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  1. "Personality" is a 1959 song with #music and #lyrics by Harold Logan and #LloydPrice. It was released as a single by Price, and became one of Lloyd Price's most popular crossover hits. The single reached number 2 for three weeks on the #BillboardHot100, kept from the number 1 spot by "#TheBattleOfNewOrleans" by #JohnnyHorton. The song was also a number 1 #US #RAndB hit, maintaining the top spot for four weeks. Billboard ranked it as the #number3SongFor1959.
    youtube.com/watch?v=c81O18PkcNM

  2. "Sink the Bismark" (later "Sink the #Bismarck") is a #march song by American #countryMusic singer #JohnnyHorton and songwriter #TillmanFranks, based on the pursuit and #eventualSinking of the #German #battleship Bismarck in May 1941, during #WorldWarII. Horton released this song through #ColumbiaRecords in 1960, when it reached #3 on the charts. As originally released, the record label used the common misspelling "Bismark".
    youtube.com/watch?v=M1Ufc2hI4FM

  3. On 30 Apr 1925: #JohnnyHorton, American country music and rockabilly singer ("The Battle of New Orleans"), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1960).
    #HappyBirthday #RIP 🕯️

  4. "Personality" is a 1959 song with #music and #lyrics by Harold Logan and #LloydPrice. It was released as a single by Price, and became one of Lloyd Price's most popular crossover hits. The single reached number 2 for three weeks on the #BillboardHot100, kept from the number 1 spot by "#TheBattleOfNewOrleans" by #JohnnyHorton. The song was also a number 1 #US #RAndB hit, maintaining the top spot for four weeks. Billboard ranked it as the #number3SongFor1959.
    youtube.com/watch?v=R0F_m29XwYs

  5. "The Battle of New Orleans" is a song written by #JimmyDriftwood in 1936. The song describes the #BattleOfNewOrleans from the perspective of an American soldier; it tells the tale of the battle with a light tone and provides a rather comical version of what actually happened at the battle. It has been recorded by many artists, but the singer most often associated with this song is #JohnnyHorton. His version, recorded at #BradleyStudios in Nashville, Tennessee.
    youtube.com/watch?v=aXfuQqkwa5I

  6. "Honky-Tonk Man" is a song co-written and recorded by American singer #JohnnyHorton. It was released in March 1956 as his debut single on #ColumbiaRecords, and the album of the same name reaching number 9 on the U.S. country singles charts. Horton re-released the song six years later, taking it to number 11 on the same chart.
    youtube.com/watch?v=Zd8OP_SexU4

  7. #OnThisDay in 1960, #JohnnyHorton, American country and rockabilly singer ("The Battle of New Orleans"), died in a car accident at 33.
    #RIP 🕯️

  8. "Honky-Tonk Man" is a song co-written and recorded by American singer #JohnnyHorton. It was released in March 1956 as his debut single on #ColumbiaRecords, and the album of the same name reaching number 9 on the U.S. country singles charts. Horton re-released the song six years later, taking it to number 11 on the same chart.
    youtube.com/watch?v=Dh6WaV2qLGI

  9. #HashtagGames
    #StrikeASongOrPoem

    Where the river is winding
    Big nuggets they're finding
    North
    To Alaska
    We go north cuz they struck gold

    North, To Alaska
    We go north, the rush is on. #JohnnyHorton

  10. This week's #JukeboxFridayNight theme is #GreatOutdoors. Here are some of the songs that I came up with:

    Johnny Horton: When It's Springtime In Alaska (It's Forty Below) (1959)
    youtube.com/watch?v=VKvJm2ROX_8

    Young Jessie: Lonesome Desert (1954)
    youtube.com/watch?v=x3tOQ1_vpm0

    Fess Parker: The Ballad of Davy Crockett (1954)
    youtube.com/watch?v=VBO1fshbErk

    Everly Brothers: Shady Grove (1968)
    youtube.com/watch?v=uQD45yk3-X0

    O.V. Wright: Everybody Knows (The River Song) (1965)
    youtube.com/watch?v=IvLHMFW6Akg

    #music #johnnyhorton #youngjessie #flairs #fessparker #everlybrothers #ovwright

  11. #HashtagGames
    #TakeASongOrPoemOnARoadTrip

    In 1814 we took a road trip
    Along with Col. Jackson
    Down the mighty Mississip
    We took a little bacon
    And we took a little bean
    And ran over the British in the town of New Orleans...

    #JohnnyHorton