![]() The one-hour broadcasts featured recordings by such country artists as Vernon Dalhart and Carson Robison. In 1927 or 1928, Snow remembers hearing radio broadcasts while at sea. Feeling rich, he ordered a guitar and chord book for $5.95 from the T. After one trip, he sold his tongues and fish for around $58. Snow, however, was allowed to cut out cod tongues and sell them later along with any fish he caught from the deck. In 1926, Snow found work by joining a fishing schooner where he served as a "flunky" or cabin boy. ![]() Snow painted the schooner on cardboard winning 1st prize at the Lunenburg Fisheries Exhibition. He was soon invited to play for his neighbors and elsewhere. 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. Musical beginnings Īfter 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. 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. 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. One sister moved in with an aunt, while the other two were sent to separate foster homes. 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. She also enjoyed playing her own pump organ, but refused several offers to join travelling shows because of her dedication to the family. 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. 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. In his autobiography, Snow tells how his parents struggled to feed their four remaining children during hard financial times. After divorcing his father, Hank's mother married Charles Tanner in 1930. His parents were married on November 10, 1909, in Liverpool, Nova Scotia. ![]() He was the fifth of six children, of whom the two eldest died in infancy. Hank Snow was the son of George Snow (1886–1966) and Maude Marie Hatt (1889–1953) in the small community of Brooklyn in Queens County, Nova Scotia, Canada. The Hank Snow Museum in Liverpool, Nova Scotia celebrates his life and work. 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. His mother provided the emotional support and encouraged him to follow his dream of becoming an entertainer like his idol, country star Jimmie Rodgers. His music was rooted in his beginnings in small-town Nova Scotia where, as a frail, 80-pound (36 kg) youngster, he endured extreme poverty, physical and psychological abuse as well as physically punishing labour during the Great Depression. Īs a songwriter he dealt with a wide range of emotions including the joys of freedom and travel as well as the anguish of tortured love. ![]() His number-one hits include the self-penned songs " I'm Moving On", " The Golden Rocket", and " The Rhumba Boogie" and famous versions of " I Don't Hurt Anymore", " Let Me Go, Lover!", " I've Been Everywhere", " Hello Love", as well as other top 10 hits. He recorded 140 albums and charted more than 85 singles on the Billboard country charts from 1950 until 1980. Most popular in the 1950s, his career spanned more than 50 years. Clarence Eugene " Hank" Snow ( – December 20, 1999) was a Canadian-American country music singer and songwriter.
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