I just flashed back to 1975, I'm 10 years old and playing 45 RPM singles on my parents Magnavox console stereo. My favorite Johnny Horton song was "Sink The Bismark"
This song was a hit but Johnny Horton was one of the most popular singers of his time before his death at a young age. "North to Alaska" is my favorite song of his but he did other history songs and sweet ballads! "Whispering Pines," and "Sink the Bismarck" comes to my mind!
Johnny Horton, unfortunately had a short career as he was killed in a car wreck at the age of 35. Sink the Bismarck and When It’s Spingtime in Alaska were two of his international hits shortly before his death. This song won a Grammy in 1960.
2,000 British dead in less than 2 hours, Gen. Pakenham sent back to England dead, packed in a barrel of ration rum...about 60 dead Americans...Packenham did not want to wait for reinforcements to arrive...rules of spoil still in effect, he didn't want to share the spoils...so he attacked with his force alone.
The second group of British soldiers, were suppose to cross the Mississippi River, and come in from the north. However, the did not take into consideration the flowing river. By the time the other group got across, they were over 10 miles down river. When the second group arrived, the Americans just turned around, and got most of them too.
Only 13 dead Americans. Casualties, including dead, wounded, captured, and missing totaled 71. I am a former U.S. Army officer and I wrote a paper on the battle.
The Battle of New Orleans was actually fought in January, 1815, a couple weeks after the treaty ending the war, but the news didn't reach America until the middle of January.
If the world of 200 years ago had the internet, cellphones, email, texting, personal computers, and the many other 21st Century communication technologies we take for granted today, indeed the Battle of New Orleans would never have happened. Just imagine Andrew Jackson smashing his laptop computer and throwing his cellphone in a fit of rage at not being able to get revenge on the British for what happened to him during his youth! This would make a great skit for Saturday Night Live.
From the Treaty of Ghent: "All hostilities both by sea and land shall cease as soon as this Treaty shall have been ratified by both parties as hereinafter mentioned." It makes no difference when the Treaty of Ghent (ending the War of 1812) was signed. It was not ratified by the United States (and therefore did not take effect) until February 16, 1815. The Battle of New Orleans took place on January 8th, 1815. The United States was still at war with Great Britain.
Your thinking of Jimmy Driftwood, who is the teacher who wrote this song and recorded it in 1957. Johnny Horton heard him do it live and covered it and made it a hit. Jimmy Driftwood wrote over 6000 folk songs and about 300 of them were covered by other artists.
@@simonesmit6708 There's quite a few on RUclips. But I misspelled his name, he spelt it "Jimmie". He had some hits on the country charts and a number of albums. Some of his songs I liked were "Tennessee Stud", "Billy Yank and Johnny Reb", "Arkansas Traveler", "Rock of Chickamauga" and "Unfortunate Man" I knew of him because my mother was a big country fan and had a few of his albums when I was a kid. He also always played a homemade guitar.
It's about the war of 1812. My mom had this on an old 78 speed record, that I used to play on her old portable box record player. I've always loved it! My favorite part has always been, "Well they ran through the briars and they ran through the brambles and they ran through the bushes where a rabbit couldn't go. They ran so fast that the hounds couldn't catch'em, on down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico."
I liked the "fighting alligator who lost his mind"-For the reactors-Ol' Hickory was then Col Jackson, later General, and later yet president. My father had the album this came on,(when it first came out)and one of them ":new fangled stereo thangs"-much later I had A "new fangled", but short lived quadrophonic thang -including an 8 track recorder with it.
Johnny Horton sang a wide variety of songs, from ballads to country to his one of a kind rockabilly. Search for his Greatest Hits album and pick a few songs to listen to. They're all great. The Battle of New Orleans has been one of my favorite songs for well over 50 years. My first grade teacher encouraged us to bring in our favorite songs and she would play them for the class. This was my choice. It was a hit.
This was a big hit in the early '60s and those of us who grew up then still like it. Another "war song" hit was "Sink the BIsmark". One of his biggest ballads was "North to Alaska". It does help tremendously if you paid attention in history class about the ar of 1812. I don't know if they even teach it anymore. This battle actually took place shortly after the war was over, but word hadn't reached that far west yet. Colonel Andrew Jackson took regulars and volunteers on the trip south to New Orleans. The British controlled it and the city was the choke point for commerce along the Mississippi. The battle went pretty much s the song describes, minus the alligator for a cannon. The British had landed fresh troops and marched north to meet Jackson. As the song says, they stayed hidden behind cotton bales and trees along the northbound road and waited until the British were almost on top of them before firing. The British suffered shocking casualties because of their European style of warfare of staying in formation. Later a British officer said that while retreating, he could almost walk the entire road by stepping on bodies.
