"Hootenanny" was an American musical variety television show broadcast on ABC from April 1963 to

September 1964. I remember it because in our town there was a local talent show roughly based around the show. I remember three things about it One, Marshall and I performed together for the first time in public, he playing guitar and singing and me supplying the Jug-Head beat, tapping along on my Slingerland snare drum. Two, there was a little girl that was some kind of distraction for us, who sang and played an autoharp or something. Perhaps Marshall had a crush on her: Three, we had a Trini Lopez LP on Reprise records that we listened to with "Lemon Tree" on it I'm going to guess we played a Trini Lopez song,

Not too long after that, Marshall and I performed at Berkley Elementary school, at which our neighbor Dr. Rogers, was principal. I don't remember much about it other than it was "a thing" and after the talent show, we sat crossed legged on a gym floor to watch a 3 Stooges short."

This episode covers some early childhood music related to music and also ventures into the historical context of the time and how it impacted kids during that time. It also talks about the migration of rock radio from the AM to FM dial, touching briefly on adventures at WJR and the Fisher Building.