You can pull down pull down their statues and change all the army bases names.However you cannot earase the bravery and courage of the Southern soldiers in the Civil War.!
@@TrevorPerkinsMusicTherapythe north was mot much better; they were just as racist. Study how the factory workers were treated and the living conditions in the slums . The industrialists owned those.
If you listen to the words, it is not about the South or North being right, it is simply honoring the thousands of young men who died protecting the land that they loved.
Rafael Pinefa yeah all 3% of people owned slaves. And that were the very rich people so they really didn’t fight on the war, maybe 1 percent of southern soldiers owned slaves.
Rafael Pinefa it was express in the early writing that slavery was an evil but they could not take it away at the time but it’s just like the elites now, they really don’t do much out side of the stock market for their business. They have people doing damn near everything for them. Other then the fact they were SLAVES there is very little difference.
@Gaming Videos Not even the same person. The racist singer Johnny Rebel that sung those songs died in 2016. The man in this video Johnny Horton who was FAR from racist died in 1960.
Actually that was another man,not Mr.Horton.Johnny Horton loved the songs of Huddy "Leadbelly"Ledbetter,New Orleans black bluesman from the 1930s.He was not a schoolteacher,that was an older man whose songs Johnny covered.Mr.Horton recorded Ledbelly's song Rock Island Line and he was not a racist.
i 100% agree most people don't even know who he is anymore one day i was humming sink the bismarck and my boss stopped and looked up and asked be what i was humming when i replied he smiled and walked away next week i for a 1.75 hourly wage increase
Who says this man doesn't belong in the country music hall of fame. He is one of the most under appreciated country singers. He deserves that spot on that wall.
Regardless of how you feel about politics this song sings the praise of the courage of the southern soldier. All soldiers die brave men regardless of what side you're on.
@J. J. Hallo The ideology of why they are fighting has nothing to do with the bravery of the foot soldier. Courage is courage regardless of what it's for. You're confused. The Japanese were one of the bravest if not the bravest soldiers of ww2 but their reason for fighting was questionable. I salute their bravery but I do not admire their cause. I feel like I'm talking to third graders......
No one ever doubted the courage of Johnny Reb. Merely the cause they died for. Call them lots of things disparaging but you can never call them cowards.
'Merely the cause they died for' I grew up talking with the children of Confederate Veterans and I am from a long line of Veterans. Some fought for the Americans and some fought for the Brits during the Revolutionary War. Some fought for the South and some for the North during the War of Northern Aggression. Reading and hearing their stories ( first hand in one case) convinced me that the War of Northern Aggression was not simply about slavery. Many in the South never owned slaves and two of the largest slave owners were Black themselves. No, to reduce this to merely a fight over slavery is to dishonor the Americans (North and South) who died for their beliefs.
@@montanamountainmen6104 My family was one of them. My great great Grandfather & his brother were both at Gettysburg & made it through. Amos deserted after he didn't see any Rebel uniforms after Pickett's charge & his brother lost an arm to a rebel bullet.
I was born a buckeye from Ohio in 1964 lived outside of Nashville for about 2 years in the early 80's. However I've been a Johnny Reb since I first started studying on the war between the states when I was about 10 years old. Also Johnny Horton is the greatest country music singer I've ever heard (thanks Dad for playing his music when I was a little kid).
OMG!!! I had forgotten about this song. My daddy was a long haul truck driver and his CB handle was "johnny reb". He did this for 50 to 60 years or more. He was well known by all the truckers back in the day. Rest in peace, daddy. My own johnny reb. 😘
My Brother Raymond was a Long Haul Trucker also. His CB Handle was DIXIE. He had a plate on his truck with “DiIXIE” on it. I have it in my back window. I’m guessing some think I’m honoring the South with that tag. Yes, but mostly my brother Raymond.
shut the hell up its never about race its about states rights and the right of a state to make its own laws and for a people to govern themselves@@davidisaacson5993
@@adventurestateofmind4460 lol The subject was where are the Johnny Hortons songs of today. Bud There is a reason you have two eyes or ears and only one mouth.
My dad is 92 years old and we still setting listen to the Johnny Horton CDs I enjoy every one of them this man has great songs and vocals and was one of the greatest recording artists I've ever heard he seems about true things and life things that people need to think about things that mean something and we're close to the heart some of those still make me tear up today
I love these old southern style songs. I'm from Australia and the southern accent and traditions I find so cool. As far as slavery goes: Its happened all over the world from the middle east to Kenya. Even here in Australia my Irish ancestors were slaves to the rich English. But as my great uncle said "its a waste of time and energy hating ghosts"
I've heard his rockabilly songs, and im a youngster, his rockabilly was influenced by Elvis Presley, and its some pretty good stuff, Take Me Like I Am, and I'm A One Woman Man are two of the greatest rockabilly songs, but thats only tapping into what he got.
