What happened to JOHNNY HORTON?
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- Опубліковано 19 жов 2024
- Johnny Horton' life story symbolized the struggle of many depression-era families. It is only fitting that this rockabilly pioneer found fame singing American sagas. Let's explore the man behind the legendary voice.
In 1960, I met Johnny Horton with my friend Rick Capishulto at a performance in Sault Ste Marie, Michigan. After his portion of the show, he went outside and wearing his Red sportcoat we walked with him to the Pizzeria on Portage street and he bought a pizza for his 2 fans. He was a very nice guy. Within a month, he was gone forever. RIP Johnny.
Wow
He would have been 95 this year. I love his ballads starting with the Battle of New Orleans. He made history come alive. I looked him up to see if he was still around and what would be his age. I wish he he had more time and wrote a song about the real "Lone Ranger" Bass Reeves. How did he know that this was the way he would die? At the hands of a drunk driver ??
How tall was Johnny Horton?
@@sueme1954 According to the liner notes in his box set CDs, Johnny was very much into spiritualism, reincarnation and the influence of psychic Edgar Cayce. He believed in spirits, ghosts and practiced occult seances, and sometimes with Johnny Cash. Sometime in his last 2 or 3 months, he began getting premonitions he would die soon, and cancelled a promotional tour of the North to Alaska movie in NYC because he hated to fly. He spent his last week alive (November 1960) phoning his friends, including fishing and song-writing friend Merle Kilgore. Horton told Merle he wold die, and Johnny told him he had gotten a sort of "brain message" from the spirits. Its a fascinating booklet that came with the 4 box set. There is a video of Mr Kilgore telling this story on You Tube with an eerie message Horton gave to Kilgore to let him know that there is life after death. Horton had 3 daughters, the youngest would be about 65 or close to 70 today (2020).
Your one lucky man my friend
To this day I listen to his music, so pure and clean and truly great country music!
much better than what passes for country now a days in nashville
Can not get much better
I listen to the old timers. when I say where are they and because I was a baby when they were singing oh well
Yes it was. It was like listening to history being sung decade by decade
Hol up didn't he have a song called nigger hatin me?
My dad worked all day in a factory when I was little, but night time was his time to spend with his five daughters. North to Alaska was one of our 'lullabies'. My dad's health eventually got really bad. A few years before he passed, when I was an adult with a daughter of my own, I asked him to sing it to me-knowing it would probably be for the last time. I will never forget sitting on a bench swing outside with him standing by it singing for me. I love all of Horton's songs, but still get choked up and teary whenever I hear North to Alaska.
Great story, Rose.
As a kid, I loved Johnny Horton and his songs. I used to listen to them for hours.
Fucking disgus
Disgusting
@@4L.da.g Shut up Nigga!
Was 8 years old in 60. He was "THE MAN" to all the kids in the neighborhood. Still listen to his greatest hits LP.
@@TheFishdoctor1952 Yes I am old enough to remember how kids loved his singing, and how tragic it was to them in 1960. He was great singer and he really attracted young people by his singing and historical songs.
When I was still a kid back in 2009 the song Sink the Bismarck is what first got me into History and I've been a partial Historian ever since. I miss you Johnny Horton.
Johnny Cash and Johnny Horton were my Dad's favorite country artists. I often think of him when seeing a video like this. He passed away eight years ago. Its gratifying to know that Cash and Horton's music has stood the test of time.
The two Johnnys were great friends at that time, spending much of their free time together around Shreveport fishing. Cash proposed to Horton's widow, Billie Jean, before he married June. If she has accepted, he would have been her 4th country-great lover, and third country-great husband... (Faron Young was the unmarred one)
Whispering Pines is such an underated song. It showed Johnny's depth as a lyricist and his voice is soft and haunting. What a wonderful and humble man.
I agree. It is a superb song. Very moving.
Love that song
Johnny Horton was great we lost him much to soon.
Darryl Evans Johnnies music was still very popular here in Australia well in to the 1960’s. A big loss to us all.
I teared up when he sang to the old dying man "battle of new Orleans"...last confederate soldier
We need him to be honored and give him his due. Put Johnny Horton in the country Hall of Fame!!!!
I AGREE!!!!!!!
Greatest singer of ballads....EVER!
