Leon Payne wrote hundreds of country songs in a prolific career that lasted from 1941 until his death in 1969.
As Williams biographer Colin Escott observes, "The message was clear: the public wanted brisk, up-temp juke joint songs.
History might decide that Hank Williams was the finest writer and singer of 'heart' songs in all country music, but that wasn't what radio and jukebox audiences wanted in 1950.
"[4] Kentucky historian W. Lynn Nickell asserted in 2012 that Paul Gilley was responsible for the lyrics to "They'll Never Take Her Love from Me," as well as several other country song hits.
Gilley supposedly gave the handwritten lyric sheet to a neighbor girl, telling her the song would soon be playing on the radio and that it was proof that he had written it.