Freddie Hart
Freddie Hart (* 21st December 1926 in Loackapoka , Alabama as Fred Segrest ; † 27. October 2018 in Burbank , California ) was an American country music singer . In the 1970s, Hart had a number of number one hits in the US.
Life
Childhood and youth
Born one of fifteen children to poor parents, Freddie Hart had a difficult childhood. Even his date of birth is controversial. According to some sources he was born in 1928, others in 1926 or 1933. His family was very musical, and Hart often listened to the Grand Ole Opry . When he was five he learned to play the guitar . But two years later he ran away from home, but was brought back again. His parents therefore put him on a government education program at the age of twelve. At the age of 14, he made it into the Marines Corps . During the Second World War he fought in Guam and Iwojima, among others .
Beginnings
After his discharge from the Marines, he returned home, where he made the decision to try his hand at country music. Moving through the country he performed as a singer. In Nashville , Tennessee , he met the most famous and successful country singer of the time, Hank Williams , who taught him to write songs. Shortly thereafter, he moved to Phoenix , Arizona , where he worked in the oil fields. When Lefty Frizzell came to town for a concert, Hart and his friend Wayne Raney played for him. Frizzell invited the two to accompany him on his tour. Frizzell and Hart quickly became friends and moved to California in 1953 , where he took his stage name "Freddie Hart". In the same year he played for the Capitol Records with the help of Cliffie Stone first records.
Career
As a songwriter, Hart had his first successes, so Carl Smith recorded his track Loose Talk , which became a number one hit. About Ken Nelson he received a contract with Columbia Records . At the same time, Hart began performing at the Town Hall Party . During a session in 1956 he also recorded some rockabilly tracks such as Dig Boy Dig with Merle Travis on guitar. A success as a singer did not want to set in. Only small chart successes in the lower places of the Billboard charts were granted to him. He changed record labels several times, recording for Kapp, MCA and Monument, among others. Smaller hits included The Wall , Chain Gang and The Key's in the Mailbox .
In 1971 he was finally able to break through with Easy Loving from the album of the same name. It took a while, but when a DJ played the single over and over, the song came in first. It was voted Song of the Year twice in a row by the Country Music Association . In the following period Hart was repeatedly in the charts with country ballads. He was one of the most successful country singers of the 1970s and had success well into the next decade, despite switching to the Sunbird label. It was last placed in 1987 (77th place). Nevertheless, Hart continued to perform , switched to gospel and released a few albums.
He was inducted into the Alabama Music Hall of Fame in 2001 and America's Old Time Country Music Hall of Fame in 2005.
Discography
Singles
| year | title | Remarks | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Capitol Records | |||
| 1953 | Butterfly Love / My Heart Is a Playground | ||
| 1953 | Secret Kisses / Whole Hog or None | ||
| 1954 | Loose Talk / Curtain Never Falls | ||
| 1954 | Caught At Last / It Just Doesn't Seem Like Home | ||
| 1954 | Please Don't Tell Her / I'm Going out on the Front Porch | ||
| 1955 | Miss Lonely Heart / Oh Heart Let Her Go | ||
| 1955 | No Thanks to You / Canada to Tennessee | ||
| 1955 | Hidding in the Darkness / That's What You Gave to Me | ||
| 1969 | Whole World Holding Hands / Without You | CW charts # 27 | |
| 1970 | One More Mountain to Climb / Just Another Girl | ||
| 1970 | Fingerprints / I Can't Keep My Hands off You | ||
| 1970 | California Grapevine / What's Wrong with You Head, Fred | ||
| 1971 | Easy Loving / Brother Bluebird | CW charts # 1; Pop charts # 17; Golden record | |
| 1972 | My Hang-Up Is You / Big Bad Wolf | CW charts # 1 | |
| 1972 | Bless Your Heart / Conscience Makes Corward (All of Us) | CW charts # 1 | |
| 1972 | Got the All Overs for You (All Over Me) / Just Another Girl | CW charts # 1 | |
| 1973 | Super Kind of Woman / Mother Nature Made a Believer out of Me | CW charts # 1 | |
| 1973 | Trip to Heaven / Look-A-Here | CW charts # 1 | |
| 1973 | If You Can't Feel It (It Ain't There) / Skid Row Street | CW charts # 3 | |
| 1973 | Blue Christmas / I Believe in Santa Claus | ||
| 1974 | Hang in There Girl / You Belong to Me | CW charts # 2 | |
| 1974 | Want-To’s / Phoenix City | CW charts # 3 | |
| 1974 | My Woman's Man / Let's Clean Up the Country | CW charts # 3 | |
| 1975 | I'd Like to Sleep (Till I Get Over You) / Nothing's Better Than That | CW charts # 5 | |
| 1975 | The first time / sexy | CW charts # 2 | |
| 1975 | Warm Side of You / Because I Love You | CW charts # 6 | |
| 1976 | Are You the Song (Inside of Me) / I Can Almost See Houston from Here | CW charts # 11 | |
| 1976 | Bless Your Heart / My Hang-Up Is You | Republication | |
| 1976 | Love Makes It Allright / She'll Throw Stones at You | B-side CW charts # 12 | |
