The History Of Country Music 05 Hank Williams
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- Here's the fifth part of this tour through Country music's past. Now it's Hank Williams. Plenty of this stuff already on my channel, but you can never get enough of good ol' Hank!
Hank literally poured his heart into his songs - one of the greatest to do it EVER!
This guy wrote 167 songs and recorded over 100 of them in 18 months with 12 going to No. 1.
The greatest, not one of the greatest
My goodness, I don't know about anyone else but I sure think his grandson, Hank William's, III looks a lot like his grandfather!
I think so too.
Totally. A clone. His voice is also much the same.
Two of his best are "Your Cheatin Heart", and "Cold Cold Heart", he has such a unique voice, the best country singer of all time.
When he wrote cold cold heart he must have new my ex wife . she was every thing in that song that he said.
Hank was the greatest singer,songwriter the world has ever seen thank you Hank for sharing your voice with us.
Thank you for saying that .
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The greatest country artist of all time !
Funny, Hank died in West Virginia, whoever filmed the opening scene in the desert. I reckon they have never been to West Virginia's green hills and mountains.
VA24541 I was thinking the same thing.
Just like Dukes of Hazzard
VA24541 ...they were trying to protray the loneliness of the road...
Just like movies supposedly in Texas,they ALWAYS show a desert when only far west Texas has deserts the rest is green and humid.All those old westerns that were supposed to be in Texas were filmed in California and Arizona, the real west.Texas is the south.
Apparently not
Merle Haggard was the greatest in my generation. But even Merle has to take a back seat to the greatest of all-time-Hank Williams Sr. Just my opinion.
Agreed'''
Rick Willis you’re right and I’m sure Merle would agree
@Jane Marsee One unknowingly to him, then demonic led life. I know; I see my own past drawn up and carried away with the power of the unseen.
Yea love em both but its not close
Hank Williams was handsome and a great Talented Entertainer. A good Man. What a shame that he was a binge drinker with a painful back. I really appreciate his music now. It is so sad that he died so young.
he had a quack doctor, Toby Marshall who gave him drugs, Marshall was a phony and his medical errors hastened Hank's death
To be specific, his driver stopped at a filling station in Oak Hill, West Virginia. About 10 miles from Beckley, West Virginia. He found Hank was unresponsive and he took him to the hospital in Oak Hill, about a block away. The filling station was torn down a couple of years ago. The hospital is still there. I live near Beckley.
Beautiful country over yonder. Spent a few falls just north of Beckley. Back when the Alpaca boom was roaring
he started the faithful trip that night out of a famous hotel in downtown knoxville tn. It still stands. the dope was probably bought in big orange country.
People Still can't get enough of that ole uneducated country backslider. Long live Hank Williams.
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Hank lived hard, used a quack doctor, and it's a miracle he did so many great songs
He was in pain all his life from spina bifida.... beyond great......greatest!!
Not just spina bifida, but spina bifida occulta, where part of the spine isn't fully covered. It's caused by a lack of folic acid during pregnancy, so it isn't seen much in the developed world any more. Surgery is available today, but back then for a poor boy? Probably not. So those who call him an alcoholic or drug addict aren't really being fair to him. He was in continual, terrible pain, and medicating himself was the only way he could function.
Gail Lofdahl Thanks for that. I knew he was in great pain and am in awe of what he accomplished during a relatively short life!
What a blessing he was to the world of music!!
@@Gail1Marie Your comment is right on the money.That kind of pain would drive anybody to drink...But he was the best and will never be replaced. Rest in Peace..Hank Williams
Tears for this man😢no one knew how to help him. Poverty produces the most gifted stars or talented writers!💥✌🏼🎸🎶❤️😎💎
Still so sadly missed today . Hank The Boss .R.I.P
Love this. Thanks so much for sharing it. An amazing documentary on the life of Hank Williams Sr. Priceless.
Hank you will never be forgotten.....My Mom now has a front seat up in Heaven listening to your fabulous voice and songs...
the Hank Williams story..so young..you could feel his pain through his music..when you think you know. then more.to learn..great .true life story.
This was my favorite singer since 1955..
There was Hank Williams, then everyone else.
without jimmie rogers none of this would exist
Don't forget about the Carter Family.
Jimmy built the motor hank made it run.
