Posted on 10/09/2019 1:29:34 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda
The Hank Williams Story
Lots of rare footage in this fantastic film about the life of Hank Williams. Worth watching just for the duets between Hank and Kate Smith and Hank and Anita Carter.
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Hank was featured in Ken Burns’ “Country Music” miniseries. He looked frail, thin and unhealthy in so many of the photos. His facial skin looked like dress pattern tissue—thin and wrinkly, pale.
I was stunned to learn that he was only 29 years old when he died—he looked like a sickly man in his forties. Like Elvis and Michael Jackson, he was surrounded by enablers and had a fake doctor who gave him all kinds of dangerous drugs.
I remember as a kid hearing my dad playing his Hank Williams records. I would look at the album covers, and there’s no way I would have thought Hank was 29 when he died. I know people looked older back then, after going through the depression and WW2, but Hank really looked like he’d been through the wringer. I remember as a kid going and seeing the George Hamilton biopic of Hank Wiiliams in the 60’s.
“You wrote Your Cheating Heart about a gal like my first ex wife. You moan the blues for me and for you. Hank Williams you wrote my life.”
Thank you Paul Craft and Moe Bandy for that tribute to Hank. And thank you for posting the documentary.
Yes, he suffered from spina bifida that caused him tremendous back pain and he drank to kill the pain, but the problem was he drank so much it damaged his heart and then he got into the pain pills and his heart couldn’t handle it and he died in the back seat of a car. I never even heard of him if you can believe it until last month. A friend of mine turned me on to him and I cannot get enough of this guy, every freakin’ song is amazing. I heard of songs before like “Hey good lookin” and “Your cheatin heart” but I always thought they were songs from the 1800s or something. The guy was an amazing writer and singer.
Another thing I love about him is he always dressed impeccable. He always performed with these awesome suits, never dressed like a bum which so many performers today do which I see as an insult to the audience.
tru dat.
move it on over.
Yes and thanks for mentioning that Country music miniseries, I’ll check it out.
Bump.
Anita Carter - pretty girl, amazing voice - ethereal:
Ring Of Fire - Anita Carter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlWGsaorj6U
He’s buried in a beautiful grave in Oakwood Cemetery in Montgomery Alabama. His grave plays Your Cheatin Heart when you go by. I kid you not. The car he died in is in the downtown museum.
Move it on over I always thought was George Thorogood song lol. HW’s version is a million times better though. That song I noticed has the same melody as “Rock around the clock”. Whoever wrote “Rock around the clock” ripped it off from Hank. The lyric “She changed the lock on my back door..” matches exactly with “When the clock strikes five, six or seven”
Yes! I looked it up, I couldn’t believe how big it was! Biggest tombstone I ever seen, I had no idea it plays Your cheatin heart though lol. I would love to go down there and check it out. I grew up in New York city and I was amazed how many people up here Hank influenced, Dion DiMucci for example from Dion and the Belmonts. Dion said Hank got him into music and when he was a teen he did a Hank Williams impersonation.
Wow that was awesome, 1962 as well...The year I was born. Good looking woman as well.
She was indeed quite the singer and woman. I’d say she was the most talented of the Carter Family - and that’s saying a good deal. Tho, you can’t beat Mother Maybelle on guitar.
He was a very talented entertainer. I was invited to a barbecue that was held at his grave this past spring. His family is buried with him.
“I never even heard of him if you can believe it until last month...”
Hank is the only person inducted into the CW Hall of Fame and the R&R Hall of Fame.
Always time to enjoy new (even if it’s older) music.
Parts of Country Muzic series o.k.. But Burns et. al. do not have a country soul. The series is like the elites holding their nose talking smarmy about the Deplorables.
Are you serious? AT his grave??
Yes. That’s actually an old fashioned thing when families would take picnic baskets to the graves of loved ones. His is in a particularly pretty section.
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