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  1. "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" is a song written and recorded by #American #countryMusic singer-songwriter #HankWilliams in 1949. The song has been #covered by a wide range of musicians.
    youtube.com/watch?v=VqfisHUtWOA

  2. "Jambalaya (On the Bayou)" is a song written and recorded by American #countryMusic singer #HankWilliams that was first released in July 1952. It is Williams' most recorded song. Named for a #Creole and #CajunDish, #jambalaya, it spawned numerous recordings and has since achieved popularity in several different music genres. In 2002, the 1952 Hank Williams recording of the song on #MGMRecords was inducted into the #GrammyHallOfFame.
    youtube.com/watch?v=KT0jTZAiN-g

  3. "Take These Chains from My Heart" is a song by #HankWilliams. It was written by #FredRose and #HyHeath and was recorded at Williams' final recording session on September 23, 1952, in #Nashville. The song has been widely praised; Williams' biographer #ColinEscott deems it "perhaps the best song [Rose] ever presented to Hank... It was one of the very few songs that sounded somewhat similar to a Hank Williams song." Williams is backed by #TommyJackson (fiddle).
    youtube.com/watch?v=9QvVT4V2pxs

  4. "Your Cheatin' Heart" is a song written and recorded by #countryMusic singer-songwriter #HankWilliams in 1952. It is regarded as one of country's most important #standards. Williams was inspired to write the song while driving with his fiancée from #NashvilleTennessee, to #ShreveportLouisiana. After describing his first wife #AudreySheppard as a "cheatin' heart", in minutes he dictated the lyrics to #BillieJeanJones. Produced by #FredRose.
    youtube.com/watch?v=2tiGG45ge9g

  5. On the 21st of January 1987: Second Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees: The Coasters; Eddie Cochran; #BoDiddley; #ArethaFranklin; #MarvinGaye; #BillHaley; #BBKing; Clyde McPhatter; #RickyNelson; #RoyOrbison; #CarlPerkins; #SmokeyRobinson; Joe Turner; #MuddyWaters; #JackieWilson; #LouisJordan; #TBoneWalker; #HankWilliams; Leonard Chess; Ahmet Ertegun; Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller; and Jerry Wexler.

  6. "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" is a song written and recorded by #American #countryMusic singer-songwriter #HankWilliams in 1949. The song has been #covered by a wide range of musicians.
    youtube.com/watch?v=VqfisHUtWOA

  7. #OnThisDay in 1953, #HankWilliams, American #countrysinger-#songwriter ("Cold Cold Heart"; "Hey, Good Lookin'"; "Your Cheatin' Heart"), died of an alcohol and painkiller fueled #heartattack at 29.
    #RIP 🪦

  8. 1/1/1953 - Hank Williams died in the back of a car driven by Charles Carr en route to a concert in Canton, OH. At around midnight on 1/1/1953, when the 2 crossed the Tennessee state line and arrived in Bristol, Virginia, Carr stopped at a small all-night restaurant & asked Williams if he wanted to eat. Williams said he did not, & those are believed to be his last words. Carr later drove on until he stopped for fuel at a gas station in Oak Hill, West Virginia, where he realized that Williams had been dead for so long that rigor mortis had already set in. The station's owner called the local police chief. In Williams' Cadillac, the police found some empty beer cans & unfinished handwritten lyrics. Dr. Ivan Malinin performed the autopsy at the Tyree Funeral House. He found hemorrhages in the heart & neck and pronounced the cause of death as "insufficiency of the right ventricle of the heart". He also wrote that Williams had been severely beaten & kicked in the groin recently (during a fight in a Montgomery bar a few days earlier), & local magistrate Virgil F. Lyons ordered an inquest into Williams' death concerning a welt that was visible on his head. That evening, when the announcer in Canton announced Williams' death to the gathered crowd, they started laughing because they thought it was just another excuse.

    #HankWilliams

  9. "Your Cheatin' Heart" is a song written and recorded by #countryMusic singer-songwriter #HankWilliams in 1952. It is regarded as one of country's most important #standards. Williams was inspired to write the song while driving with his fiancée from #NashvilleTennessee, to #ShreveportLouisiana. After describing his first wife #AudreySheppard as a "cheatin' heart", in minutes he dictated the lyrics to #BillieJeanJones. Produced by #FredRose.
    youtube.com/watch?v=wgCDIA-xpaQ

  10. "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" is a song written and recorded by #American #countryMusic singer-songwriter #HankWilliams in 1949. The song has been #covered by a wide range of musicians.
    youtube.com/watch?v=fwBPY16UrKU

  11. "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" is a song written and recorded by #American #countryMusic singer-songwriter #HankWilliams in 1949. The song has been #covered by a wide range of musicians.
    youtube.com/watch?v=IDDCXfp9ylY