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"Take These Chains from My Heart" is a song by Hank Williams. It was written by Fred Rose and Hy Heath and was recorded at Williams' final recording session on September 23, 1952, in Nashville . The song has been widely praised; Williams' biographer Colin Escott deems it "perhaps the best song [Rose] ever presented to Hank...It was one of the ...
Hank Williams' hero Roy Acuff cut the song in 1968. Ronnie Milsap released the song on RCA. Jerry Lee Lewis recorded a version on Mercury Records in 1976. Gene Watson covered the song for Capitol. David Allan Coe included it on his 1997 LP The Ghost of Hank Williams. Jack Scott recorded it in 1958. Kitty Kallen MGM Records, 1965.
He returned to number one on that listing later in January with the final single released in his lifetime, "I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive", [3] and went on to have two further posthumous number ones with "Take These Chains from My Heart" and "Kaw-Liga", the latter of which spent 13 consecutive weeks at number one, the year's longest ...
"No One Will Ever Know" (Rose/Mel Foree) – Marty Robbins, Gene Watson, Hank Williams, Jerry Lee Lewis "Pins and Needles (In My Heart)" (Floyd Jenkins) – Bob Atcher and Bonnie Blue Eyes, Darrell McCall, Hank Williams (on Mothers Best Show) "Red Hot Henry Brown" (Rose) – The Charleston Chasers, Margaret Young
Williams recorded "My Heart Would Know" on March 16, 1951 at Castle Studio in Nashville with Fred Rose producing. He was backed on the session by members of his Drifting Cowboys band, including Jerry Rivers (fiddle), Don Helms (steel guitar), Sammy Pruett (electric guitar), Jack Shook (rhythm guitar), Ernie Newton or "Cedric Rainwater," aka Howard Watts (bass), and either Owen Bradley or Rose ...
No One Will Ever Know; ... Settin' the Woods on Fire; T. Take These Chains from My Heart; ... Thank God (Hank Williams song) There's No Room in My Heart for the Blues;
Hank Williams formed the original Drifting Cowboys band between 1937 and 1938 in Montgomery, Alabama. The name was derived from Williams' love of Western films, with him and the band wearing cowboy hats and boots. [2] The original line-up consisted of Braxton Schuffert (guitar), Freddie Beach (fiddle), and the comedian Smith "Hezzy" Adair.
Take These Chains from My Heart: Hank Williams with His Drifting Cowboys 4 July 11 It's Been So Long Webb Pierce: 8 August 1 Rub-a-Dub-Dub Hank Thompson and His Brazo Valley Boys: 3 August 22 Hey Joe: Carl Smith: 8 August 29 A Dear John Letter: Ferlin Husky and Jean Shepard: 6 – Jean Shepard: October 17 I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know