. 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. Deane, I dont mind at all. 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. To say that the Buddy Deane Show was the centerpiece of every teen's life in Baltimore would be a stretch. [1], Deane's dance party television show debuted in 1957 and was, for a time, the most popular local show in the United States. But it was OK. We knew every kid in town wanted to be on the show. '.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! The kids became celebrities. Every day Id come to the studio in knee-highs, and Id have to take them off. More Pictures from the "Tribute to Buddy" Dance, Tribute to Buddy Dance at Timonium Fairgrounds. The views expressed here are the author's own. I watched it for the fashion and for the drama, because Buddy Deane encouraged them to [date and] break up on film. I wanted to dance., We had a saying: The show either makes you or breaks you,' says Kathy. My mother wanted me to go, she took me down to the tryouts. * Indicates person was on the show until the last episode. 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. Login to create it. (I looked like I was taking off.) And Helen, Linda, and Joanie all got out the rat-tail teasing combs. . It aired for two and a half hours a day, six days a week. It was hilarious., Some of the rumors were fanned on purpose. . Neither Deane nor Waters believes Baltimore was ready for an integrated teen dance program in 1964. John Waters: [The Deaners] were the most important people I wanted to like the movie. They were married in 1966 and have one daughter. Suite 320. Vicki Defeo: I thought they did a great job with portraying the kids dancing. Several local art contests were also held on the show, with viewers submitting their own art work. The Buddy Deane Show was over. We got more mail: Oh, please dont break up! Somebody even sent us a miniature pair of boxing gloves. She was sort of like a mother to us. Mary Lou, the Annette Funicello of the show, was the talk of teenage Baltimore. The cause was . Yet Joe was a dropout when he went on the show and then, once famous, went back to finish. Gene calls it a big loss. It was living in a fantasy world, says Helen. But most have settled down to a very straight life. They just wanted to know if you were real. Frani & Wayne. Many regulars, with nicknames like "Termite" and "Peanuts," converted the short-lived glory of local television stardom into success later in life. There was no sexiness in dress for the girls. 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. "A Buddy Deane Scrapbook: Shake . He didnt talk with us a whole lot. We even did this hideous dance called the roach, where you would spray with an imaginary bug killer and "squish, then squash" the pests. Even as a guest, your friends and relatives saw you basking in your temporary fame. The Buddy Deane.phenomenon is hardly dead. 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. Deane's show is the foundation of the John Waters film Hairspray and the popular adaptation of it that's now on Broadway. Linda Snyder: We were on the show Monday through Saturday, six days a week. And they told us we were going to go off the air because of it. You had to wear nylons. I found out that my father was on this show. What ever happened to them and do you have recent pictures? three, two, one. The Committee is back in session. . I was 10 years old and I just adored this dancer with the neatest DA haircuts. Marie Fischer was the first Joe to become a Committee memberchosen simply because she was such a good dancer. (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). 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. Debuting at a mere 11 years of age, taking three buses every day to get to the show, wearing that wonderful white DA (created by her hairdresser father), and causing the first real sensation. The dancers were known as the Committee. You could throw her down on the ground, and her hair would crack, recalls Gene. Such was life in Baltimore. 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. 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. 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. Jump to. Everywhere we went, people would say Theres Mary Lou. I wondered if she had just been released from the penitentiary.. Members of the committee attended Reunion Dances and other events soliciting the support of . I watched it like a soap opera. Vicki Defeo: Ive tried to think this through, because it sounds ridiculous, but [integration] was a non-issue to us. And none are bitter. And if you dared to dance the obscene Bodie Green (the Dirty Boogie), you were immediately a goner. The Buddy Deane Show was taken off the air because home station WJZ-TV was unwilling to integrate black and white dancers. He eventually became one of the most respected programmers in the country and was even written up in Time magazine. I will keep my nose to your website now that I know it exists. Bob Mathers: There were a lot of protests in Baltimore, which was a very racially segregated town. To be a local celebrity like that, you always had to look your best when you went outside because people would see you. 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. "The Nicest Kids In Town" -former dancers from the Buddy Deane Show (1957- 1964). 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. And, yes, they were actually "records" in 1983. Some of the really dedicated Committee members get tears in their eyes. Larry tried searching Facebook for you. We never discussed it, we had nothing to do with it. Everybody wanted to kick a Buddy Deaners a, says Gene, recalling thugs waiting to jump Deaners outside the studio. She was his right-hand man and she picked out all the kids for the show. Seven year old's Egg My Yard! . I just loved meeting him. I was aggressive. On Saturdays, it was on in the afternoons until 5. Deane, Kozak, Cahan, the . What happened Buddy Dean? The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached, or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Baltimore Magazine. The best little jitterbugger in Baltimore. 