Enough of Duck football for a while. Yesterday I discovered that on January 23 they are releasing a three DVD set called the "Best of Hootenanny" the folk singing TV show from the early 1960's. I loved the show. Here is a description of the show from
Wikipedia:
"Hootenanny was a musical variety television show broadcast in the United States on ABC from April, 1963 to September, 1964. The program was hosted by Jack Linkletter. It primary featured pop-oriented folk music acts. It was taped before a live audience at a different college campus each week. Some of the popular acts that appeared on the show included The Limeliters, the Chad Mitchell Trio, and the Smothers Brothers."
Amazon.com has this to say about the DVD set:
By 1964 the Beatles had arrived in America, essentially ending the folk music craze that had started only a few years before. Hootenanny would soon be replaced by Shindig! All of the videotapes of Hootenanny are lost--most likely erased and recycled during a time when no one imagined folk music would matter again. But fortunately the shows were preserved on kinescopes, films made from a television monitor. These kinescopes of Hootenanny form a musical time capsule of the short-lived era in American popular music--in between Elvis Presley and The Beatles--when folk music was all the rage.
More than 80 songs including: Froggie Went A-Courtin', He Was A Friend Of Mine, Midnight Special, C.C. Rider, Cottonfields, Turn Turn Turn, If I Had A Hammer, Wayfarin' Stranger, Wimoweh and Ole Blue
With performances by:
Eddy Arnold, Hoyt Axton, Leon Bibb, Theodore Bikel, The Brothers Four, Bud & Travis, The Carter Family, Johnny Cash, The Chad Mitchell Trio, The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, The Clara Ward Gospel Singers,Judy Collins, The Coventry Singers, Dian & The Greenbriar Boys, The Dillards, Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs, Bob Gibson, Ian & Sylvia, Joe & Eddie, The Journeymen, The Limeliters, Trini Lopez, Miriam Makeba, Herbie Mann, MinstrelsThe New Christy Minstrals , Richard & Jim, Jimmie Rodgers, The Rooftop Singers, The Serendipity Singers, Mike Settle, The Simon Sisters, The Tarriers, The Travelers Three, Doc Watson, Josh White, Jr., Beverly White, Marion Williams
And comedy by:
Woody Allen, Bill Cosby, Vaughn Meader, Louis Nye, Jackie Vernon
One half of the "Simon Sisters" was Carley! What a great time. No one has seen these shows since the early 1960's. I remember when I was in high school we had a "Hootenanny" over at the North Bend Junior High gym and they even brought in some folk singers from far away Eugene, Oregon. The Folk Music era was way too short.
To order your own three DVD set click on the title above for a link to the Amazon.com web page :)
