Johnny Horton's songs told stories. And no one did it better.

Something magical about music in the mid-50s early rock era until about early 64, before the Beatles took over pop music in America. The Beatles were amazing, but man, something about those old records, country, rock, anything, from "Lipstick on Your Collar" Connie Francis, "Til I Kissed You" the Everly Brothers, "White Sport Coat" Marty Robbins.

Had this 45 rpm record, and it was a song of my childhood

@commonsense6967

Жыл бұрын

Me, too!

@shyman99

Жыл бұрын

My 45 came with a picture sleeve. Still have it.

@muffs55mercury61

Жыл бұрын

My older brother got the album for a Christmas present in 1959. He played it a lot.

Johnny Horton HAS A TON OF CATCHY TUNES AND COULD REALLY BELT IT. He's practically roaring that first chorus. He's so good.

@rockinmosquito

15 күн бұрын

We need to get him into the Country Music, and R&R Hall of Fames.

Back then, they wouldn’t even say hell… Look at what today’s music says!

@Brenden_Simpson

4 ай бұрын

I wouldn't even go as far as to call it music.

@kcstott

2 ай бұрын

just remember cancel culture tried to get "Baby it's cold outside" banned while at the same time "wet ass pussy" was the number 1 song of the year

@Brenden_Simpson

2 ай бұрын

@@kcstott I wouldn't even put what you mentioned in the same class as music.

@frankm.2850

Ай бұрын

The difference is baby it’s cold outside implies rape. There’s nothing in WAP that’s not consensual.

I love Johnny ! Glad he’s finally getting some recognition he deserves!

@Rhewin

5 ай бұрын

Finally! (In 1959)

@Tintinstan7678

5 ай бұрын

@@Rhewin never enough attention

@Brenden_Simpson

4 ай бұрын

The best rarely get much attention.

I always loved this song. Neat seeing it performed onstage. The dancers did an excellent job. Thank you for sharing this. God Bless You & stay safe.

@MaryHorton-Clark

Жыл бұрын

My maiden name is Horton. I grew up in Southern Middle Tennessee. I am a descendent of Issac Horton. My grandmother said that a cousin of hers had a voice like Johnny and that some of the Horton family went west when she was growing up. Who knows- may be related.❤ 2:33

This song and sink the bismarck were my 2 favorite songs by Johnny Horton

@carolynridlon3988

10 ай бұрын

I loved the greatest hits album as a child - 33 record as a child and a CD when it finally released as an adult. I learned every word to every song!

Just like Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Ritchie Valens, Jim Morrison, Patsy Cline, and so many other great musicians who died way too soon, due to a tragic car accident, Johnny Horton died way too soon! I was born in 1956, so I dearly wish Johnny Horton lived a full lifetime so then I would had a chance to have seen him perform on a concert tour.

finally!!! a classic from the 50s. Also, an amazing performance. 50s tv was astonishing. 👏👏👏

i remember this like it was yesterday, it was the last week of school (third grade) , we all went to the local amusement park that weekend and Sunday night we always watched Ed Sullivan. Never thought I would see this again!

Remember this well wore that 45 out.

Greetings from Ecuador 🇪🇨

Really enjoying the '50's hits which are being posted! "The Battle of New Orleans" was a number one hit for Johnny on the Billboard Hot 100 and the Country chart in 1959. It was written by Jimmie Driftwood, and won the Grammy award for Song of the Year. This was the song which gave Johnny his cross-over success in the mainstream pop market. Previously, all his records had charted solely on the country chart (such as "Honky-Tonk Man" and "When it's Springtime in Alaska"). He followed it up with two other big hits, "Sink the Bismarck" (also performed on the Sullivan show and posted earlier) and "North to Alaska" before passing away in a car accident at the age of 35 in 1960. Johnny was a close friend of Johnny Cash. Thank you for posting this video! I would also love to see Al Martino singing his chart record, "I Can't Get You Out of My Heart" on this episode; his first appearance on the Sullivan show.

@MostlyBrenda

Жыл бұрын

Tom, is the 3 year IME/SOFA agreement coming to an end? Or has it been extended? Thought you might know.

@TomElvisSmith

Жыл бұрын

@@MostlyBrenda The original 3-year contract should be coming to an end in a month or so, and I don't know, but I have a feeling they have extended it, possibly for another 3 years, but we will see. I'm speculating that might be why they slowed the uploads to one video a day about a year ago. There were 3 less videos a day for the last year, so that would work out to another 3 years of daily videos. I'm also guessing that the channel has been more successful than they had anticipated, thus why a possible extension of the contract. I hope so, because I love this channel!

@MostlyBrenda

Жыл бұрын

@@TomElvisSmith Oops, it's actually UMe. I looked at the website and found nothing about an extension, but also nothing about a 3 year limit either. Maybe it was misreported in 2020? Anyway the start date was 12 Jun 2020, so we will soon see. In other news, the Midnight Special channel started a couple of months ago. Great live stuff. The Jim Croce stuff there is top notch. Hall and Oates too. Also they actually post complete shows sometimes. Only four so far. It will take a long time to do all nine years at this rate, but it is great to see everything.

@TomElvisSmith

Жыл бұрын

@@MostlyBrenda Yes, the contract was signed between UMe and Sofa Entertainment. UMe controls the music rights and Sofa owns the Ed Sullivan footage. The initial reports of a 3 year contract were in several of the initial press reports in 2020, so it was definitely intended to be a 3 year period at one time. I also remembered the start date being around the middle of June. Great to hear there is a Midnight Special channel now. A little later than my main music tastes, but I'm glad to see more official YT channels for vintage music shows.

