Songs for 'Hootenany' set ????

Subject: Songs for 'Hootenanny' set ????
From: MickyMan
Date: 05 Apr 17 - 08:19 AM

I'm putting together a "Hootenanny" set to be sung in senior centers here in the USA/CT.   I need song suggestions from the early 60s, when crossover "folk songs" were true mainstream "hits". Nothing obscure. I'm hoping to get people in their 70s and 80s to sing along ... etc. Any ideas, Mudcatters?

Subject: RE: Songs for 'Hootenany' set ????
From: leeneia
Date: 05 Apr 17 - 11:14 AM

where have all the flowers gone
this land is your land
yellow bird
jamaica farewell
on top of old smokey
down in the valley

Look up Kingston Trio and see what you recognize.

Subject: RE: Songs for 'Hootenany' set ????
From: Stewart
Date: 05 Apr 17 - 06:22 PM

Hootenannies in Seattle

Hootenanny, Hootin' Annie,* Will You Dance with Me?

Cheers, S. in Seattle

Subject: RE: Songs for 'Hootenany' set ????
From: leeneia
Date: 06 Apr 17 - 12:51 AM

refresh

Subject: RE: Songs for 'Hootenany' set ????
From: leeneia
Date: 06 Apr 17 - 12:54 AM

I just had an idea. Go to YouTube, search for "Hootenanny TV show". Lots of promising material there.

Subject: RE: Songs for 'Hootenany' set ????
From: GUEST
Date: 06 Apr 17 - 09:45 AM

blowin' in the wind
Puff, the magic dragon

Subject: RE: Songs for 'Hootenany' set ????
From: Cool Beans
Date: 06 Apr 17 - 10:15 AM

My wife and I perform for seniors. We do the aforementioned Jamaica Farewell and This Land is Your Land. Surprisingly, a lot of seniors know Country Roads. We always get requests for Side By Side and My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean. This Little Light of Mine gets a lot of people singing along.

Subject: RE: Songs for 'Hootenany' set ????
From: MickyMan
Date: 06 Apr 17 - 11:49 AM

Thank you so much for all of these ideas!   (Very interesting history of the "hootenanny" term!
At this point, I think it would be best to keep to the early 60s songs that would show up on the classic "hootenanny" folk songs from that era.
Keep 'em coming, fellow folkies!

Subject: RE: Songs for 'Hootenany' set ????
From: Joe Offer
Date: 06 Apr 17 - 12:13 PM

It's a little more recent (1983), but Guy Clark's "Homegrown Tomatoes" is a real crowd pleaser. So are cowboy songs, and maybe a sea chantey or two.