Artist: Hank Snow Genre(s):
Country
Discography:
Singing Ranger Vol.4: the Complete Early 50's Hank Snow (1949-1953) Year: 2000
Tracks: 23
Singing Ranger Vol.4 (Promo) Year: 2000
Tracks: 9
Singing Ranger Vol.3: the Complete Early 50's Hank Snow (1949-1953) Year: 2000
Tracks: 26
Singing Ranger Vol.2: the Complete Early 50's Hank Snow (1949-1953) Year: 2000
Tracks: 27
Singing Ranger Vol.1: the Complete Early 50's Hank Snow (1949-1953) Year: 2000
Tracks: 26
The Essential Hank Snow Year: 1997
Tracks: 20
The One And Only Hank Snow Year:
Tracks: 10
Les triuphes De Las Country Music Vol.10 Year:
Tracks: 25
Canada's sterling contribution to land medicine, Hank Snow was historied for his "travelling" songs. It's no wonderment. At historic geological period 12 he ran away from his Nova Scotia home and united the Merchant Marines, operative as a cabin boy and manual jack for quad age. Once back up on shore, he listened to Jimmie Rodgers records and started playing in public, structure up a following in Halifax. His original nickname, the Yodelling Ranger, was modified to the Singing Ranger when his high voice changed to the keen baritone voice horn that graced his hit records. In 1950, the yr he became an Opry regular, his self-penned "I'm Moving On" (the first class honours point of his many corking traveling songs) became a ruin hit, stretch telephone number one and left there for 21 weeks. "Lucky Rocket" (as good 1950) and "I've Been Everywhere" (1962), 2 other hits, show his womb-to-tomb love for trains and go. But he was as much at house with dickens other styles, the pose and the rhumba/boogie. Among his many great ballads are "Bluebird Island" (with Anita Carter of the Carter Family), "Befool Such as I," and "How-do-you-do, Love," a hit when Snow was 60 years old. Snow appeared regularly on the Opry into the '90s, proving that his improbable voice suffered no going of timbre o'er the last half-century, as well as what a tasteful, unpretentious guitar stylist he is. With small stature and immense voice, Snow was a rural area diehard world Health Organization gave practically more than to the business concern than he took.
Born and raised in Nova Scotia, Snow (born Clarence Eugene Snow) affected in with his gran when he was eighter age old, following the dissociate of his parents. Four years later, he re-joined his mother when she re-married, just his stepfather was an abusive, violent human being world Health Organization frequently scramble Hank. Tired of the ill-treat, Snow ran away from home when he was 12 geezerhood old, joining a sportfishing boat. For the side by side quaternity geezerhood, he served as a cabin boy, oftentimes singing for the sailors onboard. When he was 16, he returned home, where he began on the job queer jobs and nerve-wracking to launch a playing vocation. His mother had granted him a push-down list of Rodgers records which inspired him greatly. Within a few weeks of earreach Rodgers, Snow ordered a inexpensive, mail order guitar and tested to learn his idol's hallmark gamey yodel. For the side by side few geezerhood, he sang around Nova Scotia before finally mustering the courage to journey to Halifax in 1933. Snow landed a weekly unpaid appearance on CHNS' Down on the Farm, where he was billed as both the cattleman Blue Yodeller and Clarence Snow and His Guitar. The undermentioned twelvemonth, CHNS' boss announcer, Cecil Landry, suggested to Snow that he should change his nominate to Hank, since it sounded more than Western.
Snowfall continued to perform in Halifax for the side by side 3 geezerhood, oftentimes struggling to catch by. The severeness of the financial situation was compounded when he married Minnie Aaiders in 1936, but the duet was soon relieved when he landed a regular paying program on the network Canadian Farm Hour, billed as Hank the Yodelling Ranger. By the end of the twelvemonth, Snow had signed a portion out with RCA Victor's Montreal branch and recorded deuce original songs: "The Prsoned Cowboy" and "Solitary Blue Yodel." The songs were hits, source a twine of Canadian-only hit singles that ran for the following ten years; during that time, he recorded most 90 songs. In the early '40s, he had a regular show on CBC, based in Montreal and New Brunswick. In 1944, he switched to CKCW in New Brunswick. Around that time, he switched his stage appoint to Hank the Singing Ranger, since his voice had deepened and he could no yearner yodel.
