Greatest Hits

by Hank Williams

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  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: 1961
  • Label: MGM
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 36:26
  • Community rating: 4.33/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

This crucial, highly successful posthumous compilation serves as a definitive introductory text to the foundational catalog of the legendary country singer-songwriter. Gathering his most universally recognized, tear-stained honky-tonk anthems, the collection highlights his unparalleled ability to convey profound romantic despair and working-class existential angst through deceptively simple, devastatingly effective poetic lyricism.

Genres

Tracklist

  1. Cold, Cold Heart (2:42)
  2. Jambalaya (On The Bayou) (2:47)
  3. You Win Again (2:33)
  4. Kaw-Liga (2:33)
  5. Take These Chains From My Heart (2:35)
  6. There'll Be No Tear-Drops Tonight (2:42)
  7. Settin' The Woods On Fire (2:33)
  8. Your Cheatin' Heart (2:38)
  9. Hey, Good Lookin' (2:35)
  10. Honky Tonkin' (2:40)
  11. I Can't Help It (If I'm Still In Love WIth You) (2:23)
  12. Why Don't You Love Me (2:23)
  13. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry (2:43)
  14. Half As Much (2:39)

Credits

  • Hank Williams - primary artist, written-by
  • Fred Rose - written-by
  • Hy Heath - written-by
  • Ed Nelson - written-by
  • Curley Williams - written-by

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