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Johnny Horton
It was a circuitous odyssey that carried Johnny Horton from Los Angeles, to the fishing waters of Alaska, to Shreveport, and eventually, to the number one song for six weeks in Then, at the peak of his career and in the time it took a Texas A&M student to wander over the center line, Horton’s life was snuffed out.
Born John Gale Horton in Los Angeles on April 30, , he spent most of his formative years bouncing back and forth between California and East Texas with his sharecropping parents, eventually calling Tyler, Texas home. After graduating from high school in , he attended Methodist seminary to pursue the ministry. He soon left school and started traveling the U.S., eventually moving to Alaska in where he worked as a fisherman and wrote songs in his spare time. It was back to East Texas in , where he entered and won a talent contest hosted by Jim Reeves who had yet to achieve stardom in his own right. During , he performed on several Los Angeles TV shows and hosted a radio show in Pasadena. By the end of the year, he relocated to Shreveport where he became a regular on the Louisiana Hayride but quickly encountered two major disappointments. First, his wife left him and in short order, his manager severed ties with him to take over manageme