Though he had become a principal in Canada, the American market remained untapped. Snow tried to break into the U.S.A. several multiplication, playing The Wheeling Jamboree in West Virginia, in brief moving to Hollywood, and playacting concerts with his trick pony Shawnee, only he was having no chance determination fans. The trouble part lies with the fact that he was nerve-racking to find an audience that wasn't in that respect, since most citizens were concentrating on World War II. Another stumbling immobilize was RCA Records themselves, world Health Organization refused to let Snow release records in America until he was long-familiar in the country. By 1948, Snow was tattle on The Big D Jamboree in Dallas, TX, where he befriended the honkey tonk caption Ernest Tubb. ET pulled enough exercising weight at the Grand Ole Opry to engender Snow a slot on the show in early 1950, and by that fourth dimension, RCA had agreed to record him for the American consultation.
Snow's American debut single, "Matrimony Vow," became a minor run into at the end of 1949, only it fell off the charts after a week. Similarly, his debut appearance at the Grand Ole Opry in January was not well-received, prompt him to weigh moving back up to Canada. However, those ideas were presently abandoned when his find arrived in the summer of 1950. That July, "I'm Moving On" began its noteworthy ascent up the charts, finally landing at number unrivaled and staying in that respect for a full 21 weeks. In the class after the release of "I'm Moving On," "The Golden Rocket" and "The Rhumba Boogie" both run into number one (the latter staying thither for ashcan School weeks), establishing Snow as a literal hotshot. Between 1951 and the closing of 1955, Snow had a noteworthy 24 Top Ten hits, including the massive run into individual "I Don't Hurt Anymore," which washed-out 20 weeks at number one in 1954. Snow not only played his trademark travel songs, merely likewise land boogie-woogie, Hawaiian music, rhumbas, and cowboys songs. By the middle of the tenner, he was a star not only in the United States and Canada, only passim the world, gaining a particularly warm following all over the geezerhood in the United Kingdom.
About 1954, Snow formed a booking government agency with Colonel Tom Parker, world Health Organization would by and by get notorious for being Elvis Presley's coach. Indeed, Snow played a plastic function in Presley's early career, convincing the Grand Ole Opry to give the isaac Merrit Singer a opportunity in 1954. Though Elvis' appearance at the Opry was ill-received, Snow continued to push Presley to move toward country, and Hank was quite overthrow when Parker took complete mastery of Elvis' management around 1955. Still, Snow ground a way to combat rock & roll -- he recorded some light rockabilly singles himself. "Hula-hula Rock" and "Rockin', Rollin' Ocean" were attempts to capture the thump of rock candy & roll out simply dilute with the rhumbas and boogie that made his singles hits during the early '50s. Though he was experimenting with the new genre, he hadn't deserted country and he continued to regularly chart in the land Top Ten until 1965 with hits like "Large Wheels" (number seven-spot, 1958), "Miller's Cave" (number nine-spot, 1960), "Beggar to a King" (er five-spot, 1961), "I've Been Everywhere" (number unitary, 1962), and "Ninety Miles an Hour (Down a Dead End Street)" (number deuce, 1963).
During the latter half of the '60s, Snow's calling slowed down well, as he wasn't able-bodied to name the transition to the raw, heavily orchestrated country-pop sounds, nor was he able to keep tempo with the twangy roll of Bakersfield. Instead, his singles placed in the take down reaches of the charts, patch his concerts and Grand Ole Opry appearances continued to be quite popular. It wasn't until 1974 that some other monster shoot arrived in the form of "Howdy Love," which out of the blue climbed to number one. Instead of sparking a revitalization, "Hullo Love" proven to be a concluding pant; 'tween its dismission in 1974 and 1980, Snow had only deuce early Top 40 hits, which both arrived the same year as "How-do-you-do Love." Despite his declining record gross revenue, his profile remained heights through and through his concerts and several lifetime-achievement awards, including his induction to the Nashville Songwriters International Hall of Fame in 1978 and the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1979.
In 1981, Snow's recording career over when RCA dropped him later a 45-year family relationship. Snow was very overturn with the label's treatment of him, as intimately as the direction that area music was taking, claiming that "80 percentage of today's land music is a jest and not equip to hear to." He was as angry that country's roots were being dilute by pop and rock production values. Though he ne'er recorded once again, Snow remained active in the Grand Ole Opry into the '90s, and he spent a destiny of clip working for his Foundation for Child Abuse. In the late '80s, Bear Family began a lengthy retrospective of respective multidisc loge sets that chronicled his entire recording career. In 1994, Snow published his autobiography, The Hank Snow Story. Late the following class, he was smitten with a respiratory unwellness, even so he recovered in 1996, reverting to the Grand Ole Opry in August of that year. Snow died December 20, 1999, at the eld of 85.
