The Old American Barn Dance

Not to be confused with ABC Barn Dance.

The Old American Barn Dance
Title screen
Format	Musical
Directed by	Fred A. Niles
Presented by	Bill Bailey
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	11
Production
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	22–25 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	DuMont
Picture format	Black-and-white 35mm film
Audio format	Monaural optical
Original run	July 5, 1953 (1953-07-05) – September 13, 1953 (1953-09-13)

The Old American Barn Dance is an American country music television series carried by the DuMont Television Network from July 5–September 13, 1953. The summer replacement program, hosted by Bill Bailey, aired on Sunday nights from 10:30–11 p.m. Eastern Time. It was filmed at Kling Studios, 639 N. Fairbank Court at Ohio Street, in Chicago, Illinois.

Performers included Tennessee Ernie Ford, Pee Wee King, the Candy Mountain Girls, the Chordmen, Merle Travis, Kenny Roberts, Johnny Bond, Homer and Jethro, Patsy Montana and the Kentucky Thoroughbreds.

In 1959, episodes were edited together with segments from Eddy Arnold Time and Jimmy Dean's Town and Country Time (a local Washington, DC program) and syndicated by producer Bernard L. Schubert under the title, Your Musical Jamboree.^[1]

Kling Studios

Bob Aaronberg, president, and Tyler Little, executive VP, put Fred A. Niles in charge of Kling Studios' new television unit. I Love Lucy was also filmed at Kling Studios. A William J. Brenner sofa designed by Glass was used on the living room set of the program during the 1952-53 season at Kling Studio and at its Charlie Chaplin Studio on LaBrea Avenue in Hollywood.

See also

• List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
• List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts

References

1. ^ Ira Gallen. "The Old American Barn Dance". http://www.tvdays.com/barndance.htm. Retrieved 2009-01-19. 

Bibliography

• David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004) ISBN 1-59213-245-6
• Alex McNeil, Total Television, Fourth edition (New York: Penguin Books, 1980) ISBN 0-14-024916-8
• Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows, Third edition (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964) ISBN 0-345-31864-1
• Ira Gallen. "The Old American Barn Dance". http://www.tvdays.com/barndance.htm. Retrieved 2009-01-19. 

External links

• The Old American Barn Dance background information
• The Old American Barn Dance at the Internet Archive
• The Old American Barn Dance at YouTube
• The Old American Barn Dance at the Internet Movie Database
• The Old American Barn Dance at TV.com
• DuMont historical website