Honky-Tonk Girl (Hank Thompson song)

"Honky-Tonk Girl" is a song co-written and originally recorded by Hank Thompson.[3][2][4] Released by him on Capitol Records in 1954,[2][5] it was a nationwide country hit in the United States that year (reaching country number nine on Billboard).[6]

"Honky-Tonk Girl"
Single by Hank Thompson and His Brazos Valley Boys
A-side	"Honky-Tonk Girl" "We've Gone Too Far"
Released	1954
Genre	country
Label	Capitol 2823
Songwriter(s)	Hank Thompson, Chuck Harding[1]
Music video
"Honky-Tonk Girl" (audio only) on YouTube

"Honky-Tonk Girl"
Single by Johnny Cash
from the album Now, There Was a Song!
A-side	"Honky-Tonk Girl" "Second Honeymoon"
Released	1960
Genre	country
Label	Columbia 4-41707
Songwriter(s)	Autry Inman[2]
Music video
"Honky-Tonk Girl" (audio only) on YouTube

The song was notably covered by Johnny Cash.

Cash's version was released as a single by Columbia Records (Columbia 4-41707, with "Second Honeymoon" on the opposite side)[7][8][6][9][10] in June[11][12] or July 1960.[13]

Composition

The song evokes a barroom atmosphere.[14]

Charts

Johnny Cash version

Chart (1960)	Peak position
US Billboard Hot 100[15]	92

References

1. "Honky-Tonk Girl / We've Gone Too Far". Discogs. Retrieved 2019-01-25.
2. "Johnny Cash - Second Honeymoon / Honky-Tonk Girl". Discogs. Retrieved 2019-01-20.
3. "Cover versions of Honky-Tonk Girl by Hank Thompson and His Brazos Valley Boys". SecondHandSongs. Retrieved 2019-01-25.
4. Nat Shapiro; Bruce Pollock (1985-09-01). Popular music, 1920-1979: a revised cumulation. Gale Research Co. ISBN 978-0-8103-0847-3.
5. Thurston Moore (1971). The Country Music Who's who. Heather Publications.
6. Joel Whitburn (2007). Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-2006. Record Research. ISBN 978-0-89820-172-7.
7. John L. Smith (1 January 1999). Another Song to Sing: The Recorded Repertoire of Johnny Cash. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-3629-7.
8. Joel Whitburn (2002). Top Country Singles, 1944 to 2001: Chart Data Compiled from Billboard's Country Singles Charts, 1944-2001. Record Research. ISBN 978-0-89820-151-2.
   Joel Whitburn (2005). Joel Whitburn's Top Country Songs: 1944-2005, Billboard. Record Research. ISBN 978-0-89820-165-9.
9. Tim Neely (2004-05-01). Goldmine Records & Prices. Krause Publications. ISBN 978-0-87349-781-7. Second Honky-Tonk Girl Columbia 41707.
10. George Albert (1984-01-01). The Cash Box Country Singles Charts, 1958-1982. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-1685-5.
11. Peter Lewry (2001). I've Been Everywhere: A Johnny Cash Chronicle. Helter Skelter. ISBN 978-1-900924-22-1.
    June
    Both Columbia and Sun Records release singles this month – “Second Honeymoon”/“Honky Tonk Girl” (Columbia 4-41707) and “Story Of A Broken Heart”/“Down The Street To 301” (Sun 343).
12. The Johnny Cash Record Catalog. Greenwood Publishing Group. 1994. pp. 21–. ISBN 978-0-313-29506-5.
13. Steve Turner (2005-10-30). The Man Called CASH: The Life, Love and Faith of an American Legend. Thomas Nelson. pp. 245–. ISBN 978-1-4185-7809-1.
14. Country: The Music and the Musicians : from the Beginnings to the '90s. Country Music Foundation. 1994. “The Wild Side of Life,” a William Warren composition that was a #1 for Thompson in 1952, is probably his best-known hit. It evoked the barroom atmosphere that Thompson would return to over and over again in songs like “Honky Tonk Girl,” ...
15. "Johnny Cash Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved 2019-01-25.