[1952] Hank Williams & Anita Carter (live) "I Can't Help It" [if I'm still in love with you]

YouTube ^ | Buck Brogan

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Introducing her sister, Anita Carter, is June Carter, then-future wife of the late Johnny Cash. 1952.

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There were several uploads of this video on YouTube, but this was the only one I came across that included the wonderful June Carter intro of her pretty (and shy) little sister Anita.

Hank Williams & Anita Carter (live) “I Can’t Help It” [if I’m still in love with you]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYhAs2kmTV4

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

Great music!

[Intolerant in NJ]

Hank Williams - the “Hillbilly Shakespeare” - just watched Ken Burns’ episode of “Country Music” about him - what a story - died in the back seat of his Cadillac zonked out on booze and drugs on New Years eve 1952 - really sad......

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died in the back seat of his Cadillac zonked out on booze and drugs on New Years eve 1952...

So he died about 8 months after this April of 1952 appearance.
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Hiram “Hank” Williams (September 17, 1923 – January 1, 1953)
—Wikipedia

“On April 23, 1952, Williams performed the song [I Can't Help It) on the Kate Smith Evening Hour along with Anita Carter, the youngest daughter of Ezra and Maybelle Carter and sister to June Carter Cash.”

https://classiccountrymusic.com/hank-williams-sings-duet-with-june-carters-sister-anita-carter-in-1952/

[Intolerant in NJ]

According to the Burns’ film, Williams was quite erratic in his performances during the last few years of his life - often forgetting the words of songs and occasionally not showing up for performances at all - once Minnie Pearle was assigned to “babysit” him between the first and second shows one evening so he didn’t wander off in between (she sang “I Saw the Light” to him to keep him occupied - he told her “Minnie, there ain’t no light for me”) - yet when he was away from the booze and drugs he still could produce amazing performances like the one you’ve posted......

[wfu_deacons]

My dad went to school with Anita outside Richmond.

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Nice!
She seemed to be really bashful, and really cute.
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Ina Anita Carter (March 31, 1933 – July 29, 1999), the youngest daughter of Ezra and Mother Maybelle Carter, was an American singer who experimented with several different types of music and played upright bass and guitar with her sisters Helen Carter and June Carter Cash and mother Maybelle Carter as The Carter Sisters and Mother Maybelle. ...”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Carter

[wfu_deacons]

Of the three sisters (I think there was three), he spoke most fondly of Anita.

[CalTexan]

Good old music from a thousand years ago...

[Fiji Hill]

I love how Hank Williams, as Luke the Drifter, took down Comrade Stalin.

No, No, Joe--Luke the Drifter (1950)

[Fiji Hill]

Note the similarity to "Rock Around the Clock"

Move it On Over--Hank Williams & His Drifting Cowboys (1947)

And that demands an answer!
Doghouse Boogie--Hawkshaw Hawkins (1948)

[Robwin]

Hank Williams: amazing voice, tortured soul.

[smalltownslick]

Anita was so beautiful and had such an angelic voice. By far my favorite female country singer, I would even put her one s tep above Patsy.

[smalltownslick]

Anita Carter Tulsa County
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PughDzjR6po

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Very nice!
Along the lines of Patsy Cline.

Thanks.

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No, No Joe - Hank Williams

Now look here Joe, quit acting smart
Stop being that old brazen sort
Don’t you go sellin’ this country short
No, no Joe

Just because you think you’ve found
The system that we know ain’t sound
Don’t you go throwin’ your weight around
No, no Joe

‘Cause the Kaiser tried it and Hitler tried it
Mussolini tried it, too
Now they’re all sittin’ around a fire and did you know something?
They’re saving a place for you

Now Joe you ought to get it clear
You can’t push folks around with fear
‘Cause we don’t scare easy over here
No, no Joe

What makes you do the things you do
You gettin’ folks mad at you
Don’t bite off more’n you can chew
No, no Joe

‘Cause you want a scrap that can’t win
You don’t know what you’re getting in
Don’t go around leading with your chin
No, No Joe

Now you got tanks, some fair size tanks
But you’re acting like a clown
‘Cause man we’ve got yanks, a mess of yanks
And you might get caught with your tanks down

Don’t go throwin’ out your chest
You’ll pop the buttons off your vest
You’re playing with a hornets’ nest
No, no Joe

You know, you think you’re somebody we should dread
Just because you’re seein’ red
You better get that foolishness out of your head
No, no Joe

And you might be itchin’ for a fight
Quit braggin’ about how your bear can bite
‘Cause you’re sitting on a keg of dynamite

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Anita Carter

Carter sisters

Anita's sister, June Carter, with husband Johnny Cash

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Must say again, that song is really nice! Just downloaded it.
I actually was barely familiar with her work. Will look for more and build a playlist to add to my general collection.

[cicero2k]

I first heard the Linda Ronstadt cover version of this and fell in love with her ability and the genre. I know, she’s whack but man the notes still echo in my brain.

[wfu_deacons]

Patsy Cline was from Winchester, VA. I think she had a beautiful voice. I knew some of her relatives in Shenandoah County. My dad’s favorite was Loretta Lynn.