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Hank Williams - Someday You'll Call My Name (Best Audio) [HD]

3,797 views · Published 1 April 2017 · 2:18 · Indexed 26 October 2026

Channel: Gary Larson · 2017 · People & Blogs

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Hank Williams (Sr.) sings 'Someday You'll Call My Name' from his 1956 MGM album 'Moanin' The Blues' (originally a 1952 8 song album). This song is from a 1948 live radio transcription so there is background noise, but Williams' vocal "rides above" that with a fairly clean and distortion-free sound. The other versions of this song on YouTube I assume are from a much later CD, but they seem to me to have more distortion in the sound - so it seems as though the old vinyl record may have the best audio. This song was written by Jean Branch and Eddie Hill and first a hit for Jimmy Wakely. Country music historian Colin Escott said of this song (and other similar ones from KWKH radio) that they were among Williams' "most affecting work" and filled with "vengeance and unrequited longing." He probably sang this in mind of his stormy relationship with his wife Audrey, who appears in three images in the video. Even with its imperfect audio, this is one of my favorite Hank Williams songs. Though Williams died in 1953 at the young age of 29, he is possibly the most important singer in the history of country music and unquestionably one of the most significant in American music of the 20th century.

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