@MostlyBrenda

Жыл бұрын

@@TomElvisSmith My main take away from watching a full episode is what a wide range of music was on the charts and popular. Somehow it's much more narrow today in the digital age.

One of my favorite radio songs when I was a little shaver. Maybe cause I could understand the words..☺

My seven siblings and I would sing this song on long car trips in the stationwagon in the 60's!

The old chant of the ancient medieval minstrels about feats in battle, but brought into modern times...

One of the most important battles in American history

@60Cascade

Жыл бұрын

Actually it wasn't, but it's still a great song.

@willminkorea2010

Жыл бұрын

@@60Cascade Old Hickory agrees

@Mark-nx5pk

6 ай бұрын

Battle of Lexington or Battle of Gettysburg were most important

That flash powder blanked out the shot!

Johnny Horton one of the Greatest singers ever.... Gone Way Too Soon.... :(

@jamesbarker6262

3 ай бұрын

No kidding 😢

Looking forward to this all day

You can see the look of Joy in Johnnys face when they set off the Alligator, absolutely wonderful watching this

I was 11 yrs. old in 1967 and l listened to this song and north to Alaska over and over till l memorized them. They were on 45's. l still no them off by heart. Until tonight I have never seen this on Ed Sullivan.

Let’s face it. One of the greatest songs in history. Every kid from the 50’s 60’s and 70’s sang this song and knows every word!

Unbelievable and so "cool🐻‍❄️" i love it 👌

Of course! A live performance of my 1st FAVORITE SONG! Only on Ed Sullivan!

Absolutely brilliant performer ❤❤❤❤❤❤

true pure human voices 😊We don't need autotune!! WE ARE HUMANS!!

If there is a 1:21 after life I sure hope to meet the Great Johnny Horton.

Love this Great ,Great Song and Video !!!Johnny sang it Wonderful !!!

I always like Johnny Horton’s songs, nice to see him singing it live. Those tv cameras could not handle bright lights very well. Thanks for sharing.

@mitchflorida

Жыл бұрын

I think he is lip synching, not really singing live.

@Kw1161

Жыл бұрын

@@mitchflorida You are probably right, but there a few films of him performing his songs, so I will take what comes along.

@sananton2821

Жыл бұрын

@@mitchflorida It's live.

@mitchflorida

Жыл бұрын

@@sananton2821 Where's the backup singers? It sounds exactly like the studio version. Still very entertaining.

Echoing the other comments, what a great live performance. Awesome.

Oh how wonderful it is to listen to him and see these old clips. One of the greats!

I love this song! My wife & I visited the actual site of The Battle of New Orleans (in the current suburb of Chalmette) a couple of times when we lived in The Big Easy.

Loved this song

Rip Johnny Horton

Loved black and white TV......until we got a color TV!

This song is great and Johnny made some great music

Us kids in the 1960's loved Johnny Horton's songs, singing along with the radio on car trips!

The duo Harpers Bizarre did the remake in 1968 & their last Hot 100 swan song.

I was 1yr old in Kodiak Alaska where my dad was stationed when this came out. I still have the vinyls that my dad bought. My dad was attached to VP-19 Squadron

*_Rest In Peace Johnny_* *_Job Well Done, Sir_*

❤😊

My parents used to rock to this song, thank God music has changed so much in my lifetime.

Johnny was lost much too soon.

The question that will never be answered: what would have the 60's brought Johnny had he lived? He had crossed over to the pop charts with this and there would be two more. "North To Alaska" was in the US top 40 pop charts for several weeks when he was killed on Nov 5, 1960.

Sick

hit me at work this past week BIG TIME

Early Music video Before it's time

R I p

It's the alligator for me

What an all-time American classic.

He left this world too soon and not have won good awards and put in hall of fame. 😔

Back when people actually sang instead of using gizmos, autotune and lip syncing

He'd be dead in less than a year. RIP, Johnny.

This must've been around the time they were switching to VT instead of Kinescopes. Surely this is one of the last Kinescopes of the show before being recorded to VT?

That has to be the weirdest thing I've ever seen on the Ed Sullivan Show.

the British was angry because they thought we giving the France weapon on sea so they retaliated but the France was robbing our weapons which is why we lost the war of 1812 cause we gave lots of our ammunitions' away we surrounded august 1814 but didn't sign the treaty till December of 1814 that's basically the only war the us lost cause most our ammunition was France possession if we had more weapons we might have won then history would have been very different then the Monroe doctrine wouldn't have existed Andrew Jackson hung one of British in 1818 which angered James Monroe but James Monroe forgave for his mistake

Brits out!

The great thing about being anti-British is that it helps to be pro everyone else.

@goosem944

7 ай бұрын

The Brits are awful even today

Who the hell pick these costumes for this appearance ? The Village People ?

What in the hell are they wearing?

@diegos.loayza3706

Жыл бұрын

alaska suits

The tinkling banjo sets the "Mood" but THERE ISN'T ONE IN THE GROUP ! 😯 😢 😢 😢 ATTACHMENT: Never take '"CRITICAL THINKING'" for a College Elective 👎 🤪 👎

Kinda gayed it out with the fairy dancing in the background

@diegos.loayza3706

Жыл бұрын

lol bro chill

@Burnthealphabetpeople

11 ай бұрын

You gayed out the comment section with your trash opinion