Hairspray the original movie by John Waters and the musical version brought me here! Why on Earth can't we have TV like this these days even if my parents were only babies back in the 60's?
+Manuel Orozco Why would you want TV like this? They are off-beat, make clear mistakes, are boring, and do the same things for 2.5 minutes. Not to mention that until this show moved to California it was segregated which is a host of problems on its own.
***** The cast so far includes Harvey Fierstein as Edna, Martin Short as Wilbur, Derek Hough as Corny Collins, Jennifer Hudson as Maybelle, Kristin Chenoweth as Velma, Ariana Grande as Penny, Rosie O'Donnel (possibly) as Prudy and introducing Maddie Ballio as Tracy.
We used to love watching American Bandstand every day in the Philadelphia area in the 1950s. It's how we learned all the new dances. But I don't think it would be too pleasant to watch people twerking on a dance show in these "modern" times.
Just lovely stories and comments about this video here about 'The Madison'. Makes you think America will be OK, as during that time of huge social change, things sort of worked out! Thanks John Waters for bringing us the story again in the late 80s.
I'll never forget... I was about 5 or so and my next door neighbor (about 17 at the time) was selected to be on the Buddy Deane show to dance! I remember it was all abuzz around my neighborhood and we actually saw him on TV! I don't remember much personally about Buddy or the show, but I can safely say it might have been my first visual exposure in memory to rock and roll. We lived down the road in Beltsville, but got the Baltimore stations. These shows were simply incredible, and cool!
I was hired by Buddy Deane back in Feb 1996.. for the Delta Radio Network....It was such a great place to work...I did voice overs and re-recorded news feeds...loved it. We lost a national treasure....
I remember clearly being a preschooler and the youngest of 9 (yes nine) kids in 1959-1960. The older kids came home from school and right away the tv would be tuned to Buddy Dean who came on at 3'oclock Monday thru Friday here in Baltimore. My mother was such a hoot and a good timer. She'd come out and so all the dances with us kids. What a fun time that was! What a great childhood memory.
I learned the Madison at a house party in St. Louis in 1959. My buddy and I were the only white people there! Even in an era where segregation reigned, white kids who wanted to know black kids and black kids who wanted to know white kids managed to do. A lot of the credit goes to parents who wanted their children to know all of life, not just part of it.
At our school we had a 60s day Girls came to school with ratted up hair and those adorable cute poofy dresses. The boys had dress shirts with high hair. Annnd just for fun our gym teacher taught is the Madison and the mash potato!
I was on the show 27 times with my friend Mike Citro. I was there when Freddy Boom Boom Cannon was the guest performer. And yes I was the best dancer outside the Committee. Still rockin' at age 65. Stan from Aberdeen.
My uncle and his girlfriend was on here all the time they got married in the 60's and still married today I would rush home from school to watch them dance on the buddy dean show
Thank you for this clip. I just discovered it. I grew up in the Baltimore area, but eventually moved to New Mexico. I grew up hearing about the Buddy Deane Show, but it was cancelled when I was a toddler. I never actually saw it. Nor have I ever seen any video clips of people dancing The Madison. It was just one of many 1960s dances I had heard, and picked up records of.
Enjoying the comments! I can clear some things up as I was on the Committee in the late 50's and early 60's. There was a "Committee" of kids who came to the show six days a week after passing several "tests" to qualify. Other teens could write in for tickets to come on as a Guest. The reason those two girl guests look petrified -- is because they were! Guests were encouraged to participate and those two look as if they hoped the floor would open up and they could disappear back to their own living rooms to watch the show on their black and white TV. Most of the guests looked and acted like a deer in the headlights! Another comment mentioned how you really had to concentrate on those Madison steps! TRUE! Here you are -- a teenager -- and on television with your school mates, relatives and neighbors watching! You KNOW how hard it is to be un-cool at that age! One mis-step and there goes your ego! Not mentioning any names (he knows who he is) -- but one of the dancers -- because he did screw up that step so badly, is asked to start the Madison at every dance we go to now. (Yes - we still get together -- and we still dance on a regular basis. There is a large group of us who are great old friends -- Emphasis on "Old" ... but still legends in our own minds. ;) Have to say a word here about Buddy Deane. He WAS strict on the show. The kids were also self disciplined by the elected teenage board. There was a two page list of rules -- made up by the kids themselves -- to which you had to comply or get kicked off the show. But, you have to consider this was a different era and the slightest bit of misconduct in those days would have brought the hammer down on Buddy's head from the media and/or the parents. (Remember when parents had control of their teenagers????) In later years, Buddy would come to town from Arkansas to do 50's record hops and by that time had become friends with his "all grown up kids". We had many enjoyable years listening to his stories at our houses. He was a great guy and a wonderful family man. He also helped a lot of his "kids" launch their own successful careers in the music business. Hope this gives everyone a better insight. "DANCE LIKE NO ONE IS LOOKING!" -- and now, we're old enough, we don't care if anyone is looking or not. (And, yes - we still screw up The Madison!!! But, now we just laugh!
