Hawkshaw Hawkins

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Lonesome 7-7203 02:45 Tools
Twenty Miles From Shore 01:56 Tools
Soldier's Joy 00:00 Tools
Dog House Boogie 00:00 Tools
I Can't Seem To Say Goodbye 00:00 Tools
When They Found the Atomic Power 00:00 Tools
Slow Poke 00:00 Tools
Pan American 00:00 Tools
Ko Ko Mo (I Love You So) 00:00 Tools
Sunny Side Of The Mountain 00:00 Tools
I'm Just Waiting for You 00:00 Tools
Doghouse Boogie 00:00 Tools
Car Hoppin' Momma 00:00 Tools
Teardrops From My Eyes 00:00 Tools
Waitin' for My Baby 00:00 Tools
Rattlesnake Daddy 00:00 Tools
The Last Letter 00:00 Tools
I'm Waiting Just for You 00:00 Tools
Rattlesnakin' Daddy 00:00 Tools
I Love You a Thousand Ways 02:46 Tools
Rebound 00:00 Tools
Shot Gun Boogie 00:00 Tools
I'm a Lone Wolf 00:00 Tools
I Wanna Be Hugged To Death By You 00:00 Tools
Got You on My Mind 00:00 Tools
If It Ain't On The Menu 00:00 Tools
It Would Be A Doggone Lie 00:00 Tools
Flashing Lights 02:14 Tools
Sensation 00:00 Tools
Waitin' For My Baby (Rock, Rock) 00:00 Tools
Are You Happy 00:00 Tools
Somebody Lied 00:00 Tools
Ling Ting Tong 00:00 Tools
Action 02:12 Tools
Guitar Boogie 00:00 Tools
Big Ole Heartache 00:00 Tools
I Ain't Goin' Honky Tonkin' Anymore 00:00 Tools
I've Got It Again 00:00 Tools
Back to the Dog House 00:00 Tools
Cocaine Blues 00:00 Tools
I'll Trade Yours For Mine 00:00 Tools
Darkness on the Face of the Earth 00:00 Tools
When You Say Yes 00:00 Tools
A Heap Of Lovin' 00:00 Tools
Dog House Boogie - Dogs 00:00 Tools
Barbara Allen 00:00 Tools
I Gotta Have You 00:00 Tools
Alaska Lil and Texas Bill 00:00 Tools
I've Got the Blues 00:00 Tools
Big Red Benson 00:00 Tools
Your Conscience 02:28 Tools
Put A Nickel In The Jukebox 00:00 Tools
Unwanted 00:00 Tools
If I Ever Get Rich Mom 00:00 Tools
I'll Be Gone 00:00 Tools
Dark Moon 00:00 Tools
When They Found the Atomic Power (1947) 00:00 Tools
I Suppose 00:00 Tools
How Could Anything So Pretty (Be So Doggone Mean) 00:00 Tools
Pedro Gonzales Tennessee Lopez 00:00 Tools
I'll Get Even With You 01:57 Tools
The Life of Hank Williams 00:00 Tools
With This Pen 00:00 Tools
You Nearly Lose Your Mind 00:00 Tools
My Story 00:00 Tools
The Mark 'Round Your Finger 00:00 Tools
I'll Never Close My Heart To You 00:00 Tools
I'll Take A Chance With You 02:42 Tools
I Wasted a Nickel 00:00 Tools
Standing At The End Of My World 00:00 Tools
You Know Me Much Too Well 00:00 Tools
Kaw-Liga 02:52 Tools
Mean Mama Blues 00:00 Tools
Guilty Of Dreaming 00:00 Tools
The Long Way 00:00 Tools
Why Don't You Leave This Town 00:00 Tools
Waitin' for My Baby (Rock Rock) 00:00 Tools
I'm Kissing Your Picture Counting Tears 00:00 Tools
(Is My) Ring On Your Finger 00:00 Tools
The Love I Have For You 00:00 Tools
Patanio (The Pride Of The Plains) 00:00 Tools
The Life Story of Hank Williams 00:00 Tools
No Love For Me 00:00 Tools
The Love You Steal 00:00 Tools
Pan American-78 02:55 Tools
Little White Washed Chimney 00:00 Tools
Lonesome 77203 00:00 Tools
Borrowing 00:00 Tools
My Fate Is In Your Hands 00:00 Tools
Freedom 00:00 Tools
Lonesome 00:00 Tools
You Just Stood There 02:16 Tools
Be My Life's Companion 00:00 Tools
She Was Here 00:00 Tools
I'll get along somehow 00:00 Tools
I Can'T Tell My Broken Heart A Lie 00:00 Tools
Loaded With Love 00:00 Tools
I Hate Myself 00:00 Tools
There's A Teardrop In Your Eye 00:00 Tools
Picking Sweethearts 00:00 Tools
Would You Like To Have A Broken Heart 00:00 Tools
It's Easier Said Than Done 00:00 Tools
Oh How I Cried 00:00 Tools
I Don't Apologize For Loving You 00:00 Tools
Why Didn't I Hear From You 00:00 Tools
That's All She Wrote 00:00 Tools
The Best Of Company 00:00 Tools
I Love The Way You Say Goodnight 00:00 Tools
Intro / Stay All Night, Stay A Little Longer 00:00 Tools
After All We Have Meant to Each Other 00:00 Tools
Pardon Me For Loving You 00:00 Tools
Lonesome 7-7203 (single Master) 00:00 Tools
Is My Ring On Your Finger 00:00 Tools
The Way I Love You 00:00 Tools
Silver Threads and Golden Needles 00:00 Tools
