| Hootenanny | |
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&sq=Google&lang=en&file=File:Hootenanny_(title_card).jpg) Opening title of show which aired October 12, 1963 | |
| Directed by | Garth Dietrick |
| Presented by | Jack Linkletter |
| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of episodes | 43 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 26-52 minutes |
| Original release | |
| Network | ABC |
| Release | April 6, 1963 – September 12, 1964 |
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Hootenanny was an American musical variety television show broadcast 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 Journeymen, The Limeliters, the Chad Mitchell Trio, The New Christy Minstrels, The Brothers Four, Ian & Sylvia, The Big 3, Hoyt Axton, Judy Collins, Johnny Cash, The Carter Family, Flatt & Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys, The Tarriers, Bud & Travis, Josh White, Josh White Jr., Leon Bibb, 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.
After two seasons, the shifting musical tastes of the era- heavily influenced by the British Invasion starting in 1964 - and a decline in the program's variety led to its effective replacement by Shindig!, a similar but more broadly-based and pop music oriented variety program.