Johnny Horton is one of my favorite singers of all time. And it is a shame that he is not in the Country Music Hall of Fame. Johnny Hortons Greatest Hits Album is my all time favorite album. I have worn out at least 6 of them.
It is a shame; he was great. Thanks for watching!
I fully agree!He SHOULD be in the Country Music Hall of Fame if this institution respects itself. Look at what a crap gets inducted now, overlooking many great ones like Johnny Horton, Keith Whitley and many other nearly forgotten (or not) greats who worked so hard in adverse conditions to bring us great music and left us great recordings that surely stood the times. I wonder if that will ever happen to some of the recently inducted ones... such a pity! Thanks for this and the other great videos!
Dennis Schut
He will never be inducted no matter how great a singer he was. There is no room in this world for a bigot and racist, and that is what he was. You have to listen to ALL his songs and you will find out which ones will keep him out of the hall.
I agree with you he should be
Don't get me wrong, I was raised on his music and more and love it, but, sorrowfully, in todays environment it would " be too controversial" I'm sure
Only 35 years old when he died in 1960. Life is like a meteor flashing through space. It appears for a moment then leaves not a trace. Only the memories of it are left behind for some to remember and lives to refine.
I am a musician of forty yrs or so and live in Bossier City, La. where Mr. Horton is buried. I have spent many hrs over the yrs on that bench at his grave just thinking or maybe picking a tune. I was also fortunate enough to tour with his best friend, Claude King during the "80's. Claude did a set from his album, "I Remember Johnny Horton," which just made it all fit for me as a musician and historian of Americana music. Thanks, Gary Buchanan
TheBuck1283
Buried at Hillcrest Cemetery in Red Chute. Bossier City ends at Bodcau Bayou.
If Johnny Horton is not in Country Music Hall of Fame he should be. I heard his songs many times on KRAK radio 1140 am out of Sacramento,Ca.
nahmanini sithole
I grew up in Oregon on country music, but when I moved to the Monterey Bay in 1956, it didn't exist here. I eventually found KRAK and welded my dial!
Yeah....ya fought all the way....Johnny Reb....Johnny Reb....ya fought all the way Johnny Reb.
Wish he was still here singing it. Great song
@@deancardella358 You know he would be blackballed in today's woke world.
One of Country music's greatest singers. Thanks for uploading this tribute.
There's a Rock-a-billy Hall Of Fame ?
How nice .
I saw Johnny Horton when he toured in northern Manitoba {Flin Flon} in 1958 or 1959 {??} ~ I was about 8 or 9 years old.
Outstanding.....
When I was a little girl my mom worked in a little family-owned cafe where Johnny Horton would have supper. They were the same age with Southern roots & became friends. She talked about what a nice man he was, so polite & funny. I don't think my dad knew, but I think she had a little crush on him. He wasn't famous yet.
That's really cool!! Thanks for sharing that story and for watching.
Linda Smith Reuters)
Linda Smith Is
Your mother was a very lucky woman
A sound like no other!
What a legend!!!
Johnny Horton my most fave rockabilly. he was my grandpa's first cousin. my third.. he will always be special to us
"Whispering Pines" was one of his best songs.
I often wondered what happened to Johnny Horton. I grew up listening to his music and still sing the songs I remember when I think no one can hear me butcher them. Thanks for the video.
Thank you for watching; I'm glad you enjoyed it!
StillRockinPDX
some of my favorite songs!
Just two days ago I was working on my property and I started singing a couple of Johnny Horton songs out of the clear blue. Today, this is in my recommended list of videos. Definitely makes you wonder, lol.
My late father in law was friends with Johnny. He was on a roller skating dance team that was on the same tour as Johnny when he was younger. He had actual video of a TV show they both were on. It showed all of them getting off the tour bus together. My father in law was in the Air Force stationed in Texas in 1960. Johnny had wrote him that he was going to be in the area and if he had time he'd swing by to see him. Unfortunately Johnny didn't have time. I've often wonder that if he'd had time. If it would have changed his route or timing and he wouldn't have been hit by that drunk. Probably not but who knows.
One of my favs. Didnt know what happened to him. 😱😨😭
Loved his music. RIP Johnny Horton ❤
One if the finest people i ever knew. He always treated me as one of his own.
I miss him always
You knew Johnny Horton? That's awesome!