Teardrops on Your Letter 00:00 Tools
I Wonder Why You Said Goodbye 00:00 Tools
Blue Skies In Your Eyes 00:00 Tools
A Heartache to Recall 02:30 Tools
Stop, Please Stop 00:00 Tools
I'm Slowly Dying of a Broken Heart 00:00 Tools
Boogie Woogie Country Man 00:00 Tools
You Can't Find Happiness That Way 00:00 Tools
Soldier's Last Letter 00:00 Tools
I Hope You'Re Cryin' Too 00:00 Tools
One White Rose 02:40 Tools
One White Horse 00:00 Tools
Thank You For Thinking Of Me 00:00 Tools
The Shot Gun Boogie 00:00 Tools
Stay All Night, Stay A Little Longer 00:00 Tools
Walking The Floor Over You 00:00 Tools
I Am Slowly Dying Of A Broken Heart 00:00 Tools
Some Of These Nights 00:00 Tools
Two Roads 00:00 Tools
Mean old bed bug blues 00:00 Tools
I'LL NEVER CRY OVER YOU 00:00 Tools
Everybody'S Got A Girl But Me 00:00 Tools
Try Me One More Time 00:00 Tools
Oh, How I Cried 00:00 Tools
Pan America 00:00 Tools
Tangled Heart 00:00 Tools
You Don't Belong to Me 00:00 Tools
Standing At The End Of Mend Of The World 00:00 Tools
Lonesome 7-7203 (Undubbed version) 00:00 Tools
Handcuffed To Love 00:00 Tools
Love Died Tonight 00:00 Tools
Sunny Side Of The Mountain (King 1947) 02:57 Tools
Milton's Boogie 00:00 Tools
There's A Little Bit Of Everything In Texas 00:00 Tools
That's when it's coming home to you 00:00 Tools
Everybody's Got a Date but Me 00:00 Tools
I'm Wondering How 00:00 Tools
When They Found The Atomatic Power 00:00 Tools
It's Been So Long 00:00 Tools
lonesome 7 7203 00:00 Tools
Life Story of Hank Williams 00:00 Tools
Ling-Ting-Tong 00:00 Tools
Mambo Boogie 00:00 Tools
I Ain't Goin' Honky Tonkin' Any More 00:00 Tools
Are You Waiting Just for Me? 00:00 Tools
All Because Of My Jealous Heart 00:00 Tools
We Need A Lot More Jesus And 00:00 Tools
Boogie Woogie Came to Town 00:00 Tools
Soldiers's Joy 00:00 Tools
Let Them Talk 00:00 Tools
Elevator Boogie 00:00 Tools
Boogie Chillin' 00:00 Tools
You Just Stood There (Unissued) 00:00 Tools
Memories Always Linger On 00:00 Tools
Who Will Buy The Wine 00:00 Tools
WaitinÂ’ For My Baby 00:00 Tools
The Time Will Come 00:00 Tools
I Wonder Why 00:00 Tools
Lonesome 7-7203 (Undubbed) 00:00 Tools
Waiting For My Baby (Rock Rock) 00:00 Tools
Everbody's Got a Girl but Me 00:00 Tools
I've Had It Before And I've Got it again 00:00 Tools
Cow-Cow Boogie 00:00 Tools
It Is No Secret 00:00 Tools
Blue Eyed Elaine 00:00 Tools
It's Been So Long Darling 00:00 Tools
I Can't Seem To Say Goodbye [Album Version] 00:00 Tools
Kaw Liga 00:00 Tools
The Doghouse Boogie 00:00 Tools
Between the Lines 00:00 Tools
Nothing More to Say 00:00 Tools
Caught in the middle of two hearts 00:00 Tools
Wedding Boogie 00:00 Tools
Why Baby Why 00:00 Tools
Roomin' House Boogie 00:00 Tools
Bad News Travels Fast In Our Town 00:00 Tools
After All 00:00 Tools
It It Ain't On The Menu 00:00 Tools
Car Hoppin Mama 00:00 Tools
Dog House Boogie [12Jm] 00:00 Tools
How Could Anything Sp Pretty Be So Doggone Mean 00:00 Tools
Heartache To Recall 00:00 Tools
Lonesome7-7203 00:00 Tools
I've Got It Again (Unissued) 00:00 Tools
It's Easy to Remember 00:00 Tools
Dog House Boogie (Dogs) 00:00 Tools
You Can't Find Happiness That Way (Unissued) 00:00 Tools
Secrets Of My Heart 00:00 Tools
Hamps Boogie Woogie No. 1 00:00 Tools
It's Easy to Remember 00:00 Tools
That's You Last Boogie 00:00 Tools
Lonesome 7.7.2.0.3. 00:00 Tools
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Hawkshaw Hawkins (Harold Franklin Hawkins, Huntington, West Virginia, December 22, 1921 - March 5, 1963) was an American country music singer. He was popular from the 1950s into the early 60s and known for his rich, smooth vocals and music drawn from blues, boogie and honky tonk. Hawkins died in 1963, in the same plane crash that took the lives of Patsy Cline and Cowboy Copas. He was a member of the Grand Ole Opry and was married to country star Jean Shepard. Harold Hawkins was born on December 22, 1921 in Huntington, West Virginia. He gained his nickname as a boy after