1952

March

• 1st: Night Train by Jimmy Forrest is released. The Residents later cover it on their album George & James.

June

• 19th: Hank Williams' Jambalaya (On the Bayou) is released.

July

• 31st: Ivanhoe is released, a film that The Residents later reference in The Weatherman.

October

• 18th: Hank Williams marries Billie Jean Horton in Minden, Louisiana.

Unknown

• 'A Fool Such as I' by Hank Snow is released. The Residents later cover it on their album The King & Eye.
• Bob Tangney was born either this year, or the previous.