I'm Tony Riggs. Today,Larry West and I tell the story of country and western singer and songwriter, Hank Williams.

VOA: special.2009.11.22

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When Hank sang a sad song, those who listened knew it was about something that had happened to him.

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Many people knew that when Hank sang this song, "Cold Cold Heart", he was singing about his wife and their problems.

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However,because Hank's songs told of real-life troubles with such great emotion, something unusual began to happen to his music.

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Those who knew Hank Williams say he did not have the emotional strength to deal with his problems.

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Famous recording stars who never sang country and western music began recording songs written by Hank Williams.

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They may sing the songs in the country and western style the way Hank wrote them.

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Radio stations that had never played country and western music began to play Hank Williams' songs.

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By the time Hank was fourteen, he had already put together his own group of musicians.

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Many years after Hank Williams' death, new fans of his music have asked why he could put so much of his life into his songs.

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Hank Williams was born in nineteen twenty-three on a small farm near Mount Olive,Alabama.

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For more than ten years, Hank remained popular locally, but was unknown nationally.

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Here is the nineteen fifty song "I'm Movin' On", written by Hank Snow.

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He spent many years in a hospital when Hank was a boy.

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Those who had similar problems felt that Hank was singing about them,too.

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On his new album David Sanborn plays Hank Crawford's hit "The Peeper."

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The men called themselves Wonder Mike,Big Bank Hank, and Master Gee.

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Hank was always surrounded by people, especially after he became famous.

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After years of hard work, Hank Williams had become a star.

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Hank Williams wrote both happy songs and sad songs.

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Hank wrote many songs in the years that followed.

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Hank Williams had many problems during his life.

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Hank Williams' life and career were brief.

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Hank's father could not work.

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One of her frequent collaborators, veteran pianist Hank Jones, calls her "the best singer to emerge in over 60 years."

VOA: standard.2009.12.23

Country fans also mourned the deaths of Jimmy Boyd,Hank Locklin, Vern Gosdin and former Grand Ole Opry manager Hal Durham.

VOA: standard.2009.12.22

Also lost in 2009 were jazz composer George Russell, saxophonists Hank Crawford, David "Fathead" Newman and Johnny Almond, blues singer Koko Taylor, drummer Eddie Locke, vocalists Al Martino,Kenny Rankin, and Blossom Dearie, and 101-year-old guitarist Lawrence Lucie, who recorded with everyone from Jelly Roll Morton and Coleman Hawkins to Billie Holiday and Louis Armstrong.

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