I'm Moving On (Hank Snow song)

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"I'm Moving On"
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Single by Hank Snow (The Singing Ranger) and His Rainbow Ranch Boys [1]
A-side "With This Ring, I Thee Wed" [2]
ReleasedMay 5, 1950 (1950-05-05) [2]
RecordedMarch 28, 1950 [1]
Studio Brown Radio Productions, Nashville, Tennessee [1]
Genre
Label RCA Victor [2]
Songwriter(s) Clarence E. Snow a.k.a. Hank Snow
Producer(s) Stephen Sholes
Hank Snow (The Singing Ranger) and His Rainbow Ranch Boys [1] singles chronology
"The Drunkard's Son"
(1950)
"I'm Moving On"
(1950)
"I Cried But My Tears Were Too Late"
(1950)

"I'm Moving On" is a 1950 country standard written by Hank Snow. It was a success in the record charts and has been recorded by numerous musicians in a variety of styles.

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Recording and lyrics

According to Snow, he proposed the song for his first session for RCA Records in 1949, but recording director Stephen H. Sholes turned it down. "Later on, in the spring of 1950, in Nashville, Mr. Sholes had not remembered the song, so I recorded it," Snow recalled. [3]

The song has four bars of verse followed by eight bars of chorus with the final lines referring back to the verse:

That big eight-wheeler rollin' down the track
Means your true-lovin' daddy ain't comin' back
'Cause I'm movin' on, I'll soon be gone
You were flyin' too high for my little old sky so I'm movin' on

Charts and critical reception

The single reached number one on the Billboard country singles chart and stayed there for 21 weeks, tying a record for the most weeks atop the chart. [4] It was the first of seven number-one Billboard country hits Snow scored throughout his career on that chart. [4] The song's success led to Snow joining the Grand Ole Opry cast in 1950. [5]

According to music writer John Morthland, "The chugging beat establishes that this is a train song, and the fiddle and steel push harder than is usual on Nashville records from this era ... There's real anger and determination in Snow's voice, which sometimes sounds too smooth for this type of song." [6]

Charting versions

Other recordings

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