This week in 1953, Russian leader Joseph Stalin died, the Salk polio vaccine was declared a success, and a singer named Hiram King Williams had his 35th hit record, two months after his death.

Love gone wrong has provided the idea or reason for many songs and Hank Williams’ “Your Cheatin’ Heart,” was one of those tunes!

As the story goes, his troubled marriage with Miss Audrey was the source of his 1953 No. 1 record. It was one of several times that—for whatever reason—he was not pleasing her and he said that her “cheatin’ heart” would pay and then told himself that “he...

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