Window Shopping (song)

"Window Shopping" is a song written by Marcel Joseph and popularized by country singer Hank Williams, who released the song in July 1952 on MGM Records. Joseph was a French Jew who settled in New York City in 1914 and grew to love country music, working as an illustrator at the Journal American by day and writing songs in his spare time.[2]

"Window Shopping"
Single by Hank Williams With His Drifting Cowboys
from the album Honky Tonkin'
A-side"Jambalaya (On the Bayou)"
ReleasedJuly 19, 1952 (1952-07-19)
RecordedJune 13, 1952 (1952-06-13)[1]
StudioCastle Studio, Nashville
GenreCountry & Western, Honky-tonk, Country blues
Length2:32
LabelMGM K 11283
Songwriter(s)Marcel Joseph
Hank Williams With His Drifting Cowboys singles chronology
"Half as Much"
(1952)
"Window Shopping"
(1952)
"Settin' the Woods on Fire"
(1952)

The song was chosen to be the B-side to "Jambalaya (On the Bayou)," one of Williams' biggest hits. He recorded it on June 13, 1952, his first recording session in six months, at Castle Studio in Nashville with backing provided by Jerry Rivers (fiddle), Don Helms (steel guitar), Chet Atkins (lead guitar), Chuck Wright (bass) and probably Ernie Newton (bass).[3]

Cover versions

References

Notes

  1. "Hank Williams 78rpm Issues". jazzdiscography.com. Retrieved 2021-09-22.
  2. Escott 2004, p. 213.
  3. Escott 2004, p. 347.

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