If your life was to own and listen to the radio all the time, you listened to this song a lot because it came on a lot. Because I am old, but as soon as the intro played I remembered it in full.
Thanks to my father I am familar with music like this. This is proably late 50's early 60's and making both the Country and Pop charts. I asked my father about Johnny Horton and he suggests "North to Alaska". I also asked him about what Dee was talking about. I think what Dee was talking about is called a Marching Cadence. My favorite singer in this genre is Jim Reeves and a couple of his songs are "He'll Have To Go" and "Welcome To My World".
Song is about the War of 1812 with the British-the battle itself was ironically after the treaty was signed but the participants were unaware-old Hickory is later President Andrew Jackson. In the early 60s there were a lot of historical songs due to the Civil War celebrating its Centennial. One song from 1962 Claude Gray's The Burning of Atlanta is one. This song by Johnny Horton reached number one on the billboard charts in 1960.
gpxo11 - From the Treaty of Ghent: "All hostilities both by sea and land shall cease as soon as this Treaty shall have been ratified by both parties as hereinafter mentioned." It makes no difference when the Treaty of Ghent (ending the War of 1812) was signed. It was not ratified by the United States (and therefore did not take effect) until February 16, 1815. The Battle of New Orleans took place on January 8th, 1815. The United States was still at war with Great Britain.
I was eight years old when this song came out, and back in those days, the radio stations here in NYC weren't separated by genres. You could hear various Country, Doo Wop, Jazz, Rock, etc., songs all in the span of one hour. Some of the other "novelty" songs like this that I remember hearing were '16 Tons" by Tennessee Ernie Ford, "Big John" by Jimmy Dean (the breakfast sausage guy!), "Running Bear" by Johnny Preston, and "Please Mister Custer" by Larry Verne, to name a few.
1814 Andrew Jackson took his force from Tennessee to Gulf of Mexico (with his own money), fought and won using his troop and river Pirates. He did not know the war of 1812 was over weeks before the battle.
From the Treaty of Ghent: "All hostilities both by sea and land shall cease as soon as this Treaty shall have been ratified by both parties as hereinafter mentioned." It makes no difference when the Treaty of Ghent (ending the War of 1812) was signed. It was not ratified by the United States (and therefore did not take effect) until February 16, 1815. The Battle of New Orleans took place on January 8th, 1815. The United States was still at war with Great Britain.
There were so many types of these songs from the 60’s: Sixteen Tons by Tennesse Ernie Ford; Big John by Jimmy Dean; The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance by Gene Pitney; King of the Road by Roger Miller; Rawhide, Mule Train and Ghost Riders In The Sky by Frankie Lane
Nobody played it history class, I learned more about this battle from movies, like they got the pirates to fight on our side for clemency. It was purely for fun powdering alligators to use as canon. Loved it as a kid, and I still love it. Enjoy
The Brown Bess musket was what they called a smooth bore like a shot gun now days. The Squirrel gun had a rifled barrel that was much more accurate. The British when they took a position hid behind barrels of molasses while the American forces hid behind cotton bales. Our rifles allowed precision shooting while the muskets just threw the ball out and maybe it would hit what you wanted. The barrels got shot up and leaked thus taking away most of the protection while the cotton bales just sucked up bullets kinda like shooting at mud. The other thing the American forces did was instead of opening up with volleys at distance like the song said they were told to not shoot until they could see the whites of their eyes. This is why when the Americans opened fire they had almost one hundred percent hits with a high mortality rate.That’s considered to be why the British broke and ran. The sad part of it all is that the peace treaty ending The War of 1812 was signed in Paris a month before the battle but no one knew it yet in america. Johnny Horton has a nice variety of subjects for his work but for a good example of what he has listen to the greatest hits album shown on the screen here. I have had that album as a record, an eight track, a VHS and a CD. It’s easier to listen to than you might think.
From the Treaty of Ghent: "All hostilities both by sea and land shall cease as soon as this Treaty shall have been ratified by both parties as hereinafter mentioned." It makes no difference when the Treaty of Ghent (ending the War of 1812) was signed. It was not ratified by the United States (and therefore did not take effect) until February 16, 1815. The Battle of New Orleans took place on January 8th, 1815. The United States was still at war with Great Britain.
I was 11yrs old when this was released in 1959. Don't know what I did yesterday, but I still know the words to this song. My home state, TENNESSEE became known as the Volunteer State because of the men from the Tennessee Militia who volunteered to fight in this war & other wars.
