Hank Snow

Canadian musician (1914–1999)

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Hank Snow

Snow in 1963

Background information
Birth name| Clarence Eugene Snow
Also known as| Hank, The Yodeling Ranger
Hank Snow, The Singing Ranger
Born| (1914-05-09)May 9, 1914
Brooklyn, Nova Scotia, Canada
Died| December 20, 1999(1999-12-20) (aged 85)
Madison, Tennessee, United States
Genres| Country
Occupation(s)|

* Singer
* songwriter
* composer
* musician

Instrument(s)| Vocals, guitar
Years active| 1936-1996
Labels| RCA Victor

Musical artist

Clarence Eugene "Hank" Snow (May 9, 1914[1] – December 20, 1999)[2] was a Canadian-American country music guitarist, singer and songwriter. Most popular in the 1950s, his career spanned more than 50 years. He recorded 140 albums and charted more than 85 singles on the Billboard country charts from 1950 until 1980. His number-one hits include the self-penned songs "I'm Moving On", "The Golden Rocket", and "The Rhumba Boogie"; and covers of "I Don't Hurt Anymore", "Let Me Go, Lover!", "I've Been Everywhere", "Hello Love", as well as other top 10 hits.[3][4]

As a songwriter he wrote on a wide range of topics including the joys of freedom and travel as well as the anguish of tortured love - often inspired by his personal experiences. His music was rooted in his beginnings in small-town Nova Scotia where he endured extreme poverty, physical and psychological abuse as well as physically punishing labour during the Great Depression. His mother provided the emotional support and encouraged him to follow his dream of becoming an entertainer like his idol, country star Jimmie Rodgers.[3][4]

Snow won a number of music awards and is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame, the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame and the Canadian Music Hall of Fame.[4] The Hank Snow Museum in Liverpool, Nova Scotia celebrates his life and work.[5][6]

## Early life[edit]

Hank Snow was the son of George Snow (1886-1966)[7] and Maude Marie Hatt[7][8] (1889-1953)[7] in the small community of Brooklyn in Queens County, Nova Scotia, Canada. He was born on May 9, 1914.[1] He was the fifth of six children, of whom the two eldest died in infancy. His parents were married on November 10, 1909, in Liverpool, Nova Scotia.[7] After divorcing his father, Hank's mother married Charles Tanner in 1930.[8] In his autobiography, Snow tells how his parents struggled to feed their four remaining children during hard financial times. George Snow worked for low pay as a foreman in sawmills, often far from home, while Marie helped support the family by washing clothes and scrubbing floors in better-off homes. Both parents showed musical talent. Although Snow says his father loved to sing "in an amateurish way", he describes his mother as "an accomplished singer" who played piano during silent films at the local theatre and sometimes performed in minstrel shows. She also enjoyed playing her own pump organ, but refused several offers to join travelling shows because of her dedication to the family.[4]

Snow's parents legally separated when he was eight, and the local Overseer of the Poor decided the children should be taken from their mother because of her inability to support them financially. One sister moved in with an aunt, while the other two were sent to separate foster homes. Snow himself went to live with his paternal grandmother, who ordered him never to mention his mother's name and subjected him to severe beatings, as well as psychological abuse.[citation needed] Gradually, Snow began to sneak away to visit his mother in nearby Liverpool and eventually, after his grandmother failed in her attempt to get him sent to reform school, he was allowed to rejoin his mother.[4]

### Musical beginnings[edit]

After his mother's remarriage to local fisherman Charles Tanner, she ordered a Hawaiian steel guitar advertised in a magazine along with free lessons and several 78 rpm gramophone records. At first, she ordered her son not to touch the guitar because it was one of her prized possessions, but later, when she finally allowed him to play, she marveled at his play. He was soon invited to play for his neighbors and elsewhere.[4]

### Life at sea[edit]

Photo of the Bluenose. Snow painted the schooner on cardboard winning 1st prize at the Lunenburg Fisheries Exhibition.

