Johnny Horton - The World Of Johnny Horton - Columbia 8-Track Tape

This listing is for Johnny Horton – The World Of Johnny Horton 8-Track Cartridge Tape CGA-30884.

Label: Columbia – CGA 30884

Format: 8-Track Cartridge, Compilation

Country: US

Released: 

Genre: Folk, World, & Country

Style: Country  

Tracklist:

A1 The Battle Of New Orleans

A2 When It's Springtime In Alaska

A3 Johnny Reb

A4 I'm Coming Home

A5 North To Alaska

B1 The Battle Of Bull Run

B2 The Sinking Of Reuben James

B3 I'm Ready, If You're Willing

B4 Honky-Tonk Man

B5 Sink The Bismarck

C1 Rock Island Line

C2 Young Abe Lincoln

C3 Whispering Pines

C4 The First Train Heading South

C5 Lost Highway

D1 The Golden Rocket

D2 Got The Bull By The Horns

D3 Johnny Freedom

D4 John Paul Jones

D5 All For The Love Of A Girl

John LaGale Horton (April 30, 1925 – November 5, 1960) was an American country, honky tonk, and rockabilly musician during the 1950s. He is best known for a series of history-inspired narrative country saga songs that became international hits. His 1959 single "The Battle of New Orleans" was awarded the 1960 Grammy Award for Best Country & Western Recording. The song was awarded the Grammy Hall of Fame Award and in 2001 ranked number 333 of the Recording Industry Association of America's "Songs of the Century". His first number-one country song was in 1959, "When It's Springtime in Alaska (It's Forty Below)". Horton had two successes in 1960 with both "Sink the Bismarck" and "North to Alaska", the latter used during the opening credits of the John Wayne film. Horton died in November 1960 at the peak of his fame in a traffic collision, less than two years after his breakthrough. He is a member of the Rockabilly Hall of Fame and the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame.

NOTE: All Tapes are UNTESTED, as I currently don't have a working player. The 8-track tape (formally Stereo 8; commonly called eight-track cartridge, eight-track tape, and eight-track) is a magnetic-tape sound recording technology that was popular from the mid-1960s until the early 1980s, when the compact cassette, which pre-dated the 8-track system, surpassed it in popularity for pre-recorded music. The format was commonly used in cars and was most popular in the United States and Canada and, to a lesser extent, in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Japan. One advantage of the 8-track tape cartridge was that it could play continuously in an endless loop, and did not have to be ejected, turned around and reinserted to play the entire tape. After about 80 minutes of playing time, the tape would start again at the beginning. Because of the loop, there is no rewind. The only options the user has are play, fast forward, record, and program (track) change. The Stereo 8 Cartridge was created in 1964 by a consortium led by Bill Lear, of Lear Jet Corporation, along with Ampex, Ford Motor Company, General Motors, Motorola, and RCA Victor Records (RCA—Radio Corporation of America). The 8-track tape format is now considered obsolete, although there are collectors who refurbish these tapes and players as well as some bands that issue these tapes as a novelty. Cheap Trick's The Latest in 2009 was issued on 8-track, as was Dolly Parton's A Holly Dolly Christmas in 2020, the latter with an exclusive bonus track. H8-Track Stereo started by Sean Beard released over 800 albums for artists on 8-track internationally from 2013 to 2019, inspiring an underground revival of the format that has yet to be exceeded.

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