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.
The failed racial integration of a take-off of the show, dubbed the The Corny Collins Dance Show, is the back drop to the John Waters movie and musical Hairspray. As a teenager, Waters himself once appeared on the show.
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- Washington Post, Winston "Buddy" Deane - Baltimore DJ obituary, Friday, July 18, 2003, Page B-7.