One of the best thing about most singers of this era was the fact that they had good voices and you could actually understand the lyrics, unlike a lot of the trash the that started out through the seventies and eighties when they played the music loud to cover the fact that they couldn't carry a tune if they had it in a suitcase!
@@kylekullin2520 Nope, the title alone turns me off. Very negative indeed. I'll pass... What you don't seem to understand like just about everyone else seems not to: I have my own preferences--likes and dislikes. I try and look at things form a Biblical perspective. Satan is a master musician--he used to be the leader of the heavenly choir and he couches nice sounding music in objectionable lyrics, thus transforming one's brain without them even knowing it. "But that's just life." For Christians the old life of seeing and experiencing sin everywhere will change to holiness and perfection.
Notice how he sounds the same live as he does on record/tape (that's how I remember it) that is in the past. Singers today cannot sing. Singers like him are missed!!!❤❤
I always loved Johnny Hortons music especially North to Alaska. My husband and I. Husband and I spent a week in Alaska, he said that was good times i took a lot of pictures.
I’m 43 and I have no business being a Horton fan, but this is what I listened to on every road trip growing up. I listen to whispering pines in my car alone so I can sing and cry whenever my soul needs it. My son who is 22 loves this song, so thankful my kids let me play him on road trips still.
This man would sing a song a tell you story and you could actually imagine it in your mind being there! North to Alaska, sink the Bismarck, battle of New Orleans he was a true story teller and a great writer/singer my favorite has got to be springtime in Alaska
That song come out when I was born 1948 December I always claim that for my song my great-great granddaddy fought for civil war I'm a southern born and Southern bread almost 73 years ago thank you Johnny Horton
@Nobby Heads Why would Republicans celebrate the confederates losing the war? Lincoln was a republican, don't you mean republicans celebrate winning the war? Or do you mean democrats are still lamenting losing the war to the north, considering democrats were the confederacy?
@@annereilley4892 in the immediate aftermath of the war the Union soldiers almost universally forgave the Confederates. It was Union and Confederate veterans combined who started the tradition of reenacting battles, for example. There was no hate remaining between the sides that actually survived the war. Which is why it is so obnoxious that you come here trying to imply things and saying it is weird for Republicans to not hate the Confederates.
@@robertmartin8907 Oh I see your confusion. You're reading my response to someone who deleted their comment. Their comment didn't make sense, so my comment probably doesn't make sense without it. He probably deleted it because I made him realize what he said was dumb. Stick to my original post, which is that attitudes have changed recently, with toppling of statues that everyone had been fine with for over a century and vilifying the south. I'm not justifying it, just observing it.
@@robertmartin8907 Yeah, now we're on the same page. I should have added SMH at the end of my original post. You're right about the older people, their attitudes haven't changed, but the movement you mentioned has spread to the mainstream and the state and federal governments are giving into them. They will keep teaching the young people and the old will disappear.
The first time I heard Johnny Horton sing. I was hooked for life. When other kids were listening to 80s rock. I Was listening to the Great Johnny Horton.
I grew up listening to his music my parents played, I l9ved it always made me proud to be from the South. I never looked at the Civil war as political growing I always thought of the flag as a symbol of the South not racist in any way, I can't stand Democrats or anything they are about but i will always love the South our Southern way of life, Johnny Hortons songs and President Trump, he win the election by the way!!!
It’s a flag of treason and the embodiment of white Supremacist,I will take a big 💩 on every confederate flag I see, and I hope every confederate soldier is 🔥in hell as we speak 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I remember being introduced to Johnny Horton's greatest songs as a young kid by my father. I remember sitting in the living room with my dad listening to Horton's Greatest Hits 8 track while mom was cooking dinner. The smell of pork steak, fried potatoes, and biscuits cooking and listening to great music reminded me that life was good. Miss and love you mom and dad and RIP Mr. Horton.
My girlfriend thought I was nuts when I would put in the Jonny Horton 8-track. Well she eventually married me and she knows the words by heart too.. 51 years.
I had two 8-track tapes in my first truck. One of them was Hank Williams senior's greatest hits. The other one that I had was ZZ top Fandango. The only tapes at home where Johnny Horton and Slim Whitman.
Johnny Horton was the very first record I ever bought. Don't even remember how old I was. maybe 12? (money from my paper route) It's 2022 I still listen to his greatest hits album
Johnny Horton had several hits and was only 35 when he died in a car crash. North to Alaska was his last hit released only 4 days before he died. He had a good voice and didn't put out a bad song.
