Freddie Hart

Country music is full of rags-to-riches stories, but few took longer to unfold than Freddie Hart's -- his chart-topping hit "Easy Loving" arrived nearly 20 years into his recording career.Hart was born Fred Segrest on December 21, 1926, in Loachapoka, Alabama. He was one of 15 children from a poor sharecropper's family that struggled to provide enough food for its members, but shared a love of ...more