Joel Chaseman, also a DJ at WITH, became program manager of WJZ-TV when Westinghouse bought it in the mid-50s. The Committee is back in session. 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 . Crushed, I retreated from cheek-to-cheek to a distant and awkward completion of a slow tune by the Miracles. Could it be? It couldn't get much worse, or so I thought. We were from all over the city, Ann Boyer recalled. About a dozen of the old Buddy Deane gang showed up to watch a delightful, energetic production of the John Waters inspiration. We even did this hideous dance called the roach, where you would spray with an imaginary bug killer and "squish, then squash" the pests. I was dancing out at Giovannis Restaurant, in Harford County, just the other night, Parks said, and a woman says to me, Arent you Carl Parks? It was the era of rock n roll - ducktails, pegged pants and beehive dos. A special. Its time had passed a little. Now: After the show, Barber got married, had two children and three grandchildren. "Where you been, boy?" They were both Committee members back then. (One female committee member supposedly teased and sprayed her hair so much it caught fire one night as she slept. 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. Didnt you dance on the Buddy Deane Show? This is 50 years later.. (Editors note: The show requested a character reference from a priest, minister or rabbi; references from teachers or principals were also accepted.) Id get hate mail. Joe remembers a sport coat I bought for $5 from somebody who got it when he got out of prison. Or Snuggle Dolls? If the Contours or James Brown came on, some would stop games of basketball, pinochle or pitching nickels and start dancing. They would drive me nuts when theyd come in the door, and Id say Man, youre gone. Im serious. The star system was born. John Waters: I put the spotlight on [the integration controversy] . The day Weber was approached for autographs by girls at Eastern High School, I knew without a doubt that being on the committee carried as much cachet as running first string for Dunbar High School's basketball team or having your own car with four-on-the-floor. Some kids on the show went a little nuts, with stars in their eyes; they thought they were going to go to Hollywood and be moviestars.. Snyder said she choreographed the Madison, a popular line dance of the time, for . Login to create it. '.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! So the rules were bent a little; the big ones, the ones with the fan mail, were allowed to stay. Thats how they rotated Committee members. The views expressed here are the author's own. On the show: Gene joined in February 1958; Linda was on from September 1958 to February 1961. That was our whole social life, being a Buddy Deaner, says Gene.