If you [broke any rules], you got the points taken off. I was just accidentally obsessed with something that was appealing to more people. For the past 17 years, theve owned a travel agency, Francesca & Company Travel. It was a target maybe of people who didnt even watch the show. Committee members included Mike Miller, Charlie Bledsoe, Ron Osher, Mary Lou Raines, Pat(ricia) Tacey, and Cathy Schmink. so they had a points system. Mary Lou Barber: Arlene would throw a spotlight on you, and theyd throw questions at you: What do you like about yourself, what do you like about the show? Keep supporting great journalism by turning off your ad blocker. Id get hate mail. In Baltimore, Buddy Deane was so strong in his time slot. No videos, backdrops or posters have been added to Buddy Deane Show. Arguably the first TV celebrities in Baltimore. And the whole concept of the Committee changed. So you cant imagine how excited I was when I finally got a chance to interview these local legends twenty years later. Because Buddy Deanes competition was soap operas, the budding teenage romances were sometimes played up for the camera. I never got the chance to meet him and would love to hear stories or see pictures of him. I will be moving near Ocean City in July.Do you remember me. So you always had to kind of be on., Frani Hahn: Honestly, I was on the show for, Id say about six months before my father even found out, and he found out quite by accident. Also included is the perhaps the final voiceover by the late Jack Gale who recorded his contribution 10 days before departing for home on January 23rd. . The show ran on Broadway for a couple of seasons, and since then productions have played all over Americaand they're still going. 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. Helens fans flocked to see her at the Buddy Deane Record Hops (Committee members had to make such personal appearances and sign autographs.) Even doing commercials was expected. 1 talking about this. The Buddy Deane Show ended in early 1964, a victim of "insolvable" integration problems, Mr. Deane said in an article in The Sun at that time. Dick Clark patterned his ABC-TV show, Where the Action Is, after local remotes done by Deane in Maryland. The uncertain life of a high-schooler became more tolerable. . Being a Deaner lifted a committee member into the rarefied air of being a star at 16. Five days a week on Channel 13 (first known as WAAM, then as WJZ), it played for two hours a day, and on Saturdays, two and a half. For many of them, it was the highlight of their life, and I get why. I will keep my nose to your website now that I know it exists. If I have one regret in life, its that I wasnt a Buddy Deaner. Teenagers who appeared on the show every day were known as "The Committee". Come share the songs & dances of the Buddy Deane Show with us! . They wanted to know about bringing black kids on the show. The uncertain life of a high-schooler became more tolerable. . Besides, he never discovered that his youngest son had been on the show a dozen other times, further solidifying my stock among my peers. Linda Snyder: In the beginning, they rotated the entire Committee. And there were a bunch of us on the rock-and-roll fence, eyes on Buddy Deane's show and ears on Paul "Fat Daddy" Johnson, the gifted and wild Baltimore radio disc jockey who introduced frenetic free-association poetry at unusual times. To this day, I don't know why my late father, then in his 60s, was watching the Buddy Deane Show. 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. . In [Hairspray], Ricki Lakes character goes down to audition and they all make fun of her. . 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. 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. If a guy had one beer, it was a big deal. Mary Lou Raines received 100 letters a week. What ever happened to them and do you have recent pictures? Heavy-duty meetings. When Maryland Public Television wanted to film the event, it mushroomed into an even bigger affair. [1] He was 78. We faked a feud. Buddy Deane Committee - Facebook These were the first role models I knew. three, two, one. The whole day on the show was devoted to me.. This page was last edited on 12 April 2023, at 19:01. "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. Deane died in Pine Bluff, Arkansas on July 16, 2003, after suffering a stroke. Several marriages resulted from liaisons between Committee Members. But the parents, I guess, back in the early 60s and late 50s, things were a lot different. My black friends knew they could not be on the show because of segregation. Frani Hahn: I think it was easier for the girls. Enjoy our. For many of us, Deane will always be there, standing ramrod-straight, an electronic maestro with a microphone, introducing Brenda Lee or hyping sponsors like Kit-Kat and the Etta Gown Shop. But the second the camera moved away from my partner and me, she too pulled away, as if I had whispered into her ear that I had hand grenades taped to my legs. Ladies and gentlemen, the nicest kids in town!. 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. It couldn't get much worse, or so I thought. 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. 