Hank Snow was a Canadian country music singer-songwriter and musician. His discography consists of 46 studio albums and 89 singles. Of his 89 singles, seven reached number 1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs charts and two reached number 1 on the Canadian RPM Country Tracks chart. Snow spent his entire recording career, from 1936 to 1981, with RCA Victor. Snow had his first hit in the United States in 1950 with I'm Moving On and his final hit in 1974 with Hello Love, at the time he was the oldest country singer to have a Number #1 charted record.
Studio albums
1950s {| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;" |- ! style="width:25em;"| Title ! style="width:18em;"| Details |- ! scope="row"| Country Classics | Release date: March 1952 Label: RCA Victor |- ! scope="row"| Hank Snow Sings | Release date: October 1952 Label: RCA Victor |- ! scope="row"| Hank Snow Salutes Jimmie Rodgers | Release date: April 1953 Label: RCA Victor |- ! scope="row"| Just Keep a-Movin| Release date: March 1955 Label: RCA Victor |- ! scope="row"| Old Doc Brown and Other Narrations by Hank Snow | Release date: October 1955 Label: RCA Victor |- ! scope="row"| Country & Western Jamboree | Release date: 1957 Label: RCA Victor |- ! scope="row"| Hank Snow's Country Guitar | Release date: 1957 Label: RCA Victor |- ! scope="row"| Hank Snow Sings Sacred Songs | Release date: March 1958 Label: RCA Victor |- ! scope="row"| When Tragedy Struck | Release date: January 1959 Label: RCA Victor
1960s Title Album details Peak chartpositionsUS Country Hank Snow Sings Jimmie Rodgers SongsRelease date: February 1960 Label: RCA Victor — Big Country Hits (Songs I Hadn't Recorded Till Now)Release date: October 1961 Label: RCA Victor — I've Been EverywhereRelease date: April 1963 Label: RCA Victor — Railroad ManRelease date: August 1963 Label: RCA Victor 7 Songs of TragedyRelease date: July 1964 Label: RCA Victor 11 Hank Snow Sings Your Favorite Country HitsRelease date: February 1965 Label: RCA Victor — Gloryland MarchRelease date: June 1965 Label: RCA Victor — Heartbreak Trail: A Tribute to the Sons of the PioneersRelease date: November 1965 Label: RCA Victor 26 The Guitar Stylings of Hank SnowRelease date: May 1966 Label: RCA Victor 26 Gospel TrainRelease date: June 1966 Label: RCA Victor — Snow in HawaiiRelease date: February 1967 Label: RCA Victor — Christmas with Hank Snow[A]Release date: October 1967 Label: RCA Victor — Spanish Fire Ball and Other Hank Snow StylingsRelease date: November 1967 Label: RCA Victor 35 Tales of the YukonRelease date: August 1968 Label: RCA Victor 35 Snow in All SeasonsRelease date: February 1969 Label: RCA Victor 43 Hits Covered By SnowRelease date: June 1969 Label: RCA Victor 35
1970s Title Album details Peak chartpositionsUS Country Hank Snow Sings in Memory of Jimmie RodgersRelease date: March 1970 Label: RCA Victor 45 Cure for the BluesRelease date: September 1970 Label: RCA Victor — Tracks and TrainsRelease date: April 1971 Label: RCA Victor 45 Award WinnersRelease date: September 1971 Label: RCA Victor — The Jimmie Rodgers StoryRelease date: May 1972 Label: RCA Victor — Grand Ole Opry FavoritesRelease date: May 1973 Label: RCA Victor — SnowbirdRelease date: 1973 Label: RCA Victor — Now Is the HourRelease date: 1974 Label: RCA Victor — Hello LoveRelease date: March 1974 Label: RCA Victor 4 That's You and MeRelease date: July 1974 Label: RCA Victor 35 You're Easy To LoveRelease date: April 1975 Label: RCA Victor 48 #104 - Still Movin' OnRelease date: June 1977 Label: RCA Records 47 The Mysterious LadyRelease date: March 1979 Label: RCA Records — Instrumentally YoursRelease date: December 1979 Label: RCA Records —
