[78-L] Weavers on Hootenanny label

[Cary Ginell]

Right around that same time, Texas Jim Lewis led a band called the Lone Star Cowboy in a session held for Decca on August 15, 1941. One of the songs was called "Hootin' Nannie Annie," which featured a contraption (kind of like what Spike Jones used in his band) that he called a "hootin' nanny," consisting of washboards, automobile horns, cowbells, fire bells, sirens, guns, etc. This song was issued on Decca DE-6001. This probably predates Seeger's estimation of the song's origins, so it probably goes back even further. Somewhere there was research done on the term but I can't put my finger on it and I'm heading out the door in a couple of minutes.

Cary Ginell

> From: soundthink at live.com
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 17:29:11 -0700
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Weavers on Hootenanny label
> 
> 
> 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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