Take These Chains from My Heart
Appearance
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"Take These Chains from My Heart" | ||||
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Single by Hank Williams With His Drifting Cowboys | ||||
A-side | "Ramblin' Man" | |||
Published | October 31, 1952Acuff-Rose Publications[1] | |||
Released | April 1953 | |||
Recorded | September 23, 1952 | |||
Studio | Castle Studio, Nashville | |||
Genre | Country & Western, Honky-tonk, Country blues | |||
Length | 2:35 | |||
Label | MGM 11479 | |||
Songwriter(s) | Hy Heath, Fred Rose | |||
Producer(s) | Fred Rose | |||
Hank Williams With His Drifting Cowboys singles chronology | ||||
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"Take These Chains from My Heart" | ||||
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Single by Ray Charles | ||||
from the album Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music, Volume Two | ||||
B-side | "No Letter Today" | |||
Released | March 25, 1963 | |||
Recorded | 1963 | |||
Genre | Rhythm and blues | |||
Length | 2:51 | |||
Label | MGM | |||
Songwriter(s) | Hy Heath, Fred Rose | |||
Producer(s) | Sid Feller | |||
Ray Charles singles chronology | ||||
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"Take These Chains from My Heart" | ||||
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Single by Lee Roy Parnell | ||||
from the album On the Road | ||||
B-side | "Straight Shooter" | |||
Released | May 21, 1994 | |||
Genre | Country | |||
Length | 3:22 | |||
Label | Arista Nashville | |||
Songwriter(s) | Hy Heath, Fred Rose | |||
Producer(s) | Scott Hendricks | |||
Lee Roy Parnell singles chronology | ||||
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"Take These Chains from My Heart" is a song by
Nashville. The song has been widely praised; Williams' biographer Colin Escott deems it "perhaps the best song [Rose] ever presented to Hank...It was one of the very few songs that sounded somewhat similar to a Hank Williams song."[2] Williams is backed by Tommy Jackson (fiddle), Don Helms (steel guitar), Chet Atkins (lead guitar), Jack Shook (rhythm guitar), and Floyd "Lightnin'" Chance (bass).[3] In the wake of Williams' death on New Year's Day, 1953, the song shot to No. 1, his final chart-topping hit for MGM Records. Like "Your Cheatin' Heart
," the song's theme of despair, so vividly articulated by Williams' typically impassioned singing, reinforced the image of Hank as a tortured, mythic figure.
Cover versions
- Tommy Edwards recorded the song for MGM in 1953.
- Jack Scott recorded this song on an album in 1960.
- Kitty Wells released the song on Decca in 1962.
- Pianist Floyd Cramer recorded an instrumental version of the song in 1962.
- George Jones recorded the song for his 1962 LP My Favorites of Hank Williams.
- in 1963.
- Bill Anderson cut the song for Decca in 1963.
- Blue Note Records in 1963 at Rudy Van Gelderstudios.
- Al Martino in 1963. His version was included on the album "I Love You Because".
- Carl Smith recorded the song for Columbia Records.
- Dean Martin recorded the song for his 1965 album (Remember Me) I'm the One Who Loves You.
- Williams' hero Roy Acuff recorded it in 1966 for Hickory.
- Conway Twitty covered the song for Decca.
- Dottie West 1968.
- Marty Robbins with Chet Atkins on Marty's TV show 1968.
- Williams' idol Ernest Tubb cut the song in 1968.
- Stonewall Jackson (musician)released the song on Columbia in 1969.
- Jerry Lee Lewis performs the song on his 1970 album Live at the International, Las Vegas.
- Don Gibson recorded the song for RCA in 1971.
- Glen Campbell included the song on his 1973 LP I Remember Hank Williams.
- Johnny McEvoy cut the song in 1974.
- Sonny James recorded the song for Columbia in 1974.
- Charlie Rich 1974.
- Dolly Parton on her TV show 1976.
- Boxcar Willie in a medley of Hank Williams song in his concert show.
- Little Willie Littlefield recorded a version for his 1990 album Singalong with Little Willie Littlefield.
- Lee Roy Parnell covered the song on his album On the Road, with a guest vocal from Ronnie Dunn of Brooks & Dunn.[6] Parnell's version peaked at number 17 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.
- The song appears on the 1997 album The Ghost of Hank Williams by David Allan Coe.
- Merle Haggard covered the song on his 2001 album Roots, Volume 1.
- Canadian singer Anne Murray covered the song in 2002.
- Martina McBride recorded the song for her 2005 album Timeless.
- The Kentucky Headhuntersincluded the song on their 2005 album Big Boss Man.
- Rosanne Cash included the song on her 2009 album The List.
- The song appears on Lacy J. Dalton's 2010 tribute album Here's to Hank.
- Madeleine Peyroux (2013) on the album The Blue Room.
- Daniel O'Donnell 2015
Chart performance
Lee Roy Parnell
Chart (1994) | Peak position |
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Canada Country Tracks (RPM)[7] | 21 |
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[8] | 17 |
References
- ^ "U.S. Copyright Office Virtual Card Catalog". vcc.copyright.gov. Retrieved 2021-09-09.
- ^ Escott, Merritt & MacEwen 2004, p. 237.
- ^ Escott, Merritt & MacEwen 2004, p. 347.
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research. p. 113.
- ^ "Ray Charles". The Official UK Charts Company. Retrieved July 9, 2020.
- ^ Whitburn, p. 315
- ^ "Top RPM Country Tracks: Issue 2562." RPM. Library and Archives Canada. August 15, 1994. Retrieved August 4, 2013.
- ^ "Lee Roy Parnell Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
Bibliography
- Escott, Colin; Merritt, George; MacEwen, William (2004). Hank Williams: The Biography. New York: Little, Brown.