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HANK WILLIAMS: The Complete Website

The Unreleased Recordings

  In 1998, Mercury Records released "The Complete Hank Williams" box set, but complete it was not. The box set actually represents about 1/3 of what is known to exist, The Mothers Best collection accounts for 1/3 and these recordings make up the last 1/3.

  Most of these recordings are from radio shows, the quality is not always the best but none the less they are more Hank Williams recordings floating around out there. Perhaps one day when all the legal issues are set aside some of this material will be officially released

  These recordings are known to exist in private collections of collectors all over. Please do not email me asking for copies of these recordings, legally I am not allowed to make any of these recordings available to you.


The Mothers Best Shows

  For a complete list of these shows click HERE

 

Stars In Her Eyes

  PSA For Veneral Disease Hank Sings and Tells The Story Radio Drama

 

Aunt Jemimah Pancakes Show #1

  Why Don't You Love Me

  Cold, Cold Heart

 

Aunt Jemimah Pancakes Show #2

  This second show features Minnie Pearl

  Hey Good Lookin'

  I Can't Help It (If I'm Still In Love With You)

  Are You Walkin' And Talkin' For The Lord

 

Hank & Audrey's Corral Show

  WSM Radio show taped 09/15/51 promoting the opening of Hank & Audrey's Corral in Nashville, TN

  Half As Much

  Lovesick Blues

  Lonesome Whistle

  Honky Tonk Blues

   Where The Old Red River Flows

 

Hank Williams' Funeral

  Recorded at the funeral on 01/03/53 at City Hall in Montgomery Alabama

  Beyond The Sunset (Ernest Tubb)

  My Record Will Be There (Southwind Singers)

  I Saw The Light (Roy Acuff & Grand Ole Opry Cast)

  Peace In The Valley (Red Foley)

  Precious Memories (Southwind Singers)

 

Sunset Park Show

  Only known recording of a live show taped 07/13/52 at Sunset Park in Pennsylvania

  Hey Good Lookin'

  Fire On The Mountain (Jerry Rivers)

  Lonesome Whistle

  Jambalaya

  Long Gone Lonesome Blues

  Half As Much

  I Saw The Light

  Lovesick Blues

 

Hadacol Phone Interview from Macon, GA

  A Macon, GA DJ calls Hank at his home in Nashville and talks on 09/05/51

 

Montgomery Homecoming Interview with Bob Helton

 

Montgomery Homecoming Interview with Billy Smith

 

Montgomery Homecoming Radio Promo

 

How To Write Folk And Western Music To Sell Radio Promo #1

 

How To Write Folk And Western Music To Sell Radio Promo #3

 

Pappy Neal McCormick for Sheriff Radio Spot #1

  Radio promo Hank made in Defuniak Springs, FL for his friend Pappy Neal McCormick who was running for sheriff

 

Pappy Neal McCormick for Sheriff Radio Spot #2

  Radio promo Hank made in Defuniak Springs, FL for his friend Pappy Neal McCormick who was running for sheriff

 

Pops-Rite Popcorn Show

  Mansion On The Hill

 

Duck Head Overalls Show Promo

 

Complete 1951 March of Dimes Show

  Moanin' The Blues

  Help Me Understand

  When God Dips His Love In My Heart

March of Dimes Promo

  Hank asks listeners to donate to the March Of Dimes to help fight infantile paralysis

 

Rose Bowl Death Announcement 01/01/53

  Death announcement made on the radio during the 1953 Rose Bowl

 

WCKY Death Announcement & Tribute Show 01/01/53

  Death announcement made on WCKY in Kentucky by DJ Nelson King, On the tribute show that follows (The first Hank Williams Tribute Show) features King talking about the time he had spent with Hank and plays several of Hank's records.

 

Grand Ole Opry Show 06/18/49

  Lovesick Blues

  Wedding Bells

 

AFRS Grand Ole Opry Show 11/12/49

  You're Gonna Change (Or I'm Gonna Leave)

 

AFRS Grand Ole Opry Show 11/18/49

  Move It On Over

 

AFRS Grand Ole Opry Show 06/10/50

  Long Gone Lonesome Blues

  Why Don't You Love Me

 

AFRS Grand Ole Opry Show 08/12/50

  Why Don't You Love Me

  They'll Never Take Her Love From Me

 

AFRS Grand Ole Opry Show 11/11/50

  Moanin' The Blues

  Nobody's Lonesome For Me

 

Grand Ole Opry Show 01/06/51

  Moanin' The Blues

  Nobody's Lonesome For Me

 

AFRS Grand Ole Opry Show 05/05/51

  Dear John

  Cold, Cold Heart

 

AFRS Grand Ole Opry Show 09/22/51

  Hey, Good Lookin'

  Cold, Cold Heart

 

Grand Ole Opry Show 09/29/51

  Crazy Heart

 

Grand Ole Opry Show 03/22/52

  Honky Tonk Blues

  Let The Spirit Descend

 

AFRS Grand Ole Opry Show 04/05/52

  Baby We're Really In Love

  The Old Country Church

  I Can't Help It If I'm Still In Love With You

 

Grand Ole Opry Show 07/05/52

  Half As Much

  Jambalaya

  Long Gone Lonesome Blues

 

Grand Ole Opry Show (Undated/51)

  Lovesick Blues

  Crazy Heart

  Bonaparte's Reteat (Audrey)

 

Farther Along

  From an undated Grand Ole Opry Performance

 

Alabama Jubilee Radio Show

 

Grand Ole Opry Show (Undated)

  An Easter time opry program with Hank as emcee in April of (unknown)

 

Grand Ole Opry Interview

  Backstage interview at the Opry with Columbus, GA DJ Uncle Benny

 

Jambalaya

  Last known radio performance from the Lousiana Hayride sometime in late 1952

 

Demo Recordings

  Un-dubbed demo recordings not found on any release to date:

  Tonight I'm Going Home

  We're Getting Closer To The Grave Each Day

  Mother Is Gone

  Home In Heaven

 

Kate Evening Hour #2

  Recordings from Hank's television appearance on the Kate Smith Evening Hour on 04/23/52

  Glory Bound Train (With Opry Cast Ensemble)

  Cold, Cold Heart

 

Kate Evening Hour #1

  Recordings from Hank's television appearance on the Kate Smith Evening Hour on 03/26/52

  I Saw The Light (With Opry Cast Ensemble)

  Hey, Good Lookin'

 

Complete Farmer Jim Show #1

  Complete Show includes an interview not on the Complete Box Set

  Lost Highway

  Long Gone Daddy

  Long Gone Lonesome Blues

 

Interview With Bob McKinnon

  Interview with Alexander City, AL DJ Bob McKinnon in March of 1950

 

WSFA Transcriptions

  Earliest known recordings of Hank around the age of 19, possibly from WSFA studios in Montgomery, AL ca. 1942

Happy Rovin' Cowboy #1

Happy Rovin' Cowboy #2

Rockin' Alone In An Old Rockin' Chair #1

Rockin' Alone In An Old Rockin' Chair #2

Old Shep #1

Old Shep #2

Will The Circle Be Unbroken

I'll Never Cry Over You

I Was Seeing Nellie Home

I'll Never Cry Over You

Little Rosewood Casket (Instrumental)

I Ain't Gonna Love You Anymore

Come Back To Me

Mother's Heaven

The Last Letter

Lonesome Valley

Crying Myself To Sleep

Beautiful Brown Eyes (Braxton Schuffert)

Lonely Mound Of Clay

I'll Be True To The One That I Love