- His 1950 hit, "I'm Moving On," spent 21 weeks at No. 1 on Billboard's country charts, one of just three songs to accomplish that feat. He nearly repeated that incredible feat in 1954 with his 20-week No. 1, "I Don't Hurt Anymore."
- Elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1979.
- Father of Jimmie Snow
- Country singer and songwriter.
- Though he first recorded for RCA Victor in 1936, it wasn't until 1949 when he had his first major country hit with "Marriage Vow."
- His other No. 1 hits included "Golden Rocket" (1950); "The Rhumba Boogie" (1951); "I've Been Everywhere" (1962); and "Hello Love" (1974). Other major hits included "Fool Such as I" (1953); "Beggar into a King" (1961); and "Ninety Miles An Hour (Down a Dead End Street)" (1963).
- Father of minister Jimmie Rodgers Snow, named after Hank's idol, Jimmie Rodgers; who was the original "Singing Brakeman", a popular song artist who recorded train and other "country western" oriented music in the teens and twenties before the musical genre was identified as such.
- Singer of "Lili Marlene" in USA & Canada.
- Recorded with legendary Nashville guitarist Hank Garland.
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