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Hank Williams: The Complete Health & Happiness Recordings - The Legend Begins (3-CD)

(Time-Life) 3-CDs, 16-page booklet, 62 single tracks, the original issue of the US Time Life Edition with bonus tracks - Special price - Blow Out Sale - deleted item

Unbelievably, there's still more to discover, still more to hear by Hank Williams. In these audio snapshots we hear him as a fifteen-year-old performer making his very first recordings; two years later, he's a brash young singer with a local following around Montgomery, Alabama; another nine years on, he's newly arrived in Nashville, hosting his first syndicated radio series; and finally, he's the biggest star in country music performing a couple of public service shows. Two years after the last of these shows, his brief, incendiary career would be over. In 1938 or '39, when Hank was fifteen and had no shortage of confidence, he recorded 'Fan It', a song originally waxed by bluesman Frankie 'Half Pint' Jaxon in 1928. 

The second song was 'Alexander's Ragtime Band'. On the evidence of a 1940 home recording, Hank's voice had matured considerably in two years. And at a time when country and pop music were stiff and mannered, Hank was already rocking out. The 'Health and Happiness ' shows were recorded in Nashville in October 1949, four months after Hank moved to Nashville to join the Grand Ole Opry. Now, more than sixty years after they were recorded, we can hear them as they first sounded, without overdubs and later added live applause. 

The twelve years encapsulated on this set saw Hank Williams rise from 'The Singing Kid' on Montgomery's WSFA to the preeminent country star of his time.(Time Life 2011)

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  • Album titlle: The Complete Health & Happiness Recordings - The Legend Begins (3-CD)

  • Genre Country

  • Label Time Life

  • Edition 2 Deluxe Edition
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Williams, Hank - The Complete Health & Happiness Recordings - The Legend Begins (3-CD) CD 1
01 Happy Rovin' Comboy (Theme) WILLIAMS, Hank
02 Wedding Bells WILLIAMS, Hank
03 Lovesick Blues WILLIAMS, Hank
04 Old Joe Clark RIVERS, Jerry
05 Sally Goodin RIVERS, Jerry
06 Happy Rovin' Cowboy (Theme) WILLIAMS, Hank
07 You're Gonna Change WILLIAMS, Hank
08 There's A Bluebird On Your Windowsill WILLIAMS, Audrey & Hank
09 Fire On The Mountain RIVERS, Jerry
10 Tramp On The Street WILLAMS, Hank
11 Sally Goodin RIVERS, Jerry
12 Happy Rovin' Cowboy (Theme) WILLIAMS, Hank
13 I'm A Long Gone Daddy WILLIAMS, Hank
14 I'm Telling You WILLIAMS, Audrey & Hank
15 Bill Cheatham RIVERS, Jerry
16 When God Comes And Gathers His Jewels WILLIAMS, Hank
17 Sally Goodin RIVERS, Jerry
18 Happy Rovin' Cowboy (Theme) WILLIAMS, Hank
19 Lost Highway WILLIAMS, Hank
20 I Want To Live And Love WILLIAMS, Audrey & Hank
21 Bile Dem Cabbage Down RIVERS, Jerry
22 I'll Have A New Life WILLIAMS, Hank
23 Fingers On Fire MCNETT, Bob
24 Sally Goodin RIVERS, Jerry
Williams, Hank - The Complete Health & Happiness Recordings - The Legend Begins (3-CD) CD 2
01 Happy Rovin' Cowboy (Theme) WILLIAMS, Hank
02 A Manison On The Hill WILLIAMS, Hank
03 There'll Be No Teardrops Tonight WILLIAMS, Hank
04 Tennessee Wagner RIVERS, Jerry
05 The Prodigal Son WILLIAMS, Hank
06 Sally Goodin RIVERS, Jerry
07 Happy Rovin' Cowboy (Theme) WILLIAMS, Hank
08 Pan American WILLIAMS, Hank
09 Lovesick Blues WILLIAMS, Hank
10 Arkansas Traveler RIVERS, Jerry
11 I Saw The Light WILLIAMS, Hank
12 Sally Goodin RIVERS, Jerry
13 Happy Rovin' Cowboy (Theme) WILLIAMS, Jerry
14 Mind Your Own Business WILLIAMS, Jerry
15 Wedding Bells WILLIAMS, Jerry
16 Cotton Eyed Joe RIVERS, Jerry
17 I've Just Told Mama Goodbye WILLIAMS, Hank
18 Sally Goodin RIVERS, Jerry
19 Happy Rovin' Cowboy (Theme) WILLIAMS, Jerry
20 I Can't Get You Off My Mind WILLIAMS, Jerry
21 I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry WILLIAMS, Jerry
22 Fisherman's Hornpipe RIVERS, Jerry
23 Thy Burdens Are Greater Than Mine WILLIAMS, Hank
24 Sally Goodin RIVERS, Jerry
Williams, Hank - The Complete Health & Happiness Recordings - The Legend Begins (3-CD) CD 3
01 Fan It WILLIAMS, Hank
02 Alexander's Ragtime Band MOULTRIE, P.W. & Hank Williams
03 Freight Train Blues WILLIAMS, Hank
04 New San Antonio Rose WILLIAMS, Hank
05 St. Louis Blues WILLIAMS, Hank
06 Greenback Dollar WILLIAMS, Hank
07 Lovesick Blues WILLIAMS, Hank
08 Moanin' The Blues WILLIAMS, Hank
09 There's A Bluebird On You Windowsill WILLIAMS, Audrey
10 ..Hank Talks About Infantile Paralyses WILLIAMS, Hank
11 Help Me Understand WILLIAMS, Audrey & Hank
12 When God Dips His Love In My Heart WILLIAMS, Hank
Hank Williams was to me the first rock 'n' roll singer. Don Everly When Hank Williams's... more
"Hank Williams"