He and actor Ward Bond died on the same day (Nov. 5, 1960), three days before the Kennedy Nixon presidential election. He had finished a show at the Skyline Club in Austin that night and was killed in acar crash in Milano, Texas.
John, I think it's about time you start to earn your keep around here... "Just turn me aloose Im flat ready." He's always ready friends, And there you have it! I like that quirky guy. Horton sounds flat confident.
Excellent singer and guitarist and banjo player. The greatest song writer along with Hank Williams Sr. He had three excellent movies made from his songs. I was 13 when I first heard him in 1960- a Seattle born
This has always been my most favorite song since I first heard it when I was just 5,,,I am 65 now and it still remains MY song. Been a Reb all my life thus far.
The purpose of the Confederacy was to keep slavery going forever. Jefferson Davis said so himself. There are better “lost causes” to sympathize with. Like, ones that actually existed. Which the “lost cause of the Confederacy” never did.
What is sad is alot of people think that the confederate was all about slavery. It was much more than that there was more to the civil war than that. I am proud of all of my ancestors confederate and Union. Especially the ones that were part of the underground railroad
The beauty of this song is that it’s a song for the boots. Taken in that context, it is fantastic, no matter your prejudices. Especially if you consider the boots didn’t have shoes.
I am a descendant of President Davis's army. I will never be ashamed to love Dixie or her flag. And when the rebel flag is outlawed, I'll proudly be called a rebel because I will never disown my heritage! Dio Vindice!
@Nobby Heads If you think the confederacy had anything in common with a group of pure evil individuals who murdered 7 million innocent people, you're a complete idiot
@Nobby Heads Lol, you're a pathetic little troll, trying to pick a fight or get some sort of reaction. But I am not interested in having a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent.
@Nobby Heads you’re a lying socialist just like hitler. Germany has never been anything but a pita to the rest of the world. It is the home of modern bigotry. All bigots look to Germany for directions. Many socialist too. It was the destruction of human civilization in Europe multiple times.
It's a shame that we can't have a lesson in why people wrote songs and what the words actually meant . 😢 I cry for out young people who are being taught to hate each other because they look different. We are all Americans so we should all just be red white and blue ! Good bless the USA 🇱🇷🦅🙏❤️
Johnny Horton songs played regularly in my home growing up. Johnny Reb and Sink the Bismark were especially loved by me... - President Lincoln Asks the Band to Play “Dixie” | . Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant on April 9, 1865. The next day, despite rain and mud there were people in the streets of D.C. celebrating. Throughout the city, bonfires blazed and celebratory rockets whistled. Crowds had gathered here the day before, expecting a triumphal speech in the aftermath of Robert E. Lee’s surrender to Ulysses S. Grant on April 9 at Appomattox Court House, Va. A procession of some 2,000 Navy Yard workmen, dragging six boat howitzers that lobbed explosive shells into the sky, trekked across the city. The crowd swelled on its relentless march to the White House; bands played and revelers sang “The Star-Spangled Banner,” “Hail Columbia” and other patriotic tunes. Dixie was used to bring the nation together.....
Yes he's one of the best singer you can have has a very beautifully songs you dont hear this songs any where #1my favorites one in the world love all his songs.a wonderful person can sing this song that is history. Congrats Johnny Horton.❤
I remember my mother listening to Johnny Horton on the radio when I was young..what a sensational singer and musician..Your still singing out in the World Johnny..sadly missed..RIP
One of the great male singers of all time. He had that ability to effortlessly go to that rough edge voice on songs like Battle of New Orleans, Sink the Bizmark, Johnny Reb, etc. And just shear beauty on songs like North to Alaska, Whispering Pines, All For The Love Of A Girl, Comanche, etc. Left us way too soon. Personally I put him right up there with Sam Cooke, Johnny Cash, Eric Burdon, Steve Marriott, Ian Gillain and many others.
I am glad we are one nation, under God and indivisiable. However I salute the courage and honor of the soilders of the North and the South. All American heroes.
Gary Hieronymus people don’t realize that the Northern and Southern soldiers truly respected each other’s reasons to fight, there for they respected them.
My first record album was Johnny Horton’s. He was a great balladeer. But his time passed, just like it must for all of us. We may relive old times in our memories, but we can’t turn time back. Thank God. If we could, we’d probably all still be living in caves since we’d be too scared of change to build a civilization.
I remember my dad being so upset when he died. Same with Jim Reeves. Air travel was extremely unhealthy for country singers back then. Some rock n rollers too.
@@ronwatson4135 i knew it was in Texas but i didn't know it was by a drunk driver. I was hit head on by one in '97 in Texas but was luckier than Johnny.
You can pull down pull down their statues and change all the army bases names.However you cannot earase the bravery and courage of the Southern soldiers in the Civil War.!
