Johnny Bond - Hot Rod Lincoln

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PLEASE NOTE: I divided my uploads between multiple channels, Bookmark this link in your browser for instant access to an index with links to all of John1948s oldies classics. LINK: http://www.geocities.com/john1948ten/INDEX.html Cyrus Whitfield Johnny Bond was born in Enville, Oklahoma. He got his first break working for Jimmy Wakely in the late 1930s and went on to join Gene Autrys Melody Ranch in 1940. He also acted on occasion in films like 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 in the #2 position. Bonds 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 heart attack in 1978, at the age of 63. He was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1999 and to the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. ~ Wikipedia

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