I still have my tape cassette from when I was a kid of Johnny Horton's Greatest Hits. If you want to try something of his thats not historical, try "Whispering Pines" or "Honky Tonk Man".
Haha….back in the 70s we used to go mudding & riding trails in the mountains and we’d just sing this at the top of our lungs! 😂. It seemed to fit the moment 😄
We use to hear this on the radio (my dads station) when we were kids, the song was released in 1959 and still heard it in the 1960s, Johnny Horton's other song was "Going to Alaska"
I remember this song when I was a kid and another song from him called North to Alaska. I guess it was like getting a little history lesson. And Dee, you're probably thinking of the military cadences used during drills, marching and working. It's generally a call and response to give a rhythm to what they were doing. Hope this helps.
Johnny Horton was an American singer songwriter & musician. He started out performing traditional country & rockabilly songs. But he is best known for a series of history-inspired narrative country saga songs. "The Battle Of New Orleans" was a hit in 1959. Other songs he is famous for are "North To Alaska", "Sink The Bismarck", "When It's Springtime In Alaska (It's Forty Below)", "Honky-Tonk Man", "I'm Ready If You're Willing", "All For The Love Of A Girl" etc.
You just brought back some memories Friend of mine many years ago had an album from this man... I fell in love with the album this song and others from Johnny Horton. Pretty amazing it was the 80's and we were 17
Sounds weird, but this was my old German Shepherds favourite song. He used to get tummy rubs to the chorus. He’d come running whenever it played on the radio.
My Dad taught me this song when I was 3 years old.....He always had a big laugh when I got to "and they ran through the briars and ran through the bramble...."
This was all over our AM radios in the early 1960s. The song came out when the Cold War was just heating up: there was a strong sense of nationalism: us vs Soviet Union.
Johnny Horton, wow, that's obscure. He died in 1960. I'll bet maybe one in five hundred people even know who he was. North to Alaska, Sink the Bismarck, and this one were his main hits. As long as were fishing in this distant pond of time, while this song was popular, a parody of it was done, something like Weird Al would have done in the eighties. It was called "The Battle of Kookamonga". It was done by Homer and Jethro. Check it out. Some sample lyrics and link below. The Battle of Kookamonga Song by Homer and Jethro ruclips.net/video/W0UiBKvT64c/видео.html In nineteen and fifty-nine we took a little hike With our scout master down to Lake Oneeganite We took a little pizza and we took some saurkrauts And we marched along together till we heard the girl scouts We're the boys from Camp Kookamonga Our mothers sent us here for to study nature's ways We learned to make sparks by rubbing sticks together But if we catch the girls then we'll set the woods ablaze
I also have CD Best of Johnny Horton. Knew his voice from maybe Disney movies when I was a kid. His best song is North to Alaska. Springtime in Alaska and Whispering Pines are also good. His music was Americana, a mix of folk, country and western, and bluegrass.
This is an all-time American classic. It's about the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812. The reference to Col. Jackson/ Old Hickory is referring to Andrew Jackson (later President of the U.S.).
Wow, I know exactly how you feel Wilburn. Exactly the same way I feel when I hear rap music or most hip-hop songs it’s like OK I heard it now what. This Johnny Horton song was a major hit back in its day. There were a lot of narrative type songs like big John., Etc. just the way you don’t understand this song is the same way I don’t understand Kanye.
This brings back memories. Catchy. I was probably about 8 years old (62 years ago!) when my brother showed me this song. I really liked it and memorized the lyrics and sang it all the time. Thanks for the review!
This was just one of his funnier ones. You should really check him out more. His ballads and other songs were beautiful and he had one of the clearest and most beautiful voices ever. North to Alaska or Whispering Pines. All For The Love of a Girl was another good one.
When I was a junior in high school, my history teacher pulled out a cassette player and she played this song and Sink the Bismarck 90% of the class had never heard it before and I’m just sitting on the front try not to sing along
True story, my dad had a cassette tape with this song and I took it to school back when I was in middle school and students hated me because the teacher loved it and made us sing it. I heard from someone I know that to this day, she still makes her students sing it. I Left my mark😆 by the way you should check out Johnny horton songs, Cherokee boogie & Johnny Reb.
Just subscribed. That was just a novelty song. He actually had a beautiful voice when serious. "All for the Love of a Girl" was one of my favorites! Might want to listen to it for a different perspective of him.
This was actually a history lesson. Many of his songs were about things that students should know. Sink the Bismarck, North to Alaska, The battle of Bull Run.
It's called cadence. When you march, everyone must be in step and moving at the same pace. The person leading the march will either "call cadence" or sing a song in cadence to the marching.
