The Old American Barn Dance [SEP] original network
The Old American Barn Dance
The Old American Barn Dance is an American country music television series carried by the DuMont Television Network from July 5 to September 13, 1953.
Production.
The summer replacement program, hosted by Bill Bailey, aired on Sunday nights from 10:30–11 p.m. Eastern Time. The series 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,
the "Jubilee" "first?".
The first (and first live) country music program on network television was "Village Barn", broadcast from 1948–50 by NBC from a New York City nightclub. From the late 1940s through the 1950s, the U.S. networks carried a handful of other country music shows, including "Hayloft Hoedown" and "ABC Barn Dance" (ABC); "Saturday Night Jamboree" (NBC); and "Windy City Jamboree" and "The Old American Barn Dance" (