His songs remain timeless.He reminds me so much of my Dad. I hope those two are in Hillbilly Heaven laughing and singing while Mom sits by them with some fresh baked cookies telling him, "Sing it again Hank!"
Pretty darn cool ! These greats really were sent from above to visit us all and leave us with timeless gifts. Please checkout rockabillygone all one word for rockabilly originals and oddball covers.
This fanatastic post shows just how good Country music once was. How sad it is, that Nashville has turned this once great music genre into the terrible soulless and false comercial dung heap that it now is. Hank was the real thing!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@Rooster09ism Boy you hit that nail right on the head. If you don't listen to the oldies, like Hank, George, or Loretta ,or pure Bluegrass music, you ain't looking at Country at all!!!
I saw Hank at the Ryman and at the Hayride, the Ryman during the summer was very hot, the Hayride during the summer was hot the air move around pretty good. In Tulsa Oklahoma I seen Hank in 1950, got Don Helms to sign my broken down Guitar and I never did learn to play it. Luke the Drifter and the Drifting Cowboys, I miss their music.
This weekend, hanging out with the fruit of my loom; my two boys, sons, men helped a lot to free parts of my doubtful mind and pieces of my cold, cold heart. Tell the people you love that you love them even though you have been showing them for years. It can't possibly hurt.
Hank Williams was the reason I got into Creative Writing Class in high school. And creative writting class was the reason I took a job in the fire department. I think I made a 'D'. Gotta love Mr. Williams though. Very hard to beat. Thanks for posting this jewel.
Hank had excellent enunciation when he sang. His words were always clear. Initial consonants were clean. Final Ts were tapped and ds sounded. Just because he was "Country", lots of people lose sight of his technique.
Am lucky enough to have some of his personal items as I was born in the same county and my folks knew him. One thing most folks forget is that he was a star for only 4 years, and still put out classic songs for the ages. He was a natural on stage and not only wrote heart songs but gospel as well. He really was the poor mans shakespear. As in the ending of a song he wrote for his Dad.....When I get to heaven to always remain, Ill listen for the whistle from the old log train. RIP Hank
Ol' Hank's guitar playing was always off key. He never had the correct tuning and the band members had to compensate for it. You can tell it in his voice and the music. But it worked for him!
Audrey got pregnant..had an abortion..Infection set in and she had to be hospitalized. Hank went to see her, took her flowers and candy, she gave him a cussing. He came home and wrote "COLD, COLD HEART". She was the inspiration for many of his songs. When they weren't fussing and fighting and Hank was sober. He couldn't write anything. When he would drink and they would fight like cats and dogs...The Hits would just roll out of him...True Story...
I guess I shouldn't be leaving so many comments, but I notice a slight off key in Hanks voice, then he works into the high parts. But it sounds haunting. I may be wrong, if so correct me. I thought maybe with his slight off key, which may be a bit lower than the music, allows him to transition into the highs better. I am sure it was natural to him!
I'm just blown away by this video. I've always loved Hank Williams music, and I have watched a few videos on YTB, but this is by far the best video I have seen of Hank. Don't know where you got it, but Thanks! Amazing!
@TheZagline Imitators are just that...They'll never be what they are trying to imitate... There may be some real good ones out there, but Nothin' can replace the real thing!!! Just like some one imitating you, or me, As good as they are they can't be another person!!!
ive known about the hanks for a little bt now and im just getting into hank lll and i like his shit. then this song was the first i heard sr sing and it is in detail my now seven yr. relashionship with my girl. fan for life. and for the record im a hxc and metal head never could get into radio country but im lovin the hanks so far.
I started hearing Hank's music on radio and record shortly after he died, and it has been very much with me ever since. It is a major regret for me that I never saw him in person and have never realized until recently that his visual stage presentation was as bogglingly good as everything else about his music. This makes sense when one considers the legacy of his popularity, and thank you Hank u tube posters for the gift of this awareness. If only there were more examples available.
I've had my music journey I've dipped into almost every style of music I mean it from the Beatles to Nirvana to Metal to Folk to Hip Hop , and I can just forget all of that shit, because Country to me is Pure it's Simple and It's Purely Simply Beautiful especially when Hank Williams shows us how it's DONE!
what is a reptoid? I love Hank more than the air I breath! great man the king of country. and i love the look on his face when he hits them high notes, he gives this little lady the love sick blues. THE HEART OF COUNTRY MUSIC WILL ALWAYS BEAT IN LUKE THE DRIFFTER.