+aboyer441 Hi there. You sound like an individual from the Committee who could address the African American issue. I was on the show several times, and would love to see myself. Do you know what happened to the footage of the African American segments of the show? I've called around several places with no success. Thanks.
pat brun Just watch Hairspray lol. It's really stupid but it's based around a fictional show called the Corny Collins show which was apparently inspired by this show. Judging by your comment it seems like the whole plot is based around what happened to this show. If you can withstand musicals you'll get a pretty good idea of what happened. It's not actually real though, it's fiction, so you won't get a very clear answer.
Wow, what year was this? This is actually a pretty complicated line dance for those times, they never did anything like this on Bandstand in Philly. So this show was in Baltimore? I went on Bandstand once at age 11 but then it moved to CA by the time I was 14 and old enough to be "legal". I am still a big line dancer. Thx for all the background info!
aboyer441 hello! I am currently assisting a major university professor in writing a book on social dance and she is devoting a chapter to the Buddy Deane Show! It would be amazing to talk to you because resources (clippings, videos, etc) are so hard to come by and maybe you could help me find things from the show that she's looking for? Any advice or help you could give, maybe a point in the right direction would be so appreciated! I would love to privately message but I guess CZcams doesn't allow that? Odd, but we can figure out a way to communicate, just message me back here and we can figure something out! Hope to hear back from you!
Same here! They should do something like "The New American Bandstand". And I'd love it if the council members actually did line dances like this. I mean, sure, there's The Cupid Shuffle and what not, but we probably wouldn't have those dances without these. I really hope we can have a sock hop at my school one day and do dances like this.
Buddy Dean made it as far down as Caroline county on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, at the town armory! Thanks MPT, I have enjoyed my life in maryland.
Wow! Fond memories of the 1960's. My teen years were winding up then.This was the time when the gal's skirts went from below to at the knees and most of them wore their hair short. It was a great time to be alive. If there was time machine to get into, I'd like to go back for a few days and have a great time with all the guys and gals doing some of the great dances that this era produced. The twist which came out in 1961 was a great way to keep your waistline in shape and your weight down.
I loved doing the Madison. I'm laughing at these kids. You almost always got off of step like the guy on the front line shaking his head. LOL! You absolutely had to have the record completely memorized from start to finish. I remember this version on a couple of times. It was Ray Bryant's version that was the monster hit. I remember playing it over and over and over again in my room practicing because you had to have the steps down so you could look really cool like you were bored to tears when you danced it. LOL. Just like the kid with the pompadour in the front row. You were like, "What - again? Oh all right. I'll dance it again." LOL
@dogsrluv not to mention,they had limited space-the cameras couldn't move around like they could later.I gre up in the sixties,but I can appreciate this.Thank you!
It was shows like this back in the 50's and 60's where the rest of us learned how to do the steps. We didn't have dvr's back then either. You had to get it the first time or hope they would dance it the next show so you coud get it then. It was a good time.
+pat brun Like 'Black People' didn't exist! What a joke, a lot of people today, don't realize that segregation, Jim Crow Laws, etc. existed not that long ago. I remember going down to Nashville to see the 'Grand Ole Oprey' with my parents (1957?) and seeing separate drinking fountains and RR's. I was from Ohio, and about 8 or 9, and even at that age, knew that it wasn't right?
This is the ONLY surviving videotape or kinescope clip of Buddy's show. It seems that only about 8 minutes of 8mm footage survived the years also. It was shot in late 57 or early 58.