helping a neighbor track down two missing fishing rods: the neighbor dubbed him "Hawkshaw" after the title character in the comic strip, Hawkshaw the Detective. He traded five trapped rabbits for his first guitar, and first performed on WCMI-AM in Ashland, Kentucky. At 16, he won a talent competition and a job on WSAZ-AM in Huntington, where he formed Hawkshaw and Sherlock with Clarence Jack. They moved to WCHS-AM in Charleston, West Virginia in the late 1930s. In 1940, at 19, he married Reva Mason Barbour, a 16-year-old from Huntington. During 1941, Hawkins traveled the United States with a musical revue. He entered the US Army in 1943 during World War II, and served as an engineer stationed near Paris, Texas where he and friends performed at local clubs. As a staff sergeant, he was stationed in France and fought in the Battle of the Bulge, winning four battle stars during 15 months of combat. He was also stationed in Manila and performed there on the radio. After he was discharged, Hawkins became a regular on WWVA Jamboree from 1945 to 1954 in Wheeling, West Virginia. In 1948, he signed a recording contract with King Records in Cincinnati, Ohio. His first two recordings with King, "Pan American" and "Dog House Boogie", were top ten country hits. A minor hit, and the song that become his signature tune, was "The Sunny Side of the Mountain." "Slow Poke", recorded in 1951, was another notable King recording. He stayed with the label until 1953. In 1951, Hawkins and his wife adopted 4-year old Susan Marlene. They divorced in 1958, and Susan remained with her adoptive mother and visited her father when possible. Beginning in 1954, Hawkins was a regular performer on ABC Radio and TV's Ozark Jubilee in Springfield, Missouri, where he met his second wife, Jean Shepard. After a few years with Columbia and RCA Records, he joined the Grand Ole Opry and returned to King; and in 1962 he recorded his biggest hit, "Lonesome 7-7203". It first appeared on the Billboard country chart as a March 2, 1963 release, three days before Hawkins died. The song was absent from the charts for the two weeks following his death, but re-appeared on March 23 and spent 25 weeks on the chart, four of them at No. 1, an accomplishment that eluded him in life. On March 3, 1963, Hawkins, Patsy Cline and Cowboy Copas performed at a benefit concert at the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall in Kansas City, Kansas for the family of disc jockey "Cactus" Jack Call, who had died in January after an automobile accident. Among the performers was Billy Walker, who received an urgent phone call and needed to return to Nashville immediately. Hawkins gave Walker his commercial airline ticket and instead flew back in a private plane in Walker's place. On March 5, Hawkins, Cline and Copas left for Nashville in a Piper Comanche piloted by Cline's manager (and Copas' son-in-law), Randy Hughes. After stopping to refuel in Dyersburg, Tennessee, the craft took off at 6:07 p.m. CT. The plane flew into severe weather and crashed at 6:20 p.m. in a forest near Camden, Tennessee, 90 miles from Nashville. There were no survivors. Fans around the world mourned the loss; Hawkins's wife, Jean, was pregnant at the time with their second son, Harold Franklin II. Hawkins was buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens in Goodlettsville, Tennessee in "Music Row" with Copas and other country music stars. The location of the airplane crash in the still-remote forest outside Camden is noted by a stone marker, dedicated on July 6, 1996. Hawkins is remembered in "Love Never Dies" on Martin Simpson's 2003 album, Righteousness and Humidity. In the song, Simpson meets an old truck driver who used to play guitar: "I gave old Hawkshaw a Gibson one time, it was a J-200, man, such a sweet neck! And they say it stood up like a country grave marker, right there in the middle of that plane wreck." Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.