A Word on Words; 2306; Hank Snow

and in a word on where the program delving into the world of books and their authors this week hank snow talks about that hank snow story your host for a word and words mr john c compiler chairman of the freedom forum's first amendment center at vanderbilt university hello i'm john single once again welcomes the world you're a country music fan on your person who loves the book of your present loves a good story about a story tonight but there were long record of the year it's great to see you guys roman still one of the lead here and it's one of the lead you talk about banks those stories which he was available well i was honored to get that manuscript on a dead heat cranky vermont you have a photo of story i said it was a great story and and

people who just love a great story continues inside one reed banks no storyline cause you know some people would say rags to riches i prefer to say rugged childhood i mean you have had sunk or hank snow and you know you tell us so well you tell us so candidly amuse so honest about an upbringing that some people might want not to talk about that might want to suppress divorce divorce their ear leaves and it's seared your life i think that yes indeed your father soundbite of a kind at an apple and some i never see again

i'm a feeling our i may never see you again or an end though you encounter an end though in those days there if those of the mother was not able to financially support trial you know i was trying but i think that because i was rescued by my grandmother when i was eight years old can remain ole but it saved me from an orphanage and stayed there for three years and then to escape and detroit is a fantasy and so i signed on the ship out of limburg nova scotia and started a four year i'm going to say on on various ships but the beauty of that was that i get

nervous and there's a water torture a lot of hard feelings in and demand their lives between them all about well you say she was coming a woman and the truce and i think you were in a very real sense a victim you an abuse shah before we knew what that drew this and she really gave me some tough these years there's a there's so many touching and moving moments and there's some very funny moments in the book but one of the most heart wrenching is the story of your mother your grandmother says not foresee mother which he's up the road and you go up the road see your mother and you give your president graham lowe that would talk about it that was on my dad said yes and then i had another beautiful grandmother wonderful

on my mother's side who was so i threw that i escaped a lot of the lobbyists on the other side usually of a new mother gave you this lovely belt which he treasured the character in and i thought at that point when you went to see you know you haggle never see them again but no store actors see you looking for a better way and i'm an music means a lot to them that's my world now when did you realize that was your world and pretty early age when i would say around fourteen or fifteen years old i was plan a bit of the draw that out too much and i was invited to do for households and i thought this is really and again i had somebody somebody and

so i thought i know a lot of people encouraged me i wrote to my first radio station sage and the smell of lives and the i got a nice reply back from ag william coach board and he said if we can ever use you to do it touches well that didn't stop me i thought i'm a way out yes that i thought i'm no no folks live in it now and so i hitchhiked our fights and i walked in the studio and a a very pleasant man who is one the chief announces at the station cecil landry he came in and he said well i've learned third estimate now do stuff live most of the year so he said madame of the table and it hit the guitar and he was unlike the scenes look an absolute from the control room on

economics of very good very good he said i was an afternoon out to talk he said the report on their nine seven club or some fifteen a huge let's hear that i know i've done my tour that also scientists get to see him and then the station was in love and when he said that it for me and i couldn't wait to get back to to the players i was ten i was staying with who is now my wife misses way i would stay with their people or people who were extremely wonderful to me and that's where i for as i say first met my wife who's been my wife now are on friday will be fifty years there are many blanche many blanks all isn't awful of the way with a double header idea man yes she was

a godsend and then and still is my greatest credit the greatest critic she used to always wonder recording studios with mayor rt and then she gets the things that chad couldn't say yes and less on our own and so i cannot live recording everyday or at least i thought so but a lot of people thought so apparently they thought well god the weather in nova scotia man is pretty it's pretty chilly up there and yeah i'll write new brown goodbye new brunswick and those delicious they're pretty cool during the broiler months and made some kind of early winners and a minute before last they had notional all alas when it came in feet boy george and predictable

if i had been if i'd been singing in halifax and then they go and south but you became very popular from that first seven o'clock appearance on radio that one station our facts and you became almost out so lame in canada before you ever discovered in this country well i were sick in the first place before some say meat and me i talk about the the announcers fitness use it what it ever thought about on rca said i think you do well and i said no you're no but i knew him as a larger issue and i did do i put the jasmine welcome and gromit the the the bossman are seeing the stage and you and he finally said i think that's good he said i

think you got something out of the people and you say you hear from so i've heard from him that was in the follow on a stroke and in january it up the levees when the voyager record i started forty five years of reporting from our city and by that time you were by the time you were doing road shows and but it was pretty tough to me in those years were lean years even though you are a bit of a hit and even though you were making records and even though some money coming in and to feed man and an engineer i just know right your son mean you know that money is common and it's still a very tough existence twenty that we come to the states or we would have undoubtedly ring bells were probably a year and i remember we had another nasty then a first well

