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. John Waters: Certainly all the stuff in Hairspray didnt happen for real, but it was my fantasy of how I wished it would be, not what really happened. I think Buddy Deane was a target for people who were fighting segregation everywhere. 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 . "I remember it well," recalls Evanne. Both entities launche. three, two, one. We have our own "beach music" and sepearte room and bar in the back of the Ox. It was a real kick! Her fame even brought an offer to join the circus. Id get letters saying, If you show up at this particular hop, youre gonna get your face pushed in. Once a Deaner, always a Deaner, as another so succinctly puts it. It was horrible/ says Joe. This undated photo shows dancers on "The Buddy Deane Show." 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. He was one of the first to showcase rock and roll music on a continual basis. Mary Lou laughs at the memory of doing a pimple medicine spot on camera. He wanted me to go to a summer training session to be a trapeze artist. Oddly enough, few of the Deaners Ive talked to went on to show biz. 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. . This page was last edited on 12 April 2023, at 19:01. . He was seventy-eight. ". Vicki Defeo: Some of the people who were popular way back that Im friends with now, back then I wouldve been like, wow! . . It was an integrated school, and the black girls would show us all the new dances. In 1950, he moved to Baltimore to WITH. Mary Lou Raines received 100 letters a week. They were married in 1966 and have one daughter. There was no sexiness in dress for the girls. Buddy Deane used to boast that every major rock 'n' roll star of the era appeared on the show, except Elvis Presley and Rick Nelson. The pictures I've just posted are of the reunion dance for the Buddy Deane Committee Members with Buddy Deane playing the records. Deane helped numerous black record artists in their careers -- James Brown among them. 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. What ever happened to them and do you have recent pictures? Sure, as a teenager I was a guest on the show. 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. .
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