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. Evanne and her brother run the John Brock Benson Dance Studios, in Pasadena, and have a line of dancers who appear at clubs all over the state. We don't have any cast added to this TV Show. When I was on, the kids at school were cool with it. Committee members included Mike Miller, Charlie Bledsoe, Ron Osher, Mary Lou Raines, Pat(ricia) Tacey, and Cathy Schmink. They were getting stopped on the street for autographs. Wayne Hahn: Dick Clark [and American Bandstand], that wasnt a big thing here. It was over at 5. New committee members were selected by Deane and Arlene Kozak, his dependable first sergeant on the set -- a mother figure who even today keeps former committee members connected. Joel Chaseman, also a DJ at WITH, became program manager of WJZ-TV when Westinghouse bought it in the mid-50s. Deane, Kozak, Cahan, the . This is a home for all of the dancers from the Buddy Deane Era (1957 - 1964) to meet up and keep in touch. The protesters wanted the races to mix. 1 DJ in America in 1962 and, while still an on-air performer in Baltimore, bought KOTN in 1960. "I remember it well," recalls Evanne. If you couldnt do the Buddy Dean jitterbug, (always identifiable by the girls ever-so-subtle dip of her head each time she was twirled around), you were a social outcast. ' And Evanne still shudders as she recalls, Once I was in the cafeteria. Art Space: The Drawing Zoo Combines the Joys of Art and Nature, How to Build an Art Collection, According to Local Experts, First-Ever Waverly Book Festival Set for This Weekend, Baltimore Photo Space Makes Room for Art Photography in Remington, Movie Review: Are You There God? When Barry Levinson, another Baltimore native, requested video from the show for his film Diner, the station told him it had no footage.[2]. 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. Today they seem opposites. A big strong line!) up the hill to the famous dance party set, the one that now houses People Are Talking. . Being a teenage star in Baltimore had its drawbacks. Now: The Hahns have stayed in Baltimore. They just wanted to know if you were real. When you dance you'll squeeze her, yes, with all your might. They first made their mark as teenagers dancing on the afternoon TV show, wearing their outfits from Lees of Broadway and Etta Gowns and dancing the cha-cha and the jitterbug and the Madison. Phone: (410) 494-4490 Fax: (410) 494-4492 On the show: Gene joined in February 1958; Linda was on from September 1958 to February 1961. We are kind of like Ozzie and Harriet, says Gene Snyder as Linda nods in agreement. I think the guys had a harder time at it. "Uhhh, I had a long basketball practice and I had to take extra foul shots," I lied. I had beehives. Members of the committee attended Reunion Dances and other events soliciting the support of . I must have had ten different phone numbers, says Helen, and somehow it would get out. 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. The Buddy Deane Show aired on WJZ-TV in Baltimore, MD, from 1957 to 1964. September 17,2011 Parkville American Legion Hall Putty Hill Rd & Old Harford Rd 8PM til' Midnite $25.00 per ticket (Marvin Joseph/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). To be a local celebrity like that, you always had to look your best when you went outside because people would see you. Untrue, but we believed it.). I had a lot of black friends at the time, so for me this was an awkward thing, says Marie. So many talented musicians and people who wanted to show their appreciation made the night truly special. I went to Eastern High, I got out at 2:30, and at 3, the show started. . Snyder said she choreographed the Madison, a popular line dance of the time, for . We didnt sit around and say, We dont want to be around black kids. [But] . Get off that furniture!? . I even named some of the characters in my films after them. Oddly enough, few of the Deaners Ive talked to went on to show biz. The worlds oldest teenagers gathered Sunday in Baltimore County to illustrate once again that even the most uncomfortable moments in American history can be turned into something musical, good-natured, and profitable beyond imagination. Several local art contests were also held on the show, with viewers submitting their own art work. Several marriages resulted from liaisons between Committee Members. "The Nicest Kids In Town" -former dancers from the Buddy Deane Show (1957- 1964). I wanted to get into the record businessand years later he did. Please contact me. John Waters: Mary Lou [Barber] told me once that a black girl couldve gotten on the show easier than a fat girl. . . Correction: An earlier version of this article misspelled the name of a Baltimore drugstore. And there was a big problem with that. And coming from John Waters, I thought, that is a really nice compliment! You had to be 14 to 18 to get on. Deane was named the No. . But being a Buddy Deaner, or even a guest, moved a kid into a fantasyland, a world of teased hair, pointy-toed shoes and fashions by Lee's of Broadway. He wanted me to go to a summer training session to be a trapeze artist. 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. Frani Hahn (then Nedeloff): I watched it every day with my family when Id come home from school. . The Madison | Lindyland But it was OK. We knew every kid in town wanted to be on the show. Friends now joke that Baltimore was the cha-cha capital of the world. 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. And when we sprayed it, we had to blot it so it didnt leave residue. To qualify, first you needed a solid command of the day's dances -- the pony, Madison, jitterbug, bop, cha-cha, the stroll, the twist -- and there was even a "cool" style for slow dancing. It was even in the papers. The show was a teen dance and music show and ran from 1957 to until 1964 on WJZ-TV until the show was canceled. "When you dance be sure to hold her, hold her tight. . She attended Goucher College and then went to law school at the University of Maryland; shes currently a practicing attorney in Baltimore. Baltimore Sun. And the guys had to wear a coat and tie, so wed keep stuff in the car. 