Collaboration albums Title Details Together Again(with Anita Carter)Release date: November 1962 Label: RCA Victor Reminiscing(with Chet Atkins)Release date: August 1964 Label: RCA Victor C. B. Atkins & C. E. Snow by Special Request(with Chet Atkins)Release date: December 1969 Label: RCA Records Live from Evangel Temple(with Jimmy Snow) Release date: March 1976 Label: RCA Records Lovingly Yours(with Kelly Foxton) Release date: December 1979 Label: RCA Records Win Some Lose Some Lonesome(with Kelly Foxton) Release date: 1981 Label: RCA Records Brand On My Heart(with Willie Nelson) Release date: 1985 Label: Columbia Records
Compilations Title Album details Peak chartpositionsUS Country Country ClassicsRelease date: 1956 Label: RCA Victor — The Singing RangerRelease date: March 1960 Label: RCA Camden — Hank Snow's SouvenirsRelease date: February 1961 Label: RCA Victor — The Southern CannonballRelease date: April 1961 Label: RCA Camden —The One and Only Hank SnowRelease date: July 1962 Label: RCA Canden — More Hank Snow SouvenirsRelease date: February 1963 Label: RCA Victor 1 The Last RideRelease date: September 1963 Label: RCA Camden — The Highest Bidder and Other FavoritesRelease date: September 1965 Label: RCA Camden — The Best of Hank SnowRelease date: December 1965 Label: RCA Victor — Travelin' BluesRelease date: June 1966 Label: RCA Camden — This Is My StoryRelease date: September 1966 Label: RCA Victor 21 Hits, Hits and More HitsRelease date: March 1968 Label: RCA Victor — My Nova Scotia HomeRelease date: April 1968 Label: RCA Camden — The Legend of Old Doc BrownRelease date: May 1972 Label: RCA Camden — The Best of Hank Snow Volume 2Release date: September 1972 Label: RCA Records — The Hits of Hank SnowRelease date: 1978 (UK) Label: RCA Records — The Essential Hank SnowRelease date: April 29, 1997 Label: RCA Records — RCA Country LegendsRelease date: May 15, 2001 Label: RCA Records — Super HitsRelease date: June 22, 2004 Label: RCA Records —
Singles
1940s and 1950s Year Single Peakpositions Album US Country 1948 "My Two Timin' Woman" — 1949 "Marriage Vow" 10 Country Classics 1950 "I'm Moving On" 1 "The Golden Rocket" 1 1951 "The Rhumba Boogie" 1 "Unwanted Sign Upon Your Heart" 6 "Music Makin' Mama from Memphis" 4 1952 "The Gold Rush Is Over" 2 The Singing Ranger "Lady's Man" 2 The One and Only Hank Snow "I Went to Your Wedding" 3 The Singing Ranger "(Now and Then There's) A Fool Such as I" 3 Country Classics 1953 "Honeymoon on a Rocket Ship" 9 The Singing Ranger "Spanish Fire Ball" 3 The One and Only Hank Snow "For Now and Always" 10 Travelin' Blues "When Mexican Joe Met Jole Blon" 6 The Southern Cannonball 1954 "I Don't Hurt Anymore" 1 Country Classics "That Crazy Mambo Thing" 10 "Let Me Go, Lover!" 1 The Southern Cannonball 1955 "Yellow Roses" 3 The Last Ride "Cryin', Prayin', Waitin', Hopin'" 7 "Born to Be Happy" 5 The Singing Ranger 1956 "These Hands" 5 Souvenirs "Conscience I'm Guilty" 4 "Stolen Moments" 7 More Hank Snow Souvenirs 1957 "Tangled Mind" 4 The Southern Cannonball 1958 "Whispering Rain" 15 The Last Ride "Big Wheels" 7 Railroad Man "A Woman Captured Me" 16 rowspan=3 1959 "Doggone That Train" 19 "Chasin' a Rainbow" 6 "The Last Ride" 3 Railroad Man
