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Hank Snow Net Worth
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The main source of income: Musicians
Total Net Worth at the moment 2024 year – is about $83,6 Million.
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Hank Snow information Birth date: May 9, 1914 Death date: 1999-12-20 Birth place: Liverpool, Nova Scotia, Canada Profession:Soundtrack
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How tall is Hank Snow – 1,66m.
How much weight is Hank Snow – 81kg
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Biography,Early yearsHank Snow was born in the small community of Brooklyn in Queens County, Nova Scotia, Canada on May 9, 1914. He was the fifth of six children, the two eldest died in infancy born to George Snow and Maude Marie Hatt (1889-1953). His parents were married on November 10, 1909 in Liverpool, Nova Scotia. After the death of his father Hanks mother married Charles Tanner in 1930. In his autoBiography, , Snow tells how his parents struggled to feed their four remaining children during hard financial times. George Snow worked for low pay as a foreman in sawmills, often far from home, while Marie helped support the family by washing clothes and scrubbing floors in better-off homes. Both parents showed musical talent. Although Snow says his father loved to sing in an amateurish way, he describes his mother as an accomplished singer who played piano during silent films at the local theatre and sometimes performed in minstrel shows. She also enjoyed playing her own pump organ, but refused several offers to join travelling shows because of her dedication to the family.Unfortunately for Snow, his parents legally separated when he was about eight and the local Overseer of the Poor decided the children should be taken from their mother because of her inability to support them financially. One sister moved in with an aunt, while the other two were sent to separate foster homes. Snow himself went to live with his paternal grandmother who ordered him never to mention his mothers name and subjected him to severe beatings as well as psychological abuse. Gradually, Snow began to sneak away to visit his mother in nearby Liverpool and eventually, after his grandmother failed in her attempt to get him sent to reform school, he was allowed to rejoin his mother.Musical beginningsSnows childhood misfortunes continued, however, after his mothers remarriage to a local fisherman. He endured his stepfathers jealous tantrums, beatings and verbal abuse. Why in the hell dont you get out and find a job somewhere? his stepfather would rage even though Jack, as he was then known, was a frail 12-year-old who weighed only 80 pounds. It was at this time that his mother ordered a Hawaiian steel guitar advertised in a magazine along with free lessons and several 78 rpm gramophone records. At first, she ordered him not to touch the guitar because it was one of her prized possessions. But later, when she finally allowed him to play, she marvelled at the various sounds that I could get from the instrument. Snow adds that after he had mastered some chords and a few songs, his mother would ask him to sing and play for her. When he performed for the neighbours, word got around and I was being invited out somewhere just about every night. So it was through mothers mail-order guitar that I became interested in music.Life at seaPhoto of the Bluenose. Snow painted the schooner on cardboard winning 1st prize at the Lunenburg Fisheries Exhibition.In 1926, as the tension continued at home, Snow decided to escape by joining a fishing schooner where he served as a flunky or cabin boy. The job did not pay any wages. Snow, however, was allowed to cut out cod tongues and sell them later along with any fish he caught from the deck. After one trip, he sold his tongues and fish for around $58 and feeling rich, he ordered a guitar and chord book for $5.95 from the T. Eaton mail-order catalogue. In 1927 or 1928, Snow remembers hearing radio broadcasts while at sea. The one-hour broadcasts featured recordings by such country artists as Vernon Dalhart and Carson Robison. I still remember Dalhart singing The Prisoners Song, and The Wreck of the Old 97, Snow recalls. These songs gave me a great lift. He adds that he tried to sing the songs exactly as the artists had, entertaining his fellow crew members by singing and dancing while accompanying himself on a mouth organ.Snows fishing trips went well until August 1930, when the schooner he was sailing on got caught in ferocious winds that blew it uncontrollably toward Sable Island, known as the Graveyard of the Atlantic because the crews of ships wrecked there rarely survived. Snow writes that when they were about 14 miles from the island, the Good Lord reached out his Hand and changed the wind. Saved by the grace of God! A day later, Snow learned that six other vessels had been lost in the gale and that 132 men had drowned. Once ashore in Canso, Snow vowed he would never return to the open sea again. I was finished, he writes. No more fishing trips for me.Hard work in hard timesSnow returned to live with his mother and abusive stepfather all the while trying to pull his weight financially by peddling fish door-to-door or landing occasional jobs that included transporting passengers and their luggage by horse-drawn buggy to and from the train station in Lunenburg, unloading salt and coal ships, raking scallops and hauling loads of dried cod into a warehouse for processing and shipping. One winter, after being reunited with his father, he cut pulpwood and firewood on his fathers farm in the backwoods at Pleasantville, Nova Scotia.As he struggled to earn money, Snow spotted a picture of a guitar for $12.95 in Eatons catalogue. He figured he could sell his old guitar for five dollars, but wondered how he would raise the additional $7.95. The answer came when a storeowner in the village of Blue Rocks, Nova Scotia, hired him to paint yellow pinstripes on the wooden spokes of his brand new car. He offered to pay Snow two dollars per wheel. After the new guitar