Yodeling Walmart Boy thrusts 1949 Hank Williams classic to Spotify’s top charts
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On June 11, 1949, Hank Williams's rendition of "Lovesick Blues," on his debut night at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, prompted six encores from a crowd of 3,000 people. It stopped the show "colder than it had ever been stopped in its 31 years," one witness said, according to the Library of Congress.