Johnny Horton recorded Country, Rockabilly, and Folk music. One of his last albums featured US history-themed songs, and this was one of them. Horton had the unique perspective of being good friends with Hank Williams, Sr., Elvis Presley, and Johnny Cash, and surely this influenced his music. Tragically, Johnny Horton was killed in an automobile accident in 1960, at the age of 35.
He married Hank Williams widow. Johnny's last concert, was in the same place as Hank Williams. Killed by a drunk driver, returning home, to go hunting in the morning.
I just went through all the comments and didn’t see any mention of The Royal Guardsmen! I was born in ‘62, two years after Johnny Horton died. I learned this song from The Royal Guardsmen’s album Snoopy vs the Red Baron. I remember playing it in the mid sixties in my room, on a children’s lime green plastic record player. The album had some really fun songs. Besides this and the title song, I also really liked Liberty Valance, Peanut Butter, and Li’l Red Riding Hood.
He passed at a young age, I believe. And ironically, he was married to the widow of Hank Williams Sr, who also passed at a young age. Seemed like every man that woman married passed.
Dude was heading towards country music royalty before he died too young. Not many people can sing about history and have it be a JAM. He's terribly underrated imo. Enjoyed the reaction
, sink the Bismarck, north to Alaska, when it's spring time in Alaska , whispering pines , Johnny Reb he has more but these are some of my favorites by him .
The Battle of New Orleans was actually fought after the peace treaty ending the War of 1812 had ended. The British sent a Naval Attack unit but had no way to get in touch with them to call them off. That major battle was not during the war.
There were a few singers that embraced the old west, American history, and some world history. Marty Robbins and Johnny Horton were the best. Those artists were responsible for my love of History and American history. After 3rd grade they helped me work on math in history class or sneak in a nap. The teachers quizzed me about that weeks class work then tested me on the next weeks class work. Get your kids to listen to storytelling from artist like this.
Maybe if you understood some of our countries history this song would actually make sense but evidently America history isn't a field of endeavor that your drawn to or to seek out which unfortunately many other Americans have no real desire to learn about.
I know she is a pretty baby I think what I think about is a Eddie Arnold song make the world go away that's the song it's Eddie Arnold make the world go away
I just flashed back to 1975, I'm 10 years old and playing 45 RPM singles on my parents Magnavox console stereo. My favorite Johnny Horton song was "Sink The Bismark"
This song was a hit but Johnny Horton was one of the most popular singers of his time before his death at a young age. "North to Alaska" is my favorite song of his but he did other history songs and sweet ballads! "Whispering Pines," and "Sink the Bismarck" comes to my mind!
I love Whispering Pines 🥰🥰🥰
I also enjoy his song Mr Moonlight
Typing words like a true fan. Nice. I have always dreamed of a punk band doing Johnny Horton covers called Johnny Reb &The Whispering Pines. 🤣❤️🔥
This WAS a hit and I, my adult children, grand children and great grand children still listen to it, singing loudly along!!
Johnny Horton, unfortunately had a short career as he was killed in a car wreck at the age of 35. Sink the Bismarck and When It’s Spingtime in Alaska were two of his international hits shortly before his death.
This song won a Grammy in 1960.
2,000 British dead in less than 2 hours, Gen. Pakenham sent back to England dead, packed in a barrel of ration rum...about 60 dead Americans...Packenham did not want to wait for reinforcements to arrive...rules of spoil still in effect, he didn't want to share the spoils...so he attacked with his force alone.
The second group of British soldiers, were suppose to cross the Mississippi River, and come in from the north. However, the did not take into consideration the flowing river. By the time the other group got across, they were over 10 miles down river. When the second group arrived, the Americans just turned around, and got most of them too.
71 Americans
Only 13 dead Americans. Casualties, including dead, wounded, captured, and missing totaled 71. I am a former U.S. Army officer and I wrote a paper on the battle.
I agree. I did a paper in the early 70's in 6th grade. We stayed behind cover and they marched in the open.
The Battle of New Orleans was actually fought in January, 1815, a couple weeks after the treaty ending the war, but the news didn't reach America until the middle of January.
If the world of 200 years ago had the internet, cellphones, email, texting, personal computers, and the many other 21st Century communication technologies we take for granted today, indeed the Battle of New Orleans would never have happened. Just imagine Andrew Jackson smashing his laptop computer and throwing his cellphone in a fit of rage at not being able to get revenge on the British for what happened to him during his youth! This would make a great skit for Saturday Night Live.
The battle made Andrew Jackson a national hero and eventually president of the United States.
