Honky Tonkin'

"Honky Tonkin'"
Single by Hank Williams And His Drifting Cowboys
A-side"Pan American"
PublishedNovember 16, 1948 (1948-11-16) Acuff-Rose Publications,[1] 2002 SONY/ATV Acuff-Rose Music
ReleasedMay 1947 (1947-05)
RecordedFebruary 13, 1947 (1947-02-13)[2]
StudioWSM Radio Station Studio, Nashville
GenreHillbilly, Honky-tonk, Country blues
Length2:45
LabelSterling 210
Songwriter(s)Hiram Williams
Producer(s)Fred Rose
"Honky Tonkin'"
Single by Hank Williams With His Drifting Cowboys
B-side"I'll Be a Bachelor 'Til I Die"
ReleasedApril 1948 (1948-04)
RecordedNovember 6, 1947 (1947-11-06)[2]
StudioCastle Studio, Nashville
GenreHillbilly, Honky-tonk, Country blues
Length2:42
LabelMGM 10171
Songwriter(s)Hiram Williams
Producer(s)Fred Rose
Hank Williams With His Drifting Cowboys singles chronology
"My Sweet Love Ain't Around"
(1948) 		"Honky Tonkin'"
(1948) 		"I'm a Long Gone Daddy"
(1948)

"Honky Tonkin'" is a 1947 country music song, written and recorded by Hank Williams. His song went to #14 on the Billboard country music chart in 1948. In 1982, it became the sixth chart topping single for Williams' son, Hank Williams Jr.

First version

Hank Williams released two versions of "Honky Tonkin'." The first was cut at his second and final recording session for Sterling Records on February 13, 1947, and features backing by Tommy Jackson (fiddle), Dale "Smokey" Lohman (steel guitar), Zeke Turner (electric guitar) and Louis Innis (bass).[2] The song, which appeared as "Honkey-Tonkey" in Williams' first song folio,[2] was chosen by producer Fred Rose as the B-side to "Pan American" after Hank had achieved success with two singles of mostly spiritual material on Sterling. While the subject matter is straight barroom fare in the Ernest Tubb tradition, the song is musically unusual, with the chorus made up of three ten-beat phrases, plus two measures of four beats, for a highly unusual thirty-eight beat section; up till the last two turnaround measures of the chorus, this section could be written in 10/4 time. Many later versions "straighten out" the chorus to make it fit a more familiar four-beat pattern. The entire song is played over one chord, except for the last two beats of the third 10/4 phrase of the chorus, which briefly touches on the dominant. According to Colin Escott's 2004 biography on the singer, the original draft featured the lines, "We are going to the city, to the city fair/We'll get a quart of whiskey and get up in the air," which the commercially minded Rose had Hank change to ""We're going to the city, to the city fair/If you go to the city, baby, you will find me there."[2] In 2015, this recording on Sterling Records was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.[3]

Second version

Surprised by the success of the unknown Williams, and equally impressed with the raw talent of the young songwriter, Rose got him a contract with MGM that was finalized on April 1, 1947. On November 6, 1947, Williams recut "Honky Tonkin'" at Castle Studio in Nashville with backing from Robert "Chubby" Wise (fiddle), Jerry Byrd (steel guitar), Zeke Turner (lead guitar), and probably Louis Innis on bass and either Owen Bradley or Rose on piano.[2] The second recording of the song is more vibrant than the first, likely owing to the better recording facilities and the chemistry that had developed between Williams and Rose. To avoid confusion, Rose bought all the Sterling singles of "Honky Tonkin'" on May 17, 1947, for two thousand dollars and then sold them to MGM.[4] Williams had enjoyed his first Top 5 hit with "Move It on Over" but "Honky Tonkin'" did not fare as well, failing to make the Top 10. Billboard praised the single's "deft ork beat."

Cover versions

Charts

Hank Williams Jr.

References

  1. ^ "U.S. Copyright Office Virtual Card Catalog 1946-1954 .0410". vcc.copyright.gov. Retrieved 2021-09-09.
  2. ^ a b c d e f Escott, Merritt & MacEwen 2004, p. 60.
  3. ^ "Hank Williams And His Drifting Cowboys". GRAMMY Hall Of Fame | Hall of Fame Artists | GRAMMY.com. 2024. Archived from the original on 3 August 2024. Retrieved 19 August 2024.
  4. ^ Escott, Merritt & MacEwen 2004, p. 91.
  5. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944–2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 389.
  6. ^ "Charley Crockett - Lil G.L.'s Honky Tonk Jubilee". Discogs.com. Retrieved February 14, 2019.
  7. ^ "Hank Williams, Jr. 2 Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
  8. ^ "Hot Country Songs – Year-End 1982". Billboard. Retrieved June 21, 2021.

Sources

  • Escott, Colin; Merritt, George; MacEwen, William (2004). Hank Williams: The Biography. New York: Little, Brown.

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