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Thread #97991   Message #1938311
Posted By: Cool Beans
16-Jan-07 - 11:12 AM
Thread Name: Hootenanny (1960s TV show)
Subject: RE: Hootenanny (1960s TV show)
I'm sold. I watched "Hootenanny" in my teen years. My favorite little-known "Hootenanny" fact: The theme song lyrics--"We'll have a hootenanny, hootenanny Saturday night..."--were written by a fairly young Alfred Uhry. He won the Pulitzer Prize. Not for "Hotennany" but for "Driving Miss Daisy."
I interviewed Uhry a few years ago and we had the devil's own time trying to recall the second line of the theme song. Finally, he came up with it: "We'll raise the roof and the rafters with song."