From the Treaty of Ghent:
"All hostilities both by sea and land shall cease as soon as this Treaty shall have been ratified by both parties as hereinafter mentioned."
It makes no difference when the Treaty of Ghent (ending the War of 1812) was signed. It was not ratified by the United States (and therefore did not take effect) until February 16, 1815. The Battle of New Orleans took place on January 8th, 1815. The United States was still at war with Great Britain.
Johnny Horton was a history teacher and wrote songs like this as a teaching aid.
Your thinking of Jimmy Driftwood, who is the teacher who wrote this song and recorded it in 1957. Johnny Horton heard him do it live and covered it and made it a hit. Jimmy Driftwood wrote over 6000 folk songs and about 300 of them were covered by other artists.
@@ptournas is there somewhere online that we can listen to more of them?
@@simonesmit6708 There's quite a few on RUclips. But I misspelled his name, he spelt it "Jimmie". He had some hits on the country charts and a number of albums. Some of his songs I liked were "Tennessee Stud", "Billy Yank and Johnny Reb", "Arkansas Traveler", "Rock of Chickamauga" and "Unfortunate Man"
I knew of him because my mother was a big country fan and had a few of his albums when I was a kid. He also always played a homemade guitar.
Your thinking of jimmy driftwood
@@simonesmit6708 just youtube jimmy driftwood, hes good.
Check out Unfortunate man
It's about the war of 1812. My mom had this on an old 78 speed record, that I used to play on her old portable box record player. I've always loved it! My favorite part has always been, "Well they ran through the briars and they ran through the brambles and they ran through the bushes where a rabbit couldn't go. They ran so fast that the hounds couldn't catch'em, on down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico."
I liked the "fighting alligator who lost his mind"-For the reactors-Ol' Hickory was then Col Jackson, later General, and later yet president. My father had the album this came on,(when it first came out)and one of them ":new fangled stereo thangs"-much later I had A "new fangled", but short lived quadrophonic thang -including an 8 track recorder with it.
Johnny Horton sang a wide variety of songs, from ballads to country to his one of a kind rockabilly. Search for his Greatest Hits album and pick a few songs to listen to. They're all great. The Battle of New Orleans has been one of my favorite songs for well over 50 years. My first grade teacher encouraged us to bring in our favorite songs and she would play them for the class. This was my choice. It was a hit.
This and North to Alaska.
Two of my favorite songs by Johnny Horton is Whispering Pines, and North to Alaska. He was married to Hank Williams Sr.'s widow.
Whispering Pines!
Oh wow...I didn't know that either. He was probably a little more stable than Old Hank!
Thank you for covering songs like this. This song brings back memories of my childhood. My dad used to play this song when it was popular.
This was a big hit in the early '60s and those of us who grew up then still like it. Another "war song" hit was "Sink the BIsmark". One of his biggest ballads was "North to Alaska". It does help tremendously if you paid attention in history class about the ar of 1812. I don't know if they even teach it anymore. This battle actually took place shortly after the war was over, but word hadn't reached that far west yet. Colonel Andrew Jackson took regulars and volunteers on the trip south to New Orleans. The British controlled it and the city was the choke point for commerce along the Mississippi. The battle went pretty much s the song describes, minus the alligator for a cannon. The British had landed fresh troops and marched north to meet Jackson. As the song says, they stayed hidden behind cotton bales and trees along the northbound road and waited until the British were almost on top of them before firing. The British suffered shocking casualties because of their European style of warfare of staying in formation. Later a British officer said that while retreating, he could almost walk the entire road by stepping on bodies.
If your life was to own and listen to the radio all the time, you listened to this song a lot because it came on a lot. Because I am old, but as soon as the intro played I remembered it in full.
Thanks to my father I am familar with music like this. This is proably late 50's early 60's and making both the Country and Pop charts.
I asked my father about Johnny Horton and he suggests "North to Alaska". I also asked him about what Dee was talking about. I think what Dee was talking about is called a Marching Cadence.
My favorite singer in this genre is Jim Reeves and a couple of his songs are "He'll Have To Go" and "Welcome To My World".
Yup, I agree with your dad, "North to Alaska". was one of my favorite songs in my sophomore year of high school,
Song is about the War of 1812 with the British-the battle itself was ironically after the treaty was signed but the participants were unaware-old Hickory is later President Andrew Jackson. In the early 60s there were a lot of historical songs due to the Civil War celebrating its Centennial. One song from 1962 Claude Gray's The Burning of Atlanta is one. This song by Johnny Horton reached number one on the billboard charts in 1960.
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From the Treaty of Ghent:
"All hostilities both by sea and land shall cease as soon as this Treaty shall have been ratified by both parties as hereinafter mentioned."
