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Your Cheatin' Heart" was released at the end of January 1953. [15] Propelled by Williams' death, the song and the A-side "Kaw-Liga" became a hit, [ 16 ] selling over a million records. [ 17 ] Billboard initially described the songs as "superlative tunes and performances", emphasizing the sales potential. [ 18 ]
Your Cheatin' Heart; You're Through Fooling Me (lyrics by Williams, recorded by Patty Loveless for The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams) You've Been Lonesome, Too (lyrics by Williams, recorded by Alan Jackson for The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams) You Win Again
The song makes use of a number of Williams-penned-and-recorded song titles in the lyrics ("You wrote 'Your Cheatin' Heart' about a gal like my first ex-wife/You moan the blues for me and for you/Hank Williams, you wrote my life") to express deep sorrow and sadness following a bitter breakup of a relationship.
In 1964, the biographical film Your Cheatin' Heart starring George Hamilton as Williams was released. [146] The American Truckers Benevolent Association, a national organization of CB truck drivers, voted "Your Cheatin' Heart" as their favorite record of all time in the fourth annual Truck Drivers' Country Music Awards, in 1978. [147]
Original lineup of the Drifting Cowboys, 1938. 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 session also produced "I Could Never Be Ashamed of You," (written for his soon-to-be wife Billie Jean), "Take These Chains From My Heart" (also written by Rose), and Williams' signature ballad "Your Cheatin' Heart." ' More than any other song, "Kaw-Liga" bears evidence of the guiding hand of Rose, who moulded the song into nothing like ...
Like his previous hits "You're Gonna Change (Or I'm Gonna Leave)" and "I Just Don't Like This Kind of Living", "Why Don't You Love Me" was likely inspired by Hank's turbulent relationship with his wife Audrey Williams.
Your Cheatin' Heart is the second studio album by American musician Hank Williams Jr. The full title is: The MGM Sound Track Album Hank Williams' Life Story – The MGM Film Your Cheatin' Heart Sung by Hank Williams Jr. The album number is E/SE-4260.