Hank Williams facts
While investigating facts about Hank Williams Jr and Hank Williams Jr Daughter, I found out little known, but curios details like:
Hank Williams charged an admission to his wedding and had both a 3pm and 7pm 'show'
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Hank Williams Jr. drove a 1952 Cadillac convertible while he was in high school...it was the car that his father Hank Williams Sr. died in.
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This day in 1953 Hank Williams died in the back of his Cadillac from mixing Whiskey and Morphine.
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The last single released by Hank Williams before his death was "I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive".
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Hank Williams nicknamed Hank Williams JR "Bocephus" after a ventriloquist's dummy.
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Hank Williams was called out for six encores on his debut at the Grand Ol Opry (each one he played the lovesick blues) and had to be implored not to call him out for more in order to allow the rest of the show to go on.
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In 1982 an analytics program on an Apple III computer was used to simulate a hypothetical MLB All-Star Game with Hall of Fame players like Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, and Ted Williams for the AL and Hank Aaron, Willie Mays, and Sandy Koufax for the NL. The “game” was later broadcast on the radio.
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Country-musician Townes van Zandt died 44 years to the day after Hank Williams, Sr. At the last stages of his life he would drink at least a pint of vodka daily, along with shooting up heroin, cocaine and even vodka and rum & coke, while also being prescribed lithium and zoloft.
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Terry Bradshaw did a cover of Hank Williams Sr. "So lonesome I could cry"....and it's pretty good.
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Country legend Hank Williams' grandson is a punk musician, and in a band called Assjack.
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Singer Hank Williams Jr. was fired from music and television after he compared a golf game with the President to golfing with Hitler
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When country legend Hank Williams Sr. was still a child, Williams made friends with blues street musician Rufus “Tee-Tot” Payne. He learned about music from him and learned that Payne was the son of former slaves during the Civil War.
The song "Homesick Blues" performed by Hank Williams, was featured in two films in the same year. Those films were both nominated for the 1995 Academy Award for Best Picture and were "Forrest Gump" and "The Shawshank Redemption". - source
