Songs of Hank Williams Senior

Songs of Hank Williams

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Downloadable Songs by:

Al Jolson, Eddie Cantor,
Jimmy Durante

Bob Wills Texas Playboys

Groups

Singalong with Mitch Miller

Gals

Guys

Pat Boone, Sonny James

Russ Columbo, Bing Crosby

Billy Eckstine

Eddie Fisher

Engelbert Humperdinck

Hank Snow, Hank Thompson

Slim Whitman

Español

CeliaCruz, Ernesto Lecuona y Bienvenido Granda

Placido Domingo y Amigos

Eydie Gorme, Trio Los Panchos

Ana Gabriel, Rocío Dúrcal y
Juan Gabriel

Julio Iglesias

Nana Mouskouri, Vikki Carr, Joan Baez (en Español)

Teach Me Tonight

Plus Many, Many Others...

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Darkrooms Replaced by Computers
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Digital Picture Formats (JPG, BMP, GIF, TIF, etc)
Difference Between "Drawing" & "Painting" Programs
Digital Cameras & Megapixelss
Choosing File Associations for Picture Files
Understanding "Animated GIFs"
Comparison of JPG and GIF Image Files

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Hank Williams

Happy, Rovin' Cowboy
(Introduction of Hank on a 1950s Radio Show)

A Picture From Life's Other Side
A Teardrop on a Rose
At the First Fall of Snow
Be Careful of Stones That You Throw
Cold, Cold Heart
Dear John
First Year Blues
Help Me Understand
Hey, Good-Lookin'
Honky Tonk Blues
I Can't Help It
I Dreamed About Mama Last Night
I'm so Lonesome I Could Cry
I've Been Down that Road Before
Jambalaya (On the Bayou)
Just Waitin'
Lost Highway
Lonesome Whistle
Mansion On The Hill
Seaman's Blues
Settin' the Woods on Fire
Take these Chains from my Heart
The Log Train
When You're Tired of Breaking Other Hearts
Wedding Bells
When the Book of Life is Read
Why Don't You Love Me
Window Shoppin'
Your Cheatin' Heart
The Funeral
The Log Train
They'll Never Take Her Love From Me
Too Many Parties, Too Many Pals

Hank Williams Gospel Songs
30 Pieces of Silver
Beyond the Sunset
House of Gold
I Saw the Light
Thy Burdens Are Greater Than Mine
When God Dips His Love
When the Book of Life Is Read

Half as Much
(Sung by Hank, but written by Curly Williams)

Lovesick Blues *
*(A huge hit for Hank, but actually written by
Irving Mills & Cliff Friend)

A Few of Hank Williams' Songs
as Performed by Others...

Your Cheatin' Heart

Frankie Laine
Ray Charles
Teresa Brewer
Joni James
Brenda Lee
Patsy Cline

Jambalaya (On the Bayou)

Doug Kershaw
Brenda Lee
Floyd Cramer
Jo Stafford
Roy Orbison
Jerry Lee Lewis

Take These Chains from My Heart
and Set Me Free

Ray Charles

(In Your Loveless) Mansion on the Hill

Hank Snow
Roy Orbison
Kitty Wells

I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry

Charley Pride
B J Thomas
Johnny Cash
Marty Robbins
Willie Nelson
Jerry Lee Lewis

Cold, Cold Heart

Connie Francis
Floyd Cramer
Ray Price
Tony Bennett
Hank Thompson
Norah Jones

Jerry Lee Lewis & Jimmy Ellis

When I joined the army at age 17 in 1949 I knew very little about country music, and I had never heard of Hank Williams, who at the time was the current favorite writer and singer of country songs.

However, when I arrived at Fort Ord, California for Basic Training most of my barracks mates were from the South — and country music was the only kind they listened to. At the time, their favorite song was "Lovesick Blues" sung by Hank Williams.

After hearing the song for 500 times or so, I found myself beginning to like it, and found myself enjoying Hank singing many other songs as well (the vast majority of which he also wrote).