By soldiers you mean traitors right?
They took up arms to kill Americans
@@lordrayden3045 -- You Idiot. They to were Americans.
Yeah, takes a lot of courage to fight a racist war to preserve slavery
The South will Rise Again. Send the illegals back home
@@TrevorPerkinsMusicTherapythe north was mot much better; they were just as racist. Study how the factory workers were treated and the living conditions in the slums . The industrialists owned those.
He is one of the best singers in the last 100 years . The range in his voice is unbelievable.
It's that adams apple. watch it bounce in and out. lol.
the greatest of the Rockabilly Singers......including Elvis, Gene, Eddie, Killer and Carl!
Yes sir
If you listen to the words, it is not about the South or North being right, it is simply honoring the thousands of young men who died protecting the land that they loved.
well said you have a open heart and wisdom
Rafael Pinefa yeah all 3% of people owned slaves. And that were the very rich people so they really didn’t fight on the war, maybe 1 percent of southern soldiers owned slaves.
Exactly people always try and attach their agenda
@Rafael Pinefa that would've the union blockades and 70 million tariffs on 80 million in goods. Get a clue!
Rafael Pinefa it was express in the early writing that slavery was an evil but they could not take it away at the time but it’s just like the elites now, they really don’t do much out side of the stock market for their business. They have people doing damn near everything for them. Other then the fact they were SLAVES there is very little difference.
He was a high school history teacher, who used music to teach his students about America’s past. I wish I had a teacher like that.
@Gaming Videos Not even the same person. The racist singer Johnny Rebel that sung those songs died in 2016. The man in this video Johnny Horton who was FAR from racist died in 1960.
RB you certainly need a teacher in music history, because you are abolutely wrong, here.
Queria ter um professor assim
Actually that was another man,not Mr.Horton.Johnny Horton loved the songs of Huddy "Leadbelly"Ledbetter,New Orleans black bluesman from the 1930s.He was not a schoolteacher,that was an older man whose songs Johnny covered.Mr.Horton recorded Ledbelly's song Rock Island Line and he was not a racist.
@@Amoeba744 johnny rebel continues to tarnish the names of david allen coe, johnny horton… and even weird al in the age of misinformation
Johnny Horton ... most under appreciated singer of all time. A legend!
John McIlroy totally agree friend
He is my distant cousin
i 100% agree most people don't even know who he is anymore one day i was humming sink the bismarck and my boss stopped and looked up and asked be what i was humming when i replied he smiled and walked away next week i for a 1.75 hourly wage increase
Friedrich Wilhelm that’s incredible i got 4 A+’s in my wood works class because the teacher saw that on my phone i had “if the south woulda won”
What a true original!! To all the thumbs down you must be idiots or listen to this new Tractor Rap Crap or both😁
Johnny Horton sang about history and the truth. A true American.
Who says this man doesn't belong in the country music hall of fame. He is one of the most under appreciated country singers. He deserves that spot on that wall.
Regardless of how you feel about politics this song sings the praise of the courage of the southern soldier. All soldiers die brave men regardless of what side you're on.
Amen
@@johnlewis2868 Great reply !
Losers. They fly the wrong flag. They flew the white flag
@@dickieknutz2933 They died fighting for something they believed in.
@J. J. Hallo The ideology of why they are fighting has nothing to do with the bravery of the foot soldier. Courage is courage regardless of what it's for. You're confused. The Japanese were one of the bravest if not the bravest soldiers of ww2 but their reason for fighting was questionable. I salute their bravery but I do not admire their cause.
I feel like I'm talking to third graders......
No one ever doubted the courage of Johnny Reb. Merely the cause they died for. Call them lots of things disparaging but you can never call them cowards.
Amen
'Merely the cause they died for' I grew up talking with the children of Confederate Veterans and I am from a long line of Veterans. Some fought for the Americans and some fought for the Brits during the Revolutionary War. Some fought for the South and some for the North during the War of Northern Aggression. Reading and hearing their stories ( first hand in one case) convinced me that the War of Northern Aggression was not simply about slavery. Many in the South never owned slaves and two of the largest slave owners were Black themselves. No, to reduce this to merely a fight over slavery is to dishonor the Americans (North and South) who died for their beliefs.
@@michaelmatthews5814 History not many know and fewer want to admit.
@@michaelmatthews5814 amen!
@@michaelmatthews5814 100% horseshit. The South fired first. "War of Northern Aggression" my ass.
There is NO music like old music. Back when it was about life before money. Gotta love OL Johnny
way to go!! great message about johnny horton !!
Well said brother.
I can’t believe how bad music is now
You obviously know nothing about the music industry from "back when", naive fool.
@@thatpillowguy773there's some good stuff amongst the trash but country died in 2003
This is the America I grew up in. I miss it a lot.
