I'm Movin' On: The Life and Legacy of Hank Snow

Born in tiny Brooklyn, Nova Scotia, Hank Snow enjoyed a musical career that spanned five decades and sales of more than 80 million albums. In I’m Movin’ On, journalist Vernon Oickle chronicles Snow’s hardscrabble life, from his destitute childhood in Queens County to international fame. Leaving no stone unturned in his richly detailed profile of
The Singing Ranger, Oickle exposes the highs and lows of Snow’s career, and his journey (“Everywhere, man,”) from small East Coast radio stations to the Grand
Ole Opry in Texas. Includes a foreword from Hank’s son, Jimmie Rodgers Snow, a timeline, discography, and 75 photographs.

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I'm Movin' On: The Life and Legacy of Hank Snow

Born in tiny Brooklyn, Nova Scotia, Hank Snow enjoyed a musical career that spanned five decades and sales of more than 80 million albums. In I’m Movin’ On, journalist Vernon Oickle chronicles Snow’s hardscrabble life, from his destitute childhood in Queens County to international fame. Leaving no stone unturned in his richly detailed profile of
The Singing Ranger, Oickle exposes the highs and lows of Snow’s career, and his journey (“Everywhere, man,”) from small East Coast radio stations to the Grand
Ole Opry in Texas. Includes a foreword from Hank’s son, Jimmie Rodgers Snow, a timeline, discography, and 75 photographs.

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I'm Movin' On: The Life and Legacy of Hank Snow

I'm Movin' On: The Life and Legacy of Hank Snow

by Vernon Oickle
I'm Movin' On: The Life and Legacy of Hank Snow

I'm Movin' On: The Life and Legacy of Hank Snow

by Vernon Oickle

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Overview

Born in tiny Brooklyn, Nova Scotia, Hank Snow enjoyed a musical career that spanned five decades and sales of more than 80 million albums. In I’m Movin’ On, journalist Vernon Oickle chronicles Snow’s hardscrabble life, from his destitute childhood in Queens County to international fame. Leaving no stone unturned in his richly detailed profile of
The Singing Ranger, Oickle exposes the highs and lows of Snow’s career, and his journey (“Everywhere, man,”) from small East Coast radio stations to the Grand
Ole Opry in Texas. Includes a foreword from Hank’s son, Jimmie Rodgers Snow, a timeline, discography, and 75 photographs.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781771081382
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing
Publication date: 06/07/2014
Pages: 224
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Vernon Oickle was born in Liverpool, where he worked for thirteen years at his hometown newspaper, The Advance. He has won many regional, national, and international awards for writing and photography. In 2009, the International Society of Weekly Newspaper Editors based in Missouri chose him as one of the top twelve editorial writers among their worldwide membership. Today, he is the editor of the award-winning newspaper The Lunenburg County Progress Bulletin. He is the author of thirteen books. The father of two, he continues to reside in Liverpool with his family.

Table of Contents

Foreword: My Father, Hank Snow 1

Preface 5

May 9, 1914 9

The Music Man 43

South of the Border 66

Never Say Quit 83

The Big Break 102

The Golden Years 125

The End or the Road 143

Hank's Legacy 170

Timeline: The Hank Snow Story in Brief 180

Appendix: Hank Snow Recording History 183

Bibliography 192

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