{"id":2626,"date":"2011-06-06T07:39:21","date_gmt":"2011-06-06T07:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/06\/its_madison_tim\/"},"modified":"2024-12-02T19:50:58","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T03:50:58","slug":"its_madison_tim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/06\/its_madison_tim\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Madison time. Hit it!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iT_QNC6o24E?si=RwXmF7HmiqpcDEPY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Although it\u2019s not the most thrilling clip,<\/strong> it\u2019s cool to see this version of the Madison Time from Baltimore\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Buddy_Deane\"><i>Buddy Deane Show<\/i><\/a>, the inspiration for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hairspray_(1988_film)\"><i>Hairspray<\/i><\/a>\u2019s <i>Corny Collins Show<\/i>. (And it\u2019s worth looking for other Buddy Deane clips to get a better idea of where the Hairspray aesthetic came from. The hair looks a little flat in this one.) The dance is done with a little more pep in the film:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eEkLpmvIMuw?si=EPKQEfEF9yzL4j92\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Madison_(dance)\">The Madison<\/a> sequence has always been a favorite moment in the film. It\u2019s not the funniest or the craziest, but it\u2019s warm and sweet, and a pivotal moment in the story. Really, it\u2019s the part that exposes the sentimental streak that underlies the film. It always catches me off-guard to get a reminder that it was a huge smash with a life of its own outside the John Waters bubble.<\/p>\n<p>The quality of this clip is awful, but here\u2019s the second version of the Madison I ever saw, when it was played on a reel of old music clips between shows at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.somervilletheatreonline.com\/somerville-theatre\/\">Somerville Theater<\/a> some time in the early 90s. I never figured out the context at the time. Most of the other clips turned out to be <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scopitone\">Scopitone<\/a> films, and perhaps this was as well, even though it\u2019s not specifically French. It\u2019s the Ray Bryant Combo doing their version, set in a bowling alley:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LXqAfIlkZDg?si=SfNgKdYcPsMz_Hva\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although it\u2019s not the most thrilling clip, it\u2019s cool to see this version of the Madison Time from Baltimore\u2019s Buddy Deane Show, the inspiration for Hairspray\u2019s Corny Collins Show. (And it\u2019s worth looking for other Buddy Deane clips to get a better idea of where the Hairspray aesthetic came from. The hair looks a little &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/06\/its_madison_tim\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;It\u2019s Madison time. Hit it!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultracultural","category-ultramedia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2626"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77498,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2626\/revisions\/77498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}