Hank Cochran

Hank Cochran ( born August 2, 1935 in Isola, Mississippi, as Garland Perry Cochran, † July 15, 2010 in Nashville ) was an American country musician.

Life

Childhood and youth

Cochran spent a difficult childhood, which was marked by his own illness and his parents' divorce. He was also an outlier as a teenager. His uncle Otis taught him to play the guitar; with him, he spent some time on the journey from Mississippi to New Mexico, where he worked in the oil fields.

Career

The mid- 1950s he formed in California with the young Eddie Cochran (with whom he was not related) the Cochran Brothers, the country and rockabilly played. In addition to radio and television appearances Cochran played this time his first records and joined with Eddie Cochran to 1956, the ensemble of the Town Hall Party on. After separation of the Cochran Brothers, he was regularly seen in the California Hayride 1959 and signed a contract with Pamper Music as a songwriter.

At 24, he arrived in Nashville and wrote I Fall to Pieces, which was a hit for Patsy Cline; later she took to be She's Got You and Why Can not He Be You. For Ray Price and Eddy Arnold Make the World Go Away was a hit. He also wrote for Burl Ives, George Strait, Merle Haggard and Ronnie Milsap. He is also considered the discoverer of Willie Nelson.

Even Cochran had 1962-1980 seven hits in the charts, including his first single, the Harlan Howard song Sally Was a Good Old Girl, reached number 20.