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Merle Kilgore's career was bookended by his relationships with two legendary Hanks. When he was 14, he was hanging around the Louisiana Hayride radio show and wrangled his way into the inner circle of Hank Williams, as a gofer and a guitar roadie.
Wyatt merle kilgore biography
The back half of Kilgore's professional life was devoted to managing Hank's son, Hank Williams Jr. In between, Kilgore found success as a singer, a songwriter, an actor and a publisher.
Being so close to Hank Sr., it was inevitable that Kilgore would try his hand at songwriting.
And one of his first songs, "More and More," recorded by Webb Pierce in , was a #1 country hit for 10 weeks. While he held down a job as a disc jockey at various stations in Louisiana, he honed his songwriting on the side.
After he placed more hits with such artists as Johnny Horton and Carl Smith, Kilgore stepped into the spotlight himself. Though his performing career would be intermittent over the next two decades, he did have a few Top 10 singles, includi