Yes. My dad was his manager
Plenty. He was the best.
He was a checkers player. He and daddy used to play all the time. They taught me.
After johnny played johnny reb at the bedside of the old man, on the way home. johnny told daddy "chief, dont book me for the funeral"
Daddy wrote a book of lots of the stories
Are you related to Tillman Franks ?
@@watpics you dumb ass pretending to have met him well if you really did then what would he think of the music of today and would he still be doing shows and music tell me that
i met him in England in the late fifties i was on the same bill he was a great guy he was a country singer and enjoyed a drink or two himself.
So your between 70 and 90 years old and you know how to use the internet??
@@johncox3073 So,does that mean you think anyone over the age of 70 is too ignorant to use it?
He never drank
@@johncox3073 it's not rocket science.
Totally awesome great country singer..nice job on this video too..Thank you
Johnny Horton’s music is timeless and while he was already gone before I was born I’m so happy I grew up with my grandparents who listened to his music.
It was sad mind numbing news when I read about his death in the newspaper late 1960. It was demoralising to me and my teenage friends; bear in mind we had lost Buddy Holly not too long ago........two of our favourites gone forever.
holboroman
That tore me up and I miss him to because his music is in my heart and soul and brings me peace win I hear it may he rest in peace
Too me, Johnny Horton is like Hank williams, one of my Gods in music. I've always tried to immitate them both when singing, although I played slapbass in a band, I got to sing some songs, mostly Johnny Horton and Hank Williams songs, best ever performed was "Hank Williams - My son calls another man daddy", most of the audience stood in tears after the song, also when I sang Johnny Hortons song, I'm a one woman man. Sang from the bottom of my heart and the bottom of my memories.
Thank you Johnny and Hank for all the good music you gave us!
Johnny Horton truly was amazing, wasn't he? Of all the greats we've done so far, for some reason, his early death and Eddie Cochran's make me the saddest. By the way, we are working on a Hank Williams video (we can't NOT do him); look for it week after next or so; and thanks for watching!
I'd would, if I could, and be proud to lend my voice for that film, for the songs, would a couple of weeks though, to get into the same voice, been some years since I sang Hank and Johnny songs... It was great to watch your film/compositiion about Johnny, truly!
+ProudRockabillyRebel I could cry just hearing your story. Bet you were good. Don't ever stop singing.
QUITE a song that - My Son Calls Another Man Daddy.
My son callas another man 'daddy'.
He'll ne'er know my name, nor my face.
GOD only knows how it hurts me,
For another to be in my place!
My compliments on your videos. They're warm, factual and sensitive to the fans. Great work.
Thank you for the wonderful compliment and for watching!
What a great singer he was. I loved his songs as a kid & still do today.
What a beautifully done tribute, I especially liked that calm and somber country music playing throughout in the back ground, wish I knew its name.
All are tidbit of songs of his greatest hits.
I played his albums over and over again. His greatest hits album was one good song after another. The whole album was great.
A true great.A great artist with a great voice
Got teary eyed listening to this. Wonderful singer. RIP Johnny.
My aunt in AR introduced me Johnny Hortons music when I was 13 back in the early 70's. I have liked his music ever since.
I learned all the history I needed to know from his songs. LOL...
QuantumRift. Yh same here XD
My Mom was a fan of Johnny Horton.I am a fan of Johnny Horton,also.
I truly feel sorry for his children because they were so young when he passed, I would love to meet them and tell them how much him and his music has meant to me over the years,RIP Johnny you were the greatest!!!!!!!
Thank you for posting this. I was introduced to Johnny Horton's music (along with other great Country artists) by my father when I was just a small child. I have always been interested in history so his songs appealed to me very much. My Dad passed away almost 27 years ago, when I was 19. I can't hear a Johnny Horton song without thinking of him.
Austin Knowlton
I suppose it was the summer of'62, and we were visiting relatives in East Texas, and their longtime neighbor. Mr P...., had remarried. While on the porch, early evening just before dark, the then Mrs P.... walked past going to visit another neighbor, and she said hello. My Uncle reminded me that she was formerly Mrs JL Horton, Johnny's Mom. And so it was in July, 1962, in Rusk, Texas.
What a wonderful memory!
Still love Johnny Horton to this day.
