50's and early 60'sand how those memories remain as vivid as ever to the thousands who lived it.Special thanks to Larry Bridge \u0026 Marc Solomon of LARMAR Video and Joe \u0026 Cindy Loverde for the creation and production of the project, and of courseto the many members of the Buddy Deane Committee who provided a generation of Baltimoreans with a ton of great reminisces from the early days of rock and roll! 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. This town just wasnt ready for that. 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. We have that common bond. Come share the songs & dances of the Buddy Deane Show with us! Marie Shapiro: I think they even asked for a note from my minister. To this day, I don't know why my late father, then in his 60s, was watching the Buddy Deane Show. He went steady with committee member Bobbie Lanham, a heartthrob to legions, and got lots of telegrams inviting him and Bobbie to lead dances. You are history. He was to have been the host of the first Buddy Deane Fan Fair and Dance in September at the Fairgrounds in Timonium, an event that is still scheduled. Here is the new video celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Buddy Deane Show and the former Catonsville Community College (now CCBC). His 1988 film Hairspray went on to inspire a Broadway musical of the same name. This undated photo shows dancers on "The Buddy Deane Show." The show was the highest-rated local program in the country. Marie Shapiro: Youd dance with one of the Committee members. Some teens in the suburbs like John Waters might have watched the show on the sly, and danced with the refrigerator door, because for many in his Towson community, Deaners were not individuals to admire. My name is Connie and my e-mail address is connieone@aol.com..thanks. And more important, so did the Committee, still entering by a special door, still doing the dances from the period with utmost precision. John Waters: Theyre my idols in a way. 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. If you were a teenager in Baltimore in the late 1950s and early 1960s, you watched The Buddy Deane Show. When the final bell rang you sprinted home from school, saddle shoes smacking the sidewalk, knee socks sliding down your shins, until you skidded to a stop in front of your black-and-white TV and turned to WJZ Channel 13 to watch Marylands answer to American Bandstand. Chances are you wanted to be on The Buddy Deane Show, whose stars were ordinary teens turned local celebrities. So many talented musicians and people who wanted to show their appreciation made the night truly special. And none are bitter. And we were so sad. READ: What happened to the teen stars of The Buddy Deane Show after the program went off the air? And a couple of us have yearly dances, and we all get together. 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. 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). At first I was so shy I hid behind the Coke machines., But Evanne used to come right home and head for the TV. When you think about it, its funny. As well, a show was broadcast from a local farm in Westminster, Maryland. . I can still remember them calling us in one by one, former Committee member Carl Parks said. The early look of the Committee was typically 50s. Rich and I didn't get together until 1989 and, like some other "Deaners", I had the attitude that no one would remember me after . "Oooo, you sweated on me!" Buddy Deane, 78, TV Host And Inspiration of 'Hairspray' - New York Times Everywhere we went, people would say Theres Mary Lou. I wondered if she had just been released from the penitentiary.. Some do remember a handful of kids getting high on cough medicine. You had to be a good student. committeemembers - thecommitteetohonorbuddydeane - Google Sites > The Buddy Deane Show, 1957-1964, WAAM/WJZ. To a generation of Baltimore teen-agers, Buddy Deane was a pioneering rock 'n' roll disc jockey, host of a must-see television dance party in the '50s . So the NAACP targeted the show for protests. The main thing was your hair was flat, the antithesis of Buddy Deane, she says, chuckling. At Elmley Playground, transistors would be tuned to Fat Daddy. . These were the first role models I knew. 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. I must have had ten different phone numbers, says Helen, and somehow it would get out. And then they decided to keep some on so theyd get more popular . at that time, our parents would not have gone along with integrated dancing. The popular television Baltimore dance show aired from 1957 until 1964. Mary Lou Barber: Think of it: In the 60s, if they were to ask a black guy to lead a dance with me or some other white girl Baltimore wasnt ready for it yet. He wanted me to go to a summer training session to be a trapeze artist. The committee members could dance with each other only every third or fourth dance: the other songs were reserved for dancing with the guests, 30 or so of whom appeared on the show every day. Or the Bob-a Loop? 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. Frani Hahn: I can remember times when we would go downtown shopping and wed stop in at Reads Drug Store and have Cokes, and people came up for our autographs! Not show biz, Arlene answers, hesitating, but the record biz, the people. But by far the most popular hairdo queen on Buddy Deane was a 14-year-old Pimlico Junior High School student named Mary Lou Raines. Frani Hahn: John always said he felt like we were a cult. The rivalry with Dick Clark meant that Deane urged all his performers not to mention American Bandstand or visits to Clark in Philadelphia. . By what name was The Buddy Deane Show (1957) officially released in Canada in English? A special. ), Concetta, for one, says her connection with the show as a committee member is enduring. I know he would love hearing from you! John Waters: The most amazing thing about The Buddy Deane stardom was they would show up not knowing if they would fight or sign autographs. But we thought of him as being so flamboyant. Deaners seem to come out of the woodwork, drawn by the memory of their stardom. I hated to see so much emphasis put on the integration plot, but I do understand that that was a part of what happened. Deane's show is the foundation of the John Waters film Hairspray and the popular adaptation of it that's now on Broadway. We answered everything back then, except people like Mary Lou, who got bags of fan mail. The Buddy Deane Show was a teenage dance party, on the air from 1957 to 1964. Until the day she passed away [in 2007], we were still friends. Sign in to rate and Watchlist for personalized recommendations. John Waters: I never purposely thought I was making a movie that was any more commercial than any of the other ones. Once a teenager joined the Committee, he or she had to abide by Deanes rules, which Deane described in a letter to the cast: Your clothing will be befitting a lady or a gentleman, and your habits, no smoking or gum chewing, will set standards for the future.. For those too young to remember this iconic show broadcast in Baltimore in 1957-1964, you certainly have heard of the movie inspired by the Buddy Deane Show known as 'Hairspray! The protesters wanted the races to mix. We just dont know what to do with the show.. 