Me too I hope God comes soon, real soon.
Hello Oklahoma... I'm from Ft. Smith... been to the reservqation many many times ... Love Johnny Horton
Yeah conservatives and liberals ruined it both of them can fuck offf
This was my world growing up wish it had never changed
gl
An Honor to American History...Not the Destruction of it.
@J. J. Hallo You lack Historical Context.
He did sing...n-word hating me
@@dezmod1644 That was a guy called Johnny Rebel and it was written 6 years after Horton died.
He taught history. Easy way to teach to his students
Yep, we shouldn't destroy history. Too bad the GOP is trying to ban the study of the history of racism.
He’s buried right near my Grandparents. Has a big Guitar head stone....
Where were he buried
He is a good ol boy
I love this song where are the true country singers now the ones at sung with heart and soul
Mike Frazier Hank Williams Jr step daddy
God bless that patriot.
My family fought for the North and South in the Civil War........I respect and honor both.
Lots of families had sons on both side praying that they wouldn't see their brother in their sights one day.
@@doughesson Very true, but sadly some did.
@@montanamountainmen6104 My family was one of them. My great great Grandfather & his brother were both at Gettysburg & made it through. Amos deserted after he didn't see any Rebel uniforms after Pickett's charge & his brother lost an arm to a rebel bullet.
@@doughesson Nice family history.
And they were all decent Americans...not tearing down our society with disgusting acceptance of evil.
We need more Johnny Reb’s these days!
Amen to that!!!
I was born a buckeye from Ohio in 1964 lived outside of Nashville for about 2 years in the early 80's. However I've been a Johnny Reb since I first started studying on the war between the states when I was about 10 years old. Also Johnny Horton is the greatest country music singer I've ever heard (thanks Dad for playing his music when I was a little kid).
Need to appreciate the ones there are
I’d prefer to have less racists
SR, nope there are plenty of assholes around.
He could have had many more hits, but his life was cut short. What a voice.
Absolutely Buddy Holly as well.
OMG!!! I had forgotten about this song. My daddy was a long haul truck driver and his CB handle was "johnny reb". He did this for 50 to 60 years or more. He was well known by all the truckers back in the day.
Rest in peace, daddy. My own johnny reb. 😘
My Brother Raymond was a Long Haul Trucker also. His CB Handle was DIXIE. He had a plate on his truck with “DiIXIE” on it. I have it in my back window. I’m guessing some think I’m honoring the South with that tag. Yes, but mostly my brother Raymond.
This is a song about brave men and on both sides, I am confederate and I love this song cause it ain't about hate
Where are the "Johnny Hortons" of Today !
Upchurch and Adam Calhoun
that kind of American will not be seen again sadly ever.
Labeled racist
shut the hell up its never about race its about states rights and the right of a state to make its own laws and for a people to govern themselves@@davidisaacson5993
@@adventurestateofmind4460 lol
The subject was where are the Johnny Hortons songs of today. Bud
There is a reason you have two eyes or ears and only one mouth.
My dad is 92 years old and we still setting listen to the Johnny Horton CDs I enjoy every one of them this man has great songs and vocals and was one of the greatest recording artists I've ever heard he seems about true things and life things that people need to think about things that mean something and we're close to the heart some of those still make me tear up today
I love these old southern style songs. I'm from Australia and the southern accent and traditions I find so cool. As far as slavery goes: Its happened all over the world from the middle east to Kenya. Even here in Australia my Irish ancestors were slaves to the rich English. But as my great uncle said "its a waste of time and energy hating ghosts"
Johnny Horton is the greatest of all time. It's insane that he's not in the country music hall of fame!
Im 85 and I love this music and ill his songs
Died too young
this'll make a southern boy shed a tear. God bless Robert E Lee.
Most people think of Johnny Horton as a country singer but he recorded some great rockabilly songs One of my favorite singers
I've heard his rockabilly songs, and im a youngster, his rockabilly was influenced by Elvis Presley, and its some pretty good stuff, Take Me Like I Am, and I'm A One Woman Man are two of the greatest rockabilly songs, but thats only tapping into what he got.
Whoever Johnny sang about, he did it with respect and reverence!
I grew up on this stuff. My dad loved it
One of the best thing about most singers of this era was the fact that they had good voices and you could actually understand the lyrics, unlike a lot of the trash the that started out through the seventies and eighties when they played the music loud to cover the fact that they couldn't carry a tune if they had it in a suitcase!
What about Tom Petty?
Actually started in 60s & before.
@@kylekullin2520 He's dead, can't carry a tune either.
@@stevebilliter Listen to "You Wreck Me", you may change your mind!