What a great story teller, very nice voice, and sadly taken too young, music lovers
Where robbed. Its hard to pick a favorite, but I have a big soft spot for his "SADDLE TRAMP" RIP Johnny,thanks for the music.
Thank you for the upload. I was a big fan of those saga songs back in 1960. Great stuff for a curious, inquisitive kid.
One of the very best pitch and singing voices ever.. ever.............. RIP Sir.
God bless ,luv like a brother certainly touch my life with your talent my favourite love song to my wife she still cries to this day when I’m playing them to her 💕❤️
My all-time favorite singer. I grew up listening to his music, and my dad picking his songs and singing to them. Sometimes I just sit and listen to his music and have bittersweet memories of my Dad.
I never knew his story. As a young boy a really enjoyed his music. I never k ew about the accident that took his Iife. Thank you
Thank you for watching!
I was 12 years old when the news came over the radio. I was stunned and saddened.
Alpha 11.....I listened to a rather long interview with Hank Williams daughter, Jet Williams. According to her concerning the death of her daddy, She seemed to think that Hank was 'beaten' to death.
where is that at, is it on youtube?
Bill K never heard that before
Again, very well done. I like Johnny Horton. Smokey Binion, Jr.
I love his music and felt so bad for his wife who buried two celebrity husbands before their time. Some people shine for a brief moment and then are gone from the spotlight. Johnny's premonition of his death always gave me chills.
Got his cd love it
loved his music since 60,s. did not know what happen. breaks my heart. rip. johnny.
I m neary 60 now and ive loved johnny hortons music ever since i was knee high.... yoy will neverdie forme johnny
Just Like Ritchie Valens, Jonny Horton died from what He Feared Most!
Marc Bolan too.
Some of the information on this video, I already knew about. But a lot of it, I didn't. Thanks for producing and sharing the video.
I am not sure if the info is correct that at the time of the accident Johnny Horton was in his car with his bass player and manager... His bass player WAS his manager and also in the car was Tommy Tomlinson, his lead guitar player who got severely injured and later lost his legs because of this accident and then sort of related to that fact, he died.... Very sad story, fantastic singing! Thanks for the excellent video
Love Johnny Horton. Battle Of New Orleans, Johnny Reb and Sink The Bismarck are songs I listen to often.
“Sam crossed the majestic mountains to the valleys far below.
He talked to his team of huskies as he mushed them through the snow.
With the northern lights a running wild in the land of the midnight sun,
Sam McCord was a mighty man in the year of ninteen one!”
Your channel is SO. EFFING. PERFECT. The clips, the most moving music, your research--I TRULY thank you for your videos. They have brought a smile to my face and tears to my eyes. Thank you.
This is seriously the nicest comment we have ever received. Thank you so very much!
Alpha 11 I must say...I am in AWE of your content. May I ask...who are you? Your content is hands down second to none. If I had money I would be throwing it at you. I cannot express the gratitude I feel for your videos. Amazing.
I really enjoyed his voice. It was so different.
Johnny Horton was a great singer, I listened to him when ever they would play his songs on the radio, when I was a little girl, today as a grown woman I still Love hearing him sing. I LOVE JOHNNY HORTON, AND I PRAY THAT HE IS SINGING GOSPEL HYMNS WITH THOSE IN HEAVEN!!
My all time favorite!!!!!!
I served in the 2/75th Rangers with his brother Gary. Just as good a singer and guitarist.
Comanche, Johnny Freedom, Johnny Reb, Sink the Bismark, The Mansions You Stole, Battle of New Orleans, Springtime in Alaska............grew up on all these. Still listen to them to this day.
Love his music!
One of the all time greats!
Johnny Horton was one of the best singers that ever lived ! I loved all of his songs ,but my favorite was whispering pines
He left just as I was showing up. Same with all my favorites, so sad. Thank you for this.
Grew up with his songs. Helped me learn American History...😢
Johnny Horton and Johnny Cash were great friends. Cash would often let his band (At the time, they were Tennessee 2, Luther Perkins, and Marshall Grant) record songs with Horton. After Horton's death, Luther and Marshall did a little instrumental for his kids.
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Kade Berrier I always wondered about that ... who plays lead (for example) on "Goodbye Lonesome"? Session guy? It sounds like "somebody" know what I mean?
i met Johnny Horton in shrewsbury England in the late fifties he was appearing at the Music Hall, I stood in for him at the interval so he could go out to the pub with his band.