Hank is the greates country singer on the planet
Always Loved Hank as a child and still today. I can’t spell that back problem he had in his spine but I do know if he had a bad case of it he probably drank more to ease the pain. And that would turn you into a alcoholic. I never saw him but miss him dearly. We love you Hank great writer.
Simply the greatest of all time. For me, there’s Hank Williams, then there’s everyone else.
I grew up listening to all this music. My dad loved it. I was a Rock and roller. Now I find myself not only listening to this music but actually playing it on guitar.
it's amazing that this video shows the silver dollar in my hometown it is were Hank Williams carved out his name in the bar it also shows Hondo tx that is around 30 miles away
If Heaven is what I think it will be Hank Williams will sing a song for me he touches me in a way nobody else ever has or ever will
Hank was vastly superior to Roy Acuff. Can´t stand listening to that man.
Hank in addition to Roy Acuff, Rufus Payne (Teetot), Gospel Music and Ernest Tubb had one more influence not mentioned. Jimmie Rodgers (the Singing Brakeman).
And can't forget old Emmett Miller!
I saw the light, great song...
29 years old.
Dang.
Hank was the first super star..without him and his music I don't think there would have ever been rock & roll...he is the Messiah!!!
Y'all are some of the most self centered sob. Hank made every one of ya. He was and still is the king of the poor white mans blues. And define of all country music. Up to date.
Hank the 3rd looks just like hank sr
All the people on here hating on Hank Jr and Hank lll are the same people who would have hated Hank sr. If they were the same age they are now in the 40's
Might not have been well educated!!!! The man definitely had a God given talent!!! He could put emotions n word's like nobody!!! Hank was a very warm hearted man!!! Hanks road was not a easy one!!!Hank Williams absolutely the best ever!!!!
The man was my father and Chet Atkins favorite singer. They would listen to him on the GRAND OLE OPERA.
I was born after hank died but it would be years before I knew he was gone before I arrived. Love hank
Yeah I think it wasn't a heart attack that killed him ....it was heartbreak...tortured soul no doubt.. he was a shining star that burned out too soon...
Glenn Weeks I’m sure the morphine and booze helped🤷♀️. Very sad.
He can sing real good
The BBC has the best Hank Williams documentary that I have ever seen.
George Jones was the greatest country singer, and proved it for decades longer, but Hank was a seminal figure and without peer as a songwriter.
George Jones had a good voice. Willy Nelson wrote good songs
Hank Williams was the best singer and song writer
The thing about im so lonesome I could cry is how many people sing it wrong. if you listen you will hear (have you ever seen a robin weep when leaves begin to die like me hes lost the will to live im so lonesome I could cry.) it seems to change the whole song. at least it did for me when I first caught the real words Hank was singing. I was about 9 years old then. Hank will always be the best of them all.
You're right...I've noticed that since I was about 14 (I'm 61 now). I think the copyrighted words were "That means he's lost the will to live", but I think Hank changed them when he recorded it. It makes a world of difference. I think he probably wished he'd have written it that way in the first place. "Like me, he's lost the will to live" is a much more intimate and personal lyric. That's the way I sing it.
I heard Hanks 1949 recording when I was a teenager many years ago, and it made a deep impression on me. Especially the line "like me he's lost the will to live". I often wondered why the words have changed.
douglasd53 Hank didn't actually write the song. The song was written by a gentleman named Paul Gilley from a small town in eastern Kentucky. Mr. Gilley wrote several Hank Sr. songs but, he sold them to Hank so he didn't receive a writers credit for them. Perhaps that is where the lyrics changed. I should add that nobody could've ever sung them like Hank Williams, he's the gold standard by which ALL country music singers are judged!!!
wingnut4two You got that right. but I don't think they are judging them hard anymore.
I agree, and that's a shame...
Listening to ole Hank all day today, 01/01-Rest in Peace, Mr. Williams, much respect and love to ya.
Actually saw him live back in the early 50's, he was right down the road from where my fathers lived and where I grew up. He was at the old Sunset Park, in Jennersville, Pennsylvania. Back in those days, Sunset Park, was almost like the Grand Old Oprey.
There is a CD available that has a recording of that very concert. It's called The Lost Concerts.
Wow! You are one lucky man to have heard a Hank Williams show live.
