1964, HOOTENANNY, Johnny Cash, Leon Bibb, Bob Gibson, Jo Mapes 

Jack sounds so much like Art that I almost expect him to say "Kids say the darndest things."

Wow , this takes me way back to 1963 when I discovered Hootenanny and the Chad Mitchell Trio !!!! I was obsessed with Chad Mitchells voice and I still am. Havnt listened to him in a while, about time to bring the cd's out again.

I remember watching Hootenanny as a kid on TV. It made me wish I was older and in college then.

Thank you ! The sheer joy of Folk music singing.

Now this is good music

Lovely! Most of my ABC Hootenanny memories involve the Mitchell Trio, Josh White, Judy Henske, Judy Collins, the limeliters and the brothers four and even bigger ensembles. This was a treat! Bob Gibson before the beard!. I remember reading Sing Out magazine around that time, and it found a lot of humor in some newspaper gossip column speculating that "Joan Baez was dating the head of the Gibson Guitar Company," apparently conflating her duets with Bob Gibson and Bob Dylan... And I'm surprised they didn't get Vince Martin into the act!

I not only like this I love it, love it! What a gem!

Jo Mapes later sang the Kellogg's Raisin Bran jingle {"The rai-sunniest bran.....under the sun!"}.

The smiles on the audience watching the Coventry Singers do Bowling Green brings joy to my heart on this snowy morning with bad news all around

I remember watching this show a few times back then...the folk music fad didn't last long after the Beatles hit the USA in early 1964. I was surprised to see the audience members singing the theme song, meaning that many of them must've been fans of the show and watched it often enough to know the lyrics.

This not just nostalgia but great musical history. Thanks for sharing, hoping you might have more. Thanks again.

my uncle wishie and aunt beatrice used to watch this when i was a kid

I sure like Joe Mapes version of Someday Soon. This I had never heard before- wow, thanks for posting this!

Lovw!

Hootenany. Tured. Me on to. Folk. Music

An interesting moment in time. Urban folk music was at its zenith, then the British Invasion changed everything. This Hootenanny show got canceled as a result of the changing music scene. It was replaced by the show Shindig.

I don’t know that was actually a word, so I’m not crazy after all I just have memories of past things that happened

I particularly like the appearance of Johnny Cash. Unfortunately, an entire song (I think the title is "Amen") was cut out here. Why?

I was a kid and thought this Hootenanny fad was square!

Where did you find this? I thought all the full episodes of this show had been lost.

What happened to the footage of five feet high and rising? , it skips over it now

Can you find other Hootenanny programs? I'm looking for the show they were at Penn State with the Carter Family

Do you have the Clara Ward Gospel Singers singing “Come On In The Room” from this show?

The last group of square young people! Rich kids from the upper middle class. They were all about that collegiate culture. There was at that time only a little Rock n roll. You had soul music, girl groups, James Brown, Motown. Then came the Beatles! Three years of the British Invasion! Wow! Later, hard rock. Songs with “meaning.” Drugs, Vietnam, the generation gap. The hawks and the doves. Burning draft cards. Race riots. Campus riots. Woodstock. Watergate. Nixon resigned. The end. It was a musical renaissance-1956-1969. The era was dead by 1975. Pop music filled the airwaves. Then…. Disco!! Yuck! New music came in the 1980s.

Back in the days when The ABC Television Network, way before the likes of Woke Disney, who brought the TV network in 1996, was once a great TV network with top-rated TV shows suited for good family viewing, especially with music variety shows like "HOOTENANNY" (1963-64), which focused on great Folk music, once the heart of American culture, which you won't find anywhere on what's left of Primetime TV in our current century! "HOOTENANNY" ran for 28 episodes and was eventually replaced by "SHINDIG!" (1964-1966).

Now kids, this why no one sings folk songs anymore. Were there any black students at this school back then?