Hootenany

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 primarily featured pop-oriented folk music acts, including The Limeliters, the Chad Mitchell Trio, The New Christy Minstrels, The Brothers Four, Ian & Sylvia, Hoyt Axton, Judy Collins, Johnny Cash, The Carter Family, Flatt & Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys, The Tarriers, Bud & Travis, and the Smothers Brothers. Although both popular and influential, the program is primarily remembered today for the controversy created when the producers blacklisted certain folk music acts, which then led to a boycott by others.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• hootenany
• abc
• folk
• 1963
• 1964

[fromthesidelines]

This is from ABC's 1963 fall preview presentation; unfortunately, after its first successful season as a half-hour series the previous spring, "HOOTENANNY" expanded to an hour in the fall of '63, and was scheduled against...."THE JACKIE GLEASON SHOW: THE AMERICAN SCENE MAGAZINE" on CBS, which had more viewers. ABC's counter-programming idea didn't work, and they cancelled the show at the end of the season.