Johnny Bond 1961

Johnny's career started in the late 1930s with Jimmy Wakely and after that joining Gene Autry.  His biggest hit was in 1965 with "Ten Little Bottles"  but he had the big seller on this one:

  

Johnny did a long running show for us:

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Johnny Bond 1961

 

We had a lot of cowboys, both Jimmy Wakely and Johnny Bonds did country shows for the network before Joe Allison and the Country Corner.  Jimmy was backup talent for Gene Autry and was a frequent guest at the Melody Ranch. Johnny had a long successful recording career.  His greatest hit was "Ten Little Bottles" Here's Johnny in a 1961 show.

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Johnny Bond was a movie star, recording artist and radio star.  He was with us for many years.

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Johnny Bond was a star on Gene Autry's Melody Ranch and sung with fellow AFRTS host Jimmy Wakely (and Scotty Harrell) as the Jimmy Wakely trio.  1965 brought Johnny his biggest hit record "Ten Little Bottles" which still gets me to laugh.  Pull out the gramophone Johnny...

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 From when they called it "folk music" here's a 1961 visit with Johnny Bond

 He got his first break working for Jimmy Wakely in the late 1930s and went on to join Gene Autry's Melody Ranch in 1940. He also acted on occasion in films including Wilson and Duel in the Sun; and was later a regular on the 1950s Los Angeles country music television series Town Hall Party.

He is best known for his 1947 hit "Divorce Me C.O.D.", one of his seven top ten hits on the Billboard country charts. In 1965 at age 50 he scored the biggest hit of his career with the comic "Ten Little Bottles", which spent four weeks at No. 2. Bond's other hits include "So Round, So Firm, So Fully Packed" (1947), "Oklahoma Waltz" (1948), "Love Song in 32 Bars" (1950), "Sick Sober and Sorry" (1951) and "Hot Rod Lincoln" (1960).

He died of a stroke in 1978, at the age of 63. Bond was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1999, and to the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. (wikipedia).

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Johnny Bond did a lot of songs, movies and had a long term radio gig with AFRTS.  Archive.org has much of his music click here  He brought the back home music

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 To the strains of Les Paul's "Cimarron" and a bushel basket full of gramophone records.  It's old school country from 1961.

Happy listening!

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