My favorite is, Settin' the woods on fire.
Me too. The words are great. I can see it visually.
I grew up with Hank on the radio.😢😢😢
To me there's Hank there's Patsy there's Johnny Cash and then there's e everyone else
The king of country music 👏🏻🤠
After watching these videos of Hank Williams it appears to me that he was given too much pain medicine for his ruptured disk in his back which caused him to OD just as with Michael Jackson. The doctor was never prosecuted. I believe he was murdered. He was on his way to Canton Ohio to do a show there and after that chances were that he was going to be hired back at the Grand Ole Opry or at least that's what they told him.
Spina bifida occulta, not a ruptured disk. It's a birth defect caused by lack of folic acid in pregnancy; part of his spine was actually exposed. He was in terrible pain his entire life. If he'd been born today, he might've been operated on as a child. But back then, his family couldn't have afforded it (even if the surgery existed). He was self-medicating for pain, not just to feed an addiction to morphine or alcohol.
I have 150 songs of his, enjoying his voice quiet often, very blessed!
Everything about Hank fits his personality Alcoholic, Drifter, Lonely, Just like the Blacks when they invented The Blues as an escape from their oppressed lives by Greedy uncaring WHITES YES Hank had it tough he was no University Boy or educated White pretending to be a Hill Billy yes he met Rufus Pain the black blues street singer and that was the style that influenced him
Hank Sr, then Elvis
imagrandpa no...frank sinatra. Before any of these men we love. There was frank...I’ve heard before Elvis there was nothing. No...before frank Sinatra there was nothing!!!!
hank williams wonderful man, greatest county singer ever. his songs brings tears to your eyes. fell good kind of country music, never will be music like this.
You lost me when you drove a Cadillac through the California desert and tried to tell me it was W VA !
A beautiful song! By ol'e Hank...
It seems people don’t acknowledge his severe health problems with his back. That’s what started the snowball down the hill with alcohol & drugs. Anyone in chronic pain knows how bad it can be. To accomplish what he did in spite of all is amazing. Such a sad story.
Hank is who they fashioned Woody after ;) So cute
Hank is who every single country singer has tried to fashion themselves after.
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@@myrtlewallace9150 Hi
I always wanted to ask God if Hank Williams never died at age 29 will he ever keep baby girl and stay married to Billy Jean and be happy.
Perfect marriage of artist,timing,and the public searching,all coming together.And the icing was an early death,that sealed the legend.
christ, steve earle looks really young here
Who could say that love as much as life did not kill Hank......not a heart attack , but heartbreak?
Modern medical history cannot understand what the mind can do to the body in times when all else is lost to a basic human soul.
Jimmyrodgers
Amen
Absolutely heartBREAK
Wasn't it an overdose that killed him? I can sure understand if it is, given the amount of pain he was in.
Hank Williams a genius cut short in his prime. His songs are the perfect mix of Joy, Pain, angst and heartbreak, in Scotland where I grew up Hank is a mythical figure, like some country and western elemental who’s whoops and whines echo as loudly today as they did in the past. When they build the mt Rushmore of rock royalty Hanks face will be carved there.✌️
Interesting that Hank"s legend reached all the way to Scotland! Thanks for sharing.
@@lauraphillips8593 ... scots & the rural south usa have a very deep connection. most poor whites in the south were of scot irish lineage. the scots were brought over by the brits as grunt & slave labor in the south. the scots resented that & hated the high class strata of anglo aristocracy pre revl war. its why many of them were the first to go to the applach & live in the present nc/tenn/va border areas. the hills were also more like their homeland. words like yonder came directly from scotland. when boone opened up the appl trail thru the cumberland gap many of them move up into east tenn., ky & missouri. then when the revl war started they almost all fought against the brits. its one of the reasons military & fierce indiv indepedence (state rights) is a big thing in the south. by the time of the civil war their descendents were called hillbillies & lived mainly in the appalch & some in the ohio valley. interestingly enough when the civil war broke out, most of e tenn fought for the union b/c of their scot lineage & not embracing slavery. lincoln himself was born in the hills of ky.... of course they carried over scot traditions into music. bluegrass is deeply scottish at its roots. if you mix those influences w/ blues of the delta (wh/ hank did) & jazz of new orleans then you had the genesis of rock. hank was in the incubator of all of that.
