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Johnny Horton: Johnny Horton - I'm A Fishin' Man (DVD)

DVD with 24-page booklet, b&w, NTSC, regional code: 0, 28 tracks, playing time approx. 71 mns.

Never before seen performances by Johnny Horton. Rare recordings from collection of Jerry Hope. Ozark Jubilee Shows from the collection of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. A rare live concert.

When Bear Family began work on the Johnny Horton LP box sets back in the mid-1980s, just two videos traded hands among collectors: a grainy copy of 'I'm A Fishin' Man' and an 'Ed Sullivan Show' appearance. Now we have an embarrassment of riches. Finally, we see why Horton was, as his contemporaries said, a natural television performer. Amiable, good-looking, and breezily confident, he was ideal for what was then the new medium of television. Just the kind of guy you'd want to bring into your living room.

This DVD collects most of the known videotaped performances of Johnny Horton from very early in his career until just a few weeks before he was killed. There are 25 filmed performances and three bonus audio performances spanning the years from 1953 until 1960. He not only sings his biggest hits, North To Alaska, Johnny Reb, Sal's Got A Sugar Lip, Sink The Bismarck and of course The Battle Of New Orleans, but he also performs songs that won't be as familiar to collectors, like Electrified Donkey, Be Honest With Me (as part of a trio with Eddy Arnold and Molly Bee), and I'm A Fishing Man. Even though there are no published interviews with Johnny Horton, on this DVD he talks with the hosts of the Ozark Jubilee show Red Foley, Bobby Lord, and Eddy Arnold. An essential complement to Bear Family's definitive history of Johnny Horton's recordings!

A NOTE ON FILM QUALITY: Bear Family has always made a sustained commitment to quality. This DVD was sourced from original films and kinescopes, now fifty or sixty years old. Some, especially those sourced from 'Jubilee USA' kinescopes, are not as clear as we would have liked, but they are the only known copies. We feel that their historic value outweighs the technical imperfections.

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Johnny Horton There's no telling how far Johnny Horton would have gone or how he'd be... more

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"Johnny Horton"

Johnny Horton

There's no telling how far Johnny Horton would have gone or how he'd be thought about today had he not died in the small hours of November 5, 1960. That fatal car wreck ensured he'd be remembered as so many whose lives are cut short in their prime... young, vital and brimming with talent. In ten years he'd gone from talent show contestant to country and pop singing star, recording a wide range of material that rode the crests of a rapidly changing music scene. From the strong Western influence of the early Abbott sides recorded in 1950 and 1951 in Los Angeles to post-Hank Williams Nashville at Mercury through the mid-1950s and finally with Columbia Records beginning in 1956... Johnny Horton recorded everything from barroom weepers and straight country to rockabilly and bona fide pop hits.

Horton covered that much musical geography because he could, he was a damn good singer... a GREAT singer. His voice was big, infectious and friendly, bursting with charisma and personality. While he is much admired for the rocking up-tempo tunes and the mega hit Battle Of New Orleans, Johnny Horton is less remembered as the great ballad singer he was. Record companies leaned toward tempo for the A-side of singles to attract air play. Very often the flip side of the record was where the heart felt ballad was hiding or maybe a few would turn up tucked into a long playing album. It's these overlooked treasures that make up this set and, with the exception of When It's Springtime In Alaska, none were released as A-sides while Meant So Little To You from 1954 remained unissued for 37 years.

I was in London working on a recording project when I received a note from Richard Weize asking if I would assemble this CD of Johnny Horton ballads. I was immediately taken back to 1956 when as a youngster I first became aware of a song on the radio called I'm A One Woman Man. I was pulled into that record, the sound, the drive, the click-clock of Bill Black's string bass. Mostly though, I was drawn to the fellows voice who was singing it. From that day forward I always sought out Johnny Horton's records and later when my contemporaries scrambled to be the first to have the latest Beatles or Rolling Stones release, I delighted in the great and grand luck of finding a Horton single on Mercury in a dime store close-out bin for nine cents! Those were touchstone records for me then as they are now.

In so many ways his music and those recordings have informed my life as a professional musician having gone from country to styles far a-field and occasionally back again.

In compiling this collection I have chosen ballads that span Horton's entire career and those that I like as songs. He sang so well that he could sell nearly anything... well almost. A few songs just don't hold up for me and I've omitted those. I'm sorry if they happen to be your favourites, but it's simply one reporter's opinion. Thought has been put into the sequencing of this set... how it runs musically and the mix of styles through the years. Included are a few tunes that might have questionable pedigrees as ballads. Today a ballad is generally accepted to be any slow piece of music, but I've always felt a ballad to be a song that tells a story regardless of tempo. Also, ballads of the 1950s were often recorded at a brisker tempo than their modern equivalents. With that in mind, I have taken some liberty.

Johnny Horton was at the top of his game with North To Alaska playing on every pop and country radio station that autumn of 1960 when he died. I speculate he would have had a long and productive career ahead of him, all the while adapting as he did so well to musical trends that lay ahead. Some of his later recordings already foreshadowed the coming of strings and voices. He negotiated that countrypolitan approach beautifully and would have been very much at home with 60's style Nashville and beyond with it's increasing emphasis on ballads. For Johnny Horton there would have been many more ballads.

Richard Bennett
Nashville, Tennessee

from the booklet BCD16384 - Johnny Horton The Ballads Of Johnny Horton
Read more at: https://www.bear-family.de/horton-johnny-the-ballads-of-johnny-horton.html
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From: john hyland On: 14 Jul 2017

hyland

Johnny Horton Im a Fishing Man.
Thank you for making this music DVD available. I love his songs and to be able to listen and see him perform will be fantastic. A great item, delivered without hassles. Great customer service. I have bought from Bear Family Records before and have never been disappointed. i recommend you buy from them.

john hyland, royalla australia

From: Dennis Schut On: 17 Feb 2017

Fantastic DVD with great rare vision and sounds! Cannot do without

I am so very grateful to bear Family for issuing this fantastic DVD I have dreamed about for many many years. i am a big fan of the music of Johnny Horton and have collected every recording I could find. I have read his biography and was hoping that someday life footage would appear and be issued. There is some on Youtube, but this beats it all! I wish there would be more and there should be. I would buy it right away as I have bought 3 copies of this DVD, just don't want to lose it! There should be more like a 10 or 15 film from Johnny at the opening of Freedomland. I especially liked the few last songs where he is actually live on stage!!! But all the other TV appearances are just fine as well! Just get this DVD while it lasts and I am sure you will never regret it and would want more!!!

From: BF Presse On: 25 Jun 2015

Ausgezeichnete Veröffentlichung

R & R Musikmagazin 5/2012 "Ein Booklet mit Details zu den Filmen und velen Farbfotos, u.a. vom Fischen mit Johnny Cash, runden diese ausgezeichnete Veröffentlichung ab."

Now Dig This 11/12 "This is not only a truly wonderful piece of musical history, it's very entertaining. For those who have discovered this man's music in later years, it stands as a testimony to his greatness as a writer and performer."

From: Redecker On: 13 Mar 2014

Ein Booklet mit Details zu den Filmen und velen Farbfotos, u.a. vom Fischen mit Johnny Cash, runden diese ausgezeichnete Veröffentlichung ab.
R & R Musikmagazin 5/2012 H.G. Hartig

From: Redecker On: 13 Mar 2014

This is not only a truly wonderful piece of musical history, it's very entertaining. For those who have discovered this man's music in later years, it stands as a testimony to his greatness as a writer and performer.
Now Dig This 11/12 Howard Cockburn

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