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	CMT.com : Johnny Horton : Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Horton was born in Los Angeles in 1925, the son of sharecropping parents.
		Horton started out by playing talent contests throughout Texas, which is where he gained the attention of Fabor Robison, a music manager that was notorious for his incompetence and his scams.
		Horton was still alive after the wreck, but he died on the way to the hospital; the other passengers in his car had severe injuries, but they survived.
	www.cmt.com /artists/az/horton_johnny/bio.jhtml (1002 words)

	Johnny Horton Biography
		Johnny Horton will probably be forever linked with New Orleans, but he had a fair amount of songs in the country and rockabilly idioms before unexpectedly dying at the age of 35.
		Horton’s first record contract was in 1951 with Cormac and later on the Abbott label, moving in 1952 to Mercury Records.
		Horton married Billie Jean Williams, Hank Williams’ widow, in 1953 but she became a country star’s widow a second time when Horton was killed in an auto accident November 5, 1960.
	www.timelessmusic.com /Bios/biojohnnyhorton_446.htm (330 words)

	Commotion PR : JOHNNY HORTON
		Johnny Horton scored just 11 country hits (6 on the pop charts) before his death, and the fad for historical saga songs pretty much died with him.
		This CD of radio performances from the Louisiana Hayride is the first-ever live collection of Horton’s music, and it testifies to the assured vocal command and good-natured exuberance that made Johnny Horton one of the best-loved country stars of his day.
		Horton quickly followed that with the historical hits "Battle of New Orleans" (#1), "Johnny Reb" (#10) and "Sink the Bismarck" (#6), all of which appear on this collection in Hayride performances collected from 1959 and 1960.
	www.commotionpr.com /johnnyhorton.html (1128 words)

	www.myspace.com/thejohnnyhorton
		Horton had his first hit on the country music charts with "Gobbler, the hounddog" and some other big ones for the Fabor label.
		Johnny recorded the Jimmy Driftwoord song "The battle of New Orleans" in 1959 and it became a number 1 hit, it even wound up being the number one song for the entire year.
		Johnny was killed in an automobile crash on November 5, 1960, on U.S. Route 79 near the small town of Milano, Texas.
	www.myspace.com /thejohnnyhorton (362 words)

	Johnny Horton: Live Recordings from the Louisiana Hayride - PopMatters Music Review
		Johnny Horton was born in 1925 and died in 1960.
		Again, the tone and style Horton brings to the song is an early precursor to the minimal guitar and vocal abilities Johnny Cash would take to the next level.
		Johnny Horton deserved a better fate than being killed by a drunk driver in November 1960, but judging by this album, he certainly maximized his time and, more importantly, his talent.
	www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/h/hortonjohnny-liverecordings.shtml (855 words)

	Johnny Horton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Johnny Horton (April 30, 1925 – November 5, 1960) was an American country music singer.
		Horton died returning home from a performance in Austin, Texas (Skyline Club) in a head-on collision with a drunk driver on Highway 79 at Milano, Texas on November 5, 1960.
		Johnny Horton is interred in the Hillcrest Cemetery in Haughton, Louisiana.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Johnny_Horton (412 words)

	Amazon.com: 16 Biggest Hits: Music: Johnny Horton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Horton is best known for the saga songs ("The Battle of New Orleans," "Sink the Bismark") he scored with when Nashville latched onto the early-'60s folk revival.
		Horton's plaintive wail in his songs is one of his trademarks, notice the way there's a tremor in the way he phrases, "North to Alaska," and in Jim Bridger, "Lift your glasses high!" Some amazing tenor notes in these two standards.
		Johnny Horton was married to Billie Jean Williams, Hank, Sr.'s widowed wife.
	www.amazon.com /16-Biggest-Hits-Johnny-Horton/dp/B00000JT4H (1189 words)

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		Tommy Wayne Horton was born in Brownwood, Texas on May 6, 1948 to Joseph C. Horton and Mary Gwendolyn Horton.
		Tommy Horton is now dancing on his mother's grave by going all out saying he's related to Johnny Horton AND NOW claiming to have recorded and made hits off of Johnny Horton's songs.
		Horton recently accepted "awards" on behalf of Johnny Horton and went as far as to claim to have recorded and made the hit on "The Battle of New Orleans".
	www.tommyhortonshow.com (563 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online:
		John Gale "Johnny" Horton, singer, was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of John Lolly and Ella Claudia Horton, on April 30, 1925.
		Johnny graduated from high school in Gallatin, Texas, and attended junior college in Jacksonville and Kilgore.
		Horton was known for his versatility, but his specialty was honky-tonk.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/HH/fhort.html (397 words)

