Hayloft Hoedown

Hayloft Hoedown was an early American country music program on local, and then national, radio and television from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The show began in December 1944 as a live radio show from Town Hall on WFIL-AM, and was picked up by ABC Radio in 1945.

WFIL-TV produced a TV version for ABC-TV, which carried the show from July 10September 16, 1948, on Saturday nights from 99:30 p.m. Eastern Time. The program, one of the first on ABC, was televised from Town Hall in Center City. It included square dancing, singing yodeling and comedy routinesand was hosted by Jack Steck w/ Brothers Elmer and "Pancake" Pete Newman, who held summer shows and rodeos at their Sleepy Hollow Ranch near Quakertown, Pennsylvania, and headed the Sleepy Hollow Ranch Gang. The Murray Sisters were the brothers' wives. The cast included:

Louisville, Kentucky program

Hayloft Hoedown was also the name of a long-running local program on WHAS-TV in Louisville, Kentucky from 19511969, which was revived briefly on WLKY-TV in 1971.

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