Even though he also cut a slew of country ballads and honky tonk tunes, Horton's fame rests with these folk saga songs. After spending the majority of the '50s reworking the classic sound of Hank Williams, Lefty Frizzell, and Webb Pierce, Horton scored with country shuffle cuts like "Honky Tonk Man." It wasn't until 1958, though, that he broke ...
Part of Columbia's excellent Country Classics survey series, this 25-track roundup of Americana-themed material takes in the vast landscape by way of geography, history, and patriotism. Ranging from early honky tonk-era sides to '80s roots, Columbia Country Classics, Vol. 3: Americana spotlights hits by Marty Robbins ("El Paso"), Johnny Horton ( ...
This 36-track double-CD set, running just under an hour and a half, effectively chronicles Johnny Horton's Columbia Records career. The first disc, which is in mono, traces Horton's honky-tonk work of 1956-1957, starting with "Honky Tonk Man." Though lacking the crossover appeal of his later work at the time, this is the material on which his ...
16 Biggest Hits may be missing some noteworthy songs, but it does provide an excellent summary of Johnny Horton's Columbia recordings between 1956 and 1960. Since it does contain the majority of his best-known songs -- "The Battle of New Orleans," "Honky-Tonk Man," "I'm a One Woman Man," "Johnny Reb," "Sink the Bismark," "Whispering Pines," "North ...
There is astonishingly little overlap between this 26-song collection, consisting of songs from various western movie and television soundtracks, and other, rival domestic releases. As usual, Bear Family has done its best to gather together the best and most unusual of this material -- a promotional-only single of Ricky Nelson and Dean Martin ...
Horton's brief flurry of country-pop mega-stardom coincided with some of his less interesting music, as this 1960 album proves. Corny Americana became his meal ticket after "The Battle of New Orleans" (which leads off the disc), and more of the same follows on the gold-prospecting tales "Sam Magee" and "When It's Springtime in Alaska." Those songs ...
As part of Columbia's excellent Country Classics series, Honky Tonk Heroes spotlights country music's transition from the bluegrass-heavy golden age of Roy Acuff and Bill Monroe to the honky tonk style that featured the more urbane, shuffle-beat sound forged by Lefty Frizzell and Ray Price in the '40s and '50s. A shift in lyric matter occurred too ...
Time-Life's Classic Country series spotlights original hits from a specific era, or theme, by the artists who made them famous. This set collects 15 tracks that made the country charts between 1950 and 1959, including "I'm Movin' On" by Hank Snow, "Young Love" by Sonny James, and "Sixteen Tons" by Tennessee Ernie Ford, in addition to strong tracks ...
This is a well-rounded compilation of R&B, rock & roll, pop, and rocking instrumentals (the Ventures and Santo & Johnny). Aretha Franklin is elegant on "Winter Wonderland," and while Stevie Wonder and the Supremes represent "The Motown Sound." Roy Orbison is in top form on "Pretty Paper," and Bobby "Boris" Pickett would make the Grinch smile with ...
Anybody who knows Johnny Horton's music prefers his hard honky tonk and rockabilly tunes rather than his novelty hits. That said, even these have their place and Horton scored big with Tillman Franks' "Sink the Bismark" and Jimmie Driftwood's "Battle of New Orleans," and to a lesser degree, with Merle Kilgore's "Johnny Reb." This compilation of ...
A fine introduction to the singer's brief but illustrious career, The Johnny Horton Legend compiles the chart-topping hits "The Battle of New Orleans," "When It's Springtime in Alaska (It's Forty Below)" and "North to Alaska" alongside seven other favorites. ~ Hank Small, All Music Guide
Kings of Country is a good collection of big hits from a variety of country singers throughout the years, including Waylon Jennings ("Amanda"), Johnny Cash ("Big River"), Merle Haggard ("Rainbow Stew"), Marty Robbins ("Devil Woman"), Tennessee Ford ("Sixteen Tons"), Roger Miller ("Doo-Wacka-Doo"), Hank Snow ("Golden Rocket"), Hank Locklin ("Please ...
This is the only live collection of Johnny Horton's work on CD. This is the fourth volume in Scena Records' Live Recordings From the Louisiana Hayride series. Previous volumes feature Johnny Cash, June Carter, and George Jones. Some of this material appeared on two different LPs, each issued in 1966: Johnny Horton on Stage and Johnny Horton on the ...
As the fine series The Golden Age of American Rock 'N' Roll focused on rock & roll hits of all kinds from the mid-'50s to the mid-'60s, the title of this offshoot might be confusing. How can you have a country edition of a rock & roll anthology series? It might be better to think of this as a compilation of 30 country hits from 1956 to 1965 that ...
One of the better releases from K-Tel's Back to Back series includes ten songs, five each from country-pop vocalists Marty Robbins and Johnny Horton on one disc. The combined artists are similar enough that the transition between the two is smooth and the material is familiar, including Robbins' "El Paso" and "My Woman, My Woman, My Wife" ...
Culled from the CBS vaults, Whistle Bait is a very good anthology of 25 rockabilly numbers -- or, if not quite rockabilly, tracks by country artists veering close to rockabilly -- that for the most part will be unfamiliar to all but the most dedicated rockabilly collectors. Sure, there are some stars and cult faves here, like the Collins Kids, ...
Although several of his hits are featured -- including "Honky Tonk Man," "The Woman I Need," and "All Grown Up" -- most of Rockin' Rollin' Johnny Horton is comprised of obscurities, culled from his early career. The album veers between is rockabilly experiments and honky tonk, and the entire CD is highly enjoyable compilation for fans of his ...
American Originals is a brief, 10-track collection that captures Horton's biggest hits. Though it gives a more balanced overview than Greatest Hits, it doesn't have the breadth of the double-disc set Honky Tonk Man: The Essential Johnny Horton 1956-1960, which is the definitive collection. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide
Country Music Classics, Vol. 1 (1950's) collects ten tracks that achieved number one status at the time of their release. Some of the highlights from this budget-priced collection includes original versions of "Walkin' After Midnight" by Patsy Cline, "I Walk the Line" by Johnny Cash, "Jambalaya (On the Bayou)" by Hank Williams, and "Sixteen Tons" ...
Ridin' West, Vol. 2: Traditionals is an 18-track collection of classic folk and country songs from the glory days of the Wild West and the cowboy. It's a thoroughly entertaining collection, featuring such standards as "Red River Valley," "Billy the Kid, " "Johnny Reb, " "Green Grow the Lilacs, " "Buttons and Bows, " "Pecos Bill, " "Tumbling ...
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