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9/17/52-Hank spends 29th birthday in Austin, TX
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9/20/52 JAMBALAYA ON LOUISIANA HAYRIDE. Hank also performs "settin' the Woods on Fire." Only a recording of Jambalaya apparently survives.
9/21/52-Hank and Billie Jean travel to Nashville from Shreveport
9/52 RED SOVINE IF YOU'LL BE A BABY TO ME
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Castle Studio, Nashville
9/23/52 YOUR CHEATING HEART
9/23/52 I COULD NEVER BE ASHAMED OF YOU
9/23/52 KAW LIGA
9/23/52 TAKE THESE CHAINS FROM MY HEART
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9/24/52 Hank and Billie Jean return to Shreveport
9/24/52-Hank signs three year contract with Louisiana Hayride.
9/25/52-Billie Jean files for divorce from her first husband
9/28/52-Allen Rankin writes article in Montgomery paper detailing the history of the song "Jambalaya," and reports Lillie's story of hearing Hank and Fred Rose writing "Your Cheating Heart"
10/6/52-"I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive" copyrighted Words & music: Hank Williams and Fred Rose
10/6/52-"Please Make Up Your Mind" copyrighted Words & music: Hank Williams
10/11/52 "Settin' the Woods on Fire" charts in Billboard, peaks at #2
10/12/52 FARON YOUNG GOIN' STEADY
10/13/52-Hank and Billie Jean apply for marraige license in Bossier City, Louisiana
10/15/52-Hank signs Jett Williams pre-birth agreement in Montgomery
10/52 In store appearance at Hayes Record shop, Austin Texas.
10/18/52-Hank secretly marries Billie Jean in a private ceremony after a Louisiana Hayride appearance.
10/19/52 Hank marries Billie Jean in New Orleans public ceremony
10/31/52 Hank in Sanitarium to dry out
10/31/52-"I Could never Be Ashamed of You" copyrighted Words & music: Hank Williams
10/31/52-"I Lost the Only Love I Ever Knew" copyrighted Words & music: Hank Williams and Don Helms
10/31/52-"Your Cheatin' Heart" copyrighted Words & music: Hank Williams
11/2/52-Hank starts a tour for a few days with Red Sovine in Houma, Louisiana. who reports later he thinks Hank had a heart attack on the tour but didn't seem to care. The tour plays New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Lafayette Louisiana
11/11/52 Hank appears in Wichita Kansas
11/12/52 Hank appears in Oklahoma City, OK where he meets quack doctor Toby Marshall
11/15/52 "You Win Again" charts in Billboard, peaks at #10
11/52 MGM 11366 I'LL NEVER GET OUT OF THIS WORLD ALIVE/I COULD NEVER BE ASHAMED OF YOU RELEASED
11/27/52 Hank returns to the sanitarium
12/2/52-"Are You Walking and a Talking for the Lord" copyrighted Words & music: Hank Williams
12/2/52-"Kaw-Liga" copyrighted Words & music: Hank Williams and Fred Rose
12/5/52 CURLEY WILLIAMS WHEN YOU'RE TIRED OF BREAKING OTHER'S HEARTS
12/6/52-Hank plays the Big D Jamboree in Dallas, Texas
12/7/52-Hank plays Biloxi Mississippi
12/8/52-Hank appears in Gulfport Mississippi, drunk at show
12/11/52-Hank returned to sanitarium-walks out in the afternoon to be arrested in downtown Shreveport for public drunkeness-returned to sanitarium.
12/13/52-Released from sanitarium, plays Louisiana Hayride
12/14/52-Hankplays Houston with Billy Walker
12/15/52-Hank plays Victoria Texas, Lillie joins tour
12/16/52-Hank in Waco Texas
12/19/52-Hank plays Slyline Club in Austin, Texas. Tommy Hill and Justin Tubb who were there report Hank played from 8 PM to well after 1 AM, and did quite a few gospel songs.
12/20/52 Hank plays the Louisiana Hayride for the last time
12/20/52 "I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive" charts in Billboard, peaks at #1
12/20/52 heads to Montgomery
12/21/52 LOG TRAIN DEMO 8:20
12/21/52 Hank heads to greenville Alabama
12/22/52-Hank sings for his cousin at their store in Greenville-"Your Cheatin' Heart," "Kawliga," "Log Train" Returns to Montgomery
12/25/52-Hank goes to visit his father on Christmas-father, not having a phone, didn't know Hank was coming and was not at home. Hank leaves a box of chocolates and scrawls a note into the celophane. Hank's father holds onto that celophane until the day he dies.
12/27/52-Hank and Bobbie Jean attend the Blue-Grey football game in Montgomery, leave at Halftime
12/28/52 Hank plays private Musicians Union benefit in Montgomery at the Elite Cafe. Last known photo of Hank alive taken at the show. Performs "Jambalaya," "You Win Again," Cold Cold Heart, " and "Lovesick Blues"
12/29/52 Alabama Journal newspaper reports Hank is home for the holidays
12/30/52 Alabama Journal reports on the Musicians Union appearance.
12/30/52 Hank and Charles Carr leave Montgomery headed for Charleston, WV
1/1/53-Hank discovered dead in back seat of car.
1/4/53 FUNERAL IN MONTGOMERY
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