In 1926, Snow found work by joining a fishing schooner where he served as a "flunky" or cabin boy.[9][2] The job did not pay any wages. Snow, however, was allowed to cut out cod tongues and sell them later along with any fish he caught from the deck. After one trip, he sold his tongues and fish for around $58. Feeling rich, he ordered a guitar and chord book for $5.95 from the T. Eaton mail-order catalogue. In 1927 or 1928, Snow remembers hearing radio broadcasts while at sea. The one-hour broadcasts featured recordings by such country artists as Vernon Dalhart and Carson Robison. "I still remember Dalhart singing 'The Prisoner's Song,' and 'The Wreck of the Old 97,'" Snow recalls. "These songs gave me a great lift." He adds that he tried to sing the songs exactly as the artists had, entertaining his fellow crew members by singing and dancing while accompanying himself on a mouth organ.[4]

Snow's fishing trips went well until August 1930, when the schooner he was sailing on got caught in ferocious winds that blew it uncontrollably toward Sable Island, known as the "Graveyard of the Atlantic" because the crews of ships wrecked there rarely survived. Snow writes that when they were about 14 miles from the island, "the Good Lord reached out his hand and changed the wind. Saved by the grace of God!" A day later, Snow learned that six other vessels had been lost in the gale and that 132 men had drowned. Once ashore in Canso, Snow vowed he would never return to the open sea again. "I was finished," he wrote. "No more fishing trips for me."[4]

### Life after sailing[edit]

Snow returned to live with his mother and stepfather, again without holding down steady work. Instead, he attempted to get by just peddling fish door-to-door or landing occasional jobs that included transporting passengers and their luggage by horse-drawn buggy to and from the train station in Lunenburg; unloading salt and coal ships; raking scallops and hauling loads of dried cod into a warehouse for processing and shipping. One winter, after being reunited with his father, he cut pulpwood and firewood on his father's farm in the backwoods at Pleasantville.[4]

On September 2, 1935, he married Minnie Blanche Aalders, a young Halifax woman, born in Kentville, Nova Scotia,[10] who worked in a local chocolate factory. She soon became pregnant and gave birth to their only child, Jimmie Rodgers Snow.[4]

## Career[edit]

### Early music career[edit]

At one point, Snow spotted a picture of a guitar for $12.95 in Eaton's catalogue. He figured he could sell his old guitar for five dollars, but - since he still wasn't working - wondered how he would raise the additional $7.95. The answer came when a storeowner in the village of Blue Rocks, hired him to paint yellow pinstripes on the wooden spokes of his brand new car. He offered to pay Snow two dollars per wheel. After the new guitar arrived, Snow experimented by playing runs and chord progressions in the style of Jimmie Rodgers. He also sang and played in an old fishhouse where local men stored their gear. Soon, Snow was invited to perform in a minstrel show in Bridgewater to help raise money for charity. "Someone blackened my face with black polish and put white rings around my eyes and lips," Snow recalls. When his turn came in the show, he played a song called "I Went to See My Gal Last Night." "My debut was a big success," Snow wrote. "I even got a standing ovation."[4]

In March 1933, Snow wrote to Halifax radio station CHNS, asking for an audition. The rejection letter he received only made him more determined. Later that year, he visited the station, was given an audition and hired to do a Saturday evening show that was advertised as Clarence Snow and his Guitar. After a few months, he adopted the name "The Cowboy Blue Yodeler" in homage to his idol Jimmie Rodgers, known as "America's Blue Yodeler." Since Snow's Saturday show had no sponsor, he was not paid for his performances, but he did manage to earn money playing halls and clubs in towns where people had heard him on the radio. He also played in Halifax theatres before the movies started and performed, for $10 a week, on a CHNS musical show sponsored by a company that manufactured a popular laxative. At the urging of the station's chief engineer and announcer, he adopted the name Hank because it went well with cowboy songs and once again, influenced by Jimmie Rodgers, he became "Hank, The Yodeling Ranger." Snow also appeared occasionally on the CBC's regional network.[4]

### Canadian years[edit]

Snow's audition with the Canadian division of RCA Victor in Montreal, Quebec, on October 29, 1936, led to a recording contract and the release of his first record, with "The Prisoned Cowboy" coupled with "Lonesome Blue Yodel."[4] Snow spent his entire career with RCA Victor, recording for the label until 1981. A weekly CBC radio show brought him national recognition and, he began touring Canada until the late 1940s, when American country music stations began playing his records.

