Hey Good Lookin' - Hank Williams 🎸

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Singer, songwriter and musician Hank Williams performs one of his most popular songs. In the intro is young June Carter of the noted musical Carter family, and later the wife of Johnny Cash. Williams died at age 29, near Oak Hill, WVa.
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- Hank Williams, Wiki, Ed. Hiram King "Hank" Williams (Sept. 17, 1923 – Jan. 1, 1953) was an American singer-songwriter. He is regarded as one of the most significant and influential American singers and songwriters of the 20th century. Born and raised in Alabama, Williams learned guitar from African-American blues musician Rufus Payne. Both Payne and Roy Acuff significantly influenced his musical style.

After winning an amateur talent contest, Williams began his professional career in Montgomery in the late 1930s playing on local radio stations and at area venues. He formed the Drifting Cowboys backup band. Although unable to read or notate music to any significant degree, Williams wrote such iconic hits as "Your Cheatin' Heart", "Hey, Good Lookin'", and "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry".

Williams was born with spina bifida occulta, a birth defect of the spinal column that caused him lifelong pain and became a major factor in his later alcohol and drug abuse. At the age of 3, Williams sat with his mother as she played the organ at the Mt. Olive Baptist Church. Lillie also joined singing the hymns that influenced the singer's later compositions. Years of back pain, alcoholism, and prescription drug abuse severely compromised Williams's health. At the age of 29, he suffered from heart failure and died unexpectedly in the back seat of a car near Oak Hill, WVa., on the way to a concert in Canton, Ohio, on New Year's Day 1953.

Despite his relatively brief career, he is one of the most celebrated and influential musicians of the 20th c., especially in country music. Many artists have covered his songs and he influenced Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, and the Rolling Stones, among others. He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1961, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987, the Native American Music Awards Hall of Fame in 1999...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Williams
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- Wiki, Ed. - The Carter Family was a traditional American folk music group that recorded between 1927 and 1956. Their music had a profound influence on bluegrass, country, Southern Gospel, pop and rock music, as well as on the U.S. folk revival of the 1960s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carter_Family

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1. One of my favorite artists. "Hey, Good Looking" was IMHO, one of his greatest hits. I didn't know that he was only

29 at the time of his death. Wow.

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2. I luv that great song too & didn't know of his longtime health problems, early dealth. Tragic.

Thanks for posting.

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3. I remember my mom singing this when I was a kid. Thanks for the video..and the bio

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4. YW, what a classic song to remember & a major influence. Thank for replying.