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3 unusual facts about Hank Snow


Herbert Mayfield

In the late 1940s, the Mayfield Brothers were warmup musicians in Lubbock and Amarillo for Tennessee Ernie Ford, Maddox Brothers and Rose, Hank Snow, and other Country groups.

Mattawa, Ontario

Mattawa is one of the towns mentioned in the popular country music song, I've Been Everywhere, covered by Hank Snow and Johnny Cash.

Tim Greening

On October 30, 2001, Greening reported on the dedication of the Hank Snow, Hank Williams, Sr., Johnny Cash, and Buck Owens statues unveiled at the Louisiana State Exhibit Museum in Shreveport.


Limbo Rock

The song was covered by a long list of artists including Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass, The Champs, The Ventures, Fozzie Bear, Sebastian the crab, Chet Atkins and Hank Snow (on their joint album C.B. Atkins & C.E. Snow by Special Request), The Knickerbockers, Klaus Wunderlich, The Routers, Arthur Lyman, Skiantos, Jaume Sisa.


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Mitchell Torok

Torok continued to write songs, working in partnership with his wife (who has used both Gayle Jones and Ramona Redd as pseudonyms, the latter being her maiden namea), and had recordings by artists including Skeeter Davis, Kitty Wells,Hank Snow and Willie Nelson, Jerry Wallace,Billy Walker, Barbara Eden, Glen Campbell, Dean Martin and Clint Eastwood, who sang Torok's song, "No Sweeter Cheater than You" in the Warner Brothers HONKY TONK MAN movie.