![]() ![]() An attempted suicide is the nadir for Hank, Jr., who realizes he must find his own direction in music rather than replicate his famous father. Of Jim Beam and cheery, multi-colored pills, and strange girls with vacant eyes.” later wrote of this time as “An endless nightmare of bars and shows, of sick mornings and stoned nights and big chunks of time where there are no memories at all. Notches his first #1 country hit, “All for the Love of Sunshine,” recorded for the movie Kelly’s Heroes, starring Clint Eastwood. Signs the biggest contract in MGM Records history. Hank, Jr.’s Songs My Father Left Me becomes his first top-charting country album. and Johnny Cash join together for a sold-out show at Detroit’s Cobo Hall, playing the highest-grossing country music show to date. The song addresses the son’s difficulties growing up in the shadow of his father, and it peaks at #5 on the Billboard country chart. His own composition, “Standing in the Shadows (Of A Very Famous Man) is released. Records the soundtrack Your Cheatin’ Heart, a movie adaptation of his father’s life. The song, a re-make of his father’s hit, climbs to #5 on the Billboard Country Singles chart. Releases “Long Gone Lonesome Blues” on MGM. The artist now billed as “Hank Williams, Jr.” signs with MGM Records at a guaranteed $300,000 a year, and signs with booking agency William Morris for personal appearances. Plays the Grand Ole Opry, singing his father’s hit, “Lovesick Blues,” and drawing an encore. Soon, he was touring, with half-sister Lycrecia and Opry greats Ernest Tubb and Grandpa Jones. Plays first show, as an eight-year-old, on a small stage in Swainsboro, Ga. One of these days before too long he’ll be singing for you.” In a letter to the Hank Williams fan club, the widow addressed her husband in the second person: “Little Bocephus is a prince of a little guy and every day in every way he looks more like you…. Audrey Williams begins molding her son into a miniature version of his late father. Hank Williams, country music’s “hillbilly Shakespeare,” dies at age 29 in the back seat of a pale blue Cadillac, on the way to play a concert. Williams would often close radio shows by saying, “Don’t worry, Bocephus, I’m coming home.” His father soon nicknamed him “Bocephus” after comedian and Grand Ole Opry Star Rod Brasfield’s ventriloquist dummy. He is the only son of Audrey Williams and country music superstar Hank Williams. Randall Hank Williams is born in Shreveport, Louisiana. ![]()
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