@@kylekullin2520 Nope, the title alone turns me off. Very negative indeed. I'll pass...
What you don't seem to understand like just about everyone else seems not to: I have my own preferences--likes and dislikes.
I try and look at things form a Biblical perspective. Satan is a master musician--he used to be the leader of the heavenly choir and he couches nice sounding music in objectionable lyrics, thus transforming one's brain without them even knowing it.
"But that's just life." For Christians the old life of seeing and experiencing sin everywhere will change to holiness and perfection.
Notice how he sounds the same live as he does on record/tape (that's how I remember it) that is in the past. Singers today cannot sing. Singers like him are missed!!!❤❤
He had it all,what a voice,loved his personality,and he was so Handsome .love everything about him.
Yes.
battle of new orleans
Dude was so respectful all throughout the intro. I love this behavior so much. It's so cultural, his responses and all. Its so American.
I knew of Johnny at age 11 am 72 now still love all his songs. So talented. Miss him.
Hes my favorite singer i miss him
I knew of Mr.Horton at the age of fifteen I'm now sixteen.
I always loved Johnny Hortons music especially North to Alaska. My husband and I. Husband and I spent a week in Alaska, he said that was good times i took a lot of pictures.
I’m 43 and I have no business being a Horton fan, but this is what I listened to on every road trip growing up. I listen to whispering pines in my car alone so I can sing and cry whenever my soul needs it. My son who is 22 loves this song, so thankful my kids let me play him on road trips still.
A true singing legend who died so young.
reminds us of hank williams !! they would of been great as a team!! salute
Southern Pride here in South Carolina!!!
This man would sing a song a tell you story and you could actually imagine it in your mind being there! North to Alaska, sink the Bismarck, battle of New Orleans he was a true story teller and a great writer/singer my favorite has got to be springtime in Alaska
I'm Hispanic and so driven towards this sound. I feel like I can relate in some wierd way, I feel connected to Johnny reb in the south.
What a voice. & so handsome too.
How are you feeling today
Even 50 years later, this still gives me shivers and goosebumps.
That song come out when I was born 1948 December I always claim that for my song my great-great granddaddy fought for civil war I'm a southern born and Southern bread almost 73 years ago thank you Johnny Horton
"even though you lost, they speak highly of your name." That's being changed lately.
@Nobby Heads Why would Republicans celebrate the confederates losing the war? Lincoln was a republican, don't you mean republicans celebrate winning the war? Or do you mean democrats are still lamenting losing the war to the north, considering democrats were the confederacy?
@@annereilley4892 in the immediate aftermath of the war the Union soldiers almost universally forgave the Confederates. It was Union and Confederate veterans combined who started the tradition of reenacting battles, for example. There was no hate remaining between the sides that actually survived the war.
Which is why it is so obnoxious that you come here trying to imply things and saying it is weird for Republicans to not hate the Confederates.
@@robertmartin8907 Oh I see your confusion. You're reading my response to someone who deleted their comment. Their comment didn't make sense, so my comment probably doesn't make sense without it.
He probably deleted it because I made him realize what he said was dumb.
Stick to my original post, which is that attitudes have changed recently, with toppling of statues that everyone had been fine with for over a century and vilifying the south. I'm not justifying it, just observing it.
@@annereilley4892 Attitudes have not changed, we just have more communist scum who want to erase and vilify American history.
@@robertmartin8907 Yeah, now we're on the same page. I should have added SMH at the end of my original post.
You're right about the older people, their attitudes haven't changed, but the movement you mentioned has spread to the mainstream and the state and federal governments are giving into them. They will keep teaching the young people and the old will disappear.
I'm British and I love this song. Great to hear Johnny sing it live. Thanks.
I am Danish and don't love this song.
@@dkxilef Why
The first time I heard Johnny Horton sing. I was hooked for life. When other kids were listening to 80s rock. I Was listening to the Great Johnny Horton.
I listen to him and I am 9 years old
I grew up listening to his music my parents played, I l9ved it always made me proud to be from the South. I never looked at the Civil war as political growing I always thought of the flag as a symbol of the South not racist in any way, I can't stand Democrats or anything they are about but i will always love the South our Southern way of life, Johnny Hortons songs and President Trump, he win the election by the way!!!
Well said. It is the flag of freedom. Deo Vindice!
It’s a flag of treason and the embodiment of white Supremacist,I will take a big 💩 on every confederate flag I see, and I hope every confederate soldier is 🔥in hell as we speak 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I remember being introduced to Johnny Horton's greatest songs as a young kid by my father. I remember sitting in the living room with my dad listening to Horton's Greatest Hits 8 track while mom was cooking dinner. The smell of pork steak, fried potatoes, and biscuits cooking and listening to great music reminded me that life was good. Miss and love you mom and dad and RIP Mr. Horton.