That's right. However, there is some footage of home movies. That footage was includedd on the Maryland Public Television special about the Buddy Deane Show. You should be able to find it on CZcams.
Ah yes, the early 1960s...the tight skirts with the tight, tight sweaters and the ultra-flat capezios on our feet. When I was in high school, ('59-'62) the skirts were just at the knee and at my graduation party ('62) just about al the girls in the group photo wore dresses or skirts just above the knee. Boys hair was long on top and tapered in the back. I remember boys getting reprimanded in school for wearing "taps" on their shoes...clacking all over the school hallways. Teachers cringed.
We all know about Hairspray, but John Waters also wrote about the Buddy Deane show and the Committee a couple times in his collections of memoirs. I think one essay was called "The Nicest Kids in Town."
Interesting. Two songs, this one by the Tune Toppers and the other one by the Ray Bryant Combo about this dance. Modern swing dancers as well as rockabilly kids have revived it. Fun stuff.
I'm afraid that TheRainydaywoman43 doesn't understand the calls. Al Brown quickly tells the whole pattern that will be coming up, but the dancers have to wait until he says "hit It." then they do exactly what was called. Same for the second figure, the M.
Thank you Mr. Jazzman. I grew up in Balto @ about the same time, and WEBB and WSID were the two black stations I listened to regularly. Anyone remember Fat Daddy on WSID? His sign offs on Friday night were epic. Started @ 8:30 PM and built up in a steady crescendo until 9PM when he turned the mic over to the nighttime DJ.
Very cool, Maxwell! I do voice overs myself with a radio background. It's a shame how much the radio industry has changed. I hosted a talk show in the Chicago area a few years back, but after management got 3 months behind in paying me, I was forced to walk. I am 46, but I remember being a kid and listening to the old AM DJ's playing top 40 music. I actually miss those days of radio. I own a company that focuses on Message On Hold for businesses. Exciting stuff! LOL Take care and best of luck!
@wedance4ever95 If you read the comments, they didn't have a lot of space to move, and they weren't allowed to flavor or improvise very much, as TV was a new medium - decorum had to be followed. Remember that Elvis was first filmed only above the hips because they felt his hip movement was scandalous? Feel free to continue thinking INSIDE the box, though!
Lester White The Madison actually existed before Hairspray. The Buddy Deane Show and John Waters boyhood in 60's Baltimore inspired the movie stage musical movie remake and soon NBC TV production into being.
I was a senior at a Catholic girls school in 1960. The powers that be thought it would be nice to have some of us dance for the alumnae in uniform. Someone chose The Madison and four of us performed it masterfully. Afterward we waited for our accolades but instead heard "We didn't like your dance" and "Why are your skirts so short?" (we had rolled up the waistbands in classic Catholic school girl fashion.) We ran for the parking lot half expecting to be followed by little old ladies with torches.
I am looking for footage from the other Baltimore Dance show, similar to this. My mother was on it. It was called Johnny Dark. Does anyone have any information, links or videos? Please message me or reply. Thanks!
@@hotpopcorncake In real life, The Buddy Deane Show got taken off the air when they tried to integrate black kids into the show. It tells you a lot about everything back then. On Hairspray though, they did integrate blacks on The Corny Collins Show in the end because, well, the whole point in the movie was about ending segregation.
Those girls were "guests" that came to the show -- not the committee members who were on every day. They look SO YOUNG! Most of the guests that came on there were asked to sit with Buddy so they'd have something to remember about their visit. They were just VERY NERVOUS! (Think of Lucille Ball when she was doing the "Vita-vita-vegeman" commercial and she froze! LOL
This was the only footage taken by the television cameras. There is other home footage that the MPT special on the Buddy Deane Show included. The problem was that the film itself was very expensive and they used the reels over and over, taping on top of previous stuff.
See my reply above -- the film is distorted. Remember that was made a LONG time ago -- and the girl to whom you refer is still thin and lovely at 75!!! We're still friends.
Growing up in Baltimore during the 1950's, I was unable to watch the show each afternoon because I was bused to private school at eight each morning and returned home at six. These kids appear to be well dressed, properly groomed, and self disciplined. Sadly, the Vietnam era ushered in a tidal wave of institutionalized irresponsibility, self indulgence, and dysfunctional parenting - the results of which have affected many within future generations.
