Unreleased Recordings
In
1998, Mercury Records released "The Complete Hank Williams"
box set, but complete it was not. The box set actually represents about
1/3 of what is known to exist, The Mothers Best collection accounts
for 1/3 and these recordings make up the last 1/3.
Most of these recordings are from radio shows, the quality is not always the best but none the less they are more Hank Williams recordings floating around out there. Perhaps one day when all the legal issues are set aside some of this material will be officially released
These recordings are known to exist in private collections of collectors all over. Please do not email me asking for copies of these recordings, legally I am not allowed to make any of these recordings available to you.
The Mothers Best Shows
For a complete list of these shows click HERE
Stars In Her Eyes
PSA For Veneral Disease Hank Sings and Tells The Story Radio Drama
Aunt Jemimah Pancakes Show #1
Why Don't You Love Me
Cold, Cold Heart
Aunt Jemimah Pancakes Show #2
This second show features Minnie Pearl
Hey Good Lookin'
I Can't Help It (If I'm Still In Love With You)
Are You Walkin' And Talkin' For The Lord
Hank & Audrey's Corral Show
WSM Radio show taped 09/15/51 promoting the opening of Hank & Audrey's Corral in Nashville, TN
Half As Much
Lovesick Blues
Lonesome Whistle
Honky Tonk Blues
Where The Old Red River Flows
Hank Williams' Funeral
Recorded at the funeral on 01/03/53 at City Hall in Montgomery Alabama
Beyond The Sunset (Ernest Tubb)
My Record Will Be There (Southwind Singers)
I Saw The Light (Roy Acuff & Grand Ole Opry Cast)
Peace In The Valley (Red Foley)
Precious Memories (Southwind Singers)
Sunset Park Show
Only known recording of a live show taped 07/13/52 at Sunset Park in Pennsylvania
Hey Good Lookin'
Fire On The Mountain (Jerry Rivers)
Lonesome Whistle
Jambalaya
Long Gone Lonesome Blues
Half As Much
I Saw The Light
Lovesick Blues
Hadacol Phone Interview from Macon, GA
A Macon, GA DJ calls Hank at his home in Nashville and talks on 09/05/51
Montgomery Homecoming Interview with Bob Helton
Montgomery Homecoming Interview with Billy Smith
Montgomery Homecoming Radio Promo
How To Write Folk And Western Music To Sell Radio Promo #1
How To Write Folk And Western Music To Sell Radio Promo #3
Pappy Neal McCormick for Sheriff Radio Spot #1
Radio promo Hank made in Defuniak Springs, FL for his friend Pappy Neal McCormick who was running for sheriff
Pappy Neal McCormick for Sheriff Radio Spot #2
Radio promo Hank made in Defuniak Springs, FL for his friend Pappy Neal McCormick who was running for sheriff
Pops-Rite Popcorn Show
Mansion On The Hill
Duck Head Overalls Show Promo
Complete 1951 March of Dimes Show
Moanin' The Blues
Help Me Understand
When God Dips His Love In My Heart
March of Dimes Promo
Hank asks listeners to donate to the March Of Dimes to help fight infantile paralysis
Rose Bowl Death Announcement 01/01/53
Death announcement made on the radio during the 1953 Rose Bowl
WCKY Death Announcement & Tribute Show 01/01/53
Death announcement made on WCKY in Kentucky by DJ Nelson King, On the tribute show that follows (The first Hank Williams Tribute Show) features King talking about the time he had spent with Hank and plays several of Hank's records.
Grand Ole Opry Show 06/18/49
Lovesick Blues
Wedding Bells
AFRS Grand Ole Opry Show 11/12/49
You're Gonna Change (Or I'm Gonna Leave)
AFRS Grand Ole Opry Show 11/18/49
Move It On Over
AFRS Grand Ole Opry Show 06/10/50
Long Gone Lonesome Blues
Why Don't You Love Me
AFRS Grand Ole Opry Show 08/12/50
Why Don't You Love Me
They'll Never Take Her Love From Me
AFRS Grand Ole Opry Show 11/11/50
Moanin' The Blues
Nobody's Lonesome For Me
Grand Ole Opry Show 01/06/51
Moanin' The Blues
Nobody's Lonesome For Me
AFRS Grand Ole Opry Show 05/05/51
Dear John
Cold, Cold Heart
AFRS Grand Ole Opry Show 09/22/51
Hey, Good Lookin'
Cold, Cold Heart
Grand Ole Opry Show 09/29/51
Crazy Heart
Grand Ole Opry Show 03/22/52
Honky Tonk Blues
Let The Spirit Descend
AFRS Grand Ole Opry Show 04/05/52
Baby We're Really In Love
The Old Country Church
I Can't Help It If I'm Still In Love With You
Grand Ole Opry Show 07/05/52
Half As Much
Jambalaya
Long Gone Lonesome Blues
Grand Ole Opry Show (Undated/51)
Lovesick Blues
Crazy Heart
Bonaparte's Reteat (Audrey)
Farther Along
From an undated Grand Ole Opry Performance
Alabama Jubilee Radio Show
Grand Ole Opry Show (Undated)
An Easter time opry program with Hank as emcee in April of (unknown)
Grand Ole Opry Interview
Backstage interview at the Opry with Columbus, GA DJ Uncle Benny
Jambalaya
Last known radio performance from the Lousiana Hayride sometime in late 1952
Demo Recordings
Un-dubbed demo recordings not found on any release to date:
Tonight I'm Going Home
We're Getting Closer To The Grave Each Day
Mother Is Gone
Home In Heaven
Kate Evening Hour #2
Recordings from Hank's television appearance on the Kate Smith Evening Hour on 04/23/52
Glory Bound Train (With Opry Cast Ensemble)
Cold, Cold Heart
Kate Evening Hour #1
Recordings from Hank's television appearance on the Kate Smith Evening Hour on 03/26/52
I Saw The Light (With Opry Cast Ensemble)
Hey, Good Lookin'
Complete Farmer Jim Show #1
Complete Show includes an interview not on the Complete Box Set
Lost Highway
Long Gone Daddy
Long Gone Lonesome Blues
Interview With Bob McKinnon
Interview with Alexander City, AL DJ Bob McKinnon in March of 1950
WSFA Transcriptions
Earliest known recordings of Hank around the age of 19, possibly from WSFA studios in Montgomery, AL ca. 1942
Happy Rovin' Cowboy #1
Happy Rovin' Cowboy #2
Rockin' Alone In An Old Rockin' Chair #1
Rockin' Alone In An Old Rockin' Chair #2
Old Shep #1
Old Shep #2
Will The Circle Be Unbroken
I'll Never Cry Over You
I Was Seeing Nellie Home
I'll Never Cry Over You
Little Rosewood Casket (Instrumental)
I Ain't Gonna Love You Anymore
Come Back To Me
Mother's Heaven
The Last Letter
Lonesome Valley
Crying Myself To Sleep
Beautiful Brown Eyes (Braxton Schuffert)
Lonely Mound Of Clay
I'll Be True To The One That I Love