| 1976 | That Look in Her Eyes / Try My Love for Size | CW charts # 11 | |
| 1976 | Why Lovers Turn to Strangers / Paper Sack Full of Memories | CW charts # 8 | |
| 1977 | Thank God She's Mine / Falling All Over Me | CW charts # 11 | |
| 1977 | The Pleasure's Been All Mine / It's Heaven Loving You | CW charts # 13 | |
| 1977 | Search / Honky Tonk | ||
| 1978 | So Good, So Rare, So Fine / There's an Angel Living There | CW charts # 27 | |
| 1978 | Only You / I Love You, I Just Don't Like You | CW charts # 34 | |
| 1978 | Toe To Toe / And Then Some | CW charts # 21 | |
| 1979 | My Lady / Guilty | CW charts # 40 | |
| 1979 | Wasn't It Easy Baby / My Lady Loves | CW charts # 28 | |
| Columbia Records | |||
| 1956 | Dig Boy Dig / Two of a Kind | ||
| 1956 | Snatch It and Grab It / The Human Thing to Do | ||
| 1956 | Drink Up and Go Home / Blue | ||
| 1957 | On the Prowl / Extra | with Brenda Lee | |
| 1957 | Fraulein / Baby Don't Leave | Fraulein in the original by Bobby Helms | |
| 1957 | Say No More / Outside World | ||
| 1957 | Heaven Only Knows / You Are My World | ||
| 1958 | I Won't Be Home Tonight / Love, Come to Me | ||
| 1958 | I'm No Angel / Midnight Date | ||
| 1959 | The Wall / Davy Jones | CW charts # 24 | |
| 1959 | Farther Than My Eyes Can See / My Kind of Love | ||
| 1959 | Rock Bottom / Chain Gang | B-side on the CW charts # 17 | |
| 1960 | Key's in the Mailbox / Starvation Days | CW charts # 18 | |
| 1960 | Lying Again / Do My Heart a Favor | CW charts # 27 | |
| 1961 | What a Laugh / Heart Attack | CW charts # 23 | |
| 1962 | Like You Are / Some Do, Some Don't, Some Will | ||
| 1962 | Stand Up / Uggly Ducking | ||
| 1963 | I'll Hit It with a Stick / Stranger Drive Away | ||
| 1963 | Angels Like You / Mary Ann | ||
| Monument Records | |||
| 1963 | For a Second Time / That Allmighty Dollar | ||
| 1964 | First You Go Through Me / Valentino | ||
| Kapp Records | |||
| 1964 | Hurts Feel So Good / Love Can Make or Break a Heart | ||
| 1965 | You've Got It Coming to You / Moon Girl | ||
| 1965 | Hank Williams' Guitar / I Created a Monster | CW charts # 23 | |
| 1966 | Why Should I Cry Over You / Key's on the Mailbox | ||
| 1966 | Together Again / Waiting for a Train | Waiting for a Train by Jimmie Rodgers | |
| 1966 | Misty Blue / Elm Street Pawn Shop | ||
| 1967 | I'll Hold You in My Heart / Too Much of You | ||
| 1967 | Neon and the Rain / My Anna Maria | ||
| 1967 | Togetherness / Portrait of a Lonely Man | CW charts # 24 | |
| 1968 | Born of a Fool / Hands of a Man | CW charts # 21 | |
| 1968 | Don't Cry Baby / Here Lies a Heart | ||
| 1969 | Why Leave Something I Can't Use? / Hang On to Her | ||
| 1969 | I Lost All My Tomorrows / That's How Hogh a Man Can Do | ||
| 1972 | Funny Familiar Forgotten Things / Only You (And You Alone) | ||
| 1972 | Loving You Again / Don't Cry Baby | ||
| MCA Records | |||
| 1973 | Born a Fool / My Anna Maria | Republication | |
| 1973 | Key's in the Mailbox / Hank Williams' Guitar | Republication | |
| Sunbird Records | |||
| 1980 | Roses Are Red / Battle of Sexes | CW charts # 33 | |
| 1981 | You're a Crazy Man / Playboy's Centerfold | CW charts # 31 | |
| 1981 | You Were There / Weaker Sex | CW charts # 38 | |
| Other labels Sunset, El Dorado and 5th Street Recors | |||
| 1980 | Sure Thing / Making Love to a Memory | on Sunset Records and on Sunbird 7550 = CW Charts # 15 | |
| 1985 | I Don't Want to Lose You / My Favorite Entertainer | released on El Dorado Records | |
| 1987 | Best Love I Never Had / I'm Not Going | released on 5th Street Records | |
Albums
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Remarks
- ^ Obituary , accessed October 28, 2018
- ↑ For the title Easy Loving, see Roland, Tom: The Billboard Book of Number One Country Hits . New York City, New York: Billboard Books, 1991, pp. 57f
- ↑ Placements in the CW charts after Whitburn, Joel: The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits. 7th revised and expanded edition, New York City, New York: Billboard Books, 2005, pp. 153f
- ↑ Pop-Chart placement see Whitburn, Joel: Top Pop Singles 1955-1993. Record Research: Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, 1994, p. 266
- ↑ Placements in the pop album charts according to Whitburn, Joel: Top Pop Albums 1955 - 1996. Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research, 1997, p. 334
literature
- Erlewine, Michael u. a. (Ed.): All Music Guide to Country Music. The experts guide to the best recordings in country music . San Francisco, Cal .: Miller Freeman Books, 1997, p. 202f (biography and annotated discography)
Web links
- Freddie Hart at Allmusic (English)
- Freddie Hart on Hillbilly-Music.com (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hard, Freddie |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Segrest, Fred (civil) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American country singer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 21, 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Loackapoka , Alabama , USA |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 27, 2018 |
| Place of death | Burbank , California |