Hank Cochran dies

Hank Cochran dies


Published by tunein on July 15, 2010 in News







Hank Cochran — Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame member and composer of "I Fall To Pieces,"
"Make The World Go Away" and numerous other classics — passed away Thursday morning
in his Hendersonville home. He was 74.

"Last night, Jamey Johnson, Billy Ray Cyrus and Buddy Cannon dropped by to sing songs with Hank,
" Cochran's publicist said in a release, "and this morning the legendary songwriter was surrounded
by family and friends when he passed away at his Hendersonville, Tennessee home."

Cochran was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Association International Hall of Fame in 1974.
He was honored by B.M.I. last year for a body of work that also includes "Ocean Front Property,"
"Don't You Ever Get Tired Of Hurting Me" and "The Chair."

A private memorial for family as well as a public service are currently being planned. In a statement,
the Cochran family requests that those wishing to honor Cochran make donations to the Nashville
Songwriters Hall of Fame Foundation.




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Eddie & Hank Cochran





Garland Perry "Hank" Cochran (b. August 2, 1935) is an American country music singer and
songwriter. Starting in the 1960s, Cochran has been a prolific songwriter in the genre, including
major hits by Patsy Cline, Ray Price, Eddy Arnold and others. Cochran was also a recording
artist between 1962 and 1980, charting seven times on the Billboard country charts,
with his highest solo peak being the #20 "Sally Was a Good Old Girl."


Biography

Born during the Great Depression in Isola, Mississippi, he contracted pneumonia, whooping
cough, measles and mumps all about the same time at age 2. The doctor didn't think that he
would survive. His parents divorced when he was 9, he moved with his father to Memphis,
Tennessee, but then went to an orphanage. He was sent to live with his grandparents,
in Waynesboro, Mississippi, after he had run away from the orphanage twice. His uncle Otis
Cochran taught him how to play the guitar as the pair hitchhiked from Mississippi
to southeastern New Mexico to work in the oilfields.

After returning to Mississippi in his teens, he went to California and picked olives.
While there he formed The Cochran Brothers, a duo with un-related Eddie Cochran.

At age 24 he moved to Nashville, Tennessee in 1960, and teamed up with Harlan Howard to write
"I Fall to Pieces" that became a major hit for Patsy Cline (recorded November 16, 1960),
reaching #1 on the Billboard country carts and #12 on the Billboard Hot 100 (chart for all
music categories). Cline also recorded Cochran's "She's Got You" (recorded December 17, 1961;
which was another major hit, #1 on the country charts and #14 on the Hot 100),
and "Why Can't He Be You" (recorded September 5, 1962).

In 1960 he was on a date at a movie theater when the film inspired him, he had to leave the
theater right away, and by the time he reached home fifteen minutes later he had composed
"Make the World Go Away". A song that Ray Price would record and reach #2 on the Billboard
country carts in 1963, and then Eddy Arnold would make his signature hit in 1964, reaching #1
on the country charts and #6 on the overall Billboard Hot 100 charts in 1965 (his highest rated
song ever). Arnold would also record the song "I Want to Go with You".

Cochran wrote several hit songs sung by Burl Ives ("A Little Bitty Tear", "It's Just My Funny Way
of Laughin'", "The Same Old Hurt"). He also wrote songs for George Strait ("The Chair" with
Dean Dillon and "Ocean Front Property" with Dillon and Royce Porter), Merle Haggard
("It's Not Love (But It's Not Bad)"), "Don't You Ever Get Tired (of Hurting Me)", a No. 1 record
for Ronnie Milsap, and Mickey Gilley ("That's All That Matters").

While working at publishing company Pamper Music, he used to spend nights playing at a
Nashville bar called Tootsie's Orchid Lounge. While there a new guy showed up and Cochran
was amazed, he then encouraged management to sign the young songwriter, Willie Nelson,
giving Nelson a raise that was coming to him at the time.

Two of his fondest memories are working with Natalie Cole (among other artists) on a 2003
tribute album to Patsy Cline (Remembering Patsy Cline), because of his love for her father
Nat King Cole,[2] and his collaboration with Vern Gosdin for the 1988 album Chiseled in
Stone (Gosdin's highest rated album at #7).

In 2008 he let singer Lea Anne Creswell come to his home and pick out an album's worth of
songs which the artist released on the album title Lea Anne Sings Hank Cochran and ....

He had cancerous tumors surgically removed from his pancreas and lymph node at a Nashville
Hospital in July 2008. The doctors expect Cochran to make a full recovery as the diagnosis
was made very early.

Cochran had a grapefruit-sized aortic aneurysm removed at a Nashville hospital in April 2010
and was reported as tired but in good spirits.[1]He passed away on July 15th, 2010.

Cochran has been married five times, his last with wife Suzi has been since 1982.



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