1960s Year Single Peak positions Album CAN Country US Country US 1960 "Rockin', Rollin' Ocean" — 22 87 The Best of Hank Snow Volume 2 "Miller's Cave" — 9 101 More Hank Snow Souvenirs 1961 "Beggar to a King" — 5 — "The Restless One" — 11 — The Legend of Old Doc Brown 1962 "You Take the Future (And I'll Take the Past)" — 15 — "I've Been Everywhere" — 1 68 I've Been Everywhere 1963 "The Man Who Robbed the Bank at Santa Fe" — 9 — "Ninety Miles an Hour (Down a Dead End Street)" — 2 124 The Best of Hank Snow 1964 "Breakfast with the Blues" — 11 — rowspan=2 1965 "The Wishing Well (Down in the Well)" — 7 — "The Queen of Draw Poker Town" — 28 — The Legend of Old Doc Brown "I've Cried a Mile" — 18 — This Is My Story 1966 "The Count Down" — 22 — "Hula Love" — 21 — Snow in Hawaii 1967 "Down at the Pawn Shop" — 18 — rowspan=4 "Learnin' a New Way of Life" 15 20 — 1968 "Who Will Answer? (Aleluya No. 1)" — 69 — "The Late and Great Love of My Heart" 5 20 — "The Name of the Game Was Love" 1 16 — Hits Covered By Snow 1969 "Rome Wasn't Built in a Day" — 26 — Cure for the Blues "That's When the Hurtin' Sets In" — 53 — "—" denotes releases that did not chart
1970s Year Single Peak positions Album CAN Country US Country 1970 "Come the Morning" 33 57 Cure for the Blues "Vanishing Breed" — 52 1971 "(The Seashores) Of Old Mexico" 6 — Award Winners 1972 "Governor's Hand" 34 — 1973 "North to Chicago" 20 71 Grand Ole Opry Favorites 1974 "Hello Love" 1 1 Hello Love "That's You and Me" — 36 That's You and Me "You're Easy to Love" — 26 You're Easy to Love 1975 "Merry-Go-Round of Love" 36 47 "Hijack" — 79 "Colorado Country Morning" — 95 You're Easy to Love 1976 "Who's Been Here Since I've Been Gone" — 87 rowspan=2 "You're Wondering Why" — 98 1977 "Trouble in Mind" — 81 #104 - Still Movin' On "I'm Still Movin' On" — 80 "Breakfast with the Blues" (re-recording) — 96 1978 "Nevertheless" — 93 The Mysterious Lady "Ramblin' Rose" — 93 1979 "The Mysterious Lady from St. Martinique" 26 80 "A Good Gal Is Hard to Find" — 91 "It Takes Too Long" — 98 "—" denotes releases that did not chart
Collaboration singles Year Single Artist Peak positions Album CAN Country US Country 1951 "Down the Trail of Achin' Hearts" Anita Carter — 2 Country Classics 1955 "Silver Bell" Chet Atkins — 15 This Is My Story 1967 "Chet's Tune" Some of Chet's Friends — 38 1980 "Hasn't It Been Good Together" Kelly Foxton 39 78 Lovingly Yours "There's Something About You" — — "The Pain Didn't Show" — — 1981 "Forbidden Lovers" — — Win Some, Lose Some, Lonesome "—" denotes releases that did not chart
Charted B-sides Year Single Peakpositions A-side US Country1951 "Bluebird Island" (with Anita Carter) 4 "Down the Trail of Achin' Hearts" "Your Locket Is My Broken Heart" 12 "Unwanted Sign Upon Your heart" 1952 "Married by the Bible, Divorced by the Law" 8 "Lady's Man" "The Gal Who Invented Kissin'" 4 "(Now and Then There's) A Fool Such as I"1955 "The Next Voice You Hear" 15 "That Crazy Mambo Thing" "Would You Mind?" 3 "Yellow Roses" "I'm Glad I Got to See You Once Again" 7 "Cryin', Prayin', Waitin', Hopin'" "Mainliner (The Hawk with Silver Wings)" 5 "Born to Be Happy"1956 "I'm Moving In" 11 "These Hands" "Hula Rock" 5 "Conscience I'm Guilty" 1957 "My Arms Are a House" 8 "Tangled Mind" 1964 "I Stepped Over the Line" 21 "Breakfast with the Blues" 1968 "I Just Wanted to Know (How the Wind Was Blowing)" 70 "Who Will Answer? (Aleluya No. 1)"
Notes
A ^''' Christmas with Hank Snow'' peaked at number 72 on the Christmas Albums chart.
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