Johnny Horton

Johnny Horton

Johnny Horton

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Top Songs

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The Battle of New Orleans
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When It's Springtime In Alaska (It's Forty Below) [Album Version]
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Johnny Reb
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Sink the Bismark
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Whispering Pines [Album Version]

Albums

  • Done Rovin'

    May 2024 • 19 songs

  • The Wild One

    Dec 2022 • 24 songs

  • Sink The Bismark

    Apr 2022 • 1 song

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Johnny Horton

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Although he is better-remembered for his historical songs, Johnny Horton was one of the best and most popular honky tonk singers of the late 1950s. Horton managed to infuse honky tonk with an urgent rockabilly underpinning. Although his career was cut short by a fatal car crash in 1960, his music reverberated throughout the next three decades. Horton was born in Los Angeles in 1925, the son of sharecropping parents. During his childhood, his family continually moved between California and Texas, in an attempt to find work. His mother taught him how to play guitar at the age o...
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