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 have that common bond. Because there were starting to be some demonstrations outside of the studio. It's so nice that we all have great friendships to remember & it's so great to sta y in touch. Every major Rock and Roll performer (save Elvis and Ricky Nelson) appeared on his show. . Viewers often emulated the Committee members' dance moves, copied their personal style, and followed their life stories and interactions. Or dancing with other Committee members when you were supposed to be dancing with the guests (a very unpopular rule allowed this only every fourth dance). Mary Lou Raines received 100 letters a week. Deane began his broadcasting career at KLXR in Little Rock, Arkansas. What he left us was an early introduction and enduring devotion to rock and roll. Helen was my idol when I started watching the Buddy Deane show with my sister in 1958. This undated photo shows dancers on "The Buddy Deane Show." And they all came together on "The Buddy Deane Show," Baltimore s legendary teen dance show. The popular television Baltimore dance show aired from 1957 until 1964. The Buddy Deane Show was over. 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. Mary Lou Barber: Because I was on the Committee and I was president, [I went to] these summit meetings. She became so popular that she was written up in the nationwide Sixteen Magazine. When that little red light came on, so did my smile, she says, laughing. 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. 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. Now: The two were married in 1962, had two sons and six grandchildren. My fathers boss came into work one day and said, My daughter and my wife just love your daughter, and we cant believe that shes a TV star and you work for me!. I hated to see so much emphasis put on the integration plot, but I do understand that that was a part of what happened. . 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. 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.". We are in touch with Larry Miller, Lola & many of the people that you haven't seen in awhile. 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. Baltimore, MD 21286. They had a contract we had to sign, because they were using our image for free. The Buddy Deane Show is a teen dance television show, similar to Philadelphia's American Bandstand, that . Id get letters saying, If you show up at this particular hop, youre gonna get your face pushed in. Because Buddy Deanes competition was soap operas, the budding teenage romances were sometimes played up for the camera. 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. Helen Crist Swift 1943 - 2007. And many of them are not comfortable talking about it, and Hairspray made them, in a way. [But] people hated me, too. . . "I remember it well," recalls Evanne. 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. These were the first role models I knew. And because a new dance was introduced practically every week, you had to watch every day to keep up. The boys were picked on, because boys didnt dance then. . One of the first ponytail princesses was Peanuts (Sharon Goldman, debuting at 14 in 58, Forest Park, Chicken Hop), who went on the show because Deaners were folk heroes. She remembers Paul Anka singing Put Your Head on My Shoulder to her on camera as she did just that. The uncertain life of a high-schooler became more tolerable. Bill Haley and the Comets made their premiere performance of "Rock Around the Clock" on Deane's show. They wanted to know something about your religious affiliation. Arlene [Kozak, his production assistant], Ricki Lakes character goes down to audition. You are out of here. The jock, known as Buddy Deane, had launched his Bandstand Show on station WJZ-TV, providing pop and rock sounds that sent the teenage populace into a frenzy. 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. 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. But we thought of him as being so flamboyant. . Committee Member 1961 Billy Givens Little Italy. The punitive consequences weren't significant; I think he threw an ashtray at me. This undated photo shows dancers on "The Buddy Deane Show." The popular television Baltimore dance show aired from 1957 until 1964. 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. Its time had passed a little. These kids developed a huge following of fans and hangers-on in Baltimore who emulated their dance moves, followed their life stories, and copied their look. When Barry Levinson, another Baltimore native, requested video from the show for his film Diner, the station told him it had no footage.[2]. Here's What Essex-Middle River Moms Really Want For Mother's Day. I would see this again years later, stinky and scared young guys dancing to candlelight in a sandbagged Vietnam bunker, serenaded by a tropically-warped Temptations album. You can help by adding some! If the Contours or James Brown came on, some would stop games of basketball, pinochle or pitching nickels and start dancing. When Maryland Public Television wanted to film the event, it mushroomed into an even bigger affair. Evanne Robinson was voted the prettiest girl by an entire army base. Now: She worked in finance and retired as an executive administrative assistant. READ: What happened to the teen stars of The Buddy Deane Show after the program went off the air?

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