The top song in 1959 was "Battle of New Orleans", written by Jimmy Driftwood, and sang by Johnny Horton. Most of us who grew up in the fifties probably remember this song very well. What i didn't know until today was that Johnny Horton also sang another version of this hit song, and it was called "the British version". Has anyone else ever heard it sang this way before ?
I can remember singing this song when I was little...but I don't know what version it was. I was born in 1951 so I would have been only 8 years old when this was the top song.
I heard this song on the radio when I was younger. Don't hear the song much today though on the oldies station I listen to. I like hearing the oldies.
LOL...I wasn't born until well into the 50's...but like @Krissttina Isobe I've always loved songs from back in the day..I always say it's because we had no TV when I was a child and my mum always had the wireless on in the background, so all those songs went straight into my psyche in my formative years.. As for the song in your Op @Yvonne Smith ..I know that song very well...only not by Johnny Horton but instead by Lonnie Donegan...and it's the version we all know here in the UK... Lonnie was also famous for many other 'fun' songs...like this one....
@Holly Saunders - Aah yes, that's the version we know here - Lonnie was good and 'loved' the Americans, pity he can't be on the forum he'd love the music threads
My name is Diana...so you can imagine all my life this song from the mid 50's from Paul Anka was sung to me all my life...much to my excruciating embarrassment...but I love the song now... ..just don't sing it to me..lol
I don't think our own Cockney boy Adam Faith was known over the pond, but of course he was a pin up boy for the females of the Uk of my mothers' age..(btw my mum was ony 21 in the mid 50's)......but here he is singing one of his biggest hits in '69 which he first released in '59....*swoon* he was such a looker...
This is the first song I sang as a child - I recall singing it with such emotion - aah, bless that child Loved Frankie ...............
The "Great" then was Johnnie Ray, who was said to be deaf. He actually cried when he sang! Guy Mitchell, "Cryin' the Blues", was one of the top-selling singles in history. Presley appeared in 1955. Gogie Grant, "The Wayward Wind". Miss Toni Fisher, "The Big Hurt", carried a background sound eerie like ghostly-whining.... These off the top of my head. Accuracy not warranteed. Frank