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Cajun Baby (lyrics by Williams; music composed by Hank Williams, Jr.) Cajun Baby Blues (co-written with Jimmy Fields) California Zephyr; Calling You; Coeur Brise (co-written with William Lamothe) Cold, Cold Heart; Come a Runnin' (co-written with Jimmy Fields) Countryfied; Cowboys Don't Cry (lyrics by Williams, music composed by Mickey Newbury)
The footage of Hank Sr. was a digitally modified kinescope of a 1952 performance of "Hey, Good Lookin'" on the Kate Smith Evening Hour. The editing team made several hundred minute tweaks to lay a new mouth (that of an actor dressed like Hank, Sr.) over the mouth of the original Hank. What now seems quaint was at the time quite groundbreaking.
Their son, Randall Hank Williams (now known as Hank Williams Jr.), was born on May 26, 1949. [94] The marriage was always turbulent and rapidly disintegrated, [ 95 ] and Williams developed serious problems with alcohol, morphine, and other painkillers prescribed for him to ease the severe back pain caused by his spina bifida occulta . [ 96 ]
According to Colin Escott's 2004 book: Hank Williams: A Biography, the inspiration for the song came from the title to a different song Williams spotted on a list of forthcoming MGM record releases. The song was recorded on August 30, 1949, at Herzog Studio in Cincinnati, Ohio.
In addition, Williams originally had a couplet mentioning a Ford automobile ("Me an' my baby, we got a Ford/Now we change the gears from the running board") and Rose demanded that, if Williams did record it, the reference be dropped because if Hank endorsed Ford, "then deejays sponsored by GM, Chrysler, and Studebaker wouldn't spin his record."
Williams adapted the melody for the song from T. Texas Tyler's 1945 recording of "You'll Still Be in My Heart," written by Ted West in 1943. [4]In the Williams episode of American Masters, country music historian Colin Escott states that Williams was moved to write the song after visiting his wife Audrey in the hospital, who was suffering from an infection brought on by an abortion she had ...
Hank Williams, Sr. released a cover version in 1949. In a history given by the current Chuck Wagon Gang, their recording of "I'll Fly Away" is described as the "first commercially licensed" release. [12] Their recording appears to have had two releases on Columbia, first as a B-side in 1949, then as an A-side in 1950.
"Hey, Good Lookin'" is a 1951 song written and recorded by Hank Williams, and his version was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2001. [4] In 2003, CMT voted the Hank Williams version No. 19 on CMT's 100 Greatest Songs of Country Music. Since its original 1951 recording it has been covered by a variety of artists.