Hank Williams was to me the first rock 'n' roll singer.
Don Everly

When Hank Williams's first M-G-M record hit radio stations and Southern juke joints in June 1947, country music was poised for a seismic shift. Western swing and cowboy crooners were waning in popularity, as were the mournful wails of Roy Acuff and trumpet-driven jukebox novelties. Eddy Arnold and Red Foley ruled the charts with finely honed records that sounded more uptown than down-home. Beyond a few select artists with established regional appeal, the major labels mostly ignored Southeastern vocalists who sounded too 'hillbilly,' leaving this market to aggressive independent labels. When King Records in Cincinnati began racking impressive sales figures with raw, unabashedly rural music, the majors took notice but stayed the course.

Williams's Move It On Over was not Ernest Tubb's, Floyd Tillman's or Moon Mullican's Texas honky tonk. It was something fresh and exciting, fusing passionate Acuffian phrasing with a high-volume backbeat straight out of late '30s Chicago race records. It rocked like crazy and formally introduced Hank Williams as a significant voice in country music.

Williams's early years and influences have been thoroughly documented elsewhere. New York writer Roger Williams (no relation) wrote the first significant biography in 1970 ('Sing A Sad Song: A Life Of Hank Williams'; Doubleday). The next fifteen years brought other full-length bios by Jay Caress, Chet Flippo, and George William Koon, among others. Dr. Charles K. Wolfe and Bob Pinson also contributed to our understanding of Williams's life, music, career and recordings. These studies have been largely supplanted by Colin Escott's 'Hank Williams: A Biography' (Little, Brown & Co., 1994) and his notes to Mercury Records' comprehensive 1998 compact disc anthology 'The Complete Hank Williams.'

Hiram 'Hank' Williams was born September 17, 1923 in Mount Olive Community, Alabama, the second child born to Elonzo Huble Williams (1891-1970) and Jessie Lillie Belle Skipper (1898-1955). Lon Williams, a native of Lowndes County, Alabama, was a locomotive driver for a logging company when he met Lillie Skipper. The couple struggled financially after their November 1916 marriage, often relying on help from Lillie's family and meager income from a small general store in their house. Lon Williams was drafted into the army in July 1918, spending part of the next eleven months in France. During his military service he suffered a serious head injury in either a drunken brawl over a woman or a fall from a truck. Although he apparently recovered, the injury caused irreparable neurological damage that later resurfaced.

Returning from the war, Lon Williams worked sporadically at the lumberyards, while Lillie took jobs as a nurse, a cannery worker and seamstress. Their first child, Irene, was born in August 1922, followed by Hank a year later.

