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. 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. . John Waters: I put the spotlight on [the integration controversy] . "Uhhh, I had a long basketball practice and I had to take extra foul shots," I lied. three, two, one. I run into Gene and Linda every now and then but have lost touch with mostly every one. Romance was one thing; sex was another. (They gave her a diamond watch at the last reunion.) And those wonderful dances. And if you dared to dance the obscene Bodie Green (the Dirty Boogie), you were immediately a goner. 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. Billy died earlier this month, at 60. At 21, I married a professional football player, Helen remembers, and he made me burn all the fan mail. We appreciate your interest. (I looked like I was taking off.) And Helen, Linda, and Joanie all got out the rat-tail teasing combs. 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. "Do You Love Me" by The Contours, or "Hide and Go Seek" by Bunker Hill). . Or Hartford Motor Coach Company? 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. 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. Dance was the thing. Eva Anne and Mike Marcellino were my favories. Im told there are 4,000 contracts for productions this year, said James Hunnicutt, artistic director for Cockpit in Court. On Saturdays, it was on in the afternoons until 5. . she yelped. . Today they seem opposites. Buddy Deane - Baltimore Sun Article - July 20, 2003 She lives in Baltimore County. From 1957-1965, Deane was chosen as host of WJZ-TV, Baltimore's "The . Joe Kozak still fields calls from folks wanting to speak with his late wife, Arlene, who was Buddy Deane's production assistant during the run of the program. All on Pulaski Highway. You learned how to be a teenager from the show. It reminds me of the way people think now of gay marriage, how so many people are shocked about it and they dont agree with it. Just once. They were more made fun of because they didnt fit in [and] because people would want to fight them. Ladies and Gentleman . And they told us we were going to go off the air because of it. Buddy Deane and his kids flashed into our living rooms nearly 40 years ago. Bob Mathers: There were a lot of protests in Baltimore, which was a very racially segregated town. We really didnt want to go off the air. . READ: What happened to the teen stars of The Buddy Deane Show after the program went off the air? . I even won the twist contest with Mary Lou Raines (one of the queens of The Buddy Deane Show) at the Valley Country Club. My name is Tom Lowe, I went by the name of "Corky" while on the committe in 58 & 59, maybe into early 1960. The genius of John Waters was to take that uncomfortable moment in history and turn it into something joyous. Like many couples, Joe and Joan met through the show and became an item for their fans. The Madison line dance was born here, called by the supreme voice of Eddie Morrison. The Buddy Deane Show went on the air on Sept. 9, 1957 and became the most popular local show in the United States. . . The first and maybe the biggest Buddy Deane queen of all. She became so popular that she was written up in the nationwide Sixteen Magazine. Oh, my God, its Evanne! Autograph books, cameras, this is what they lived for. Almost all dancers wore swim wear and beach attire, with music provided by WJZ-TV. Wayne Hahn: Dick Clark [and American Bandstand], that wasnt a big thing here. 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 had to be 14 to 18 to get on. Its interesting that our paths have crossed at reunions and weve all chosen to stay friends. Why? Id wonder. She wasnt even a fan of the show. Girl Scout leader, very active in my kids school. Mary Lou is still a star. Buddy Deane Show Committee 60th Anniversary Tribute - YouTube Participants dressed in "country" style, and danced to country and western music as well as pop. If you [broke any rules], you got the points taken off. For many of them, it was the highlight of their life, and I get why. And my mother would pack a little paper bag with my cha-cha heels and my pastel pink lipstick. If I have one regret in life, its that I wasnt a Buddy Deaner. You had to be a good student. And on the weekends wed go to record hops. Deane helped numerous black record artists in their careers -- James Brown among them. The Deaners didnt mind. Eating the refreshments (Ameches Powerhouses, the premiere teenage hangouts forerunner of the Big Mac), which were for guests only. You heard that they wanted to integrate. Many came away from the movie Hairspray thinking that Buddy Deane, and not WJZ's management, was responsible keeping black teen-agers off the show. 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. I couldnt be bothered with education. This was the adults, who didnt know what to do, so they shut the whole thing down.. 