Freddie Hart
Freddie Hart ( * December 21, 1926 (?) In Loackapoka, Louisiana as Fred Segrest ) is an American country singer. In the 1970s, Hart had a series of number-one hits in the United States.
- 2.1 Singles
- 2.2 albums
Life
Childhood and youth
Born as one of fifteen children of poor parents, Freddie Hart had a difficult childhood. Even his date of birth is disputed. According to some sources, he was reportedly born in 1928 another in 1926 or 1933. His family was very musical and hard often heard the Grand Ole Opry to. With five, he learned to play guitar. But just two years later, he ran away from home, but could be brought back. His parents therefore brought him to twelve years in an educational program of the government. Even at 14, he then managed to be accepted into the Marines. During the Second World War, he fought in, among others, Guam and Iwo Jima.
After his discharge from the Marines, he returned home, where he decided to try his hand as a country musician. By pulling the country he performed as a singer. In Nashville, Tennessee, he met the then- known and most successful country singers ever, Hank Williams, who taught him to write songs. Shortly thereafter he moved to Phoenix, Arizona, where he worked in the oil fields. As Lefty Frizzell came for a concert in the city, played hard and his friend Wayne Raney before him. Frizzell invited the two of them to accompany him on his tour. Frizzell and Hart quickly became friends and exchanged in 1953 to California, where he took his stage name " Freddie Hart". In the same year he played for the Capitol Records using first of Cliffie Stone plates a.
Career
As a songwriter, Hart first gaining popularity, so Carl Smith took to his title Loose Talk, which became a number one hit. About Ken Nelson, he signed a contract with Columbia Records. At the same time hard to dispute began performances at the Town Hall Party. During a session in 1956, he took up also some rockabilly tracks such as Dig Boy Dig with Merle Travis on guitar. However, a success as a singer would not be set. Only small chart successes in the rear seats on the Billboard charts were happy for him. It changed hands several times, the record label, so took on, among other things Kapp, MCA and Monument. Smaller hits have included The Wall, Chain Gang and The Key 's in the mailbox.
In 1971 he was able to make the breakthrough with Easy Loving from the eponymous album finally. It took only a while, but as a DJ played the music again and again, the song placed at position one. He was consecutively elected by the Country Music Association twice for Song of the Year. In the following period was hard again and again with country ballads in the charts. He was one of the most successful country singers of the 1970s and had to in the next decade, despite changes to Sunbird label success. He had his last place of 1987 ( No. 77 ). Nevertheless, Hart continued to perform on, switched to gospel and released several albums.
Even today occurs Freddie Hart on publicly. He was inducted into the Alabama Music Hall of Fame and in 2005 into America's Old Time Country Music Hall of Fame in 2001.