Crazy Heart (Hank Williams song)

"Crazy Heart"
Single by Hank Williams With His Drifting Cowboys
A-side"(I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle"
PublishedOctober 30, 1951 (1951-10-30) Milene Music[1]
ReleasedSeptember 1951 (1951-09)
RecordedJuly 25, 1951 (1951-07-25)[2]
StudioCastle Studio, Nashville
GenreCountry & Western, Honky-tonk, Country blues
Length2:27
LabelMGM
Songwriter(s)Maurice Murray, Fred Rose
Producer(s)Fred Rose
Hank Williams With His Drifting Cowboys singles chronology
"Hey, Good Lookin'"
(1951)
"Crazy Heart"
(1951)
"Baby, We're Really in Love"
(1951)

"Crazy Heart" is a song by Hank Williams. It was written by Fred Rose and Maurice Murray and reached number four in the record chart for Williams in 1951. It was recorded at Castle Studio in Nashville on July 25, 1951 with Fred Rose producing and backing from Don Helms (steel guitar), Jerry Rivers (fiddle), Sammy Pruett (lead guitar), Howard Watts (bass) and probably Jack Shook (rhythm guitar).[3]

It was one of Williams least commercially successful singles of the period, only spending two weeks on the chart, although Guy Lombardo dented the Top 20 with it, underscoring that the song was better suited to a palm court orchestra than Hank Williams.[4]

  1. ^ "U.S. Copyright Office Virtual Card Catalog 1946-1954". vcc.copyright.gov. Retrieved 2021-09-09.
  2. ^ "Hank Williams Sessions". jazzdiscography.com. Retrieved 2021-10-21.
  3. ^ Escott, Colin (2004). Hank Williams: The Biography. Back Bay. p. 345. ISBN 0-316-73497-7.
  4. ^ Escott, Colin (2004). Hank Williams: The Biography. Back Bay. p. 178. ISBN 0-316-73497-7.