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CROCKETT HOWARD 1925–1994 . Singer And Songwriter Howard Crockett Was Born Howard Hausey In Yellow Pine Webster Parish Louisiana On December 25 1925. He Pitched In The Brooklyn Dodgers' Farm System But Turned To Singing And Songwriting After A Shoulder Injury Ended His Baseball Career. Among The Best Known Of The More Than 200 Songs He Wrote Are "Whispering Pines " "Slew Foot " And "Honky Tonk Man." These Three Plus Several Others Were Released And Made Famous By Johnny Horton.Qv According To Fellow Songwriter Joe Davis Crockett Wrote What Might Be His Most Famous Song "Honky Tonk Man " At A Club Called Yankee's In Mississippi And Almost Never Released It Because He Figured Someone Else Had Already Written Something Similar. Four Of His Numerous Songs Went Gold Two Platinum And One Double-Platinum. As A Young Man Crockett Also Performed On The "Louisiana Hayride."qv Beginning In 1957 He Made Several Recordings With Dot Records At Which Time He Changed His Name To Crockett. He Recorded With Mercury Records As Well. His "The Last Will And Testament Of A Drinking Man" Was A Hit In 1973. He Retired From Singing In 1981 Though He Continued To Write Songs Up Until A Few Months Before His Death. Dwight Yoakam Had A Hit With "Honky Tonk Man" In 1986. Crockett's Wife Patricia Carol Hausey Died On November 28 1989. Crockett Died Of Lung Cancer In Fort Worth On December 27 1994 And Was Survived By Three Sons And Three Daughters As Well As Four Grandchildren. His Memorial Service Was Held At Shannon Funeral Chapel Fort Worth. In 1999 He Was Inducted Into The LSSCMA Of Texas Country Music Hall Of Fame Along With Other Texas Greats Lefty Frizzell Qv Lenora Sinistre Gordon Jones And Jess Beaumont. BIBLIOGRAPHY Rockin' Country Style Crockett Howard Http //rcs.Law.Emory.Edu/rcs/artists/c/croc1000.Htm Accessed March 4 2003. Dallas Morning News December 31 1994. Fort Worth Star-Telegram December 30 1994. Houston Chronicle December 31 1994. LSSCMA Of Texas Halls Of Fame Website Http //ssrecords.Techplanet.Net/lsscma_Halls_Of_Fame.Htm Accessed March 4 2003. Hugh O'Donovan Http //www.Tshaonline.Org/handbook/online/articles/CC/fcr89.Html read less