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. He was one of the first disc jockeys in the area to regularly feature rock-and-roll. Participants dressed in "country" style, and danced to country and western music as well as pop. 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. An earth force for a generation of Baltimore teens . 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. If anyone knew him and could share some memories or even pictures that would be great. "A Buddy Deane Scrapbook: Shake . 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. 1 DJ in America in 1962 and, while still an on-air performer in Baltimore, bought KOTN in 1960. Dance was a brief connection with home for us, time out from the insanity of war. And if I ever had to explain this to them, it was just, I couldnt. Many were there when the show went off the air in 1964, ending a seven-year run. She was his right-hand man and she picked out all the kids for the show. . They just wanted to know if you were real. Its like anything you see today. Hairspray came to CCBC Essex's Cockpit in Court theater, and so did the real original castthose Committee members from the old Buddy Deane Show, whose moment in history became the premise for the hit Broadway musical about rock 'n' roll and racial tension in Baltimore half a century ago. Want to post on Patch? This page was last edited on 12 April 2023, at 19:01. Larry tried searching Facebook for you. Its interesting that our paths have crossed at reunions and weve all chosen to stay friends. Mary Lou, now a successful Realtor and grandmother living outside Philadelphia, said there were three important guiding forces in her life then -- "my hair, dancing, and who I was going steady with.". Suite 320. I wanted to go, but my parents wouldnt let me. ''The Buddy Deane Show,'' on WJZ-TV in Baltimore, featured teenagers dancing to live bands, many of which became major recording groups. We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites. This production features a number of the committee members from the Deane program recalling those days. 2003. Im not sure an integrated Buddy Deane Show would work t oday. Then we made up on camera.. I watched it for the fashion and for the drama, because Buddy Deane encouraged them to [date and] break up on film. But boy do we love the times, the memories that we have from the past. 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. Ive never said they were racist. In the early 1980s at a Buddy Deane Show reunion, Waters approached former Committee members about a movie he wanted to make inspired by the program. You werent one of them anymore. Outsiders envied the fame, especially if they lost their steadies to Deaners, and many were put off by boys who loved to dance. Im a typical housewife, says Peanuts. 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. Corky,My name was Judy Kerr and I was on the committee in1958/59. It aired for two and a half hours a day, six days a week. But he was, and busted me courtesy of that close-up shot, seconds before my fragile teen-age ego was shattered by Pixie, or whatever her name was. . Every rock n roll star of the day (except Elvis) came to town to lip-synch and plug their records on the show: Buddy Holly, Domino, the Supremes, the Marvelettes, Annette Funicello, Frankie Avalon, and Fabian, to name just a few. She lives in Baltimore County. Marie Shapiro: I think we all kind of knew what was coming. My email: frani@francescatravel.com 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 dancers were known as the Committee. * Indicates person was on the show until the last episode. 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. We have our own "beach music" and sepearte room and bar in the back of the Ox. The Madison | Lindyland The Buddy Deane Show - Alchetron, The Free Social Encyclopedia Helens fans flocked to see her at the Buddy Deane Record Hops (Committee members had to make such personal appearances and sign autographs.) The pictures I've just posted are of the reunion dance for the Buddy Deane Committee Members with Buddy Deane playing the records. Ladies and gentlemen, the nicest kids in town!. They all thought all the girls were pregnant by Buddy Deane, remember several. Vicki Defeo: Now, I think kids would say, You cant tell me what to do. But we knew we could be replaced in two seconds. Id get hate mail. 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. Mary Lou, the Annette Funicello of the show, was the talk of teenage Baltimore. Vicki Defeo: Some of the people who were popular way back that Im friends with now, back then I wouldve been like, wow! Mary Lou was aware that in some neighborhoods it was not cool to be a Buddy Deaner. From then on, all bare shoulders were covered with a piece of net. Yes, I miss it very much. Bringing back the old rhythms - Baltimore Sun When the show ended, Deane moved back to Arkansas, bought half a dozen radio stations, and lived out his life there, except for brief runs back to Baltimore, where hed host reunions with hundreds in attendance. We were from all over the city, Ann Boyer recalled. Get off that furniture!? You could throw her down on the ground, and her hair would crack, recalls Gene. The dancers were known as the Committee. And because a new dance was introduced practically every week, you had to watch every day to keep up. "When you dance be sure to hold her, hold her tight. 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. For many of them, it was the highlight of their life, and I get why. The whole day on the show was devoted to me.. Wayne Hahn: Dick Clark [and American Bandstand], that wasnt a big thing here. and my version of it is very different from theirs. He eventually became one of the most respected programmers in the country and was even written up in Time magazine. Hi all. 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.
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