Johnny Horton Video From 1959

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This a hot mess of campy goodness. You have Johnny Horton in an all white buckskin jacket with matching white coonskin hat. You have English soldiers dancing.

I cannot look away.

Your retro moment of the day (and when I was a kid, this played on the jukebox at a restaurant my dad owned for while. I would play it and sing it loud and proud. Much to the dismay of customers. Yeah, I was a curious and annoying child.)

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Posted by newscoma on Jun 28th, 2008 and is filed under Newscoma.

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  1. Johnny Horton and The First Music Video | Country Radio Classics says:
    June 28th, 2008 at 12:29 pm

    [...] my buddy Newscoma posted this classic Johnny Horton video, and it tickled me to death.  I swear the videos being [...]

  2. holly says:
    June 28th, 2008 at 1:53 pm

    You have no idea what this does for me. My dad had this album (I assume he got it when HE was a kid) that he would play for us when we were kids. I grew up with his singing this song (and adapting the lyrics to include toilet humor, but I digress). This gives my heart a happy :) .

  3. PeskyFly says:
    June 29th, 2008 at 12:16 pm

    Poor Johnny. So much talent and so few hits. It’s hard to imagine given his influence, that — this cut aside — he was never much more than a regional artist.

    And a NOTORIOUSLY nice fella. Hank Williams predicted/suggested that his wife would marry Horton after he passed—- and lo & behold…

  4. desi says:
    June 29th, 2008 at 7:35 pm

    Well, I’ve never heard of Johnny Horton, but thank you so much for posting this! I did watch a sufficiency of variety shows in the 60s as a child who was not yet in charge of my tv viewing, and I can just imagine this being followed by the Ames Brothers. Or the Lennon Sisters. Or maybe Shelley Fabare singing Johnny Angel.

  5. desi says:
    June 29th, 2008 at 7:54 pm

    Speaking of Johnny Angel…

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4832LQ0_T8g

  6. nm says:
    June 30th, 2008 at 3:39 pm

    Ah, the Ed Sullivan Show in its heyday. Trivia note of the day: in order to release this song in the UK, Horton had to cut an alternate version, one in which the British won the battle.

    Peskyfly, Horton had a number of national country and pop hits, didn’t he?