Buddy Dean Show
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The Buddy Dean Show was a teen dance television show that aired on WJZ-TV in Baltimore, Maryland from 1957 until 1964, similar to Philadelphia's American Bandstand. The show was taken off the air because it refused to integrate black and white dancers. Its host was Winston Buddy Deane (b. 1924), who died in Pine Bluff, Arkansas after suffering a stroke, July 16, 2003. He was 78.
Winston "Buddy" Deane was a broadcaster for more than fifty years, beginning his career in Little Rock, Arkansas, then moving to the Memphis, Tennessee market before moving onto Baltimore where he worked at WITH-AM radio. He was one of the first disc jockeys in the area to regularly feature rock-and-roll. His dance party television show debuted in 1957 and was, for a time, the most popular local show in the United States. It aired for 2 1/2 hours a day, six days a week.
Dancers on the show include John Waters (filmmaker).
The show featured many kinds of dance, particularly Swing.
It was the basis of The Corny Collins Dance Show in the John Waters movie and musical Hairspray
Reference
- Washington Post, Winston "Buddy" Deane - Baltimore DJ obituary, Friday, July 18, 2003, Page B-7.
See also
- Clay Cole Show
- Connecticut Bandstand
- Jocko's Rocketship
- The Milt Grant Show
- Wing Ding
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