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 all that time, so I never went to the dances. Integration ended The Buddy Deane Show. The day Weber was approached for autographs by girls at Eastern High School, I knew without a doubt that being on the committee carried as much cachet as running first string for Dunbar High School's basketball team or having your own car with four-on-the-floor. This undated photo shows dancers on "The Buddy Deane Show." 2003. 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. Login to create it. We don't have any reviews for Buddy Deane Show. Each reunion (and a new one is in the works) ls bigger than the last. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Buddy_Deane_Show&oldid=1149520565, Black-and-white American television shows, Local music television shows in the United States, Wikipedia articles with style issues from September 2014, Articles with unsourced statements from September 2014, Articles with unsourced statements from October 2017, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0. 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. Last spring, five hundred people quickly snapped up the $23 tickets to the third Buddy Deane Reunion, held at the Eastwind, in Essex, to raise money for the Baltimore Burn Center. The final episode aired on Jan. 4, 1964. . Most are happily married with kids and maintain the same images they had on the show. Even today Gene and Linda are the quintessential Deaner couple, still socializing with many Committee members, very protective of the memory, and among the first to lead a dance at the emotion-packed reunions. You Can't Stop the Beat: The Secret History of Hairspray as Live TV The popular television Baltimore dance show aired from 1957 until 1964. 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 25th anniversary of the movie "Hairspray" provides an opportunity for members of the dance group of Baltimore's "The Buddy Deane Show" to get back together and reminisce about the TV . Evanne Robinson was voted the prettiest girl by an entire army base. Hope life has been good to you! A guy I attended City with, Carroll Weber, lived in Highlandtown and was on the committee. Linda Snyder: After you made the dance audition, you went to an interview with the Committee members. This production features a number of the committee members from the Deane program recalling those days. The Deaners didnt mind. Many were there when the show went off the air in 1964, ending a seven-year run. John Waters: Theyre my idols in a way. Not one of the Committee members, the ones chosen to be on the show every daythe Baltimore version of the Mouseketeers, the nicest kids in town, as they were billed. The Committee members became Baltimore celebrities they were recognized on the street and received fan mail and they got to meet some of the biggest stars in music. You learned how to be a teenager from the show. I was totally star-struck and had as much fun that night as I did at the Cannes Film Festival. We are in touch with Larry Miller, Lola & many of the people that you haven't seen in awhile. At school, we were just one of the other kids, but we used to get fan mail. Actor: Hairspray. Hundreds showed up to audition for a spot on the Committee. They all thought all the girls were pregnant by Buddy Deane, remember several. Marie Shapiro: I couldnt wear knee-highs or desert boots. At that time a very concerted and organized effort was made to formally nominate Buddy. Its interesting that our paths have crossed at reunions and weve all chosen to stay friends. Eating the refreshments (Ameches Powerhouses, the premiere teenage hangouts forerunner of the Big Mac), which were for guests only. All on Pulaski Highway. Marie Shapiro: I remember sometimes there would be African Americans at the hops, and it was frowned upon to dance with an African American if you were a Committee member. You had to wear nylons. We answered everything back then, except people like Mary Lou, who got bags of fan mail. . 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.". It aired for two and a half hours a day, six days a week. It was so painful. Helen was my idol when I started watching the Buddy Deane show with my sister in 1958. . 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. As with the drapes and squares of the previous decade, she explains, there were two classes of people thenDeaners and Joe College. He was seventy-eight. MOJO Time Machine: The Buddy Deane Show Rocks Baltimore 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. Gene calls it a big loss. It was living in a fantasy world, says Helen. Linda Snyder: We still love to go dancing. He said they asked each member of the show's committee . ), Concetta, for one, says her connection with the show as a committee member is enduring. . They were both Committee members back then. The Buddy Deane Show is a teen dance television show, similar to Philadelphia's American Bandstand, that aired on WJZ-TV in Baltimore, Maryland from 1957 until 1964. 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. The best little jitterbugger in Baltimore. God forbid, in school, if you didnt smile, you were conceited. 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). It was similar to Philadelphia's American Bandstand. 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. He really was trying to make it authentic. I can still remember them calling us in one by one, former Committee member Carl Parks said. It was an integrated school, and the black girls would show us all the new dances. 