arrived, Snow experimented by playing runs and chord progressions in the style of Jimmie Rodgers. He also sang and played in an old fishhouse where local men stored their gear. Soon, Snow was invited to perform in a minstrel show in Bridgewater to help raise money for charity. Someone blackened my face with black polish and put white rings around my eyes and lips, Snow recalls. When his turn came in the show, he played a song called I Went to See My Gal Last Night. My debut was a big success, Snow writes. I even got a standing ovation.In March 1933, Snow wrote to Halifax radio station CHNS asking for an audition. The rejection letter he received only made him more determined and later that year he visited the station, was given an audition and hired to do a Saturday evening show that was advertised as Clarence Snow and his Guitar. After a few months, he adopted the name The Cowboy Blue Yodeler in homage to his idol Jimmie Rodgers known as Americas Blue Yodeler. Since Snows Saturday show had no sponsor, he wasnt paid for his performances, but he did manage to earn money playing halls and clubs in towns where people had heard him on the radio. He also played in Halifax theatres before the movies started and performed, for $10 a week, on a CHNS musical show sponsored by a company that manufactured a popular laxative. At the urging of the stations chief engineer and announcer, he adopted the name Hank because it went well with cowboy songs and once again, influenced by Jimmie Rodgers, he became Hank, The Yodeling Ranger. Snow also appeared occasionally on the CBCs regional network.On September 2, 1935, he married Minnie Blanche Aalders, a young Halifax woman, born in Kentville, Nova Scotia, who worked in a local chocolate factory. She soon became pregnant and gave birth to their only child, Jimmie Rodgers Snow.Canadian yearsSnows audition with the Canadian division of RCA Victor in Montreal, Quebec, on October 29, 1936 led to the release of his first record with The Prisoned Cowboy coupled with Lonesome Blue Yodel. He signed with RCA Victor, recording for the label until 1981. A weekly CBC radio show brought him national recognition and, he began touring Canada until the late 1940s when American country music stations began playing his records.Nashville callsSnow moved to Nashville, Tennessee, in 1945, and Hank Snow, the Singing Ranger (modified from his earlier nickname, the Yodeling Ranger), began recording for RCA Victor in the United States in 1949. His first release in the United States, Marriage Vow climbed to number ten on the country charts in the fall of 1949, However, it wasnt until he was invited to play at the Grand Ole Opry in 1950 that he gained serious significance in the United States. His second release in early 1950, Im Moving On was the first of seven number 1 hits on the country charts. Im Moving On stayed at the top for 21 weeks, setting the all-time record for most weeks at number 1.That same year The Golden Rocket and The Rhumba Boogie both hit number one with the latter remaining No. 1 for eight weeks.Along with these hits, his other signature song was Ive Been Everywhere, in which he portrayed himself as a hitchhiker bragging about all the towns hed been through. This song was originally written and performed in Australia by Geoff Mack, and its re-write incorporated North American place names. Rattling off a well-rhymed series of city names at an auctioneers pace has long made the song a challenge for any singer.While performing in Renfro Valley, Snow worked with a young Hank Williams.[citation needed]In the February 7th 1953 edition,[11] Billboard Magazine reported that Snows then seventeen-year-old son, Jimmy Rodgers Snow, had signed with RCA Victor and that the younger Snow would record duets with his father, as well as cover his own (presumably ghost-written) material.ElvisA regular at the Grand Ole Opry, in 1954 Snow persuaded the directors to allow a young Elvis Presley to appear on stage. Snow used Presley as his opening act and introduced him to Colonel Tom Parker. In August 1955, Snow and Parker formed the management team, Hank Snow Attractions. This partnership signed a management contract with Presley but before long, Snow was out and Parker had full control over the rock singers career. Forty years after leaving Parker, Snow stated, I have worked with several managers over the years and have had respect for them all except one. Tom Parker (he refuses to recognise the title Colonel) was the most egotistical, obnoxious human being Ive ever had dealings with.Later careerPerforming in lavish and colourful sequin-studded suits, Snow had a career covering six decades during which he sold more than 80 million albums. Although he became an American naturalized citizen in 1958, he still maintained friendships in Canada and remembered his roots with the 1968 album, My Nova Scotia Home. That same year he performed at campaign stops on behalf of U.S. presidential candidate George Wallace.Despite his lack of schooling, Snow was a gifted songwriter and in 1978 was elected to Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. In Canada, he was ten times voted that countrys top country music performer. In 1979, he was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame, the Canadian Music Hall of Fame and the Nova Scotia Music Hall of Fame. He was also inducted into the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame in 1985.His autoBiography, , The Hank Snow Story, was published in 1994, and later The Hank Snow Country Music Centre opened near his ancestral home in Liverpool, Nova Scotia. A victim of child abuse, he established the Hank Snow International Foundation For Prevention Of Child Abuse.Illness and deathIn 1996, Snow began experiencing respiratory problems which forced him to retire from performing. He died three years later at 12:30am on December 20, 1999, from heart failure[12] at his Rainbow Ranch in Madison, Tennessee, and was interred in the Spring Hill Cemetery in Nashville, Tennessee.[13] Minnie died on May 12, 2003 in Madison, Tennessee.[14]
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