	RAB Hall of Fame: Johnny Horton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Johnny frequently talked with the couple backstage at the Hayride and at one such meeting Hank allegedly told Billie Jean that one day she would marry Johnny Horton.
		Horton had tried unsuccessfully to cut it six months earlier and returned to it here because both he and Franks were convinced the song could be a hit.
		Johnny Freedom was recorded on the insistence of Columbia president Goddard Lieberson to help push the opening of the Freedomland USA Exposition in the Bronx, New York on 19th June 1960.
	www.rockabillyhall.com /JohnnyHorton1.html (10168 words)

	Johnny Horton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Horton's "Sink The Bismarck", inspired by the film, made number 3 in the US charts, while he sang the title song of the John Wayne film North To Alaska and took it to number 4 in the USA and number 23 in the UK.
		Billie Jean (who later stated that before he left for the last time, Horton kissed her on exactly the same place on the same cheek that Hank Williams had kissed her when he set off for his final trip) became a country star's widow for the second time in 10 years.
		Horton, who has been described as the last major star of The Louisiana Hayride, is buried in Hillcrest Cemetery, Bossier City, Louisiana.
	musicstore.mymmode.com /artist.do?artistID=6072276 (658 words)

	Amazon.ca: Johnny Horton Makes History: Music: Johnny Horton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Horton's single of "The Battle of New Orleans" had sold a couple of million copies, and had brought the Folk Revival to the country and western audience, with suprise appeal to the pop charts as well.
		Horton was an interesting character in his own right, and a good enough singer so that his posthumous reputation really ought to be bigger than it seems to be.
		A few of these songs had already been released on singles and on the "Spectacular Johnny Horton" LP, but being in the historical vein, they were worth repeating for this collection.
	www.amazon.ca /Johnny-Horton-Makes-History/dp/B00006AGDC (809 words)

	Johnny Horton: The Singing Fisherman
		Despite his success, Johnny was still looking for a signature sound, and also his first Number One Hit.
		Tragically, early on the morning of November 5, 1960, Johnny Horton was killed when a drunk driver hit his car head on near Milano, Texas.
		Johnny was buried in Hillcrest Cemetery in Bossier City, Lousiana.
	hammer.prohosting.com /~coollz/horton.htm (675 words)

	Spastic Monkeys » Is Johnny Horton Racist? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The person singing the song was not Johnny Horton, and the song was not recorded by a popular artist for a wide audience.
		I’d always thought of Johnny Horton as a kind of corny country boy, not as a racist fuck.
		I used to listen to Johnny Horton when I was a kid because my parents had old Horton records lying around, and I couldn’t ever remember hearing anything even remotely racist (other than references to the “bloody British”).
	www.spasticmonkeys.com /blog/lileks-blew-it (1683 words)

	Amazon.ca: Greatest Hits: Music: Johnny Horton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		While Louisiana Hayride star Johnny Horton's 1956 Top 10 debut "Honky Tonk Man" strode the line between rockabilly and honky-tonk minimalism, he found his niche in 1959 with a short-lived phenomenon known as the saga song: newly penned tunes, based on or inspired by historical events.
		This CD has all the hits Johnny Horton recorded during his truncated life, including his biggest hit, the patriotic "Battle of New Orleans" as well as "Sink the Bismarck." Aside from these two tunes and "North to Alaska," rest are pretty much filler, but so what?
		Johnny Horton was the ultimate balladeer, with a rich, mellow voice that clearly tells a story.
	www.amazon.ca /Greatest-Hits-Johnny-Horton/dp/B0000026AG (1284 words)

	JOHNNY HORTON - ANNOTATED MAGAZINE PHOTOGRAPH SIGNED
		Country singers Horton, Bobby Lord and Charline Arthur are pictured with short biographies.
		Horton's big hits were the historical songs "The Battle of New Orleans" (1959) and "Sink the Bismarck" (1960).
		The winner of the 1959 Grammy for Best Country and Western Performance for "The Battle of New Orleans", he was only 35 when he was killed in a car crash in 1960.
	www.galleryofhistory.com /archive/3_2003/music/JOHNNY_HORTON.htm (180 words)

	Johnny Horton Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Johnny Horton had several top ten songs in the late 50's and early 60's and was on the verge of becoming one of the top stars of the 60's when he met with tragedy.
		Horton worked in the fishing industry in Alaska and California, and attended Seattle University.
		Johnny Horton then began to record a series of saga songs that crossed over to the pop charts.
	www.tsimon.com /horton.htm (395 words)

	AngryCountry.com - Johnny Horton "Country Legend" (Varese Sarabande)
		Horton wrote many of these songs of hometown joys that include family gatherings, country dances, and young romance.
		His first-person "Mean Mean Son of a Gun" is more of a scamp's idle boast than a delinquent's true confession, and though there are tears shed for the lost love of "It's a Long Rocky Road" Horton never plums the sort of desperate loneliness of fellow honky-tonkers like Hank Williams.
		Many of these songs would reappear in Horton's catalog over the years, but here they're backed by the sort of '40s-styled choruses that would wane in the '50s.
	magazine.angrycountry.com /article.php?story=20060122013317593 (249 words)

