Freddie Hart (born Frederick Segrest, December 21, 1926, Loachapoka, Alabama) is an American country musician and songwriter. He is best known for his hit song "Easy Loving," which won the Country Music Association Song of the Year award two years in a row, in 1971 and 1972.
Hart was born to a sharecropper family in Loachapoka, Alabama in 1926 and spent his childhood in nearby Phenix City, Alabama along with his 14 siblings. He learned to play gu...
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Freddie Hart (born Frederick Segrest, December 21, 1926, Loachapoka, Alabama) is an American country musician and songwriter. He is best known for his hit song "Easy Loving," which won the Country Music Association Song of the Year award two years in a row, in 1971 and 1972.
Hart was born to a sharecropper family in Loachapoka, Alabama in 1926 and spent his childhood in nearby Phenix City, Alabama along with his 14 siblings. He learned to play guitar at age 5 and quit school by age 12. At age 15, Hart lied about his age in order to join the Marine Corps. He served with the Marines during World War II seeing combat action at Guam and Iwo Jima. Following the war, Hart ended up in California where he taught classes in self defense at the Los Angeles Police Academy.
Hart got an early break in his career when singer Carl Smith covered Hart's song "Loose Talk" in 1955. Other artists who recorded his songs included Patsy Cline ("Lovin' In Vain"), George Jones ("My Tears are Overdue") and...
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