@IGOROZKARSKY My grandma didn't write it the neighbor did and most singers do buy peoples songs and claim it as theres the family sold it to him, I love listening to hank williams he was a good songwriter and singer I wasn't saying he was a fake I don't remember him saying he wrote I was just sharing some family history I thought was interesting.
@PWTurner95 OK IF Hank didn't Write this HOW did He make Radio Shows singing it LONG before He died LONG before?, Also How do you explain this Video?, Or did He sing it in the back of His Cadillac? After he Died that night.. a LOT of songs are stolen but Hank Wrote this one better make some cookies with the Crisco story!,It didn't happen like that!.
I been a picker a LONG time and heard all of those I played for Johnny Cash BS stories.
Gator, "thanks" doesn't cover it... This is American history, and almost all of us wouldn't be able to see this if you hadn't posted it. You are keeping Hank Williams alive, and since he wasn't able to do that for himself, I'm in your debt.
My grandfather had many of Hank's songs on big old 78 RPM records, which he played on an old radio-record player--the record player part swung down from inside the radio.
I recently heard Hank's grandaughter sing at a place in Nre York City--she is good.
I saw the Grand Old Opry at the Ryman when I was 8 or so.
My grandfather had many of Hank's songs on big old 78 RPM records, which he played on an old radio-record player--the record player part swung down from inside the radio.
I recently heard Hank's grandaughter sing at a place in New York City--she is good.
I saw the Grand Old Opry at the Ryman when I was 8 or so.
Love this my daddy use to sing this and played the guitar...miss you daddy
GraceHoneyme 2 days ago
I consider the Williams Legacy (Sr/Jr) to be a National Treasure.
CuMelter 5 days ago
His songs remain timeless.He reminds me so much of my Dad. I hope those two are in Hillbilly Heaven laughing and singing while Mom sits by them with some fresh baked cookies telling him, "Sing it again Hank!"
marcygoosie 1 week ago
Hank is the great he is the HILLBILLY SHAKESPEARE Thomas Haverstock
haverstock1888 1 week ago 2
Pretty darn cool ! These greats really were sent from above to visit us all and leave us with timeless gifts. Please checkout rockabillygone all one word for rockabilly originals and oddball covers.
rockabillygone 1 week ago
Hank was the best....and STILL is the BEST....ever!!!!
Godskid66 1 week ago
wait that ray accuff?
MrGerardnl 1 week ago
good looking guy too
MyHeadintheClouds 2 weeks ago
fuckin awesome. love original hank.the whole family is amazing, hank lll is def his ghost
mgraybush1974 2 weeks ago
This fanatastic post shows just how good Country music once was. How sad it is, that Nashville has turned this once great music genre into the terrible soulless and false comercial dung heap that it now is. Hank was the real thing!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Rooster09ism 1 month ago 3
@Rooster09ism Boy you hit that nail right on the head. If you don't listen to the oldies, like Hank, George, or Loretta ,or pure Bluegrass music, you ain't looking at Country at all!!!
marcygoosie 1 week ago 2
@Rooster09ism Waylon talks about your feelings well! Check out "If ol Hank could only see us now"! It's tragic what Country Music has become!
aaaaa0000000000 1 week ago 3
@Rooster09ism Hank Williams, Sr. Is Definitely The True King Of Country !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
coywmoore 4 days ago
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live hard, die young.
hat of for you hank, youre the best. R.i.P
xp9674 1 month ago
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xp9674 1 month ago
I saw Hank at the Ryman and at the Hayride, the Ryman during the summer was very hot, the Hayride during the summer was hot the air move around pretty good. In Tulsa Oklahoma I seen Hank in 1950, got Don Helms to sign my broken down Guitar and I never did learn to play it. Luke the Drifter and the Drifting Cowboys, I miss their music.
ATSF1927 1 month ago
im a tribal member and me and my famely loves hank
starshouse1 1 month ago
Wow three dislikes, they must have had the volume turned off.
cw605 1 month ago
truly one of a kind, I just wish we could have had him longer.
AladdinRed 1 month ago
This weekend, hanging out with the fruit of my loom; my two boys, sons, men helped a lot to free parts of my doubtful mind and pieces of my cold, cold heart. Tell the people you love that you love them even though you have been showing them for years. It can't possibly hurt.
GeorgieWise 1 month ago 5
@GeorgieWise Great idea... and well put.
Gatorrock787 1 month ago
Dad. I still miss you every day. You were my inspiration and I wish you could see me now. Love you mate.
Wonderfuel1 1 month ago
Hank Williams was the reason I got into Creative Writing Class in high school. And creative writting class was the reason I took a job in the fire department. I think I made a 'D'. Gotta love Mr. Williams though. Very hard to beat. Thanks for posting this jewel.