It makes no difference when the Treaty of Ghent (ending the War of 1812) was signed. It was not ratified by the United States (and therefore did not take effect) until February 16, 1815. The Battle of New Orleans took place on January 8th, 1815. The United States was still at war with Great Britain.
My dad would play this record all the time and this song over and over. Brings back memories.
Times were different in the 1950's and 60's. I remember these songs. I had one of his records as a kid. I loved them.
I was eight years old when this song came out, and back in those days, the radio stations here in NYC weren't separated by genres. You could hear various Country, Doo Wop, Jazz, Rock, etc., songs all in the span of one hour. Some of the other "novelty" songs like this that I remember hearing were '16 Tons" by Tennessee Ernie Ford, "Big John" by Jimmy Dean (the breakfast sausage guy!), "Running Bear" by Johnny Preston, and "Please Mister Custer" by Larry Verne, to name a few.
1814 Andrew Jackson took his force from Tennessee to Gulf of Mexico (with his own money), fought and won using his troop and river Pirates. He did not know the war of 1812 was over weeks before the battle.
From the Treaty of Ghent:
"All hostilities both by sea and land shall cease as soon as this Treaty shall have been ratified by both parties as hereinafter mentioned."
It makes no difference when the Treaty of Ghent (ending the War of 1812) was signed. It was not ratified by the United States (and therefore did not take effect) until February 16, 1815. The Battle of New Orleans took place on January 8th, 1815. The United States was still at war with Great Britain.
There were so many types of these songs from the 60’s: Sixteen Tons by Tennesse Ernie Ford; Big John by Jimmy Dean; The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance by Gene Pitney; King of the Road by Roger Miller; Rawhide, Mule Train and Ghost Riders In The Sky by Frankie Lane
When this came out you had Daniel Boone and Davey Crockett were on TV
Nobody played it history class, I learned more about this battle from movies, like they got the pirates to fight on our side for clemency. It was purely for fun powdering alligators to use as canon. Loved it as a kid, and I still love it. Enjoy
The Brown Bess musket was what they called a smooth bore like a shot gun now days. The Squirrel gun had a rifled barrel that was much more accurate. The British when they took a position hid behind barrels of molasses while the American forces hid behind cotton bales. Our rifles allowed precision shooting while the muskets just threw the ball out and maybe it would hit what you wanted. The barrels got shot up and leaked thus taking away most of the protection while the cotton bales just sucked up bullets kinda like shooting at mud. The other thing the American forces did was instead of opening up with volleys at distance like the song said they were told to not shoot until they could see the whites of their eyes. This is why when the Americans opened fire they had almost one hundred percent hits with a high mortality rate.That’s considered to be why the British broke and ran. The sad part of it all is that the peace treaty ending The War of 1812 was signed in Paris a month before the battle but no one knew it yet in america. Johnny Horton has a nice variety of subjects for his work but for a good example of what he has listen to the greatest hits album shown on the screen here. I have had that album as a record, an eight track, a VHS and a CD. It’s easier to listen to than you might think.
From the Treaty of Ghent:
"All hostilities both by sea and land shall cease as soon as this Treaty shall have been ratified by both parties as hereinafter mentioned."
It makes no difference when the Treaty of Ghent (ending the War of 1812) was signed. It was not ratified by the United States (and therefore did not take effect) until February 16, 1815. The Battle of New Orleans took place on January 8th, 1815. The United States was still at war with Great Britain.
I was 11yrs old when this was released in 1959. Don't know what I did yesterday, but I still know the words to this song. My home state, TENNESSEE became known as the Volunteer State because of the men from the Tennessee Militia who volunteered to fight in this war & other wars.
Teneseans we’re also at the Alamo. Respect from Missouri.
I grew up as a kid listening to artists like Johnny Horton. He is still on my playlist today with multiple songs of his in my car.
I still have my tape cassette from when I was a kid of Johnny Horton's Greatest Hits. If you want to try something of his thats not historical, try "Whispering Pines" or "Honky Tonk Man".
Haha….back in the 70s we used to go mudding & riding trails in the mountains and we’d just sing this at the top of our lungs! 😂. It seemed to fit the moment 😄
Huge hit in the early 60's, mostly due to his vocals. Based on a true story though.
We use to hear this on the radio (my dads station) when we were kids, the song was released in 1959 and still heard it in the 1960s, Johnny Horton's other song was "Going to Alaska"
I remember this song when I was a kid and another song from him called North to Alaska. I guess it was like getting a little history lesson. And Dee, you're probably thinking of the military cadences used during drills, marching and working. It's generally a call and response to give a rhythm to what they were doing. Hope this helps.