### Nashville[edit]

Snow moved to Nashville, Tennessee, in 1949, and "Hank Snow, the Singing Ranger," made his first records in the United States for RCA Victor in 1949. His first US release, "Marriage Vow," climbed to number ten on the country charts in the fall of 1949; However, it was not until he was invited to play at the Grand Ole Opry in 1950 that he gained serious attention in the United States. His second release in early 1950, "I'm Moving On," was the first of seven number-one hits on the country charts. "I'm Moving On" stayed at the top for 21 weeks, setting the all-time record for most weeks at number one.[citation needed]

That same year "The Golden Rocket" and "The Rhumba Boogie" both hit number one, with the latter remaining there for eight weeks.[11]

Along with these hits, his other "signature song" was "I've Been Everywhere," in which he portrayed himself as a hitchhiker bragging about all the towns he had been through. This song was originally written and performed in Australia by Geoff Mack, and its re-write incorporated North American place names. Rattling off a well-rhymed series of city names at an auctioneer's pace has long made the song a challenge for any singer.

While performing in Renfro Valley, Snow worked with a young Hank Williams.[citation needed]

In the February 7, 1953, edition,[12] Billboard magazine reported that Snow's then-17-year-old son, Jimmie Rodgers Snow, had signed with RCA Victor, and that the younger Snow would "record duets with his father," as well as cover his own material.

### Rainbow Ranch[edit]

Snow bought a ranch home in Madison, Tennessee, shortly after he experienced success with "I've Been Everywhere" and "I'm Movin' On." He named the home 'Rainbow Ranch' after his band, which was known as the "Rainbow Ranch Boys." In recent years the home has been restored by Snow's family.[13] The home was added to the National Register of Historic Places listings in Davidson County, Tennessee on November 27, 2018.[14]

### Elvis Presley[edit]

A regular at the Grand Ole Opry, in 1954 Snow persuaded the directors to allow a young Elvis Presley on stage. Snow used Presley as his opening act and introduced him to Colonel Tom Parker. In August 1955, Snow and Parker formed the management team Hank Snow Attractions. This partnership signed a management contract with Presley, but before long, Snow was out and Parker had full control over the rock singer's career. Forty years after leaving Parker, Snow stated, "I have worked with several managers over the years and have had respect for them all except one. Tom Parker [Snow refused to recognize the honorary title "Colonel"] was the most egotistical, obnoxious human being I've ever had dealings with."

### Later career[edit]

Performing in lavish and colourful sequin-studded suits, Snow had a career covering six decades, during which he sold more than 80 million albums. Although he became a naturalized American citizen in 1958, he still maintained friendships in Canada. He also continued reference Canada in his works, such as with the 1968 album My Nova Scotia Home.

Despite his lack of schooling, Snow was a gifted songwriter and in 1978 was elected to the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. In Canada, he was ten times voted that country's top country music performer. In 1979, he was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame, the Canadian Music Hall of Fame and the Nova Scotia Music Hall of Fame. He was also inducted into the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame in 1985.

His autobiography, The Hank Snow Story, was published in 1994, and later The Hank Snow Country Music Centre opened near his ancestral home in Liverpool, Nova Scotia. A victim of child abuse,[citation needed] he established the Hank Snow International Foundation For Prevention Of Child Abuse.

## Illness and death[edit]

In 1996, Snow began experiencing respiratory problems that forced him to retire from performing. He died three years later on December 20, 1999, aged 85, at his Rainbow Ranch in Madison, Tennessee, and was interred in Nashville's Spring Hill Cemetery.[15] His wife Minnie died on May 12, 2003, in Madison, Tennessee.[16]

## Legacy[edit]

Hank Snow's statue at the Hank Snow Hometown Museum in Liverpool, Nova Scotia.

Elvis Presley, The Rolling Stones, Ray Charles, Ashley MacIsaac, Johnny Cash and Emmylou Harris, among others, have covered his music.

One of his last top hits, "Hello Love", was sung by Garrison Keillor to open each broadcast of his Prairie Home Companion radio show. The song became Snow's seventh and final number 1 hit on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart in April 1974. At 59 years and 11 months, Snow became the oldest country artist to have a top song on the chart. It was an accomplishment that Snow held for more than 26 years, until Kenny Rogers's hit record in May 2000 (at 61 years and nine months), "Buy Me a Rose". (Dolly Parton and Willie Nelson subsequently reached the top of the chart at older ages as secondary duet partners on records fronted by other artists.)