OMG!!! NO --- The film is distorted! You must remember -- that film is from about 1959! We were all skinny a bean pole! We went to the television station 6 days a week (2 hours on weekdays and 3 hours on Saturdays) and danced to almost every record. We had to -- or you'd get kicked off the show. AND - we had to dance with the kids who came to the show as guests -- most of whom couldn't dance a lick -- and you know how easily you could get embarrassed when you're between 13 and 18 or so. It was the love of dancing that kept us there.
If a show like this was on TV nowadays, my life would be made.
Hairspray the original movie by John Waters and the musical version brought me here! Why on Earth can't we have TV like this these days even if my parents were only babies back in the 60's?
+Manuel Orozco Why would you want TV like this? They are off-beat, make clear mistakes, are boring, and do the same things for 2.5 minutes. Not to mention that until this show moved to California it was segregated which is a host of problems on its own.
Kathryn Cline-Cook I mean live variety
Kathryn Cline-Cook Speaking of TV, Hairspray will be a live TV production this December on NBC from some of the creative team behind the Wiz Live.
***** The cast so far includes Harvey Fierstein as Edna, Martin Short as Wilbur, Derek Hough as Corny Collins, Jennifer Hudson as Maybelle, Kristin Chenoweth as Velma, Ariana Grande as Penny, Rosie O'Donnel (possibly) as Prudy and introducing Maddie Ballio as Tracy.
We used to love watching American Bandstand every day in the Philadelphia area in the 1950s. It's how we learned all the new dances. But I don't think it would be too pleasant to watch people twerking on a dance show in these "modern" times.
Just lovely stories and comments about this video here about 'The Madison'. Makes you think America will be OK, as during that time of huge social change, things sort of worked out! Thanks John Waters for bringing us the story again in the late 80s.
I'll never forget... I was about 5 or so and my next door neighbor (about 17 at the time) was selected to be on the Buddy Deane show to dance! I remember it was all abuzz around my neighborhood and we actually saw him on TV! I don't remember much personally about Buddy or the show, but I can safely say it might have been my first visual exposure in memory to rock and roll. We lived down the road in Beltsville, but got the Baltimore stations. These shows were simply incredible, and cool!
I was hired by Buddy Deane back in Feb 1996.. for the Delta Radio Network....It was such a great place to work...I did voice overs and re-recorded news feeds...loved it. We lost a national treasure....
I remember clearly being a preschooler and the youngest of 9 (yes nine) kids in 1959-1960. The older kids came home from school and right away the tv would be tuned to Buddy Dean who came on at 3'oclock Monday thru Friday here in Baltimore. My mother was such a hoot and a good timer. She'd come out and so all the dances with us kids. What a fun time that was! What a great childhood memory.
What was it like growing up in the 60s?
I learned the Madison at a house party in St. Louis in 1959. My buddy and I were the only white people there! Even in an era where segregation reigned, white kids who wanted to know black kids and black kids who wanted to know white kids managed to do. A lot of the credit goes to parents who wanted their children to know all of life, not just part of it.
Love it. Things like this are priceless. Keep em comming.
At our school we had a 60s day
Girls came to school with ratted up hair and those adorable cute poofy dresses.
The boys had dress shirts with high hair.
Annnd just for fun our gym teacher taught is the Madison and the mash potato!
That's AWESOME.
Your story made me really happy. Thank you
Wow. Judging by the scowls on everyone's faces, this dance was just as fun to do as it looks.
Twenty-first century teens think it’s cool to look bored and not smile, as well. Hell, maybe all teens think/thought that.
Just to think Hairspray originated from this XD
I was on the show 27 times with my friend Mike Citro. I was there when Freddy Boom Boom Cannon was the guest performer. And yes I was the best dancer outside the Committee. Still rockin' at age 65. Stan from Aberdeen.
Gosh. My mother still dances that with my aunts and their cousins/friends at every family event. Party like it's 196-something...
Stephen Kings's "11/22/63" brought me here. A great book, and a great dance.