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. Buddy Deane Committee: Helen Crist Swift 1943 - 2007 - Blogger It seems crazy nowthe idea of prohibiting black kids and white kids from dancing on the same television programbut not then. THE MADISON (BUDDY DEANE COMMITTEE MEMBERS AS ADULTS) - YouTube But my mother and father wont let me come down if you do that. In early December, Buddy Deane met with station officials and they said, Weve decided to cancel the program. And Buddy said, So it has to do with integration? And the station said, Thats correct. Youre going to put it on TV? 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. We thought it was just so cool. . From 1957-1965, Deane was chosen as host of WJZ-TV, Baltimore's "The . (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). Still dreaming of being a Deaner - Baltimore Sun Tom Wheeler Because they didnt integrate in reality. 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. Now: Got married, had two children and then went back to school. And none are bitter. Every day after school kids would run home, tune in, and dance with the bedpost or refrigerator door as they watched. Bringing back the old rhythms - Baltimore Sun 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. Buddy noticed my eyes staring and said, Do the same eyes. And the camera got it. Kathy went even further. . When the show was over, I caught the city bus near TV hill and it dumped me off as dusk gathered in my Belair Road neighborhood near Erdman Avenue. . And because a new dance was introduced practically every week, you had to watch every day to keep up. . We will try to spotlight our memories and post highlights on upcoming events. Once a Deaner, always a Deaner, as another so succinctly puts it. What happened Buddy Dean? Deane began his broadcasting career at KLXR in Little Rock, Arkansas. In the years following The Buddy Deane Show, quite a few Deaners have gotten hitched, including Linda Warehime and Gene Snyder, Concetta Comi and John Sankonis, Anne Boyer and Richard Tempera, Shirley Temes and Jim Joyce, Frani Nedeloff and Wayne Hahn, Joe Loverde and Joyce Tucker. Mary Lou Barber: My hairstyle was the biggest. She lives in Baltimore County. Like many couples, Joe and Joan met through the show and became an item for their fans. Vicki Defeo: Ive tried to think this through, because it sounds ridiculous, but [integration] was a non-issue to us. 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. Boy - do I wish I had. Buddy Deane reunion hops - Baltimore Sun 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. The Buddy Deane Show is a teen dance television show, similar to Philadelphia's American Bandstand, that . at that time, our parents would not have gone along with integrated dancing. Being a Deaner lifted a committee member into the rarefied air of being a star at 16. Committee Member 1961 Billy Givens - Buddy Deane Committee | Facebook Now, were talking about integrating the show. Yeah it was Cosenel, says Joe. We will try to spotlight our memories and post highlights on upcoming events. The core group of teenagers who appeared on the show every day were known as the "Committee." The Committee is back in session. I watched it like a soap opera. I was aggressive. Seven year old's Egg My Yard! I had to get up there on time. Fabian, Bobby Rydell, Bobby Darin, all of them. He was one of the first to showcase rock and roll music on a continual basis. I was honored, touched by it all.. I know he would love hearing from you! The punitive consequences weren't significant; I think he threw an ashtray at me. Wayne Hahn: If you were late, you couldnt get in the door. . People laugh and I go, I remember that, I remember that.. At her appearances at the record hops, kids would actually scream when youd get out of the car: Theres Mary Lou! Buddy Deane and his kids flashed into our living rooms nearly 40 years ago. I lied! She became so popular that she was written up in the nationwide Sixteen Magazine. Deane and Kozak were advised by a small group of committee members on final cuts. Buddy himself, the high priest, returned for the event. That dancing was integrated and I learned how to do the boomerang, shing-a-ling, the skate and the twine time. Kathy switched to a great beehive that resembled a trash can sitting on top of her head. . If Im ever depressed, sometimes I think, Well this will make me feel better, and I go and dig in the box., Holding onto the memories more than anyone is Arlene Kozak, who is by far the most loved by all the Committee members. Hi all. Do you miss show biz? I ask her. The Buddy Deane.phenomenon is hardly dead. Or purchase a subscription for unlimited access to real news you can count on. The Committee, initially recruited from local teen centers, was to act as hosts and dance with the guests. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. Shake, Rattle and Roll: the Buddy Dean Scrapbook" 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. www.bsomusic.org. . This undated photo shows dancers on "The Buddy Deane Show." The early look of the Committee was typically 50s. . (They gave her a diamond watch at the last reunion.) And we became very close to Arlene. You need to be logged in to continue. Participants dressed in "country" style, and danced to country and western music as well as pop. You received demerits for almost anything: Chewing gum. Want to post on Patch? 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 took off my steady ring and threw it down. We just dont know what to do with the show.. . Sometimes youd wrap your hair at night. The pictures I've just posted are of the reunion dance for the Buddy Deane Committee Members with Buddy Deane playing the records. My name is Tom Lowe, I went by the name of "Corky" while on the committe in 58 & 59, maybe into early 1960. Buddy Deane Show Committee 60th Anniversary Tribute - YouTube
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