Like his earlier masterpiece " I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry," it was released as the B-side (MGM-10904B) to "Dear John" (MGM-10904A), since it was an unwritten rule in the country music industry that the faster numbers sold best. The first draft of the song is dated November 23, 1950, and was recorded with an unknown band on December 21, 1950. 'You sorry son of a bitch,' she is supposed to have said, 'it was you that caused me to suffer like this.' Hank went home and told the children's governess, Miss Ragland, that Audrey had a 'cold, cold heart,' and then, as so often in the past, realized the bitterness in his heart held commercial promise. Florida bandleader Pappy Neil McCormick claims to have witnessed the encounter:Īccording to McCormick, Hank went to the hospital and bent down to kiss Audrey, but she wouldn't let him. Escott also speculates that Audrey, who carried on extramarital affairs as Hank did on the road, may have suspected the baby was not her husband's. In the Williams episode of American Masters, country music historian Colin Escott states that Williams was moved to write the song after visiting his wife Audrey in the hospital, who was suffering from an infection brought on by an abortion she had carried out at their home unbeknownst to Hank. Texas Tyler's 1945 recording of "You'll Still Be in My Heart," written by Ted West in 1943. Williams adapted the melody for the song from T.
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