PoppaBlue59 1 month ago
The real Americans, GOD BLESS USA
TheJasonking 1 month ago
Great song , I,d like £ for the times I have sung this ~ Arthur
arinvests 1 month ago
wow that was really good
Sylvanas17 1 month ago
Hank had excellent enunciation when he sang. His words were always clear. Initial consonants were clean. Final Ts were tapped and ds sounded. Just because he was "Country", lots of people lose sight of his technique.
John55son 1 month ago
thank you for this clip without the awfully corny music video!
aemuntean 1 month ago
hank is were the got the ideal for woody.
ike2729 2 months ago
hank reminds me of woody from toy story :p so awesome
shitfaced1312 2 months ago
The Real Thing!!
SpecsH 2 months ago
O_O WTH , THE BUTTOM IS SPARKLING!! :O
Herower 2 months ago
Holy crap, I think my heart skipped a beat on that closeup of Don Helms.
TiredOfTheSoupDuJour 3 months ago
ah...when country was country. wonderful
imamymay 3 months ago
Am lucky enough to have some of his personal items as I was born in the same county and my folks knew him. One thing most folks forget is that he was a star for only 4 years, and still put out classic songs for the ages. He was a natural on stage and not only wrote heart songs but gospel as well. He really was the poor mans shakespear. As in the ending of a song he wrote for his Dad.....When I get to heaven to always remain, Ill listen for the whistle from the old log train. RIP Hank
fishtank1209 3 months ago
Ol' Hank's guitar playing was always off key. He never had the correct tuning and the band members had to compensate for it. You can tell it in his voice and the music. But it worked for him!
TheZagline 3 months ago
Audrey got pregnant..had an abortion..Infection set in and she had to be hospitalized. Hank went to see her, took her flowers and candy, she gave him a cussing. He came home and wrote "COLD, COLD HEART". She was the inspiration for many of his songs. When they weren't fussing and fighting and Hank was sober. He couldn't write anything. When he would drink and they would fight like cats and dogs...The Hits would just roll out of him...True Story...
SteveGaines 3 months ago
He looked and sounded so much older than he was...to be gone at the young age of 29.. truly a tragedy.
caretaker245231 3 months ago
I guess I shouldn't be leaving so many comments, but I notice a slight off key in Hanks voice, then he works into the high parts. But it sounds haunting. I may be wrong, if so correct me. I thought maybe with his slight off key, which may be a bit lower than the music, allows him to transition into the highs better. I am sure it was natural to him!
TheZagline 3 months ago
I'm just blown away by this video. I've always loved Hank Williams music, and I have watched a few videos on YTB, but this is by far the best video I have seen of Hank. Don't know where you got it, but Thanks! Amazing!
TheZagline 3 months ago
My mother who is in Heaven..favorite singer...
true legend of country and will always be missed
Mom hope you are now in the front row as he sings in Heaven
joemanpjg 3 months ago in playlist joemanpjg's favorites
Hank Sr can't be touched by his imitators. Incredible voice.
TheZagline 4 months ago
@TheZagline Imitators are just that...They'll never be what they are trying to imitate... There may be some real good ones out there, but Nothin' can replace the real thing!!! Just like some one imitating you, or me, As good as they are they can't be another person!!!
TheFarmerfitz 3 months ago
The real deal right there!!!
TheFarmerfitz 4 months ago
If someone don't like this YOU MUST HAVE A COLD COLD HEART!
chaplin829 4 months ago
ive known about the hanks for a little bt now and im just getting into hank lll and i like his shit. then this song was the first i heard sr sing and it is in detail my now seven yr. relashionship with my girl. fan for life. and for the record im a hxc and metal head never could get into radio country but im lovin the hanks so far.
thedeal610 4 months ago
@thedeal610 that's because you know the real deal when you here it!!!
TheFarmerfitz 4 months ago
I've been feelin' kinda country since I got back from Nashville. I reckon I'll share a tune with you...
cyberseright 6 months ago
I started hearing Hank's music on radio and record shortly after he died, and it has been very much with me ever since. It is a major regret for me that I never saw him in person and have never realized until recently that his visual stage presentation was as bogglingly good as everything else about his music. This makes sense when one considers the legacy of his popularity, and thank you Hank u tube posters for the gift of this awareness. If only there were more examples available.
clyderf 6 months ago
I've had my music journey I've dipped into almost every style of music I mean it from the Beatles to Nirvana to Metal to Folk to Hip Hop , and I can just forget all of that shit, because Country to me is Pure it's Simple and It's Purely Simply Beautiful especially when Hank Williams shows us how it's DONE!
