M&A Music Performances Folk Music

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The Limelighters [Sunny Side Up]: unaired pilot for a children's folk-music show―mid-1960s 12-9D

The Garry Moore Show III: 16-3D―guest is Carl Sandburg who sings folk songs and recites his poetry (4/22/52)

ABC News Special Report: "American Music―From Folk to Jazz and Pop" (See NEWS 228)

It's Hulabaloo: features the Clancy Brothers with Tommy Makem, Long John Bawldry, Alex and Rod McEwen and other folks singers in this show from Australian Broadcasting Company (ca 1963) 12-7A

Hootenanny I: 3/7/64 20-4D (a Dankar production in association with ABC-TV) from University of Tennessee in Knoxville

The Travelers Three

Eddy Arnold

The Carter Family

Sheb Wooley

Hoyt Axton

Simon Sisters (Carley Simon)

The Serendipity Singers

Vaughn Meader (first TV appearance since JFK assassination)

Hootenanny II: 1/11/64 2 Copies 20-3T 16-4D

From University of Florida

Bob Gibson, “There’s a Meeting Here Tonight”

Johnny Cash, “Busted,” How High’s the Water, Mama?” “Ring of Fire” (Cash lip-synchs on this song)

Leon Bibb, “Little Boxes”

Johnson Family Singers

Jo Mapes

Adam Keefe (impressionist)

The Coventry Singers, “Little Tyke”

audience sings “You Are My Sunshine” a halfway point Medley:

If I Had a Hammer Bibb

Green, Green Mapes

Abilene Gibson

Blowin’ in the Wind, ensemble

Hootenanny III:   2/15/64   this is rerun issue 6/20/64 20-3T

From Darmouth College Winter Carnival

The Phoenix Singers

Mike Settle, “Hey, Lilee”

Orriel Smith, “First Time Ever I Saw You”

Jerry Shane (comedian)

Herbie Mann Sextet “Harlem Nocturne”

Brandywine Singers

Serendipity Singers

Lionel Jefford, pantomimic

Hootenanny IV: 12/28/64 and 6/20/64 rerun     20-3T   From University of Florida

Jimmy Rodgers “Wayfaring Stranger”   “Midnight Special”

The Tarriers

Hoyt Axton

Bob Gibson

Josh White Jr.

Beverly White

Jackie Vernon (comedian)

Joan Meyers

Commercials:

Macleans toothpaste,

Brylcreme (girl oozes from tube) Rerun

Hootenanny V:   12/21/63    this is rerun 6/13/64    20-3T   From UCLA

Travellers Three “Bowling Green”   “Good Morning, Captain”

Bud and Travis, “Angelico,   “Fiesta in Guadalajara”

Brothers Four “Four Strong Winds” “The Ox Driver’s Song”

Jimmy Rodgers, “Water Boy”, “If I Had My Way”

Trini Lopez, “Lonesome Traveler”   “If I Had a Hammer”

Nancy Ames “Should I Follow?”

Stan Wilson w/ guitarist Lenin Castro, “Ghost Riders in the Sky

Beverly Wright, “I Will Love till the Day I Die”

Bill Cosby, comedian

Commercials include

Chevrolet

Macleans

Texize “Hooteneny album

Hootenanny VI: 9/21/63 20-3T 2 Copies From Boston University—first show in one-hour format

Vaughn Meader, comedian

Chad Mitchell Trio, Mighty Day, Nobody Wants You When You’re Down and Out, The Song of Youth, You Can Tell the World

Rooftop Singers, “Tom Cat,” Mama Don’t Allow, Froggie Went a-Courtin’

Mike Settle, What to Do with a Drunken Sailor,   Oleanna, Settle Down

Stan Rubin and the Tigertown Five, Dixieland jazz quintet

Nancy Ames, “Longtime, Boy”

Albertina Walker and The Caravans, “I Won’t Be Back No More”

            Gospel singers

Hootenanny VII:   11/9/63    rerun 5/2/64   20-3T   From Southern Methodist University

The Journeymen

Bob Gibson

Judy Collins

Clara Ward and Her Gospel Singers

Theodore Bikel

Ian & Sylvia

Carolina Cloggers

Freddy Powers and the Powerhouse Four The Journeymen: “Roll Along” “Stackolee” “Someone to Talk My Troubles To”   “Cryderville Jail”

Ian and Sylvia, Jesus Met the Woman at the Well   Cruel Mother

Salty Dog” “Down by the Greenwood Side” (very Celtic sound)

Judy Collins “Anathea,” “Sky Bald Paint”

Bikel, “Drinkin’ Gourd”   Bimini “Sissu Vesimchu” instrumental with his harmonica solo

Gibson, “Marching to Pretoria” etc.

Clara Ward, “Swing Low” etc.

