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Hank Thompson
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- Hank Thompson has sold over 60 million albums internationally.
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- Hank Thompson was the first country music artist to ever play Las Vegas
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- Hank Thompson's legendary Live At The Golden Nugget album was the first "live" country music
record ever recorded.
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- Hank Thompson was the first music act to receive corporate tour sponsorship.
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- The Hank Thornpson show was the first color broadcast of a variety show on television.
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- Hank Thompson and The Brazos Valley Boys were the first act to tour with a sound and lighting system. Hank put it
together from his electronics experience at Princeton and the Navy.
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- Hank's band, The Brazos Valley Boys, were voted #1 Country Western Band for 15years in a row by Billboard magazine.
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- Hank Thompson's huge hit, The Wild Side of Life paved the way for the first million selling career record for a female artist in music, with the answer song It
Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels by Kitty Wells. Hank Thompson's music directly opened the floodgates for major women artist to claim a share of music stardom.
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- Hank Thompson and his musical associate guitar legend Merle Travis, were one of the creators and founders of early
rock n' roll, performing songs they had learned as kids from delta Blues players in Texas live in concert. Hank's record label at the time would not allow him to record what they referred to as "Race
Music" in the segregated late 40's and early 50's. Hank and Merle were Bill Halley and Scotty Moore's influences.
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- Hank
Thompson & The Brazos Valley Boys still perform over 120 dates
a year throughout the world.
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