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Thread #174256   Message #4227014
Posted By: Joe Offer
11-Aug-25 - 11:43 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Who wrote 'Hummingbird' aka Humming Bird
Subject: RE: Origins: Who wrote 'Hummingbird' aka Humming Bird
Here's the Johnny Cooper recording, with attribution to Hank Williams. Apparently, it's about a train named the Humming Bird, which ran from Cincinnati to somewhere. No listing for the song in Norm Cohen's Long Steel Rail, the most significant study of train songs I've ever seen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV69OM7Zoi4

Here's a 1955 recording of "Humming Bird" by the Chordettes. I think it's a different song. Songwriter is D Robertson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=au_gIPZkH20

Songfile.com has a song called "The Humming Bird" attributed to Hank Williams Jr. (born 1949), but I don't think young Hank was writing songs in 1955.