My uncle and his girlfriend was on here all the time they got married in the 60's and still married today I would rush home from school to watch them dance on the buddy dean show
Thank you for this clip. I just discovered it. I grew up in the Baltimore area, but eventually moved to New Mexico. I grew up hearing about the Buddy Deane Show, but it was cancelled when I was a toddler. I never actually saw it. Nor have I ever seen any video clips of people dancing The Madison. It was just one of many 1960s dances I had heard, and picked up records of.
Enjoying the comments! I can clear some things up as I was on the Committee in the late 50's and early 60's. There was a "Committee" of kids who came to the show six days a week after passing several "tests" to qualify. Other teens could write in for tickets to come on as a Guest. The reason those two girl guests look petrified -- is because they were! Guests were encouraged to participate and those two look as if they hoped the floor would open up and they could disappear back to their own living rooms to watch the show on their black and white TV. Most of the guests looked and acted like a deer in the headlights!
Another comment mentioned how you really had to concentrate on those Madison steps! TRUE! Here you are -- a teenager -- and on television with your school mates, relatives and neighbors watching! You KNOW how hard it is to be un-cool at that age! One mis-step and there goes your ego! Not mentioning any names (he knows who he is) -- but one of the dancers -- because he did screw up that step so badly, is asked to start the Madison at every dance we go to now. (Yes - we still get together -- and we still dance on a regular basis. There is a large group of us who are great old friends -- Emphasis on "Old" ... but still legends in our own minds. ;)
Have to say a word here about Buddy Deane. He WAS strict on the show. The kids were also self disciplined by the elected teenage board. There was a two page list of rules -- made up by the kids themselves -- to which you had to comply or get kicked off the show. But, you have to consider this was a different era and the slightest bit of misconduct in those days would have brought the hammer down on Buddy's head from the media and/or the parents. (Remember when parents had control of their teenagers????)
In later years, Buddy would come to town from Arkansas to do 50's record hops and by that time had become friends with his "all grown up kids". We had many enjoyable years listening to his stories at our houses. He was a great guy and a wonderful family man. He also helped a lot of his "kids" launch their own successful careers in the music business.
Hope this gives everyone a better insight.
"DANCE LIKE NO ONE IS LOOKING!" -- and now, we're old enough, we don't care if anyone is looking or not. (And, yes - we still screw up The Madison!!! But, now we just laugh!
+aboyer441 Hi there. You sound like an individual from the Committee who could address the African American issue. I was on the show several times, and would love to see myself. Do you know what happened to the footage of the African American segments of the show? I've called around several places with no success. Thanks.
pat brun Just watch Hairspray lol. It's really stupid but it's based around a fictional show called the Corny Collins show which was apparently inspired by this show. Judging by your comment it seems like the whole plot is based around what happened to this show. If you can withstand musicals you'll get a pretty good idea of what happened. It's not actually real though, it's fiction, so you won't get a very clear answer.
Thanks. I've seen it.
Wow, what year was this? This is actually a pretty complicated line dance for those times, they never did anything like this on Bandstand in Philly. So this show was in Baltimore? I went on Bandstand once at age 11 but then it moved to CA by the time I was 14 and old enough to be "legal". I am still a big line dancer. Thx for all the background info!
aboyer441 hello! I am currently assisting a major university professor in writing a book on social dance and she is devoting a chapter to the Buddy Deane Show! It would be amazing to talk to you because resources (clippings, videos, etc) are so hard to come by and maybe you could help me find things from the show that she's looking for? Any advice or help you could give, maybe a point in the right direction would be so appreciated! I would love to privately message but I guess CZcams doesn't allow that? Odd, but we can figure out a way to communicate, just message me back here and we can figure something out! Hope to hear back from you!
"It's a relaxing dance" - it looks like algebra! Kudos to the teens who dared do this on television.
Same here! They should do something like "The New American Bandstand". And I'd love it if the council members actually did line dances like this. I mean, sure, there's The Cupid Shuffle and what not, but we probably wouldn't have those dances without these.
I really hope we can have a sock hop at my school one day and do dances like this.
Thanks for a classic & rare glimpse at the Buddy Deane Show
Buddy Dean made it as far down as Caroline county on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, at the town armory!
Thanks MPT, I have enjoyed my life in maryland.