Johnny Horton was an American singer songwriter & musician. He started out performing traditional country & rockabilly songs. But he is best known for a series of history-inspired narrative country saga songs. "The Battle Of New Orleans" was a hit in 1959. Other songs he is famous for are "North To Alaska", "Sink The Bismarck", "When It's Springtime In Alaska (It's Forty Below)", "Honky-Tonk Man", "I'm Ready If You're Willing", "All For The Love Of A Girl" etc.
This was the number one song in July 1959
I remember when they played this song on the radio. I'm old.
You're right, my grandparent's totally listened to this...and I'm 51. I heard him a lot as a kid, but I agree with you, I never put him on a playlist.
This Great Classic Country! I Listen to Johnny daily.
You just brought back some memories
Friend of mine many years ago had an album from this man... I fell in love with the album this song and others from Johnny Horton. Pretty amazing it was the 80's and we were 17
Sounds weird, but this was my old German Shepherds favourite song. He used to get tummy rubs to the chorus. He’d come running whenever it played on the radio.
My Dad taught me this song when I was 3 years old.....He always had a big laugh when I got to "and they ran through the briars and ran through the bramble...."
This was all over our AM radios in the early 1960s. The song came out when the Cold War was just heating up: there was a strong sense of nationalism: us vs Soviet Union.
I grew up listening to his music. Tks for the memories. It was like a smaller version of Hamilton. A history lesson.
Johnny Horton, wow, that's obscure. He died in 1960. I'll bet maybe one in five hundred people even know who he was. North to Alaska, Sink the Bismarck, and this one were his main hits. As long as were fishing in this distant pond of time, while this song was popular, a parody of it was done, something like Weird Al would have done in the eighties. It was called "The Battle of Kookamonga". It was done by Homer and Jethro. Check it out. Some sample lyrics and link below.
The Battle of Kookamonga
Song by Homer and Jethro
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In nineteen and fifty-nine we took a little hike
With our scout master down to Lake Oneeganite
We took a little pizza and we took some saurkrauts
And we marched along together till we heard the girl scouts
We're the boys from Camp Kookamonga
Our mothers sent us here for to study nature's ways
We learned to make sparks by rubbing sticks together
But if we catch the girls then we'll set the woods ablaze
Finally made my way back to here. I grew up listening to this guy and I just had to get the time to listen to what y'all thought.
Classic! Thanks!
Johnny Horton has some really good songs. Cant believe someone is reacting to him. Kudos to you!
I also have CD Best of Johnny Horton. Knew his voice from maybe Disney movies when I was a kid. His best song is North to Alaska. Springtime in Alaska and Whispering Pines are also good. His music was Americana, a mix of folk, country and western, and bluegrass.
This is an all-time American classic. It's about the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812. The reference to Col. Jackson/ Old Hickory is referring to Andrew Jackson (later President of the U.S.).
Wow, I know exactly how you feel Wilburn. Exactly the same way I feel when I hear rap music or most hip-hop songs it’s like OK I heard it now what. This Johnny Horton song was a major hit back in its day. There were a lot of narrative type songs like big John., Etc. just the way you don’t understand this song is the same way I don’t understand Kanye.
This brings back memories. Catchy. I was probably about 8 years old (62 years ago!) when my brother showed me this song. I really liked it and memorized the lyrics and sang it all the time. Thanks for the review!
This was just one of his funnier ones. You should really check him out more. His ballads and other songs were beautiful and he had one of the clearest and most beautiful voices ever. North to Alaska or Whispering Pines. All For The Love of a Girl was another good one.
I sing this song all the time at work lol. Also to my british friends when gaming haha
When I was a junior in high school, my history teacher pulled out a cassette player and she played this song and Sink the Bismarck 90% of the class had never heard it before and I’m just sitting on the front try not to sing along
Yes, they did use this in school during my time regarding the War of 1812
Still have this great song of history on a 45 record and still play it! Love it!❤
Johnny Horton did a lot of historical based songs. He also did a British version of this song. He was very popular.
My Father Chester L. Pennell would sing this song when we went to bed. He fought in WW2 and Korea.
True story, my dad had a cassette tape with this song and I took it to school back when I was in middle school and students hated me because the teacher loved it and made us sing it. I heard from someone I know that to this day, she still makes her students sing it. I Left my mark😆 by the way you should check out Johnny horton songs, Cherokee boogie & Johnny Reb.
Just subscribed. That was just a novelty song. He actually had a beautiful voice when serious. "All for the Love of a Girl" was one of my favorites! Might want to listen to it for a different perspective of him.