Life was hard, but the family got by. On Sundays Lillie sang and played organ at the Mount Olive West Baptist Church. In one of his rare print interviews, Hank recalled those days to San Francisco journalist Ralph J. Gleason. "My earliest memory is sittin' on that organ stool and hollerin'," he said. "I must have been five, six years old, and louder 'n anybody else."

His parents noticed their son had a swollen spot on his spine, a birth defect later diagnosed as Spina Bifida Occulta. If not corrected by surgery, the spinal cord could herniate outward from the spine. Hank's condition went untreated. As he aged, the ailment progressed, leaving him susceptible to back injuries and debilitating pain.

Soon after the 1929 stock market crash, Lon became impaired by a brain aneurysm likely triggered by his earlier head injury. Temporarily unable to speak and his face paralyzed, he was admitted to a Veterans Administration hospital in Biloxi that November. He never lived with his family again.

from booklet BCD16636 - Hank Williams Rockin'Chair Money - Gonna Shake This Shack Tonight
Read more at: https://www.bear-family.de/williams-hank-rockin-chair-money-gonna-shake-this-shack-tonight.html
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21 Nov 2019

Besoin de légende !

Du bonheur pour "nos oreilles". Beaucoup de plaisir à ré écouter cet artiste.

18 Oct 2019

Ausgezeichnete Zusammenstellung

Die CD-Collection ist wirklich sehr zu empfehlen

2 Aug 2019

Exzellentes Remastering

,,Joe Palmaccio sorgte für das exzellente Remastering, als Produzent des Sets steuerte der einschlägige Hank-Williams-Historiker Colin Escott seine wie immer aufschlussreichen Anmerkungen bei." (Rolling Stone, November 2011)

18 Jul 2019

Legend Forever

what a great collection

9 Aug 2018

The Legend Begins

High Quality nice set and a price for common people well done

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Tracklist
Williams, Hank - The Complete Health & Happiness Recordings - The Legend Begins (3-CD) CD 1
01 Happy Rovin' Comboy (Theme)
02 Wedding Bells
03 Lovesick Blues
04 Old Joe Clark
05 Sally Goodin
06 Happy Rovin' Cowboy (Theme)
07 You're Gonna Change
08 There's A Bluebird On Your Windowsill
09 Fire On The Mountain
10 Tramp On The Street
11 Sally Goodin
12 Happy Rovin' Cowboy (Theme)
13 I'm A Long Gone Daddy
14 I'm Telling You
15 Bill Cheatham
16 When God Comes And Gathers His Jewels
17 Sally Goodin
18 Happy Rovin' Cowboy (Theme)
19 Lost Highway
20 I Want To Live And Love
21 Bile Dem Cabbage Down
22 I'll Have A New Life
23 Fingers On Fire
24 Sally Goodin
Williams, Hank - The Complete Health & Happiness Recordings - The Legend Begins (3-CD) CD 2
01 Happy Rovin' Cowboy (Theme)
02 A Manison On The Hill
03 There'll Be No Teardrops Tonight
04 Tennessee Wagner
05 The Prodigal Son
06 Sally Goodin
07 Happy Rovin' Cowboy (Theme)
08 Pan American
09 Lovesick Blues
10 Arkansas Traveler
11 I Saw The Light
12 Sally Goodin
13 Happy Rovin' Cowboy (Theme)
14 Mind Your Own Business
15 Wedding Bells
16 Cotton Eyed Joe
17 I've Just Told Mama Goodbye
18 Sally Goodin
19 Happy Rovin' Cowboy (Theme)
20 I Can't Get You Off My Mind
21 I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
22 Fisherman's Hornpipe
23 Thy Burdens Are Greater Than Mine
24 Sally Goodin
Williams, Hank - The Complete Health & Happiness Recordings - The Legend Begins (3-CD) CD 3
01 Fan It
02 Alexander's Ragtime Band
03 Freight Train Blues
04 New San Antonio Rose
05 St. Louis Blues
06 Greenback Dollar
07 Lovesick Blues
08 Moanin' The Blues
09 There's A Bluebird On You Windowsill
10 ..Hank Talks About Infantile Paralyses
11 Help Me Understand
12 When God Dips His Love In My Heart