Wow! Fond memories of the 1960's. My teen years were winding up then.This was the time when the gal's skirts went from below to at the knees and most of them wore their hair short. It was a great time to be alive. If there was time machine to get into, I'd like to go back for a few days and have a great time with all the guys and gals doing some of the great dances that this era produced. The twist which came out in 1961 was a great way to keep your waistline in shape and your weight down.
The electric slide of the 60s.
These shows were the local predecessors of syndicated shows like American Bandstand, Hullabaloo, and Soul Train.
I was raised in Sparrows Point Class '65
We all got on the Show
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I loved doing the Madison. I'm laughing at these kids. You almost always got off of step like the guy on the front line shaking his head. LOL! You absolutely had to have the record completely memorized from start to finish. I remember this version on a couple of times. It was Ray Bryant's version that was the monster hit. I remember playing it over and over and over again in my room practicing because you had to have the steps down so you could look really cool like you were bored to tears when you danced it. LOL. Just like the kid with the pompadour in the front row. You were like, "What - again? Oh all right. I'll dance it again." LOL
GREAT REPLY!!!
@dogsrluv not to mention,they had limited space-the cameras couldn't move around like they could later.I gre up in the sixties,but I can appreciate this.Thank you!
John Waters is from Baltimore. The buddy Dean show was a live afternoon teen show in Baltimore in the 50s and 60s.
It was shows like this back in the 50's and 60's where the rest of us learned how to do the steps. We didn't have dvr's back then either. You had to get it the first time or hope they would dance it the next show so you coud get it then. It was a good time.
Does anyone know where the footage is of the African American teens he had on his show?
that would be cool have u been looking for that footage?
Any luck finding any? My mother Maureen Gray was one of the black teenage artists who performed there and I’m desperately trying to find some footage.
@@NikkoGray Nothing at all.
@@ayeismynaym For years
I love this! Thanks so much for posting it!
I was on the show several times as an African American teen.
+pat brun ............ If you don't mind me asking. How old are you?
I'm 67.
+pat brun That is soooo neat, I am 67 too, love this dance/song,,,do you ever see yourself in these videos?
+imusfan48 No because there is no African American footage available.
+pat brun Like 'Black People' didn't exist! What a joke, a lot of people today, don't realize that segregation, Jim Crow Laws, etc. existed not that long ago. I remember going down to Nashville to see the 'Grand Ole Oprey' with my parents (1957?) and seeing separate drinking fountains and RR's. I was from Ohio, and about 8 or 9, and even at that age, knew that it wasn't right?
Every Friday was when the black teens were on the buddy dean show, it was all black kid only.
This is the ONLY surviving videotape or kinescope clip of Buddy's show. It seems that only about 8 minutes of 8mm footage survived the years also. It was shot in late 57 or early 58.
That's right. However, there is some footage of home movies. That footage was includedd on the Maryland Public Television special about the Buddy Deane Show. You should be able to find it on CZcams.
Ah yes, the early 1960s...the tight skirts with the tight, tight sweaters and the ultra-flat capezios on our feet. When I was in high school, ('59-'62) the skirts were just at the knee and at my graduation party ('62) just about al the girls in the group photo wore dresses or skirts just above the knee. Boys hair was long on top and tapered in the back. I remember boys getting reprimanded in school for wearing "taps" on their shoes...clacking all over the school hallways. Teachers cringed.
Hahahahaa! I remember getting sent home from school by the gym teacher because my skirt was too short!
What fun! Wish this kind of stuff was still around.
I love love LOVE this!!!
My girl friend is the blond with her hair pulled up with the white and black checkered dress that is seen 3 times. I am proud of her.
The Rolling Stones were on Buddy Dean on their first tour. Glen Burnie
We all know about Hairspray, but John Waters also wrote about the Buddy Deane show and the Committee a couple times in his collections of memoirs. I think one essay was called "The Nicest Kids in Town."
John was born and raised in Baltimore, so you can bet the ghost of Buddy Deane is in "Hairspray".
Grew up listening to Buddy Deane in Pine Bluff ,Ark. on KOTN 1490am
i m from a small village in INDIA..i dnt knw why am i watching this
+tanukrishna chetia welcome to old time american teenage music and dancing...
