Hootenanny - Recordings

Recordings

• Surfin' Hootenanny is a surf pop/rock song written by Lee Hazlewood (tune) and Al Casey, and performed by Al Casey with The K-C-Ettes (aka The Blossoms). It opens the Al Casey's 1963. album Surfin' Hootenanny (issued as LP record by Sundazed Music Inc.). The song re-appeared in 1996. (in remastered version) as track 15 of Cowabunga! Set 2: Big Waves (1963.) compilation. Cowabunga! Set 2: Big Waves (1963.) is a second disc from Rhino Records' Cowabunga! The Surf Box 4 CD set compilation that contains most famous songs from the four-decade long history of surf music.

• Eels released an album titled Shootenanny!

• The rock and roll band The Replacements released their second album in 1983, entitled Hootenanny on Twin/Tone Records (see Hootenanny (album)).

• The band Weezer had a Hootenanny tour in 2008 which allowed fans to play songs with the band.

• The New Zealand rock band HLAH released a single entitled Hootenanny (which also appears on their 1996 album Double Your Strength, Improve Your Health, & Lengthen Your Life on the Wildside Records label) in 1997.

• A song called We Are Having a Hootenanny appears on The Magnetic Fields's 2010 album Realism.

• The album The Repercussions of Angelic Behavior by Rieflin, Gunn and Fripp contains a track entitled Hootenanny At The Pink Pussycat Cafe.

• Reggae legends The Wailers recorded a song called "Hoot Nanny Hoot", sung by Peter Tosh available on Peter Tosh's cd "The Toughest".

• Swedish sixties Folk band "Hootenanny Singers" included Björn Ulvaeus, who later was a member of ABBA.

• Belgian band Too Much and the White Nots released an album called "Hootenanny" in 2011.