I've been a big fan of Hank Williams ever since.

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Instructions for Downloading
Songs from These Pages

If you have a Windows PC and
Windows Media Player
you should have no problems
downloading songs from these pages.

This is especially true if you have Windows XP
and Windows Media Player 10 or 11.

However, if other media players have been
installed on your PC (such as RealPlayer,
Rhapsody, QuickTime, MusicMatch Jukebox,
or WinAmp,) you may have all kinds of
problems downloading the music.

These songs can be downloaded via Internet Explorer by right-clicking the song's title and left-clicking Save Target As. (Firefox and Netscape users will left-click Save Link As).
This will display the name of the song, its three letter extension (such as .mp 3, .wav, .wma, or .mid) and the name of the folder into which it will be saved (usually your My Music folder, which is inside your My Documents folder).
If you do a single left-click on a song, it should open up in Windows Media Player and begin to play. On some computers, left-clicking a song will display a box with the song's name along with a PLAY or SAVE option. Clicking SAVE, will download the song to your PC as described above.

What you should know about various media players:
Windows Media Player comes with all recent versions of Windows, and works seamlessly with most of the popular digital audio/video formats (such as MP 3, WMA, WAV, MID, ASF, MPG, and WMV).
If you don't see the 3-letter filename extensions, click here for instructions on fixing the problem.
These formats will also play on RealPlayer, QuickTime, and most of the other media players.
However, some of these other players tend to be very intrusive and will try to disable Window Media Player, along with steering you to web sites that want to sell you something — usually songs, albums, and upgrades to their media players.
Unless you have some very compelling reason for using any player other than Windows Media Player, I would recommend uninstalling it and re-activating WMP.
To uninstall a media player, click on Start>Control Panel>Add or Remove Programs. When you find the name of the player you want to remove, click on its name and choose Change/Remove. You'll be asked if you're sure you want to uninstall the program. Click Yes.
Unfortunately, deleting a media player does not guarantee the program won't plague you in other ways. Its name may still be listed in your Startup Menu.
Fix this by clicking Start>Run and typing msconfig into the field that appears. Click OK. In the window that opens click on the Startup tab (last one on the right).
If the errant media player's name appears on the list, deselect the check box and click OK. If you are told you should restart your PC, click OK.

Click here for more useful information about msconfig.
The reason songs sometimes work with one media player — and not another — is that their filename extensions (such as WMP) have been told to "associate" with one particular player.
When you bought your Windows computer it came with Windows Media Player, and all the various music/video extensions were associated with WMP. If a different player is later installed (such as, say, QuickTime) you are asked which extensions you want associated with QuickTime. Most people click ALL, since they often don't understand the question and will do whatever is recommended by the player being installed.
If you subsequently uninstall QuickTime, all your media filename extensions will continue looking for QuickTime, since they've not been told to return to their WMP status.
Windows XP users can fix this by launching Windows Media Player 10 and clicking the little down-arrow (inverted pyramid) in the upper right corner. Then click Tools>Options>File Types. Click Select All to switch all media filename extensions back to WMP.
Another option available to WinXP users is to right-click any song found on their hard drive (most are likely to be in the My Music folder). Then click Open With. Next click Choose Program, followed by clicking Windows Media Player. Finally, click Always Use the Selected Program to Open this Kind of File.
If a song chosen in the above example was an WMA, all of your WMAs will now play via Windows Media Player when clicked. However, all your MID, MP 3, and WMV files will still be looking for QuickTime. The "Open With" procedure needs to be done with each music or video format.
If you have a pre-XP version of Windows, it's best to uninstall Windows Media Player altogether and then install Windows Media Player 9, which can be downloaded from www.download.com.
Following the above steps should reinstate WMP as your default media player. However, other media players which may have been installed on your PC will have placed dozens of entries in the Windows Registry. A page with instructions for removing these annoying hangers-on will be posted soon.