and i remember we just aren't enough one night a mile wide go through a person she found a canadian and although i didn't know what to do with and i found out and apathetic you lose about labor data and then you then you shop around because you don't know him by the huge round apple's world one of thousands of these you have to make it count so it but she isn't she still is a great manager great great home manager in amman very thrifty and she brought us through an idea for all approach in oregon it's interesting to me how radio station how facts the fifty thousand watt station in wheeling west virginia the year was huge your thought that you could reach more people radio

and fifteen minutes that i can reach in a month on tour and and of course if you get through the eyes and the old fifty thousand watt station in wheeling that's that's multiplied that's thousands mr diaz yeah and name right across canada yes and yeah that that dubey the movie are really true talk about them in because if you go in there again is no assurance that you gonna be welcomed as welcome there you are you know well in the first place i met beach so a lone cowboy he was known as hair mccall and dirtied took an interest in me so that i can get under the nba and buses are kept his word he went to the people as it well you know we don't need him we don't need the other tower so our ny i went off audition one afternoon for the magic joined the militia men and he

said the time now and say matt reeves who and i thought we'd hear a kid knows him too so he said well i like you did he said the july two spots on the tambourine and i said guys i said i would feel very very odd when it's a weekly john to talk nationals thirty minutes in the book jon eleven thirty at night for a half hour and so i start one on the low level tested me the world this got me started in the you know united states and others wanted kidney donor across canada so it going on right now the truth we both twenty nine i mean it you can tell that every step of the way when you're counting these these visits are making in this these efforts are making to get it started you know all that that you've abbreviated the story in each case in on to keep it city

building and it got through three more like your eyebrows it twice hit hollywood without much going on making much as letterman and it was probably the biggest mistake that i made of my career because i was not ready for that a notional of them acting and i went out to us through a friend who was a canadian who had run out of a long time the numbers were convicted and out depending on him but to the washington dc island two republic studios and forgive the gem of freshmen members to scott and took max on my canadian regulation almost and you know you tell in the new talent in the area but there's some really funny lines in this book i am and some idea that art are not supposed to be that funny but and utah model and agents out out in hollywood and he's one

of them is willing to take your body each one ounces ny it doesn't cost a good bit of money upfront just give your money to me and i'll make you a star and out that you took a line that bollywood but the second magnet didn't work it didn't say nothing to him any money no wrong framing at what was it wallaby agents were tired he said well we try on a few things we'll really think the two rivers about your new book in phoenix arizona law didn't have any money so i went to a friend that i met in flagstaff arizona a friend on that drive that out there i drove out and i stopped at that his placed in the post also a journalist or get worn and that i met ms dumas and amazon advanced imaging

they said oh come on and when the us on the yuletide leader us dice i didn't he retired two weeks ago and they were a few presents a true jew alike again plus size of both been gone now but that's that's that meant so much to me when you need it yes he did they said you were in atlanta and sowing doubts he said you in dallas and just by chance ernest tubb well a great grand ole opry sit on average was appearing in fort worth right and you go over and you talk to your doctor hey i mean that you know there has been a clear channel voice out of our wheeling you know there's another one that gets him out in nashville and all earnest the troubadour is

going out beaming out almost fifty watts out of nashville and beyond that they are presented it in the home of country music here with all their neighbors all before larsen i had been corresponding iffy i wish i had been writing to the late jimmie rodgers because of their audience was and still is the debut meet your idol my idol ernest ireland many years and in a son four and i'm a muscle ointment in her audition you read that book and so he said the burns' eye i was on the show i get twenty five dollars for the show gives a star i thought and it said the aisle trying and driving it on the opry it would be a dream come true and he's and he kept his word and it was that was in the spring and that

fall identical and you need to come to move them off at an ad from the national stage again i believe i've got a place on the grand ole opry and jim denny is the man you need to see and jack's back to the program kurt and i couldn't wait so i hired shooting it and i drove the natural right now and but i always put on them before at the time i was brought in which we can be unpaid for nineteen forty not get elected what i wanted was no need to get up to get that gavel it that had a bony it all worked out and it you know you get your work angle julius my wife and i were we first heard came true to nashville i made in the story and go ahead and find out we're