BrandysiPodTips 7 months ago
what is a reptoid? I love Hank more than the air I breath! great man the king of country. and i love the look on his face when he hits them high notes, he gives this little lady the love sick blues. THE HEART OF COUNTRY MUSIC WILL ALWAYS BEAT IN LUKE THE DRIFFTER.
tr9277 9 months ago
this man is a reptoid! why does his face change so!?
SodaWaterification 10 months ago
wAY aheah of he time
shadersdrummer 10 months ago
A lovely classic I haven´t heard in ages!!!
Maggan
Magryd3344 10 months ago
Reinstate Hank!!!
MrNightrain09 1 year ago
"There was a time when I believed that you belonged to me.
But now I know your heart is shackled to a memory.
The more I learn to care for you, the more we drift a part.
Why cain´t I free your doubtful mind, & melt your Cold,Cold Heart".
IGOROZKARSKY 1 year ago
@IGOROZKARSKY
Wow such great lyrics, if you think anyone can write such great lyric,
you are wrong.
Hank was a genius songwriter.
IGOROZKARSKY 1 year ago
@IGOROZKARSKY Hank didn't erite this song a neighbor of my grandma's in noth Texas wrote it the night he died on the back of a crisco can.
PWTurner95 6 months ago
@PWTurner95
Sure she did, I was standing over her while she wrote it.
Your grandmother sure was one great songwriter. She also
wrote "She´ll be coming round the mountain", "Clementine"
"Streets of Laredo" & many, many others. I know that your
grandmother´s name wuz TRADITIONAL but what was
her first name ?
IGOROZKARSKY 6 months ago
@IGOROZKARSKY My grandma didn't write it the neighbor did and most singers do buy peoples songs and claim it as theres the family sold it to him, I love listening to hank williams he was a good songwriter and singer I wasn't saying he was a fake I don't remember him saying he wrote I was just sharing some family history I thought was interesting.
PWTurner95 6 months ago
@PWTurner95 Interesting PW, but remember, your grandma also told you about Santa Claus.
Gatorrock787 6 months ago
@PWTurner95 OK IF Hank didn't Write this HOW did He make Radio Shows singing it LONG before He died LONG before?, Also How do you explain this Video?, Or did He sing it in the back of His Cadillac? After he Died that night.. a LOT of songs are stolen but Hank Wrote this one better make some cookies with the Crisco story!,It didn't happen like that!.
I been a picker a LONG time and heard all of those I played for Johnny Cash BS stories.
Most of them are FABRICATED!.
packingten 4 months ago
long live good ole Hank Williams !
LONG LIVE GOOD OLE HANK WILLIAMS !
IGOROZKARSKY 1 year ago
HANK IS THE BEST COUNTRY ARTIST EVER!!! WHO COULD SING A SONG AS GOOD AS THAT!
fester73666 1 year ago 2
Beans, Biscuits, and Hank Williams. That's all anyone needs.
HumGuitar 1 year ago 3
Like so many others of the greatest he also died at young age.
TheSunRecords 1 year ago
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Same as on the "I Saw the Light" clip -
Gator, "thanks" doesn't cover it... This is American history, and almost all of us wouldn't be able to see this if you hadn't posted it. You are keeping Hank Williams alive, and since he wasn't able to do that for himself, I'm in your debt.
ndietz111 1 year ago
Remembering my sweet grandfathers. One of their favorites. Thanks.
ellis1221 1 year ago
@ellis1221
My grandfather had many of Hank's songs on big old 78 RPM records, which he played on an old radio-record player--the record player part swung down from inside the radio.
I recently heard Hank's grandaughter sing at a place in Nre York City--she is good.
I saw the Grand Old Opry at the Ryman when I was 8 or so.
oldaardvark 1 year ago
@ellis1221
My grandfather had many of Hank's songs on big old 78 RPM records, which he played on an old radio-record player--the record player part swung down from inside the radio.
I recently heard Hank's grandaughter sing at a place in New York City--she is good.
I saw the Grand Old Opry at the Ryman when I was 8 or so.
oldaardvark 1 year ago 6
True Hank, a genius with words, hard drinking man with a too-sensitive soul...great stuff.
vgoth100 1 year ago 2
The greatest solo artist of the 20th century! We are not worthy.
MikeBlitzMag 1 year ago 45
@MikeBlitzMag ur right there maaang, we are not worthy
jacc0placc0 1 year ago
Thank you.
Ace35 1 year ago