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Johnny Horton Songs
Welcome to this Johnny Horton songs page. I'll be adding more video tutorials of this artist during the next several weeks and months. Johnny Horton songs and suggestions for other artists can be made from the main menu and are welcomed.
You'll find full version previews of the songs so far in the table below. There are two formats available. One is .wmv (for Windows users) and the other is .mp4 (for Mac and IPod users). Both of these links will allow automatic download of the complete instructional tutorials.
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Johnny Horton Songs HistoryHonky Tonk Man
Honky Tonk Man was first released in 1956. The song was written by Horton and made it all the way to #9 on the Billboard Charts. Dwight Yoakam's version came out in 1986 and made it to #3 on the charts.
One Woman Man
Johnny Horton was known for telling a great story. This great tune called "I'm A One Woman Man", was released in 1956. It made it to # 7 for Horton and was released just after Honky Tonk Man.
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Sink The Bismark
Johnny Horton released this song in 1960 and had a #3 hit with it. The correct spelling for the Battleship was actually Bismarck. The Blues Brothers did a version of this song but it never made the final cut of the movie.
Johnny Horton FactsAfter Horton graduated High School he attended a Methodist seminary with plans on becoming a priest. But he left only after a short stay and headed to Alaska in 1949 to become a fisherman instead.
His start came after winning a radio talent contest hosted by a well known radio announcer at that time ... Jim Reeves.
Johnny loved to fish and was referred to as the Singing Fisherman from a radio show he hosted in Pasadena in 1951.
He became a member of the Louisiana Hayride when he moved to Shreveport, LA in 1951. Hank Williams was also a regular on the show.
If it not for Webb Pierce, Honky Tonk Man never have happened because Pierce got Horton his contract with Columbia Records and to cut this first single.
He also married Hank Williams Sr's widow, Billie Jean Jones, 9 months after the death of Williams. Horton and Jones has two children together.
Some strange similarities between Horton and Williams were the fact that they were both married to the same woman when they died. They were both killed in Cadillacs. And both had played their last shows in the same club, the Skyline Club in Austin, TX.
Horton had nightmares about the fact he would be killed by a drunk driver, but always told friends if ever in that situation, to head for the ditch. Unfortunately, the drunk driver that killed Horton hit him head on ... on a bridge. He was 35 when he died.
Johnny Horton's biography was published in 1983 as a hard cover entitled "Johnny Horton, Your Singing Fisherman" by Michael Levine, but is now out of print and difficult to get a copy.
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