Garland Perry "Hank" Cochran (August 2, 1935 –
July 15, 2010) was an American country music singer and songwriter. Starting
during the 1960s, Cochran was a prolific songwriter in the genre, including
major hits by Patsy Cline, Ray Price, Eddy Arnold and others. Cochran was also
a recording artist between 1962 and 1980, scoring seven times on the Billboard
country music charts, with his greatest solo success being the No. 20
"Sally Was a Good Old Girl." In 2014, he was inducted into the
Country Music Hall of Fame.
Born during the Great Depression in Isola, Mississippi,
he contracted pneumonia, whooping cough, measles, and mumps all about the same
time at age 2. The doctor didn't believe that he would survive. His parents
divorced when he was 9 years old. He relocated with his father to Memphis,
Tennessee, but then was put into an orphanage. He was sent to live with his
grandparents, in Greenville, Mississippi, after he had run away from the
orphanage twice.
His uncle Otis Cochran taught him how to play the guitar
as the pair hitchhiked from Mississippi to south-eastern New Mexico to work in
the oilfields. After returning to Mississippi in his teens, he went to
California and picked olives. While there he became a habitué of the Riverside
Rancho, one of Los Angeles' leading country music nightspots, where he earned a
reputation as a competent band musician. For a few years, he partnered Eddie
Cochran, with the billing of the Cochran Brothers – though they were not
related.
Aged 24 he hitchhiked for Hollywood, but ended up going
to Nashville in 1960, and teamed with Harlan Howard to write the song "I
Fall to Pieces." It became a major success for Patsy Cline (recorded
November 16, 1960), reaching No. 1 on the Billboard country music charts and
No. 12 on the Billboard Hot 100 (chart for all music categories). Cline also
recorded Cochran's "She's Got You" (recorded December 17, 1961, it
was another major hit, No. 1 on the country charts and No. 14 on the Hot 100),
and "Why Can't He Be You" (recorded September 5, 1962).
In 1960, he was on a date at a movie theatre when the
film inspired him. He left the theatre quickly, and by the time he got home
fifteen minutes later had composed "Make the World Go Away." Ray
Price recorded the song, and it scored No. 2 on the Billboard country charts in
1963. The next year Eddy Arnold would make the song his signature hit, scoring
No. 1 on the country music charts and then in 1965 No. 6 on the overall
Billboard Hot 100 charts (his highest rated song ever). Arnold would also record
the song "I Want to Go with You".
In 1961 Cochran's A Little Bitty Tear, recorded by Burl
Ives, was a top 10 pop hit in both the US and the UK. By the following year, he
had established himself firmly with She's Got You and Funny Way of Laughin',
another singalong hit for Ives, which won a Grammy for best country and western
recording.
He also wrote songs for George Strait ("The
Chair" with Dean Dillon and "Ocean Front Property" with Dillon
and Royce Porter), Merle Haggard ("It's Not Love (But It's Not Bad)"),
"Don't You Ever Get Tired (of Hurting Me)", a No. 1 scoring record
for Ronnie Milsap, and Mickey Gilley ("That's All That Matters").
Hank with Willie Nelson |
Throughout that career, he tried to maintain a parallel
one as a singer, recording for half a dozen labels, capably but without conspicuous
success. Oddly, his best remembered recording was of Sally Was a Good Old Girl,
a song that was not his, but Howard's.
In 1978, newly signed to Capitol Records, he produced the
album Hank Cochran – With a Little Help from His Friends. Among those supporters
was Nelson, who subsequently got him a part in the country music movie
Honeysuckle Rose (1980), enlisted him for his own ... And Friends album and
later gave him a hit with a remake of his song Don't You Ever Get Tired? (of
Hurting Me) in a duet with Ray Price.
Reaching his 70's Hank was in poor health and was a regular visitor to his local hospital. He had cancerous tumours removed surgically from his
pancreas and lymph node at a Nashville hospital in July 2008, and a
grapefruit-sized aortic aneurysm removed at a Nashville hospital in April 2010.
He died on July 15, 2010, age 74. (Info edited from Wikipedia & the
Guardian)
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For “Hits From The Heart - Hank Cochran (1965)” go here:
http://www16.zippyshare.com/v/QVpXyVi3/file.html
01 I'd Fight The World
02 Little Bitty Tear
03 You Comb Her Hair
04 Go On Home
05 Same Old Hurt
06 I Fall To Pieces
07 Just For The Record
08 Funny Way Of Laughin'
09 Make The World Go Away
10 Why Can't She Be You
11 Tears Broke Out On Me
12 He's Got You
Thanks to original uploader @ You Tube
For “Going In Training - Hank Cochran (1966)” go here:
http://www61.zippyshare.com/v/50275292/file.html
01 Sally Was A Good Ole Girl (66)
02 I Want To Go With You
03 What Did I Do Wrong
04 You Kept Me Awake Last Night
05 I Ever Saw
06 What Any Fool Would Do
07 Who's Gonna
08 Little Folks
09 I'm Worried About Me
10 Jeannie's Waiting
11 Going In Training
12 Not That I Care
Thanks to Maria @ El Rancho for active link.
Thanks Bob.
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