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. We even did this hideous dance called the roach, where you would spray with an imaginary bug killer and "squish, then squash" the pests. We thought it was just so cool. In the beginning, there was Arlene. I couldnt go to a mall without somebody going Oh my God, its Mary Lou! . I just loved meeting him. Vicki Defeo: I thought they did a great job with portraying the kids dancing. . Crushed, I retreated from cheek-to-cheek to a distant and awkward completion of a slow tune by the Miracles. 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. There I was under the burning lights of the WJZ-TV studio, slow-dancing with a Buddy Deane Show committee member. Once a Deaner, always a Deaner, as another so succinctly puts it. . "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. Buddy Deane, 78, the impresario of Baltimore's dance show from 1957-1964, died Wednesday of complications from a stroke near his home in Pine Bluff, Ark. John Waters, writer and director of Hairspray: I was always obsessed by it. Do you miss show biz? I ask her. Buddy Deane, center, with the Committee and teen dancers. When Barry Levinson, another Baltimore native, requested video from the show for his film Diner, the station told him it had no footage.[2]. Bob Mathers, who worked with Deane on three radio stations, was a close friend of Deanes and is an unofficial historian of The Buddy Deane Show.. I went to Eastern High, I got out at 2:30, and at 3, the show started. Deane, Kozak, Cahan, the . 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). but Arlene [Kozak, his production assistant], actually did all the work. 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. MOJO Time Machine: The Buddy Deane Show Rocks Baltimore 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. 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. Buddy Deane Committee - Blogger At Elmley Playground, transistors would be tuned to Fat Daddy. Jump to. Helen Crist Swift 1943 - 2007. The show was taken off the air because home station WJZ was unable to integrate black and white dancers. Im serious. 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. The whole day on the show was devoted to me.. And we were so sad. And a couple of us have yearly dances, and we all get together. Come share the songs & dances of the Buddy Deane Show with us! A guy I attended City with, Carroll Weber, lived in Highlandtown and was on the committee. 'Buddy Deaners' Reunite, Reminisce at CCBC Essex Youre going to put it on TV? It was 1961 and I was on television, successfully building my teen-aged reputation. I never got the chance to meet him and would love to hear stories or see pictures of him. 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. But we all had the same reaction: My parents arent gonna go for it. That she has an affluent life-style surprises no one on the Committee. The show was a teen dance and music show and ran from 1957 to until 1964 on WJZ-TV until the show was canceled. 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. Kozak says that was far from the truth. I used to get death threats on the show. I wanted to dance., We had a saying: The show either makes you or breaks you,' says Kathy. . Hundreds showed up to audition for a spot on the Committee. I was a misfit. We rounded up Waters and almost 20 of the original Deaners and asked a handful to recount their days as the most famous kids in Charm City. Plus they used us for commercials. 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. . The Buddy Deane Show was a teen dance television show, similar to Philadelphia's American Bandstand, that was created by Zvi Shoubin and aired on WJZTV in Baltimore, Maryland from 1957 until 1964. . Not show biz, Arlene answers, hesitating, but the record biz, the people. Committee members had to look sharp, have a style and be willing to appear on weekends for Deane's dances from Westmin-ster to Salisbury. 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. Former committee leader Mary Lou Barber (nee Raines) remains dumbfounded that she received 100 letters a week from fans, some of whom resided at the state penitentiary, but mostly from lovestruck boys who fell in love with the girl with the bow in her hair. . So many talented musicians and people who wanted to show their appreciation made the night truly special. Being a Deaner lifted a committee member into the rarefied air of being a star at 16. I lied! Every day after school kids would run home, tune in, and dance with the bedpost or refrigerator door as they watched. 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. Friends now joke that Baltimore was the cha-cha capital of the world. 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. [citation needed] In several instances, the show went on location to the Milford Mill swim club on the westside of suburban Baltimore County. '.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! God forbid, in school, if you didnt smile, you were conceited. His name was Nelson Ray Shiflett. Sure, as a teenager I was a guest on the show. Deane's show is the foundation of the John Waters film Hairspray and the popular adaptation of it that's now on Broadway. The Buddy Deane.phenomenon is hardly dead. We answered everything back then, except people like Mary Lou, who got bags of fan mail.
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