FRANKIE LAINE - RAMBLIN' MAN

another of Hank Williams song recorded by Frankie Laine. Laine was a Jazz Singer from Chicago but he did everything else so well including country. His fans forgot about the Jazz.

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Music

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• Frankie
• Laine
• Hank
• Williams
• Ramblin'
• Man

[mccaralion]

It would be fun if you could put your advertising poster on-line! Hank Williams had his last concert in Oak Hill, WV and died in his car enroute to his next show, which must have been Canton, OH. I knew this because I grew up near Oak Hill, WV and folks back there loved Hank Williams. You began dating young, but growing up in a nice town like Canton, you could walk to any event !

[markalson1938]

@mccaralion My poster is in to bad of condition to use but you can find copies of the poster on the web. Just google Hank Williams -Canton Ohio and it will come up. I can't really call it a date as we were going with a group of teenagers plus plus Nancy's older Brother. The dates would come later. Canton was a great city to grow up in during the fifties. To day it's much different, we go back about once a year and it has seen much better days.

[mccaralion]

This song was written and recorded by Hank Williams. Certainly doesn't sound countryfied like Hank intended! I think he would be excited by this presentation!

[markalson1938]

@mccaralion Hank could write great songs but I didn't like him singing them. But that's just me I never liked country Music that much. Hank died on the way to my home town for a New Years Eve Concert in 1953. I was 13 back then and I had tickets to the show. So I must not of disliked his singing that much or maybe it was the girl I was takiing to it. That was in Canton Ohio and I still have the advertizing poster of the event.

[highnrising]

Was a flipside supposed to chart?

"I Let Her Go" is occasionally referenced in the NYT Crossword as a Frankie Laine song.

[markalson1938]

Many flip sides "B" side have charted

[mccaralion]

Thanks for the response. I had the story wrong all these years about Hank Williams. His last performance was in Knoxville, KY, but he was found dead in his car in Oak Hill, WV and pronounced dead in Oak Hill Hospital. There was a bit of mystery surrounding his death. I enjoyed seeing a picture of Hank in his casket, with his song "We're Getting Closer To The Grave Each Day". Sad! I had never heard that song, but you led me there. Thanks. I am so obsessed with music, and I'm glad I am!

[grannydyess]

he was a great singer. he is missed

[612191536]

Many, many thanks for this Frankie Laine favorite. I first heard it back in the mid fifties, when I was a teen ager, and as soon as I heard Frankie singing this song I scrounged up enough money to buy the record which was on a 78 rpm