Hank Snow Snow In Hawaii (CD)

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Hank Snow: Snow In Hawaii (CD)

1-CD Digipak (4-plated) with 19-page booklet, 28 tracks. Playing time approx. 75 mns.

During his earliest years in Nova Scotia, Hank Snow (1914-1999) was attracted to the soothing sound of a Hawaiian steel guitar. "Mother saw an advertisement in a magazine for a Hawaiian guitar," Snow recalled in his 1994 autobiography. "Mother ordered the guitar, and in a few weeks it came in the mail. She really prized that instrument. I think it helped her relieve her tension, because when she was upset, she'd take out the guitar to play and sing."

When Marie Alice Snow allowed her son to try the instrument, his apparent natural talent intrigued her. "I used the regular Hawaiian steel bar, and I'd slide it up and down over the strings to get different chords and tones," he wrote. Before long the youngster was entertaining his neighbors in their homes, but he was careful not to play the instrument around her future husband, a man whose brutality would soon drive the youngster from their home. "Looking back now, maybe Mother bought the guitar for me, thinking that music would help me endure the frustrations in a house that could never be a home. I wonder."

At age 12, Snow escaped his stepfather's wrath by joining the crew of a fishing schooner. For the next four years, he endured grueling conditions in the North Atlantic. "On those lonely Sundays I kept thinking if I had Mother's Hawaiian guitar, I could pass the time away and entertain the crew, who knew I would enjoy it."

Eventually resettling with his sister and her husband in Bluerocks, Nova Scotia, Snow bought his first guitar. Now drawn to the 'blue yodels' of Jimmie Rodgers, he abandoned the steel slide to master chord progressions in standard tuning.

By 1937 Snow was an established country singer on Canadian radio and records, but he still retained his love for Hawaiian music. Although he seldom strayed far from the Maritime Provinces, he often dreamed about life in the picturesque Pacific Islands. He wrote his first Hawaiian song in 1937 while working at a Halifax radio station. The earliest track here, Under Hawaiian Skies, was cut during a February 1941 session in chilly Montreal. Later that year, Snow bought a single-neck, six-string electric Hawaiian guitar and a small amp from a Montreal music store. "I found it relaxing to play the Hawaiian guitar, but I could only play what Mother taught me years earlier," he said.

CKNB in Campbellton, New Brunswick, hired 'Hank, The Yodeling Ranger' in February 1942. In addition to his own broadcasts, Snow played soft Hawaiian steel melodies behind station manager Stan Chapman's Sunday night poetry readings. "On the first couple of Sunday night shows, I was nervous because I had to play continually for the full fifteen minutes, and I was afraid I would run out of tunes," Snow recalled. He began improvising melodies through the entire broadcast, underscoring Chapman's sonorous recitations. "The listeners liked it, too, and I continued playing background for him as long as I remained at CKNB." Snow left the station that spring to launch a Canadian theater tour, formally ending his secondary career as a Hawaiian lap-steel stylist.

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Interpret: Hank Snow
Album titlle: Snow In Hawaii (CD)
Genre Country
Label Bear Family Records
Preiscode AR
Edition 2 Deluxe Edition
Artikelart CD
EAN: 4000127164292
weight in Kg 0.2

Snow, Hank - Snow In Hawaii (CD) CD 1
01	Hula Love	Hank Snow
02	Beyond The Reef	Hank Snow
03	On The Beach At Waikiki	Hank Snow
04	Hawaiian Sunset (instrumental)	Hank Snow
05	My Little Grass Shack In Kealakekua, Hawaii	Hank Snow
06	Tradewinds	Hank Snow
07	Don't Sing Aloha When I Go	Hank Snow
08	Blue For Old Hawaii	Hank Snow
09	Hawaiian Cowboy	Hank Snow
10	To You My Sweetheart, Aloha	Hank Snow
11	Cry My Guitar, Cry On	Hank Snow
12	Oahu Rose	Hank Snow
13	Dreamer's Island	Hank Snow
14	Bluebird Island	Hank Snow
15	On That Old Hawaiian Shore With You	Hank Snow
16	Everybody Does It In Hawaii	Hank Snow
17	Tears In The Tradewinds	Hank Snow
18	Pearly Shells	Hank Snow
19	Now Is The Hour	Hank Snow
20	Hula Love	Hank Snow
21	Everybody Does It In Hawaii	Hank Snow
22	Hula Rock	Hank Snow
23	A Message From The Tradewinds	Hank Snow
24	Hilo March (instrumental)	Hank Snow
25	Sing Me A Song Of The Islands	Hank Snow
26	Bluebird Island	Hank Snow
27	Under Hawaiian Skies	Hank Snow
28	My Kalua Sweetheart	Hank Snow

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"Hank Snow"

Hank Snow

Hank Snow represents the archetypal rise from marginal existence to iconic status—without romantic distortion: his career began with improvisation and calculated risk. At his 1936 audition for RCA Victor in Montreal, he simply claimed to have original songs—and wrote them overnight. Prisoned Cowboy and Lonesome Blue Yodel were technically simple, but sufficient to launch a recording career that would span more than six decades.

His formative years were defined not by comfort, but by hardship: escape from an abusive stepfather, work as a cabin boy in the North Atlantic, and musical socialization through records by Vernon Dalhart and Jimmie Rodgers. From this emerged a clearly identifiable style—most notably the blue yodel as a defining expressive element.

His early RCA Canada recordings achieved regional success but failed to penetrate the U.S. market. Only an external disruption—the 1948 recording ban by the American Federation of Musicians—led to the release of his Canadian masters in the United States. The decisive breakthrough followed in 1950 with I’m Moving On: 44 weeks on the charts, 21 of them at No. 1—a clear indicator of exceptional market impact.

The Bear Family Records® website documents this trajectory with high precision and provides one of the most reliable discographic and historical references available.

The long-term preservation of this cultural legacy is ensured by the Friends Of The Hank Snow Society. Their mandate: to promote traditional country music, operate a museum in Nova Scotia, and organize key events such as the Summer Festival and the Hank Snow Tribute Show—functioning as the institutional backbone of Hank Snow’s legacy.

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