People began using the word when Pete & Woody started calling their rent parties at Almanac House "hootenannies". That would have been the late '40s and early '50's. The word was already in use, even if it came out of Sheriff Tex's mouth for the first time. It sounds like it goes back even further then Tex though and perhaps he had appropriated it for his own use. I don't think anyone could fully claim ownership.


Shindig was the program that replaced Hooteanny on ABC>