My girlfriend thought I was nuts when I would put in the Jonny Horton 8-track. Well she eventually married me and she knows the words by heart too.. 51 years.
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I had two 8-track tapes in my first truck. One of them was Hank Williams senior's greatest hits. The other one that I had was ZZ top Fandango. The only tapes at home where Johnny Horton and Slim Whitman.
Johnny Horton was the very first record I ever bought. Don't even remember how old I was. maybe 12? (money from my paper route) It's 2022 I still listen to his greatest hits album
Johnny Horton had several hits and was only 35 when he died in a car crash. North to Alaska was his last hit released only 4 days before he died. He had a good voice and didn't put out a bad song.
He and actor Ward Bond died on the same day (Nov. 5, 1960), three days before the Kennedy Nixon presidential election. He had finished a show at the Skyline Club in Austin that night and was killed in acar crash in Milano, Texas.
John,
I think it's about time you start to earn your keep around here...
"Just turn me aloose Im flat ready."
He's always ready friends,
And there you have it!
I like that quirky guy.
Horton sounds flat confident.
Johnny Horton was really good and I remember him well. The crazies that destroyed Jefferson Davis's Monument need to listen to this song and learn.
Sadly they are too stupid to listen 😢.
Yes, they do. Especially the part about President Lincoln.
Excellent singer and guitarist and banjo player. The greatest song writer along with Hank Williams Sr. He had three excellent movies made from his songs. I was 13 when I first heard him in 1960- a Seattle born
Johnny Horton..a country Music legend..phenomenal..great guitar player and singer..
This has always been my most favorite song since I first heard it when I was just 5,,,I am 65 now and it still remains MY song. Been a Reb all my life thus far.
The purpose of the Confederacy was to keep slavery going forever. Jefferson Davis said so himself. There are better “lost causes” to sympathize with. Like, ones that actually existed. Which the “lost cause of the Confederacy” never did.
A Great singer. Lost way too soon.❤
Man, the voice on that man. One of the best. Still gives me chills in 2020
Fought for your folks but didn’t die in vain, even though you lost they speak highly of your name 🇺🇸
A pure shame he's not in the Hall of Fame. They put Richie Valencia in with one record and last year Dolly Parton!! What a travesty.
What is sad is alot of people think that the confederate was all about slavery. It was much more than that there was more to the civil war than that. I am proud of all of my ancestors confederate and Union. Especially the ones that were part of the underground railroad
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The beauty of this song is that it’s a song for the boots.
Taken in that context, it is fantastic, no matter your prejudices.
Especially if you consider the boots didn’t have shoes.
Died to soon I love his songs
Died way before his time RIP Johnny
Im from Kazakhstan and I love Johnny
Rest In Peace, Mr. Johnny Horton, I heard your song, when I was 9 years old, back in 1959. Thank you for your upload.
I am a descendant of President Davis's army. I will never be ashamed to love Dixie or her flag. And when the rebel flag is outlawed, I'll proudly be called a rebel because I will never disown my heritage! Dio Vindice!
@Nobby Heads
If you think the confederacy had anything in common with a group of pure evil individuals who murdered 7 million innocent people, you're a complete idiot
@Nobby Heads
Lol, you're a pathetic little troll, trying to pick a fight or get some sort of reaction. But I am not interested in having a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent.
@Nobby Heads you’re a lying socialist just like hitler. Germany has never been anything but a pita to the rest of the world. It is the home of modern bigotry. All bigots look to Germany for directions. Many socialist too. It was the destruction of human civilization in Europe multiple times.
@@talisikid1618 .
Does that translate: God vindicated? I love languages, well at least some of them. I love your comment by the way. Right on.
Still touches me after all these years. God bless our dear south.
It's a shame that we can't have a lesson in why people wrote songs and what the words actually meant . 😢 I cry for out young people who are being taught to hate each other because they look different. We are all Americans so we should all just be red white and blue ! Good bless the USA 🇱🇷🦅🙏❤️
Nah, those days are over..My generation despises the American northern government..
To all the Confederates that lost their lives in that war rest in peace and may God bless you for your sacrifice
Amen, they fought with valor and distinction.
Bruce Sexton and the union alike, as both were fighting for what they thought was right.
@@jamesvangurpan1959 Yes, and Lincoln allowed it so he is guilty, too.
J Wimbish that’s just your hate, not north vs south. You’d be surprised if you actually knew how much of the “north” is conservative in every aspect.
@ВЕСЕЛЬЕ ВЕСЕЛЬЕ Real intelligent debate you have. Wow! Impressive....
He is a good sounding someone you can just listen to all night I wish I could have met him
Put Johnny Horton in the hall of fame !!
