You Better Keep It on Your Mind explained

You Better Keep It on Your Mind
Type:single
Artist:Hank Williams
B-Side:Low Down Blues
Released:1954
Recorded:1952, Nashville (Unconfirmed)
Genre:Country, blues
Label:MGM Records

"You Better Keep It on Your Mind" is a song by Hank Williams. It was composed by Williams and Vic McAlpin and released as a posthumous single by Williams in 1954 on MGM Records. The B-side was "Low Down Blues." McAplin was a staff songwriter at Acuff-Rose and had made minor contributions to Hank's "Long Gone Lonesome Blues" while the pair went on a fishing trip.[1] Thematically, "You Better Keep It on Your Mind" is similar to "You're Gonna Change (Or I'm Gonna Leave)," with the narrator warning his significant other to take him seriously. The second voice on the recording is speculated to be Hank Snow.[2]

Discography

See main article: Hank Williams discography.

See also: List of songs written by Hank Williams.

Notes and References

  1. Book: Escott, Colin . Colin Escott . Hank Williams: The Biography . Back Bay . 2004 . 0-316-73497-7 . 135.
  2. Book: Escott, Colin . Hank Williams: The Biography . Back Bay . 2004 . 0-316-73497-7 . 346.