Johnny Horton
About the artist
John LaGale Horton (30 April 1925 – 5 November 1960) was an American country, honky-tonk, and rockabilly singer active during the 1950s. He is best known for a series of history-themed narrative songs that achieved international success. His 1959 single "The Battle of New Orleans" won the Grammy Award for Best Country & Western Recording in 1960 and was later inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame; in 2001 it was ranked number 333 on the Recording Industry Association of America’s "Songs of the Century" list.
Top songs
- The Battle of New Orleans
- North to Alaska
- Honky Tonk Man
- Sink The Bismark
- Battle of New Orleans
- Johnny Reb
- Sink the Bismarck
- I'm A One-Woman Man
- I'm Coming Home
- When It's Springtime In Alaska (It's Forty Below)
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- All for the Love of a Girl
- Whispering Pines
- Lover's Rock
- Honky-Tonk Man
- Cherokee Boogie
- Ole Slew Foot
- The Mansion You Stole
- Mr. Moonlight
- North To Alaska*
- Jim Bridger
- All Grown Up
- I Got a Hole In My Pirogue
- Comanche (The Brave Horse)
- I'm a One Woman Man
- They Shined Up Rudolph's Nose
- Sleepy-Eyed John
- Honky Tonk Hardwood Floor
- I'm Ready If You're Willing
- Got the Bull By the Horns
- I'm A One Woman Men
- Lost Highway
- The Golden Rocket
- The Woman I Need (Honky Tonk Mind)
- Honky-Tonk Hardwood Floor
- When It's Springtime in Alaska
- Take Me Like I Am
- Out in New Mexico
- She Knows Why
- Let's Take the Long Way Home
- The Wild One
- The Electrified Donkey
- The Jim Bridger Story
- You Don't Move Me Baby Anymore
- Joe's Been A-Gittin' There
- When It's Spring Time In Alaska (It's Forty Below) - Single Version
- Hooray for That Little Difference
- Hot in the Sugarcane Field
- Words
- The First Train Headin' South
- I Love You Baby
- Sam Magee
- Broken-Hearted Gypsy
- Johnny Freedom ("Freedomland")
- Wise to the Ways of a Woman
- Sal's Got a Sugar Lip
- I'm Ready, If You're Willing
- Johnny Freedom
- I Don't Like I Did (Before)
- Evil Hearted Me
- Big Wheels Rollin'
- I'll Do It Every Time
- Counterfeit Love
- Jambalaya
- The Battle Of New Orleans - special version cut for England
- Goodbye Lonesome (Hello, Baby Doll)
- Rock Island Line
- I Hate Niggers
- Go North
- One Woman Man
- John Henry
- Mean Mean Son of a Gun
- The Battle of Bull Run
- Battle Of New Orleans (Live)
- Honky Tonk Mind (The Woman I Need)
- Nigger Hatin' Me
- Smokey Joe's Barbecue
- Sleepy-Eyed John - Single Version
- John Paul Jones
- The Woman I Need
- Done Rovin'
- I Don't Like I Did
- Devilish Love Light
- The Ballad of Davy Crockett
- Two Red Lips and Warm Red Wine
- The Gosh Darn Wheel
- I'll Do It Everytime
- I Just Don'T Like This Kind Of Livin'
- When It's Spring Time In Alaska (It's Forty Below)
- Broken Hearted Gypsy
- Old Blind Barnabas
- Shotgun Boogie
- Plaid and Calico
- Ballad Of The Green Berets
- The Battle Of New Orleans (English Version)
- Ballad of the Alamo
- Goodbye Lonesome, Hello Baby Doll
- Hank And Joe And Me
- Mean, Mean Son of a Gun
- Church by the Side of the Road
- Comanche
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