I’ve been saying that for years, long overdue.
RIP Johnny you were an amazing country singer
Good Old Days. Music has lost alot. You fought like HELL Johnny Reb. Thats respect.
@Frank Robinson god bless you for blessing others sir!!
agreed! these poor southern soldiers paid a big price for their independence!! a southern confederate salute to you sir!!
It reminds me of my dad listening to it😂🎉
Great entertainer with a great song. God bless the South
god bless you sir for honoring the south!! a confederate salute to you from the great white north!!
@@majorreb6616 Yes, let us honor the villains who forced Asians to fight their losing war at gunpoint!
We sang this song on our way to the Gettysburg 160th reenactment.
Wow pure classic
One of the best singers ever, a true American, hero just a perfect individual, all his song were the best.
This song has made me cry tears of respect for Johnny Reb, and I’m the son of Danish immigrants in California.
Thanks Johnny Reb, and Horton
You fought all the way, Johnny Reb!
This song is so sad and so perfect. Listening in 2021 and wishing I could play it for some of these stuffed shirt plliticians.
Johnny Horton songs played regularly in my home growing up. Johnny Reb and Sink the Bismark were especially loved by me...
- President Lincoln Asks the Band to Play “Dixie” | .
Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant on April 9, 1865. The next
day, despite rain and mud there were people in the streets of
D.C. celebrating. Throughout the city, bonfires blazed and celebratory rockets whistled.
Crowds had gathered here the day before, expecting a triumphal speech in
the aftermath of Robert E. Lee’s surrender to Ulysses S. Grant on April
9 at Appomattox Court House, Va. A procession of some 2,000 Navy Yard
workmen, dragging six boat howitzers that lobbed explosive shells into
the sky, trekked across the city. The crowd swelled on its relentless
march to the White House; bands played and revelers sang “The
Star-Spangled Banner,” “Hail Columbia” and other patriotic tunes.
Dixie was used to bring the nation together.....
Yes he's one of the best singer you can have has a very beautifully songs you dont hear this songs any where #1my favorites one in the world love all his songs.a wonderful person can sing this song that is history. Congrats Johnny Horton.❤
And this is the song my grandpa named my dad and then me after
Johnny Reb Dukes Jr you have An awesome name that’s a very cool story
That is interesting, it's one of my favorite songs.
Good job Johnny reb dukes
I remember my mother listening to Johnny Horton on the radio when I was young..what a sensational singer and musician..Your still singing out in the World Johnny..sadly missed..RIP
An amazing singer with an amazing voice that would sadly never grow old.
Clear strong voice listening his songs adding emotions❤
This was back when they had good music.
Always love Johnny Horton ❤❤❤
Same here sister. The only thing you and I can really say is. We're relieved their not with us to see how far that kind of music has fallen 😢.
I have a lot of Confederate ancestors I love this song they died for what they believed in ❤
I Grew up listening to him as a Kid thanks to my Father who had his Album which got played on the Record player.
A wonderful tribute to our Southern heroes & their history. Education is the key.
Greatest of the Rockabilly singers
I am not bragging but I can imitate Johnny, I learned all his songs when I was very young love his music!
One of the great male singers of all time. He had that ability to effortlessly go to that rough edge voice on songs like Battle of New Orleans, Sink the Bizmark, Johnny Reb, etc. And just shear beauty on songs like North to Alaska, Whispering Pines, All For The Love Of A Girl, Comanche, etc. Left us way too soon. Personally I put him right up there with Sam Cooke, Johnny Cash, Eric Burdon, Steve Marriott, Ian Gillain and many others.
Love his singing range!!
I am glad we are one nation, under God and indivisiable. However I salute the courage and honor of the soilders of the North and the South. All American heroes.
Gary Hieronymus people don’t realize that the Northern and Southern soldiers truly respected each other’s reasons to fight, there for they respected them.
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As a Northerner, I admire this song,
My first record album was Johnny Horton’s. He was a great balladeer. But his time passed, just like it must for all of us. We may relive old times in our memories, but we can’t turn time back. Thank God. If we could, we’d probably all still be living in caves since we’d be too scared of change to build a civilization.
*_Rest In Peace Johnny_*
*_Job Well Done, Sir_*
Not for wages,not for glory; 'twas for home and right they fell...
I love Johnny's music and you can tell he was a really good man. I wish we had music like this today.
I remember my dad being so upset when he died. Same with Jim Reeves. Air travel was extremely unhealthy for country singers back then. Some rock n rollers too.
Johnny Horton was killed by a Drunk Driver near Cameron, TX.
@@ronwatson4135 i knew it was in Texas but i didn't know it was by a drunk driver. I was hit head on by one in '97 in Texas but was luckier than Johnny.