[78-L] Weavers on Hootenanny label

[Cary Ginell]

Even earlier than that. In his book "The Incompleat Folksinger," Seeger dates it back to the fall of 1941, when he and other itinerant folk singers were sharing a cooperative apartment known as Almanac House. 

"We got bookings on the subway circuit: five dollars here and ten dollars there. By working hard we just managed to keep body and soul together. On Sunday afternoons we'd hold open house. Thirty-five cents was charged at the door and we and friends would sing all afternoon. We called 'em 'Hootenannies.'"

Which is really interesting, because that means the word "hootenanny" is a synonym for a simple old-fashioned house rent party.

Cary Ginell

> Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 17:23:00 -0500
> From: bmcclung78 at gmail.com
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Weavers on Hootenanny label
> 
> I went on line and found Mr. Ginell's liner notes on a Naxos Pete Seeger
> cd.  Looks like this was the Weaver's first record and dates from 1949, a
> year before their Decca contract began.   One thing I find interesting is
> the use of the term Hootenanny which I always assumed came along a decade
> later.
> 
> On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Bill McClung <bmcclung78 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I'm in NYC this week and had a chance to stop by Howard Fischer's record
> > shop.  One of the records I found there was by the Weavers (Ronnie Gilbert,
> > Lee Hays, Fred Hellerman, and Peter Seeger) on the People's Artists
> > Hootenanny label.
> >
> > H-101-A   The Hammer Song
> > H-101-B   Banks of Marble
> >
> > Anyone have the date of this and were there other records on this label?
> > thanks
> >
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