The National Barn Dance was a former country music radio program broadcast in the early period of radio over the facilities of WLS (AM) in Chicago, Illinois. In many ways it was a precursor to many similar programs, in part because the clear channel signal of WLS was audible over most of the Midwest and even beyond in the late evening and nighttime hours, making much of the United States (and Canada) a potential audience and the program was well-received; thus it was very widely imitated.

One of the earlier imitators was another program produced by the same broadcaster, George Hay , the WSM Barn Dance out of Nashville, Tennessee, which has remained on the air from 1925 until the present, but which has been known since 1928 as the Grand Ole Opry. The "Barn Dance" was broadcast over WLS until 1960 when WLS changed its format to Top 40 Rock and Roll Music. It moved to station WGN where it continued until finally leaving the air in 1968.