In Robert Altman's 1975 film Nashville, Henry Gibson played a self-obsessed country star loosely based on Hank Snow.[citation needed] Snow is played by Australian actor David Wenham in Baz Luhrmann's Elvis.[17]

Snow is referenced in the opening lines of Jimmy Buffett's 1974 song "The Wino and I Know."[18]

The character of Heikki Lunta, a fictitious Finnish snow god in the local culture of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, is named from the Finnish translation of Hank Snow. Heikki Lunta's mythology and songs—to sing, dance, and bring large amounts of snow, or to do the reverse and melt it—were invented and popularized by WMPL DJ David Riutta in Hancock, Michigan in 1970.

## Discography[edit]

Main article: Hank Snow discography

## See also[edit]

* Canada portal

* Music of Canada
* List of best-selling music artists

## References[edit]

1. ^ a b Colin Larkin, ed. (1992). The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music (First ed.). Guinness Publishing. p. 2315/6. ISBN 0-85112-939-0.
2. ^ a b "Hank Snow Biography, Songs, & Albums". AllMusic. Archived from the original on 28 October 2021. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
3. ^ a b Neil Strauss (21 December 1999). "Hank Snow, Country Singer is Dead at 85". New York Times. Archived from the original on March 25, 2014. Retrieved January 16, 2013.
4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Hank Snow with Jack Ownbey and Bob Burris. (1994) The Hank Snow Story: Hank Snow, the Singing Ranger. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press.
5. ^ "Hank Snow Museum". Hank Snow Home Town Museum. Archived from the original on January 23, 2013. Retrieved January 16, 2013.
6. ^ Jason Schneider. (2009) Whispering Pines: The Northern Roots of American Music from Hank Snow to The Band. Toronto: ECW Press.
7. ^ a b c d Hatt, Dr. William Swasey (1983). Hang on to your Hatts! A genealogy of the Hatt family in America. Sarasota, Florida. p. 98.`{{cite book}}`: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
8. ^ a b Tanner (nee Hatt), Maude (October 22, 1953). "Obituary of Maude Tanner (Nee Hatt)". Liverpool Advance, Liverpool Nova Scotia.
9. ^ The Merriam-Webster online dictionary defines flunky, in this sense, as "one performing menial or miscellaneous duties." Snow's duties included forking cod from the deck into a bin where a "throater" would grab the fish, slit its throat and belly before passing it on to another crew member who would remove its head.
10. ^ NS Scotia vital statistics, marriage record Archived 2023-03-03 at the Wayback Machine
11. ^ Boogie Bobs records, archived from the original on 2011-07-08, retrieved 14 December 2009
12. ^ "Billboard". Nielsen Business Media, Inc. 7 February 1953. p. 42\. Archived from the original on 3 March 2023. Retrieved 11 October 2021 - via Google Books.
13. ^ Sawyer, Bobbie Jean (21 December 2019). "You Can Spend the Night at Hank Snow's Ranch". Wide Open Country. Archived from the original on 7 December 2022. Retrieved 7 December 2022.
14. ^ "National Register Digital Assets - Rainbow Ranch". npgallery. National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior. Archived from the original on 7 December 2022. Retrieved 7 December 2022.
15. ^ "Hank Snow, movin country music hall". The Chicago Tribune. 1999-12-20. Archived from the original on 2012-10-01. Retrieved 2011-07-31.
16. ^ "Tributes". Tributes.com. Archived from the original on 2016-05-13. Retrieved 2013-04-02.
17. ^ Jalali, Jessica (June 12, 2022). "Elvis (2022): Where You've Seen The Cast Before". ScreenRant. Archived from the original on January 1, 2023. Retrieved December 31, 2022.
18. ^ "Jimmy Buffett Song & Lyrics Database". BuffettNews.com. 18 February 2008. Archived from the original on 2012-08-07. Retrieved 2013-04-02.

## Bibliography[edit]

* Wolfe, Charles. (1998). "Hank Snow". In The Encyclopedia of Country Music. Paul Kingsbury, Editor. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 494–5.

## External links[edit]

* Official website
* Hank Snow at the Country Music Hall of Fame
* Hank Snow discography at Discogs
* Hank Snow at IMDb
* Article at thecanadianencyclopedia.ca
* Second article at thecanadianencyclopedia.ca
* Hank Snow Tribute Song
* Rev. Jimmie Rodgers Snow Ministries
* The short film Country Style USA Recruitment: Episode 39 is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive.

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* Hank Snow's Souvenirs (1961)
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