You may want to check out a song he did for a movie with John Wayne called "North to Alaska".
I wish my teachers would have played his history songs. I would have learned more.
I love the grit or raspiness in his voice when he hits those high parts.
Almost reminds me of the kind of rasp you hear with Kurt Cobain in Nirvana.
Good choice. My favourite two songs by Johnny Horton are "All for the Love of a Girl" and "If You're Ready, I'm Willing".
Great rabbit hole loved Johnny
This was actually a history lesson. Many of his songs were about things that students should know. Sink the Bismarck, North to Alaska, The battle of Bull Run.
I use to listen to this song as a kid.
It's called cadence. When you march, everyone must be in step and moving at the same pace. The person leading the march will either "call cadence" or sing a song in cadence to the marching.
When I was elementary school we studied on this "not the song but the war" but our teacher did play this song and it was kinda catchy to be honest
You need to give Johnny more chances His songs like whispering pines North to Alaska and mansion on the hill
Johnny Horton recorded Country, Rockabilly, and Folk music. One of his last albums featured US history-themed songs, and this was one of them.
Horton had the unique perspective of being good friends with Hank Williams, Sr., Elvis Presley, and Johnny Cash, and surely this influenced his music.
Tragically, Johnny Horton was killed in an automobile accident in 1960, at the age of 35.
He married Hank Williams widow. Johnny's last concert, was in the same place as Hank Williams. Killed by a drunk driver, returning home, to go hunting in the morning.
He did all kinds of music he was mainly famous for his historical songs but he also did a lot of like rockabilly music
I just went through all the comments and didn’t see any mention of The Royal Guardsmen! I was born in ‘62, two years after Johnny Horton died. I learned this song from The Royal Guardsmen’s album Snoopy vs the Red Baron. I remember playing it in the mid sixties in my room, on a children’s lime green plastic record player. The album had some really fun songs. Besides this and the title song, I also really liked Liberty Valance, Peanut Butter, and Li’l Red Riding Hood.
I used to listen to this when I was a kid I'm 56 now
He passed at a young age, I believe.
And ironically, he was married to the widow of Hank Williams Sr, who also passed at a young age. Seemed like every man that woman married passed.
lol i listen to this song all the time totally my jam
Dude was heading towards country music royalty before he died too young. Not many people can sing about history and have it be a JAM. He's terribly underrated imo. Enjoyed the reaction
I've been to that battlefield. Interesting place, but that was before the hurricane.
This song is essentially about that part of US history. Much respect to the fallen...LEST WE FORGET!
The key quote in there was "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes." This was a HUGE HIT!!!!
, sink the Bismarck, north to Alaska, when it's spring time in Alaska , whispering pines , Johnny Reb he has more but these are some of my favorites by him .
Whispering Pines is my favorite JH song. North to Alaska is a good one.
A "Squirrel gun" is a small caliber rifle used to hunt small creatures for food. (typically 22-caliber).
I used to listen to the album with my dad. Sink the Bismarck is another song of history.
The Battle of New Orleans was actually fought after the peace treaty ending the War of 1812 had ended.
The British sent a Naval Attack unit but had no way to get in touch with them to call them off.
That major battle was not during the war.
hey, i had this song on 45 in the 70's! lol
It was how a history teacher taught his students about the revolutionary war
War of 1812.
John Horton was A history teacher!
There were a few singers that embraced the old west, American history, and some world history. Marty Robbins and Johnny Horton were the best. Those artists were responsible for my love of History and American history. After 3rd grade they helped me work on math in history class or sneak in a nap. The teachers quizzed me about that weeks class work then tested me on the next weeks class work. Get your kids to listen to storytelling from artist like this.
Wow... history teacher needed here.
You can teach history with this song lol
Maybe if you understood some of our countries history this song would actually make sense but evidently America history isn't a field of endeavor that your drawn to or to seek out which unfortunately many other Americans have no real desire to learn about.
Actually had a couple of relatives in that battle, but i think it was the Nitty Gritty Dirt Bands version i remember hearing
Love him❤
This a funny song base off a dark topic war
Hard not to like this song. Would probably never put it on, but would never skip it if it came on the radio.
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This was a huge hit!!
Oh no!!! Y'all talked over the last verse and it's the one that makes the song. Without it it wouldn't still be remembered !😮😮😮
Great song from my youth...thanks! Give "Whispering Pines" a try, another song by Johnny Horton.
Sink the Bismarck
I actually like this song. Always have.
This music is called a ballad!!!!!!!!!!
"whispering pines" north to alaska" are other options you may like