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Billie Jean Horton (née Jones; born June 6, 1933) is an American former country-music singer-songwriter and music promoter. She had high profile marriages, first to country musician and singer-songwriter Hank Williams in 1952 until 1953 and subsequently to singer Johnny Horton from 1953 until 1960.
Despondent at the death of Hank, Billie Jean was quick to embark on a new romance, this time to country singer Johnny Horton. This was to be her first truly long-term relationship. She and Johnny married in September of 1953, and she took up a key role in promoting and managing her husband’s career.
After several marriages, myriad personal tragedies and more than three decades of forced legal education, Billie Jean Horton lives by a simple motto. “Swing with whatever happens,” she said.
Billie Jean Horton is an American classic and a treasure unique to this area, a product of the old South and the classic country-western honky tonk scene that...
Billie Jean Horton is one of the country music icons that require no introduction, as she has carved her name over the hearts of music lovers. Some people’s impact is larger-than-life, and so was Billie’s.
On October 22, 1975, a federal judge in Atlanta, Georgia, ruled that Billie Jean Horton was Williams's common-law wife, and that part of the copyright renewals of the songs belonged to her. [190] At the age of 21, Cathy learned that Hank Williams was her biological father.
In September 1953, he married Billie Jean Jones, the widow of country-music singer Hank Williams. [1] Billie Jean and Horton had two daughters, Yanina (Nina) and Melody, and Horton adopted Billie Jean's daughter Jeri Lynn.
In the video below, Hank Williams' widow, Billie Jean Horton, sings a passionate song about loss and heartbreak. We're sure it will bring a tear to your eye! In October of 1952, Hank and Billie Jean were married at a private ceremony in Minden, Louisiana.
I looked it up and she’s 89.She’s known as Billie Jean Horton, having kept the name of her third husband, Johnny Horton, with whom she had two children and who left her widowed a second time in 1960.
Billie Jean Jones (born 1933) was the second wife of influential country singer Hank Williams. They married in October 1952; each had a previous marriage that ended in divorce. Hank and Billie Jean met in Nashville in summer 1952. She came with Faron Young to Nashville who would make his first guest-appearance at the Opry.