"Honky-Tonk Girl" | ||||
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Single by Hank Thompson and His Brazos Valley Boys | ||||
A-side | "Honky-Tonk Girl" "We've Gone Too Far" | |||
Released | 1954 | |||
Recorded | 1954 | |||
Genre | country | |||
Length | 2:25 | |||
Label | Capitol 2823 | |||
Songwriter(s) | Hank Thompson, Chuck Harding[1] | |||
Hank Thompson and His Brazos Valley Boys singles chronology | ||||
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Music video | ||||
"Honky-Tonk Girl" (audio only) on YouTube |
"Honky-Tonk Girl" | |
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Single by Johnny Cash | |
from the album Now, There Was a Song! | |
A-side | "Honky-Tonk Girl" "Second Honeymoon" |
Released | 1960 |
Genre | country |
Label | Columbia 4-41707 |
Songwriter(s) | Autry Inman[2] |
Music video | |
"Honky-Tonk Girl" (audio only) on YouTube |
"Honky-Tonk Girl" is a song co-written and originally recorded by Hank Thompson.[3][2][4] Released by him on Capitol Records in 1954,[2][5] it was a nationwide country hit in the United States that year (reaching country number nine on Billboard).[6]
The song was notably covered by Johnny Cash.
Cash's version was released as a single by Columbia Records (Columbia 4-41707, with "Second Honeymoon" on the opposite side)[7][8][6][9][10] in June[11][12] or July 1960.[13]
Second Honky-Tonk Girl Columbia 41707.
June
Both Columbia and Sun Records release singles this month – "Second Honeymoon"/"Honky Tonk Girl" (Columbia 4-41707) and "Story Of A Broken Heart"/"Down The Street To 301" (Sun 343).