Hey, Good Lookin' (song)

"Hey, Good Lookin'"
Single by Hank Williams With His Drifting Cowboys
B-side"My Heart Would Know"
PublishedJune 20, 1951 (1951-06-20) Acuff-Rose Publications[1]
ReleasedJune 22, 1951 (1951-06-22)
RecordedMarch 16, 1951 (1951-03-16)[2]
StudioCastle Studio, Nashville
GenreCountry and western, honky-tonk, country blues, proto-rockabilly[3]
Length2:57
LabelMGM 11000
Songwriter(s)Hank Williams
Producer(s)Fred Rose
Hank Williams With His Drifting Cowboys singles chronology
"Howlin' at the Moon"
(1951)
"Hey, Good Lookin'"
(1951)
"(I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle"
(1951)

"Hey, Good Lookin'" is a 1951 song written and recorded by Hank Williams, and his version was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2001.[4] In 2003, CMT voted the Hank Williams version No. 19 on CMT's 100 Greatest Songs of Country Music. Since its original 1951 recording it has been covered by a variety of artists.

  1. ^ "U.S. Copyright Office Virtual Card Catalog". vcc.copyright.gov. Retrieved 2021-09-09.
  2. ^ "Hank Williams 78rpm Issues". jazzdiscography.com. Retrieved 2021-09-22.
  3. ^ Escott, Merritt & MacEwen 2004, p. 131.
  4. ^ Grammy Hall of Fame Archived 2015-07-07 at the Wayback Machine