Just have a good time
Interesting. Two songs, this one by the Tune Toppers and the other one by the Ray Bryant Combo about this dance. Modern swing dancers as well as rockabilly kids have revived it. Fun stuff.
The Nicest Kids in Town!
How cool is that! Luv it!
Love this!
This is the version of the dance that I originally learned as a little kid! I like the newer version too! This is authentic y’all 😉
I'm afraid that TheRainydaywoman43 doesn't understand the calls. Al Brown quickly tells the whole pattern that will be coming up, but the dancers have to wait until he says "hit It." then they do exactly what was called. Same for the second figure, the M.
Kinescope, right? Movie camera pointed right at the tv screen. Well, at least it's preserved. :-) Thanks for uploading.
Yep. Vignetting, blurry, overexposed. Dat be kinescope!
the modern day electric slide, i like it
Hence the inspiration for "Hairspray". ;)
WJZ-TV Channel 13 every evening after school!!!!
Is this video the inspiration for John Walters's epic film "Hairspray?".
mkrcompton The Buddy Deane Show in general was the inspiration for the John Water's Hairspray.
+Sean Santoya That would be correct
@@manuelorozco7760 was buddy deane show integrated
Mi Horrorshow No
@@manuelorozco7760 I mean they were the first to have blacks on tv right?
I did the madison with my sister back then!
I might add that Baltimore disc jockey Eddie Morrison did the calls on the Ray Bryant version. He was on WEBB 1360 AM.
Thank you Mr. Jazzman. I grew up in Balto @ about the same time, and WEBB and WSID were the two black stations I listened to regularly. Anyone remember Fat Daddy on WSID? His sign offs on Friday night were epic. Started @ 8:30 PM and built up in a steady crescendo until 9PM when he turned the mic over to the nighttime DJ.
Wow! So much years ago...!
Very cool, Maxwell! I do voice overs myself with a radio background. It's a shame how much the radio industry has changed. I hosted a talk show in the Chicago area a few years back, but after management got 3 months behind in paying me, I was forced to walk. I am 46, but I remember being a kid and listening to the old AM DJ's playing top 40 music. I actually miss those days of radio. I own a company that focuses on Message On Hold for businesses. Exciting stuff! LOL Take care and best of luck!
My dad was the singer in the Lafayettes
11.22.63 brought me here.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Recently saw a CZcams of Annette doing a much better and stylized version of this. But then Annette made everything better may she be happy in heaven.
@wedance4ever95 If you read the comments, they didn't have a lot of space to move, and they weren't allowed to flavor or improvise very much, as TV was a new medium - decorum had to be followed. Remember that Elvis was first filmed only above the hips because they felt his hip movement was scandalous? Feel free to continue thinking INSIDE the box, though!
Well said!
So THIS is what George McFly was attempting on the dance floor when he was dancing alone.
Looks like they had a great time
+Lester White I can easily tell by the energy they are using
+Manuel Orozco I agree. I think that Madison time line and dance step is from hairspray. I wish they still had this for kids
Lester White The Madison actually existed before Hairspray. The Buddy Deane Show and John Waters boyhood in 60's Baltimore inspired the movie stage musical movie remake and soon NBC TV production into being.
Smile, dancers, smile !
I was a senior at a Catholic girls school in 1960. The powers that be thought it would be nice to have some of us dance for the alumnae in uniform. Someone chose The Madison and four of us performed it masterfully. Afterward we waited for our accolades but instead heard "We didn't like your dance" and "Why are your skirts so short?" (we had rolled up the waistbands in classic Catholic school girl fashion.) We ran for the parking lot half expecting to be followed by little old ladies with torches.
The weird thing to me is the Madison (like the jitterbug, I think) is in 3/2 while the music is always in 4/4.
I forgot...there are also the 2 Arlene Gay appearances on Buddy's show which survived.
I am looking for footage from the other Baltimore Dance show, similar to this. My mother was on it. It was called Johnny Dark. Does anyone have any information, links or videos? Please message me or reply. Thanks!
It must have gotten terrible reviews if its not even on the Wikipedia article for Johnny Dark...you're sure it was called the Johnny Dark show?
Age brought me here.