Bugga that tee tock......
Hank 's Heart was in the right place ...
You can tell by the word's he wrote ..!
A GOOD LITTLE HISTORY HERE.
George Jones is greater than Hank Williams, D Storm? You're joking. For his sheer raw power, for poetry and unpredictability and musical intelligence, Williams draws circles around Jones. Jones is cloyingly self-pitying and more often than not banal. I gag on his drippy stuff.
George was a good friend of Hanks and he was good but all around Hank was the greatest.
+blacksheep624 George Jones and Hank Williams were not friends. Jones only met Hank one time, when Jones was 14. Hank stopped by the "Eddie And Pearl" show that Jones worked on when he was a kid. Pearl asked Jones to play lead guitar behind Hank, Jones was so nervous he didn't play a note. The story is in Jones' autobiography "I Lived To Tell It All." Jones was in the Marines stationed in California on Jan. 1, 1953, the day Hank died. But no, they were not friends and only met that one time, when Jones was 14.
judex33- George Jones has his place among the great Country Music entertainers!!!
12 million people wanting to talk about music history. Why does life make me feel like I should explain my views about music too. We will always have something different to say; And Lord, the arguments will follow. Music is just something you like. And if you take up playing it, you play it. Some people go to college for music other just play as they do. HUMANITY goes through periods of changes, from riding horses to giving-up the horse for an automobile. Some people get paid well. Some people want to forget about their hard day at work ... others just want to escape the low-down life they have. Some people get rich. It is just one big mix of people crossing paths. Humanity likes music and different types of music became developed, from CLASSICAL, to JAZZ, to COUNTY, to ROCK, etc. Choose your poison ... Songs seem to be used as weapons to demonstrate or tell a friend off. Some songs are about GOOD things. Here I am writing again. Well, I guess I'll write when I write. I pray people understand one day that: Horses cows birds etc. eat what they eat. Some get sick, some get inspired. Human Beings feel they can reason what to eat and drink, and we place conditions on it. Well life is getting better, over time, that is to say: Just 100 years ago we did not have bathrooms and electric, but to day we have plumbing, which makes life healthier and humanity is less likely to get sick. However pay has always been total CRAP. The only measure to show life is improving is to show we have toilets today ... what a mess. AMEN
he must have been the best song writer /singer of all time
Corporalhenshaw, I greatly enjoy these documentaries you take the time to post. Is there a reason why all the episodes are not available on mobile platforms (iPhone, Apple TV) ? It would be great if you could. Thank you.
I think that it depends on the various copyright agreements in force.
r.i.p hank Williams💯
How do you feel about the English actor Tom Hiddleston playing Hank Williams in the upcoming movie "I Saw The Light".
as long as he's good and they get the story right...
ladydruyear I thought Tom Hiddleston did an amazing job given the fact that he's British. no one can ever replicate the great Hank Williams.
I thought he was amazing as well.
ladydruyear
Very disappointed. Gimme George Hamilton
Very strange having the British play our people. Haven't seen it though. loved George Hamilton too.
I did not like his songs, my dad played him so many times on the record player. A kid will not understand his music, the words he sang. Boy did my opinion change when I grew up. He wrote some of the best songs ever. So sad his life was cut short at a young age.
Not sure if Audrey really loved him, but then, it's hard to love a drinker.
you do understand Audrey who HELPED hank Williams drink himself to death was a drunk also do you and died from it ????what a dumbass
The man was drinking and using morphine to control the pain from spina bifida occulta -- give the man a break already!
The music business was embarrassed by his hillbilly sound? Where does that assumption come from? His sound was nothing to be ashamed of.
Hanks hillbilly music was out of style after 1956 when country music changed towards a pop sound. Country artists changed their cowboy hats for tuxedos and added pop choruses to their music. Real country music almost died out in the late 1950s and Hank represented everything that the new pop-country singers were trying to move away from. The country music charts in the late 1950s was dominated by Jim Reeves and Eddy Arnolds popcountry ballads, their music was the opposite of Hank Williams raw country sound.
The powers of country music wanted to pretend they weren’t country or drank whiskey and take pills and have sex, all the things they sang about and fired Hank for being all of that and writing about it. Hank was a genius type person like Mozart. Or Shakespeare.
