Cold, Cold Heart
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Cold, Cold HeartCold, Cold Heart "Cold, Cold Heart" is a country music and popular music song, written by Hank Williams. This blues ballad is both a classic of honky tonk and an entry in the Great American Songbook. Williams first recorded and released... In this article: Tony Bennett, Cold, Cold Heart, Hank Williams, Billboard magazine, The Good Life, Petula Clark, Percy Faith, Norah Jones, Nat King Cole, and Columbia Records |
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The Volokh Conspiracy - - | October 11, 2009
Sunday Song Lyric
...recorded songs were the archetype rules of poetic songwriting. " One Williams song I hadn't heard for some time is "Cold, Cold Heart," which topped the country charts in 1951. It's not the sort of thing I listen to much, but it's still an...
In this article: Hank Williams and Bob Dylan
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Texas Monthly - Texas Monthly | August 16, 2009
Tanya Tucker
...else with them and I think, "Wow, what a difference. " Norah Jones did Hank Williams's "Cold, Cold Heart," and I loved it, even though it was completely different from the original. I can only hope and pray that people like my versions as...
In this article: Pete Anderson, Merle Haggard, Billy Sherrill, What's Your Mama's Name, Tanya Tucker, Helen Reddy, Norah Jones, Columbia Records, and Ray Price
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Daily Express | August 11, 2009
Williams biopic on the way
...which will be used for script research. The biopic, set to be distributed by Universal, has been given the full blessing of the Williams estate and will feature some of the legend's biggest and most memorable songs, including Cold, Cold...
In this article: Hank Williams, Your Cheatin' Heart, I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry, Hey Good Lookin', Spina bifida, Hank Williams, Jr., George Hamilton, and Jett Williams
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Boston Globe -- Today's paper A to Z | August 12, 2008
Don Helms, at 81; was steel guitarist for Hank Williams
...Lawn Funeral Home. Mr. Helms, from New Brockton, Ala., was an original member of Williams's Drifting Cowboys and provided the signature steel guitar parts on tunes like "Cold, Cold Heart" and "Your Cheatin' Heart." After Williams's death...
In this article: Hank Williams, Don Helms, E-mail, Drifting Cowboys, Lefty Frizzell, Patsy Cline, Long Black Veil, and Your Cheatin' Heart
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www.washingtonpost.com | August 17, 2008
Celebrated Steel Guitarist Don Helms, 81
...Williams ensemble. With a steel guitar that echoed the bluesy timbre of Williams's voice, he played on more than 100 of his recordings, including country music chart-toppers as " Cold, Cold Heart" and "Your Cheatin' Heart." Mr. Helms also...
In this article: Don Helms, Hank Williams, Drifting Cowboys, Nashville, Trademark, World War II, WSFA, Morphine, and Jambalaya
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National Public Radio | September 07, 2009
Patty Loveless On Mountain Stage
...interpretation, accented by Pete Finney's sweet steel-guitar licks. The oldest song of the lot closes the set: Hank Williams' "Cold, Cold Heart," originally released in 1951. This segment originally ran Nov. 17, 2008. You must be logged in...
In this article: Patty Loveless, George Jones, Why Baby Why, Crazy Arms, Sleepless Nights, Hank Williams, Ray Price, Gene Pitney, and Gram Parsons
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Wikipedia | October 31, 2009
Tony Bennett
This was followed to the top of the charts later that year by a similarly-styled rendition of Hank Williams' "Cold, Cold Heart", which helped introduce Williams and country music in general to a wider, more national audience. The...
In this article: Tony Bennett, Danny Bennett, New York City, I Left My Heart in San Francisco, Grammy Award, Emmy Award, Queens, and World War II
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Wikipedia | June 07, 2009
Cold Cold Heart (band)
...(Drums), Charlie Ortolani (Guitar, Vocals) and John Tate (Bass, Vocals). The band chose "Cold Cold Heart" as a tribute to Hank Williams and his hit song of the same name. Their first CD "Prides Crossing" was recorded and released on the...
In this article: Cold Cold Heart, Hank Williams, Sleepy LaBeef, Roy Orbison, and Rick Nelson
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Independent.co.uk - Music | January 01, 2009
Album box-set: Hank Williams, The Unreleased Recordings (TimeLife)
...set's "Cool Water" and not feel chills up their spine. Likewise, "Cold, Cold Heart" receives a brittle accompaniment that brings home the personal bitterness in which the song was rooted. Elsewhere, the nosey-parker classic "Mind Your Own...
In this article: Hank Williams, Cool Water, Acetate, I Can't Help It, Basement Tapes, On Top of Old Smoky, I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry, and Drifting Cowboys
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"Cold, Cold Heart" is a country music and popular music song, written by Hank Williams. This blues ballad is both a classic of honky tonk and an entry in the Great American Songbook.
Williams first recorded and released the song in 1951, where it reached #1 on the country music singles chart. The song achingly and artfully describes frustration that the singer's love and trust is unreciprocated due to a prior bad experience in the other's past.
That same year it was recorded in a pop version by Tony Bennett with a light orchestral arrangement from Percy Faith. This recording was released by Columbia Records as catalog number 39449. It first reached the Billboard magazine charts on July 20, 1951 and lasted 27 weeks on the chart, peaking at #1.
The popularity of Bennett's version has been credited with helping to expose both Williams and country music to a wider national audience. Allmusic writer Bill Janovitz discusses this unlikely combination:
:"That a young Italian singing waiter from Queens could find common ground with a country singer from Alabama's backwoods is testament both to Williams' skills as a writer and to Bennett's imagination and artist's ear."
Williams subsequently telephoned Bennett to say, "Tony, why did you ruin my song?" But that was a prank – in fact, Williams liked Bennett's version and played it on jukeboxes whenever he could. This story is often related with mirth by Bennett in interviews and on stage; he still performs the song in concert as of 2005.
- Name:
- Cold, Cold Heart
- Genre:
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- Country, Honky tonk
- Jazz fusion
- Release Date:
- February 26, 2002
- Preceded By:
- "Howlin' at the Moon"
- Produced by:
- Norah Jones, Arif Mardin, Jay Newland, Craig Street
- Written By:
- Hank Williams
- Recorded By:
- Length:
- 2:46
- Record Label:
- Blue Note
- Recording Dates:
- 1951
- B Side:
- "Dear John"
- From Album:
- Come Away with Me
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