Remembering Hank Snow, the country star who helped discover Elvis Presley

From starting is professional career started in 1933 with his own show on Halifax’s CHNS Radio to discovering a young singer named Elvis Presley, Hank Snow had quite an impressive career. Throughout his life, Snow recorded more than 100 LPs, including everything from hit parade material to gospel, train songs, instrumentals, tributes to Jimmie Rodgers and the Sons of the Pioneers, and recitations of Robert Service poems. Learn more about Canadian Music Hall of Fame inductee Hank Snow: | Canadian

Hank Snow Music s professional career started in 1933 with his own show on Halifax’s CHNS Radio. He changed his name to “Hank, The Yodeling Ranger” because it sounded more Western. Throughout his life, Snow recorded more than 100 LPs, including everything from hit parade material to gospel, train songs, instrumentals (alone and with Chet Atkins), tributes to Jimmie Rodgers and the Sons of the Pioneers, and recitations of Robert Service poems. Snow has been elected to eight different Halls of Fam