Johnny Horton: The Eerie Demise of Johnny Horton
Johnny Horton: The Eerie Demise of Johnny Horton Of all the singers who broadened the country music landscape in the ’50s, Johnny Horton is probably the least known. Johnny , who made his name as a honky-tonk singer with strong rockabilly tendencies, skyrocketed to fame in 1959, with his recording of The Battle of New Orleans. Horton began his career working on the Home Town Jamboree in El Monte, California. By the mid-’50s, he was a regular on The Louisiana Hayride originating on station KWKH, Shreveport, Louisiana. Johnny came eerily close to predicting the manner of his death. He believed he would be killed by a drunk in a bar. His premonitions come to pass when he died from a fatal car crash in 1960. His career may have been cut short, but his music reverberated for decades. Johnny Horton was born in Los Angeles in 1925, the son of sharecropping parents. His mother taught him how to play guitar at an early age. After Horton graduated from high school in 1944, he began traveling across the country, eventually moving to Alaska in 1949. While there, he began writing songs in earnest. The following year, Horton moved to east Texas, where he entered a talent contest hosted by Jim Reeves, who was then an unknown vocalist. He won the contest, which motivated him to pursue a musical career. By early 1951, Horton was in California working on the televised Town Home Jamboree in El Monte, California, where he performed under the name “the Singing Fisherman.” At the end of 1951 …
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Mr Magoo
I hope your still kicking well too
Its the music of or youth that gives us our memories
So keep the music alive It keeps our brains working
Let it in on Forever
Great stuff. Wonder who Johnies lead guitar player was?
now thats music
brill stuff thanks,
my fav since i was little im 37 now great music luv u johnny
dang this is catchy (:
Great song – I love Johnny Horton
the engineer from tf2 will sing this in the game ……btw:GREAT SONG!!!
This is real country right here!
real muscic and great
One of the great masters of music! Wonderful rendition of this song.
@flashbell
He thought it would be a head on collision too and said he’d always go into a ditch-but the accident was on a bridge. If he really thought he was gonna die in a car crash he should not driven so much.
Jhonny HOrton #1
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Now thats rockabilly!
I will be 18 this year and I love johnny horton
my dad got me into johnny horton songs
I apologize for my English, thank a wonderful power to please us
@JGMagoo it’s interesting to see the age of some youtube users
many old people avoid the internet and the computer
Real Rocking Country
all you americans today say that diffrent presidents and, diffrent people brought your country together, but in my eyes johnny horton should be very high on the list and he never is cuz people are ignorant no a days
@citationxbjfv
“A honky tonk (also called a honkatonk, honkey-tonk, or tonk) is a type of bar with musical entertainment common in the Southern and Southwestern United States. The term has also been applied to various styles of 20th-century American music.”
“The origin of the term honky tonk is unknown.” – wikipedia.
@flashbell EXCUSE ME,,BUT,, WHAT ‘HONKY TONK’ MEANS??
Pardon Me “mam, would you like to dance?
Holy crap! I thought Dwight Yoakam wrote this. Color me surprised.
I love this it r song eminds of my parents