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Winifred Atwell. Una Winifred Atwell (27 February or 27 April [ 2] 1910 or 1914 [ nb 1] – 28 February 1983) was a Trinidadian pianist who enjoyed great popularity in Britain and Australia from the 1950s with a series of boogie-woogie and ragtime hits, selling over 20 million records. [ 3] She was the first black artist to have a number-one ...
Black and White Rag. The "Black and White Rag" is a 1908 ragtime composition by George Botsford. [ 1] The song was recorded widely for both the phonograph and player piano, [ 2] and was the third ragtime composition to sell over one million copies of sheet music. [ 3] The song was first recorded in 1909, as performed by the Victor orchestra for ...
"Honky Tonk Song" is a country music song recorded by Webb Pierce. The song was co-written by Mel Tillis and Buck Peddy. It was released in 1957 on the Decca label. The song's lyrics tell of a man who rents a room in a cheap motel. He can't sleep, because the band in the joint downstairs keeps playing with a honky tonk beat, shaking his bed.
Hank Williams With His Drifting Cowboys singles chronology. "Baby, We're Really in Love". (1951) " Honky Tonk Blues ". (1952) "Half as Much". (1952) " Honky Tonk Blues " was a hit country and western song written and performed by Hank Williams. The original 1952 recording was a major hit, and it later became a hit for Charley Pride .
"The Wild Side of Life" is a song made famous by country music singer Hank Thompson. Originally released in 1952, the song became one of the most popular recordings in the genre's history, spending 15 weeks at number one on the Billboard country chart, [1] solidified Thompson's status as a country music superstar and inspired the answer song, "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels" by Kitty ...
Honky Tonk (instrumental) " Honky Tonk " is an instrumental written by Billy Butler, Bill Doggett, Clifford Scott, and Shep Shepherd. Doggett recorded it as a two-part single in 1956. [2] It became Doggett's signature piece and a standard recorded by many other performers. [3]
Honky Tonk Heroesis a country musicalbum by Waylon Jennings, released in 1973 on RCA Victor. With the exception of the final track on the album, "We Had It All", all of the songs on the album were written or co-written by Billy Joe Shaver. The album is considered an important piece in the development of the outlaw sub-genrein country music as ...
"It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels" is a 1952 country song written by J. D. "Jay" Miller, and recorded by Kitty Wells. It was an answer song to the Hank Thompson hit "The Wild Side of Life." First performed by Al Montgomery as "Did God Make Honky Tonk Angels" on the Feature label which was owned by songwriter J.D. Miller. [2]