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Henry William Thompson (September 3, 1925 – November 6, 2007) [1] was an American country music singer-songwriter and musician whose career spanned seven decades.. Thompson's musical style, characterized as honky-tonk Western swing, was a mixture of fiddles, electric guitar, and steel guitar that featured his distinctive, smooth baritone vocals.
Hank Thompson may refer to: Hank Thompson (baseball) (1925–1969), American third baseman; Hank Thompson (musician) (1925–2007), country music singer and songwriter;
The news that baseball star Willie Mays, the "Say Hey Kid," died Tuesday at 93 after a short illness, brought to mind the time Mays, Junior Gilliam, Gene Baker, Hank Aaron, Ernie Banks, Hank ...
Kaminsky – Helicopter pilot; Hydra double agent. Presumed deceased after being buried in a collapsing Hydra base by May. Cameron Klein / Hank Thompson – Field agent; test subject for GH-325; had memories erased and retired to civilian life. Eric Koenig – Communications agent; stationed at hidden base Providence. Deceased.
Shepard was born in Oklahoma but raised in California alongside her nine siblings. Having a musical upbringing, she formed an all-female country music band named The Melody Ranch Girls. During this period, she was heard by country artist Hank Thompson, who helped her get her first recording contract at age 18 with Capitol Records.
Travis' string of 1940s' chart topping, honky tonk hits did not continue into the 1950s despite the reverence of friends like Grandpa Jones and Hank Thompson with whom he toured and recorded. He was lead guitarist in Thompson's Brazos Valley Boys during the time when Billboard magazine rated them the number one Country Western band for 14 years ...
"The Wild Side of Life" is a song made famous by country music singer Hank Thompson. Originally released in 1952, the song became one of the most popular recordings in the genre's history, spending 15 weeks at number one on the Billboard country chart, [1] solidified Thompson's status as a country music superstar and inspired the answer song, "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels" by Kitty ...
Years later he made it his mission to find out more, and realised the soldier had enlisted under a different name, but was buried in France under his original name - Rupert Archibald Thompson.