Country songwriter Hank Cochran passes on

[Neal Pomea]

He wrote some pretty good songs, including

I Fall to Pieces, and He's Got You (Patsy Cline)

A Little Bitty Tear Let Me Down (Burl Ives)

Make the World Go Away (Eddy Arnold)

You Comb Her Hair (George Jones)

Set 'Em Up, Joe (Vern Gosdin)

It's Not Love (But It's Not Bad) (Merle Haggard)

The Chair, and Oceanfront Property in Arizona (George Strait)

http://www.nashvillesongwritersfoundation.com/a-c/hank-cochran.aspx

RIP

Edited July 16, 2010 by It Should be You

[BruceH]

"You Comb Her Hair" has to be one of the creepiest country songs of all time. George Jones sang the hell out of it though. RIP Hank.

[Big Beat Steve]

If nothing else, to the entire ROCKABILLY fraternity Hank Cochran will always be remembered as the (unrelated) "other half" of the Cochran Brothers that got the legendary Eddie Cochran started in 1955. And Hank's contribution to that duo should not be underestimated at all.

That bio linked above is skewed, to say the least. Outlining a career as beginning at the moment the man "moved to Nashville" is another telltale example of the self-centered and navel-gazing view of the world à la Nashville. Weak ... Fans of REAL country music (not of the watered-down, streamlined Nashville variety) know better anyway.

Edited July 16, 2010 by Big Beat Steve