whose songs in "Jambalaya (on the Bayou)"
later singers around the world
(including the Karen Carpenter, Lisa Ono, Teresa ...)
repeatedly cover
him is
Hank Williams
and he only lived for 29 years.
Hank Williams was born on September 17,
1923. His original name was Hiram King. Williams mistakenly wrote the original name "Hiram" as "Hiriam"
on the birth documents.
He was
born with "hidden spina bifida". "Symptoms, he
lives in pain every day.
This is
the reason why he became addicted to alcohol and long-term painkiller addiction. When
Hank was 7 years old,
his father suffered from neurological palsy and was hospitalized.
She moved with his mother to Greenville.
When he
was young, he had an independent personality.
Except for some physical activities that were not suitable for him,
his inner world was
only interested in the music programs broadcast on the radio
and the choir in the church.
This is also the reason why he loves folk songs.
In 1933,
Hank
met Rufus Payne (Tee-Tot), a black street singer on the street ,
who taught him to play the guitar and sing.
In exchange for some food,
this is why his songs are more bleak than ordinary country songs
and he keeps saying that
Tee-Tot is his only music tutor.
In early 1939,
16-year-old Hank decided to give up his studies and
start his singing career.
First set foot on the WSFA radio show "The Singing Kid" and
soon became one of the radio’s popular artists
and organized a band "The Drifting Cowboys" (the drifting cowboys) to
perform in different bars and various venues.
18 At the age of
Hank he has highlighted his alcoholism
World War II broke out
several members of the band being called up
because he had a fall and immunization
but can not find a guitarist
he started to drink
regularly late for the concert
or appear drunk
soon he will station fired
20-year-old Hank met Audrey Sheppard
her 2-year-old daughter with her ex-husband and the students
after they know
the second year
just turned 21-year-old Hank and her married
since Audrey take on the role of economic man
efforts will He promoted it to the radio station. The producer
In 1946,
Hank introduced himself
to the publisher of Nashville, Fred Rose, under the arrangement of his wife Audrey.
At the beginning, Fred was only given to him as a creator,
but soon he moved to play singers and
also worked as a sales song sheet music. During a
year, he
was favored and arranged by Fred.
There have been four recordings of songs.
In March 1947,
under Fred's planning and arrangement,
Hank Williams Signed to MGM MGM Company
until 1948 when he was 25 years old, his
song "Move it on Over" made him famous, and the
most popular
country music radio at the time "Louisiana Hayride" invited him to join the
second. His "Lovesick Blues" made him the first time to reach mainstream radio
and Western and country song theater Grand Ole Opry
accepted him as a performer
in May
of the same year. In May of the same year , he added a new member Hank Williams Jr.
and Hank at this time. worried about the rising popularity
made him mad
to start thinking about the fear of heights fell down while drinking to forget every day
every time you want to perform on stage
are show his drunkenness led to the repeated loss of field
make friends, and Fred Rose is also a sense of frustration
also Therefore, Audrey asked him for divorce
live every day in these days of crisis in
forcing him to rebuild their lives
determined from the bottom out of the
while this event come to an end when
he reconciled with Audrey
The relationship with Fred Rose also improved
and started to try again to find a chance
to sing for him. First, he performed at the Shreveport KWKH radio station in Los Angeles’
Saturday Stars Gala,
and then performed at Louisiana Hayride in August.
At this moment, his song is only
"I'm A Long Gone Daddy". Ranked sixth on the pop chart.
At this time,
Hank began to
record some oral gospel songs under the pseudonym "Luke the Drifter"
but his
alcoholism became worse in a few days and
he was hunting in 1951. When his spine was injured again,
he started using morphine to
relieve pain and at the same time use alcohol to relieve pain.
Almost every performance was late
or temporarily missing the figure.
His wife went to every bar to find him and
was drunk.
Sometimes he gaffeed on the stage and sang and drank at the
end. no one should ask him
the second year will be even the Grand Ole Pray expelled him
and with record companies surrender
even his band "the Drifting Cowboys" are cut off relations with his
wife Audrey exhausted, no longer tolerate
the couple divorced in May 1952
divorce In the next five months
he married Billie Jean Jones, who was 19 years old at the time.
Although
his illegitimate activities were uneasy, all the works he recorded this year were all successful
Hank's natural "spina bifida"
also feels helpless with the original drugs.
Under the anesthesia of morphine and alcohol,
various performances need to be cancelled,
and even his wedding to Billie has only been a few weeks, and the
relationship has turned cold.
Although he is in the same room, But like a stranger
On the night of New Year's Day in 1953,
his driver
drove him back to Oak Hill, West Virginia, and found him lying in the back seat of the Cadillac in his car,
dying, with a strange expression.
After the rescue failed, he died.
Later, the police found some in the back seat. Empty beer
and some unfinished lyrics.
In fact, Hank had found heart disease at that time.
Adhering to multiple angina pectoris
. Forensic anatomy
confirmed that he died of heart disease. Audiences
at the Canton Theater in Ohio were
waiting for his appearance
, but Hank was dead.
The prelude singer Hawkins and the band spontaneously sang
"I Saw the Light"
on the stage. On January 4,
his funeral was held in Montgomery, Alabama, where
more than 20,000 people went to pay homage to the remains. It
was the largest in the history of the state. Funeral
posthumous work "I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive" became a chèn at the
age of 29.
In 1964,
Hollywood launched a biographical film of Hank Williams.
"Your Cheatin' Heart" The film "I Saw the Light" (I Saw the Light) will be released
on March 26, 2016. The film is adapted from Colin Escott's autobiographical work of Hank Williams . Please indicate the source ----- -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------ The article has been synced to the two-two movie "Y100gram" on WeChat ID
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