Bikel and Collins, “Kisses Sweeter Than Wine”

Powers, “Bill Bailey” 3 banjos and tuba

Ensemble ends with “Cumbaya”

Commercials include:

Johnson’s Wax Pledge

Chevrolet Chevelle Station Wagon: man gets sex with station wagon

Bobbi Hair Spray

Alka-Seltzer: Speedy rescues overeater at Italian restaurant



  Hootenanny VIII: 30-minute version    5/5/63   A-10C From University of Virginia

Chad Mitchell Trio

Travelers Three, “Greenfields”

Miriam Makeba

Molly Scott

  Hootenanny IX: 30-minute version    6/1/63   A-10C From Penn State University

The Limelighters, “Midnight Special,” “Wonderous Love” “Give Me That Old-Time Religion” “Done Laid around This Old Town Too Long”

Ian and Sylvia, “CC Rider,” another song with Celtic harmony

Martha Schlamme, her lyrics to “Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ya”

Richard and Jim, “Charming Betsy” w/ The Limelighters, “East Virginia”

Ensemble, “Michael Row the Boat Ashore”

Hootenanny X: 12/14/63    20-3T From University of Arizona

The New Christy Minstrel Singers, “Denver” “Saturday Night”   “Juliane”   Song of the Pious Itinerant” “O-Hio”   “Michael, Row the Boat a-Shore”

Eddy Arnold, “Cool Water” “Red River Valley” I Want to Play House with You”

Mike Settle, “We Shall Not Be Moved” “Red Rose Bush”

Bessie Griffin and the Gospel Pearls, “Caught Up to Meet Him”

Cathie Taylor, “Wide and Deep”

Settle and Taylor, duet

Clancy Brothers with Tommy Makem, “I’ll Tell My Ma” “Will You Go, Lassie, Go”   “Reilly’s Daughter”

Robert MacGimsey, “Shadrack” (McGimsey wrote this song in 1931)

Woody Allen, comedian—routine about being in analysis

Ensemble, “Good Night, Irene”

Commercials

Bobbi Roller Perm    White rain Hairspray

Chevrolet Used Cars

Sunbeam electric razor w/ sideburn trimmer

Muriel cigars w/ Edye Adams

   Hootenanny XI: 9/28/63    20-3T From University of Pittsburgh network print with commercials

The Brothers Four, “Michael, Row the Boat Ashore”

Judy Henske

The Dillards, “Ruben’s Strain” bluegrass trio

The Rooftop Singers

Leon Bibb

Marian Williams and the Stars of Faith, black gospel

Louis Nye, comedian

Hootenanny XII: 3/14/64    20-3T From Salem College in Clarksburg, West Virginia

The New Christy Minstrel Singers

Flatt and Scruggs, bluegrass duet

Steve DePass, is black improv singer who takes suggestions from the audience and integrates those suggestions into a song

Gayle Garnett

The Three Young Men from Montana

Pat Harrington, comedian, as Guido Panzini

Hootenanny: last 400' of program hosted by Jack Linkletter―guests include The Travelers Three (2 Hawaiians and white guy from Oregon), Chad Mitchell Trio, and Miriam Makeeba from University of Virginia   5/5/63   4-18C

Net Promo: reel has longer examples of musical performance from programs upcoming on public television: (4/24/65) C-10C

1) "A Room Full of Music" w/ Joan Baez and black woman singing civil rights song―Pete Seeger sings "This Land Is Your Land"

2) "An Evening with Joan Sutherland" opera duet

3) "Elizabeth Schwartzkopf" she sings

4) "The Mikado" contains two songs" "The Lord High Executioner" and "Three Little Maids"

5) "School for Scandal" excerpt from play

African Jazz: Australian travelogue with the Michaels family offering stereotypical notions about blacks and music ("natural sense of rhythm")―program argues that jazz originated in Africa in tribal music with emphasis on drum and vocal rhythm―convincing C-3E

Sounds of Summer: color kinescope of Pittsburgh folk music festival in early 1970s    20-6A

   Camera 3 XIII: "The Country Blues" with the traditional style of Son House and "the new country blues" of Chicagoan Buddy Guy    C-2C

   Camera 3 XV: "Modern Negro Folk Songs" features black choral groups The Pilgrims and The Freedom Singers from early in the Civil Rights Movement (9/6/64) C-2

   Folklore USA: University of Michigan TV series hosted by Prof. Neal Snorder―this episode is "The Instruments" in which he and performers historically introduce folk musical instruments: Duane Starcher plays the African instrument banjo ("I Am a Pilgrim", and "Flop-Earred Mule") and the guitar―then Felix Papalardi plays black blues guitar "There's Man Goin' 'Round Takin' Names"―then Starcher plays Chinese-originated mandolin "Rye Straw") 12-5A

Net Documentary 102: "Music Makers of the Blue Ridge" folk music song    and dance from North Carolina (1966) 8-9C

   Traveling for a Living: BBC documentary re the Watersons, a British folk music group that goes from town to town singing traditional harmonies    16-1B



   Harry Owens [and His Royal Hawaiians]: gorgeous Technicolor film in which Owens romantically introduces Hawaii and its history (from "the great book of Hawaii") while introducing many Hawaiian songs and dances―Hilo Hattie performs―"Sweet Leilani" sung at open and close of the program (1950s)   8-14C

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