Rockin' Chair Daddy

"Rockin' Chair Daddy" is a honky tonk country song written and recorded by Braxton Shuffert. Hank Williams was the co-writer.

"Rockin' Chair Daddy"
Song by Braxton Shuffered aka Braxton Shooford
Released1951
RecordedJune 1, 1951
GenreCountry
Length3:02
Songwriter(s)Hank Williams, Braxton Shuffert

Background

After the phenomenal success of Hank Williams' "Lovesick Blues'" in 1949, producer Fred Rose was given carte blanche to sign country acts to MGM and one of them was Hank's friend Braxton Shuffert. Schuffert also toured with Williams and his Drifting Cowboys. Williams had given Shuffert the song "A Teardrop on a Rose" but they needed one more tune for the flipside. Shuffert later recalled:

"I was wanting to sing 'I'll Still Write Your Name in the Sand,' but Fred said, 'No-o-o, we don't give other folks royalties. I'm going over to the house for a few minutes. You and Hank write something.'...When Fred came back, I sang him 'Rockin' Chair Daddy,' and he signed me up that evening."[1]

Like every record that Rose produced for MGM that was not by Hank Williams, the Jimmie Rodgers-influenced "Rockin' Chair Daddy" did little business. No recording of Williams singing the song has ever surfaced.

Another version

Sam Phillips released a single on his own Sun Records, of "Rockin' Chair Daddy" b/w "The Great Medical Menagerist" in 1951, which had been recorded by Harmonica Frank.[2]

Discography
Main article: Hank Williams discography
See also: List of songs written by Hank Williams
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References
  1. Escott, Colin 2004, p. 142.
  2. Robert Palmer. Deep Blues. Penguin Books. p. 241. ISBN 978-0-14-006223-6.


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