Did the Hootenanny TV show every broadcast from Rutgers? I have a vauge memory of attending some kind of folk-group revue show at the old Rutgers gym on College Avenue around the time that the Hootenanny shows were being produced at different college venues. For some reason, I only remember one of the acts on the bill (the Tarriers ~ ?!), but there were several other groups and solo acts; if it wasn't an episode of this TV show, it was certainly the same type of event.

I have a much clearer memory of another folk concert at the Rutgers gym a year or two later, in 1965, the first time I saw Bob Dylan in person. This was very shortly before The Bob's controversial move to "go electric," and just before the release of the album "Bringin It All Back Home." He played exclusively solo and acoustic, but performed a number of unfamiliar new songs with an entirely new lyrical approach, very personal/apolitical/psychological, e.g., "Gates of Eden," "It's Alright Ma," "Mr. Tambourine Man." We didn't know exactly what was going to develop later that summer, but it was obvious Bob was up to something new and different.