Tag: Hank Williams

Memory Lane: ‘Jambalaya’

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I remember my father whistling this, and sometimes singing it, while he cut our hair.

Hank Williams scored a hit with Jambalaya in 1952, and it must have remained popular throughout the Fifties or I wouldn’t have remembered it. Every now and then someone else would record it: the Carpenters spring to mind.

Singing about “big fun on the bayou”–I wonder what would happen if anybody came out with a song like that today? Would we suddenly remember that “blameless” and “wholesome” are good things, after all? Or would the wokies shut it down because it’s cis-intersectional or something?

I am so glad I grew up then, and not now.

‘The Old Country Church’

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Suggested by Erlene, The Old Country Church. There’s a classic Hank Williams version, but this one’s by the Oak Ridge Boys, and I love the background video.

The church I was brought up in has gone all liberal and antinomian; but the fellowship of God’s people, in or out of a building dedicated to that purpose, endures.

Hank Williams: ‘I Saw the Light’

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Running late today, but never mind. And I hope you don’t mind letting a Hank Williams song do the honors today: I Saw the Light, from 1948. Oops, that’s old.

I can’t believe God isn’t pleased when our otherwise thoughtless popular culture turns around to praise Him. Poor Williams, a victim of incurable chronic back pain, died in 1953 at the age of 29 from a heart attack brought on by prescription drugs and alcohol. But he had this song to give us first–inspired, he said, by a remark made by his mother on their way home from church.