Hanks Cold Cold Heart was the first song I learned. Now all of these people talking about Hank like he’s the corner stone, but yet none today write or sing about things he did. Today’s artists are shallow as a country stream. Actually a dry creek bed.
merci beaucoup jadore je danse le country
If I enter Heaven I want saying Peter to say come on you're just in time to hear Henry Thoreau speak I'm going to sit you at the table with Humphrey Bogart Babe Ruth and Hank Williams
1 of my favorites is MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS I had a nosey neighbor, i would play it from my car with all the doors and trunk open! Mr. Pervert got the message. I actually caught him looking in my window with binoculars. Jerk, he moved eventually, because he burned all his bridges and his handful of friends
What year was this series broadcast? Is it available on DVD?
The series is called Lost Highway: The Story Of Country Music and it was broadcast on the BBC in England in 2003.The series used to be on eBay, but isn't anymore. This website claims to sell it www.ioffer.com/i/lost-highway-the-story-of-country-music-4-dvd-519775277
They talk SHIT about his alcoholism and drug 💉 use. What about the musicians of today? They are idolized after the O.D. So WTF. He was a DAMNED good artist ALL the way around!!!
Hank had a bad back.......DUH
Please tell us the real founder of country music,we'all and y'all know black are the founder and inventor of country music
They never said anything about the greatest song that he ever sang, the one that is engraved on his monument in Montgomery Alabama where I live.
Been up on that hill more than once..am I wrong when I say there's just something about that place...I've visited many cemetary's but I have never felt ANYTHING like being on that hill...RIP Hank...
Should have just got Hank 3 to play his grandad at the start
Hank Sr. & Jr r great Hank 3 is very good
Speaking about 3, he is the image of Sr.
Hank jr is a disgusting person
Hank three finally said , what l told my friends that Hanks song move it on over,was the first Rock in roll song. Melody was just like rock a round the clock, by Bill Haily and the comets. Ten years before Bill did it.
That combination of country and blues in missing in country music today. Hank's son and grandson don't have it either.
But they have them driving through the Arizona desert. Doesn't look like the route to Canton, Ohio.
Can't beat ET
I never read about the actual physical pain he was in. Can you imagine being in chronic back pain and the only way for you to work is to ride in a car, just a ball of inflammation and pain. Damn right Nashville abandoned him and if the truth be known they hated him, they hate secretly what we are. These stupid people think he was singing about life when in reality he like everyone else in the south was so poor that they sure identified better with death. I feel like the BBC has missed a few things about the south in it's portrayal in this wonderful documentary.
agree
he had everything going against him --poverty, constant pain, 8th grade education, and alcoholic in adulthood, and divorce, two marriages, fired from the Opry and dies on the road
Where's the story of Hank Williams--The Show He Never Gave?
Those white Alabama churches didn't go in for gospel. I guess he heard that from Rufus.
3:51 on this video... Ever hear of Ernest Tubb ?? he's before Hank Williams
All the rap crazy rock music will pass hank will be nb 1 forever in music period
One of the greatest!!
Most everyone else on the Opry was drinking also but they did show up and perform.
Hank was in Sun Records in those latter days. As was Pressley, and so many others I cannot any longer vouch to these days. I was there, and I am willing to say that the movie Cadillac Records was a mighty fine bit of history.
I was a very young recording student, which was not picked up by the story.
I am now 57 yo. It seems all past history,,,,,,,,,,and yet.
msattler111 Hank never sang on Sun Records and if you are 57 you never saw Hank live you were too young in fact your whole story seems muddled English
Peter Wood-Jenkins Yeah, well..... That's what happens when you're halfway through a bottle of whiskey and timelines and one's fantasies get away from you..............
+msattler111 Hank started out with Sterling Records and ended up with MGM Records.
Hile Smith ,
msattler111 okay. this post is from two yrs ago, and I was 59 yrs old two yrs ago, so I definitely know that msattler111 could not have seen Hank at Sun Studios. Hank died 3 years before I was born. Now, with Sun Records being started in 1950, I guess that it's possible that Hank might have paid them a visitin Memphis, but as far as I know, Hank recorded only on the Sterling and MGM labels.
Hank Williams died 12 1/2 days after I was born.
The rest of this, not available on.mobile. Dam. Brilliant though