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• EVELYN BIRD BELL MOVIE

Garland’s home health aide motors his bed On a Thursday morning in early December, a string of Hank’s presence in the musical pantheon was strongĮnough at the time of his accident that he still commands the respect and Photographs line the walls: Hank playing with Elvis, backing up Patsy Cline, Memorabilia from Garland’s too-short 15-year career fills the modestīut comfortable home he shares with his brother Billy and Billy’s wife, Amy. That George Benson calls the work of “a guitar master.” Recorded “Jazz Winds From a New Direction” in 1960, an influential jazz album To squeeze everything possible from his considerable gifts, Garland even Recordings, effortlessly moving from country to rockabilly to jazz. Williams and Jerry Lee Lewis, and he cut his own original instrumental Sister,” which guitar expert Wolf Marshall called “one of the greatest riffs in Wrote the seven notes that cut in right after Elvis opens with the call, “Little The consummate session musician, Garland played withĮlvis on “Little Sister,” with Patsy Cline on “I Fall to Pieces” and with theĮverly Brothers on “Wake Up, Little Susie.” His guitar hooks became legend (he A 74-year-oldĭiabetic who was recently hospitalized with stomach problems, he is inexorablyīefore Garland’s musical career ended with the auto accident, he wasĪt the top of his game. Hank Garland is friendly, his dispositionĬharming, but his body is weak, and his speech somewhat garbled. Regard as one of the greatest guitarists to ever pick up the instrument lies inĪ hospital bed in a small bedroom. That seem to come with lawn and shrubbery attached, the man that many musicians On a nondescript suburban street lined with the kind of ranch homes He didn’t die, so they took him out and shocked his brains where he wouldn’t

“They set him up on the road and tried to kill him,” he says. It’s a claim industry insiders dispute, but one Tried to kill Garland because he was a powerful creative force and demanded hisįair share of artistic profits. Who holds his brother’s power of attorney and has cared for him since the 1960s,īlames both pieces of misfortune on record industry thugs, whom he believes

An automobileĪccident in 1961 left Garland in a coma, and subsequent shock treatments ofĭubious medical value significantly reduced his mental capacity. Him from a pop music success story to a shell of his former self. Record industry, which the Garland family says cheated Hank Garland and reduced But such evidence hasn’t swayed Nashville’s powerful Statement by one of the studio musicians on “Jingle Bell Rock” that Helms and “Jingle Bell Rock,” pencilled in Garland’s meticulous hand, and a sworn Industry paraphernalia, including an original copy of the sheet music for The Garland family home is filled with decades’ worth of music Owns the copyright for “Jingle Bell Rock” and is backed by some convincingĮvidence. This belief prompted a 2003 lawsuit against the company that now If Garland had received his due, his brother Billy claims he’d have Profits it generated from him and Bobby Helms. Instead, songwriter Hank “Sugarfoot” Garland, now an Orange Park,įla., resident, claims that Decca Records stole “Jingle Bell Rock” and the Garland on the happy guitar — “Jingle Bell Rock” has been a Christmas chestnut.Ĭonsidering the song’s success, one might assume its authorsĬelebrate the holiday season with years of fat royalties. Released the hit with crooner Bobby Helms singing the bouncy lyrics and Hank “Jingle Bell Rock.” Every holiday season since 1957 — the year Decca Records “White Christmas.” Right up there with them is the swinging, soft-pedaling Includes evergreens like “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” “Silent Night” and In the canon of Christmas songs, the beloved and familiar lineup Holiday soundtrack washes over us, piped into department stores and governmentīuildings, broadcast continuously over AM radio. In the background of this annual vista, a shared Grows ever more crammed with holiday iconography — candy canes, nutcrackers, In that dreamy period between Thanksgiving and Christmas morning, the landscape With colored baubles, or just the fragrance of pine, evokes a winter coziness. 'Jingle Bell Rock' Creator Gets Scrooged by NashvilleĬhristmas is a season of potent signifiers, when a pine tree hung Subject: Emailing: Story/Hank's Jingle Bell Crock To: AMY Garland Amy Garland Danny Wiggins

EVELYN BIRD BELL MOVIE

If yall haven't already I would suggest a viewing of the movie Crazy about the life of Hank.

I recently found an article that was written just prior to his death and the hazards of working in the music industry. For many of us guitarists, especially if you started in the 60s Hank Garland was a huge influence on me especially.