	Johnny Horton "The Spectacular Johnny Horton" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		In 1959, when "The Battle Of New Orleans" ruled the radio charts for six weeks, Johnny Horton was a virtual unknown to most American pop music fans.
		Horton, who co-wrote the tune, knew whereof he sang having lived and worked there as a fisherman in 1949-50.
		With the pioneering producer Don Law at the helm, The Spectacular Johnny Horton is a fine testament to an artist whose death in a 1960 auto accident put a sudden stop to a career that was just peaking.
	www.sonynashville.com /AmericanMilestones/series/docs/horton/index.htm (240 words)

	Amazon.com: Johnny Horton - Greatest Hits: Music: Johnny Horton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The late Johnny Horton made a ton of great music during his short time with Columbia records (up until his premature death) and this is a nice sampling.
		I'm not sure he's reviewing the same disc.) At any rate, if you don't already own a Johnny Horton collection, there are a few different Sony compilations available now and this one is just as good as any.
		I used to listen to Johnny when I was just a young kid and I have always loved his music.
	www.amazon.com /Johnny-Horton-Greatest-Hits/dp/B0000026AG (1107 words)

	Battle of New Orleans by Johnny Horton Songfacts
		Horton's wife thought the Gold Record didn't fit the home decor, but the Golden Guitar did.
		, Mountain Home, AR This was one of Johnny Horton's historical hits along with North to Alaska and Sink the Bismarck.
		My mother had an entire album called "Johnny Horton Makes History" that she would play for her high school classes in an effort to drum up interest.
	www.songfacts.com /detail.php?id=1961 (770 words)

	eBay.co.uk - Johnny Horton, Records, CDs, Music Memorabilia items at low prices (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
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		Johnny Horton: Battle of New Orleans 7" (Philips 1959)
		Johnny Horton - Battle Of New Orleans / To Alaska 7"
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	Johnny Horton News
		News about Johnny Horton continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
		The first song I can ever remember hearing was Johnny Horton's "The Battle of New Orleans." Now, I won't make the argument that the song is the greatest little ditty to ever be played on radio, but hearing that...
		The breadth of the band's vintage repertoire is staggering: Ray Price, Mel Tillis, Johnny Horton, Buck Owens and on and on.
	www.topix.net /who/johnny-horton?scoring=r (291 words)

	Johnny Horton lyrics - Johnny Reb
		I saw you a-marchin' with Robert E. Lee You held your head high tryin' to win the victory You fought for your folks but you didn't die in vain And even though you lost they speak highly of your name.
		I heard your teeth chatter from the cold outside Saw the bullets open up the wounds in your side I saw the young boys as they began to fall You had tears in your eyes 'cause you couldn't help at all.
		But you fought all the way Johnny Reb, Johnny Reb You fought all the way, Johnny Reb.
	www.lyricsbox.com /johnny-horton-lyrics-johnny-reb-c6qpj6x.html (298 words)

	RAB Hall of Fame: Johnny Horton (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		By this stage, Horton was singing with complete authority, matched only by Martin's classy picking.
		Horton's version is far from hillbilly, driven by biting electric bass work from Martin, it's prime time rockabilly and Harris' piano pounding helps make this Horton's rockinest performance.
		By now both Horton and Franks were convinced that they had a major hit on their hands.
	www.rockabillyhall.com.cob-web.org:8888 /JohnnyHorton1.html (10177 words)

	Johnny Horton, Honky Tonk Rockabilly Legend
		More recently, in 1996, Bear Family dug up a Johnny Horton recording that had been mysteyously burried for 40 years.
		Most, if not all, of Johnny recordings, masters and demos, have been re-issued by Bear Family records are are very much worth while!
		Johnny did a lot of country and western, for us
	www.rockabilly.nl /artists/jhorton.htm (492 words)

	The Spectacular Johnny Horton by Johnny Horton on Rhapsody
		The Spectacular Johnny Horton by Johnny Horton on Rhapsody
		If you prefer to get your history lessons in song form, listen to Johnny Horton.
		While he started out as a great honky-tonk singer, this album brought him his biggest success -- specifically, the uber-Americana grit of "The Battle of New Orleans." "Cherokee Boogie" shows echoes of his former self, although the song probably won't win any awards for political correctness.
	www.rhapsody.com /johnnyhorton/thespectacularjohnnyhorton (153 words)

	Johnny Reb by Johnny Horton: Song Music Downloads (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Album: Honky Tonk Man: The Essential Johnny Horton 1956-1960 (1996) Artist: Johnny Horton
		Sorry, at this time no downloads have been found for "Johnny Reb" on album Honky Tonk Man: The Essential Johnny Horton 1956-1960.
		Check the albums tab for other downloads from Johnny Horton.
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