Since you were there, could you describe what was meant by "the continental" look? I'm thinking it was a sophisticated Euro look, but can't be sure.
I never heard of that dance and I was 13 yrs old in 1959.
buddy deane show was the first integration on tv?
Edie Koller Me not until I was 14 in 2007
@@hotpopcorncake -- Nope -- Watch "Hairspray"
@@annetempera1945 I seen that movie what about it.
@@hotpopcorncake In real life, The Buddy Deane Show got taken off the air when they tried to integrate black kids into the show. It tells you a lot about everything back then. On Hairspray though, they did integrate blacks on The Corny Collins Show in the end because, well, the whole point in the movie was about ending segregation.
As they say in the RHPS: "Say, do you guys know the Madison?"
SWEET JESUS DAT SWAG...
this dace is so wild woooh thes teens r party animals -_- woo!!!
Brad Majors send me here. ...I Like that Sax !
BABY DON'T SLEEP
BABY DON'T EAT
BABY JUST LIKES TO DO DA BOINK BOINK
Hairspray did a spoof of this and called it The Corny Collins Show lol this is so cool
Wow. Those two girls sitting next to Buddy Deane seem SO EXCITED!! They act like he's some perv they have to sit next to. LOL. Love the dance!!
+ProudKansan08 I was thinking the same thing.
Those girls were "guests" that came to the show -- not the committee members who were on every day. They look SO YOUNG! Most of the guests that came on there were asked to sit with Buddy so they'd have something to remember about their visit. They were just VERY NERVOUS! (Think of Lucille Ball when she was doing the "Vita-vita-vegeman" commercial and she froze! LOL
Wow - when Barry Levinson was making "Diner" he wanted to use Buddy Deane clips but was told none existed... I wonder where they found these.
This was the only footage taken by the television cameras. There is other home footage that the MPT special on the Buddy Deane Show included. The problem was that the film itself was very expensive and they used the reels over and over, taping on top of previous stuff.
ha! the real deal ~ cool!
lol. Hairspray did a spoof of this :D
he was based on corny from hairspray
Back when Whites weren't discriminated against nor chastised by the media.
I wonder how many times john water's has watched this clip? and he claimed in his book that no clips were preserved. wrong! WJZT, still broadcasting
What's funny about this dance is that it they can do it till they're elderly, not like the Lindy Hop 10 - 20 years before.
I was looking for Madison Alamia......
rarely seen footage
@TheRainydaywoman43 ROTFL! I was thinking the same thing!!!!!!!! That made me laugh even more!
That oinker in the front with the long hair must be the one John Waters based Tracy Turnblad on for his move Hairspray.. dang!
See my reply above -- the film is distorted. Remember that was made a LONG time ago -- and the girl to whom you refer is still thin and lovely at 75!!! We're still friends.
@chrislowry Is it true?
the sexual tension is thick!!
I wanna see the black kids dance this!
@Direness calm down...there was no diss involved.. way to make a big deal out of a comment on an internet video though
Bizarre.
Who is here because they are watching hairspray
NOT ME!
Me.
Happiest people I've ever seen, they should tone that down a little bit, they're going too fast.
Growing up in Baltimore during the 1950's, I was unable to watch the show each afternoon because I was bused to private school at eight each morning and returned home at six. These kids appear to be well dressed, properly groomed, and self disciplined. Sadly, the Vietnam era ushered in a tidal wave of institutionalized irresponsibility, self indulgence, and dysfunctional parenting - the results of which have affected many within future generations.
Those are some big corn feed girls !!!
OMG!!! NO --- The film is distorted! You must remember -- that film is from about 1959! We were all skinny a bean pole! We went to the television station 6 days a week (2 hours on weekdays and 3 hours on Saturdays) and danced to almost every record. We had to -- or you'd get kicked off the show. AND - we had to dance with the kids who came to the show as guests -- most of whom couldn't dance a lick -- and you know how easily you could get embarrassed when you're between 13 and 18 or so. It was the love of dancing that kept us there.
does anybody remember Don Peters very popular on the show
"Donny" Peters is alive and well and still in Baltimore.
@andreas04 lol :D
Half of the people dancing are looking at their feet. O.o
are they alive?
Yes -- we are! LOL Search for "Buddy Deane Committee Members" on Facebook.