That is awesome; I"m jealous!
thank you mr Horton was a top Country and western star check shirt blue jeans new to England at that time...a Stetson and boots hew was great and thanked me for covering he should have been in the bar 15 minutes but came back in 35 with his pockets full of bottled beers a WONDERFUL MAN.
Interesting, new to me that he appeared overseas... Wish I had been there too!!! Great singer!
That's a fantastic memory to have! thanks for sharing - how did you fill time?
I’m pretty sure that he went to England when his song Sink the Bismark was new. I think my father said that he sang it in front if Mr. Churchhill
Johnny Horton needs to be inducted in the County Music Hall of Fame!!
I love Johnny Horton music. I have a collection of hits cd. It is very good.
I love all his songs. I was just a kid but he was my favorite
He was great, wasn't he?
Yes he was and was from Texas like me. Lol
What a great talent and decent man Johnny Horton was. Always loved his music.
As American as you can get
My dad was a big fan. Good music
5th grade history class play. Battle of New Orleans was sang by a bunch of us kids. Still have my parents album & I can still sing every song on it. Great man, terrible tragedy.
Thnaks, Very Well Done!
I got his North to Alaska album for Christmas when I was a kid. I wore it out. I loved his music 🎶. God rest his soul ❤️.
Johnny was unique and good. When I sang on the Louisiana Hayride I was a nervous wreck because all of a sudden I started thinking about my hero's who had played there even Elvis Hank and I actually forgot the words but since it was a new song nobody knew.
Ronnie Bishop
These videos are really good! Next:Bill Haley?
HotelAlpha200 yes
I like his music. Good songs, nice voice.
I was fortunate enough to hear Jimmy Driftwood sing The battle of New Orleans several times.
WOW a real video of a confederate solider!
What are you even saying
How horrible to have to listen to a racket like that while dying 😢
@@vadaminot429 It's better than any of the autotuned crap that passes for music now. Back then singers actually played a musical instrument and the women singers didn't dress and act like strippers.
There are 100’s if movies of real confederate soldiers. There was photography during the war so of course the pictures are in the hundreds of thousands. By 1900 let’s say comercial films were being produced. The movie camera existed before that but for the sake of simplicity let’s say 1900 they are of course appearing on film. Your average 35ish year old would be a veteran of the war. They held parades every year until there was not one left. I recall seeing parades with 100’s abd later parades with 2. If you think that footage of a dying soldier in the 50’s is a rarity you must have an interesting timeline in your head. May i recomend books??
A 35 year old in 1900 was born in the 1865, the year the war ended. Can I recommend a math book?
We gotta sink the Bismarck. Love it.
Brucelee wannabee1973 same here :D
...with those guns as big as steers and those shells as big as trees...
Johnny Horton was pure. country ❤ 🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶🎶
I'm an Aussie in my 60's and I loved Johnny Horton and all his music. If I had to choose a fave it would probably be Sink the Bismark but I really did love them all. I only found out about his death and how he died when I watched this video tonight. So tragic. RIP Johnny Horton. You brought so much joy to my childhood.💖
Thank you for this.
Thank you for watching; I'm glad you enjoyed it!
I remember when Battle of New Orleans, Sink the Bismark, and North to Alaska came out. Loved singing his songs. Especially BoNO. His songs opened my world of music and singing right up. I'll be forever greatful to Johnny Horton for injecting a little country into everything I play.
"Ya they ran through the briars
and they ran through brambles
and they ran through the bushes
where a rabbit couldn't go
They ran so fast that the hounds couldn't catch them
On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico"
His music lives on! What a singer!
ALL GREAT SONG ! LOVE THEM ALL ! GREAT < STILL LISTEN TO THEM ALL ! R.I.P.
I remember listening to him before going to dances in small towns in our county. I still play his music and know some of the lyrics. There's hardly a song I don't like. He was great.
Johnny Horton the true HISTORY teacher i think students who wanna know American history can learn from, he was quite the teacher....
one of my fav singers, wish i could have seen him in person. sadly, like Jim Reeves he died when i was a kid
Him & Cash were good friends
Of all my Moms old records it was Johnny Horton's Greatest hits was my favorite