on our old bin that we gave two dollars for a leash tied to the wall would drive to mail to want it so it wouldn't fall down on them or iron lace the curly q and a relay and so an income time you a beer that i would i would say well it's time you before as we sleep on the floor and you don't know a story in there about going to a hotel with men as strange auto iq level account with him now but the no beds and on tour of ride that was in no the major battle that's exactly right well i mean it's all it tells a story well and even after you're in nashville is under the roses but you do become a big hit the yodeling ranger become the singing rangers you talk about putting all of that show i mean you had that wonderful saddle you

tell the story about when the solar cell we should do it as the montreal band to mount in new brunswick ian mount a new road and there's a minute stop in both those ago many good you were lucky to get go they admired the saddle so the belts and the boots and buckles of the bangles were all part of the bank's know oddly it was shoddy that poem even though that your horse what did those marvelous freaks was the parlay act all by all means is a matter of it stole the show most places because it really did he did a tremendous act and i think of a bunch they had pictures in that you'll have one and opens a viable where he was you would do and i remember one thing just wanted to for a sense of how he knew was we live in a trailer to room trailer and my wife put a slice of daylight bred to put a fly to bread and with the butter on and put on the floor and he didn't like about anything unless we will build up a pop up you know

you're at the opry and and your big hit and your ear when you're on the road now and so you get the twenty five bucks you get the big money and i noticed that one of those early shows where you're getting the big money one i gather twenty five bucks that problem or somebody called elvis presley right he appeared on the program with you and became your friend yes tom parker rains that and honesty of the room and he was a he was a fine kid and i really loved i loved only two known simon am a muslim girl you'd become less without play piano but yes we did tours together and i hear i would always clothes and shows that we have package shows at the time meaning several different agnes and so of fire and alice would come on before when it and it would come on for

those second and i noticed that of watermelon this applause up up up a pillow as i am the big deals that and i've got to war one day interviews over the ease walk out of my applause solicit idol parker's of this gonna stop as much as you loved elvis we could say something else about tom parker but you probably don't want to be giving but i have a line in the book do they give up that you may use every that message about about the girl yeah now the current model of the and we just we just didn't jive is it is the orlando to put it he thought different than i did and we could come back and do a whole global draw well another another great

star that comes the opera buff time reduces hank williams years almost the same time as an outright i met hank he took me on the louisiana hay ride when i met him in dallas and that we became friends and then him but in the jury foreman this report and i went down here in an adria decide married to while andy to relish know and then it wasn't long after that that he did come to the opera natural you know i think back over the years and listening to a voice turn up your radio so many songs it in the song i say hank snow and moving on hello love my mother i wonder how it is to be hank snow their music identify

this book identifies human and one voice but it must it must be something that roe have so many thousands maybe millions of people around the world are you an inquiry you'd been abroad pictures in the book of you in korea with pierre trudeau the prime minister of canada and it must be meaningful to to have so many people think of you in terms of music judge ben like a dream and then you're always afraid you won't wake up in a letter with one pen to sell it id id everything awful ritual well and but as i say a magician it took a lot of starvation to make you appreciate it and to give you that whenever you knew deep you know and there's where i was so lucky in finding my wife you choose to spend the big part of all of it there were times i wanted to quit the grand ole opry iowa went down the three four

seventies and so my heart out unknown magnitude and i we drive back home are assembled by actor anymore oh come on you can't let that teacher now my goodness you're getting human chance him a chance and that's no reason i kept on the grand ole opry you say that the that it has been awarding considering we came from the adventure so but gone are you way to make a shoe that you did what you could make it easier for now in attendance find a way for children abused children file away and hank snow foundation i know he's committed to that concept on top of the about of that foundation thank our write about in the book so only way that i have the foundation for well as you said earlier i was an abused

child i mean i think in that category and so i could talk from the heart and it was just one of those things where you know most people say people i know and before i will say that if you are an abused child you will grow up to be an abused child a child abuse or wager either candidate that because that worked so we did jimmy go home and take their share of the men's turned out to be a fine yeah and i'm in the stories and his life as people in national approval of course they don't know but the foundation has done wonderful work with jon you know use a big part of how you had you started out so it was a very tight to do i mean i remember the time we spent out of the house when cam newton was with very well that was a

and that was a great boost for me because of a people like yourself i'm tim who understood that the problem that we face at the time it had got to where it was it became an epidemic an epidemic in the united states and canada lot of broad and i'd like to feel that we did slow down a bit on various banks no author of that hank snow story has been our guest ivana were done where your host has been john c compiler chairman of the freedom forum's first amendment center at vanderbilt university this program was produced in the studios of wbez and nashville things are