![]() But he changed the setting from Idaho to the Grapevine Hill (a long, nearly straight grade up Grapevine Canyon to Tejon Pass, near the town of Gorman, California) to fit it within the narrative of “Hot Rod Race”. He drew on his lived experience to write lyrics to “Hot Rod Lincoln”. Route 95 in Idaho) to the top of Lewiston Hill. Ryan based the description of the Lincoln on his own hot rod, built from a 1948 12-cylinder Lincoln chassis shortened two feet, with a 1930 Ford Model A body fitted to it. Ryan raced his hot rod against a Cadillac sedan driven by a friend in Lewiston, Idaho, driving up the Spiral Highway (former U.S. The song says the car “got 8 cylinders” overdrive, a four-barrel carburetor, 4.11:1 gear ratio, and safety tubes. The car race is described between two hot rod cars, a Ford Model A and a Cadillac. The song was a spoken-word tune, and an “answer song” to the 1950 Top 30 Country hit “Hot Rod Race” by Arkie Shibley. “Hot Rod Lincoln” was written and recorded by Charlie Ryan in 1955. His second release with Republic was “Hot Rod Lincoln”. Soon after, he switched to Republic Records in 1960. In 1959, Bond left Columbia for Ditto Records. Bond remained a mainstay of the Gene Autry’s Melody Ranch cast until the show’s end in 1956. “Tennessee Saturday Night” and “Ten Little Bottles”. From 1947 to 1959, Johnny Bond released 45 singles including “Ten Trips to the Altar”. Into the early 50s, Johnny Bond returned to the Top Ten on the Country chart with “Oklahoma Waltz”, “Love Song in 32 Beers”, and “Sick, Sober and Sorry”. The former drew from advertising in a Lucky Strike cigarette commercial – “so round, so firm, so fully packed, so free and easy on the draw” – to describe a female partners’ qualities. Two other singles made it to the Top 5 on the Country chart: “So Round, So Firm, So Fully Packed”, and “The Daughter of Joel Blon”. ![]() With these and many other Western films under his belt, in 1947 Johnny Bond had two #3 hits on the Billboard Country chart with “Divorce Me C.O.D.”, and “You Brought Sorrow To My Heart”. Meanwhile, Johnny Bond began recording in 1941. ![]() The horse is adopted by the Navy and is trained to be their mascot. After a Japanese bombing raid, the rancher asks Parker for help in rescuing an injured 2-year-old horse. During World War II, he is stationed in the Solomon Islands and becomes friends with a local rancher. At the age of 17, Parker lies about his age to enlist in the U.S. Navy warrant officer Arthur Parker, who rescued an injured filly during World War II. In 1947, Johnny Bond starred in Gallant Bess, a story loosely based on the true account of U.S. Citizens of Gunsmoke are being intimidated by Lon Curtis and his gang who are preventing an election to vote on a township charter. And in 1944, Bond appeared in the film Marshall of Gunsmoke. The same year, Johnny Bond appeared in Arizona Trail. In the film a singing cowboy (Tex Ritter) comes home to help his family fight a land-grabber who is trying to take over the family ranch. The plot concerned Range Busters investigating sabotage at a mining community and uncover a gang of Nazi spies. In 1943, Johnny Bond appeared in Cowboy Commandos, opposite Dennis Moore, Ray “Crash” Corrigan, and actress and stuntwoman Evelyn Finley. She is looking for money to put the club back in business, but must avoid being fleeced by her shipmates and also must avoid the police, who are waiting for the boat at the dock. On board are a band of struggling musicians, along with a number of swindlers, and another a pair of con artists passing themselves off as Señor and Rosita Alvarez, phony names. Another passenger is Madame La Zonga, whose nightclub in Havana has been closed. In 1941, Bond was cast as musician in Six Lessons from Madame La Zonga. The plot unfolded on a luxury liner sailing for Cuba. Half of the films Johnny Bond appeared in he was cast in a role as a musician. His debut was the Western, Saga of Death Valley. It starred Roy Rogers and Gabby Hayes, with Bond as a member of a band. In 1939, Johnny Bond appeared in his first of forty films. He also performed with his own band the Red River Valley Boys. In 1940, Bond went on to join Gene Autry’s Melody Ranch. And with Columbia Records they recorded under the name Johnny Bond & the Cimarron Boys. With Decca Records the trio recorded as the Jimmy Wakely Trio. In 1937, he began performing with Jimmy Wakely and Scotty Harrell in the Bell Boys trio, named after the Bell Clothing Company, which sponsored the group on radio station WKY in Oklahoma City. While in high school “Johnny” bought a ukulele, and subsequently learned the guitar. Bond first performed on radio in Oklahoma City when he was 19 years old. Prior to 1907, Pickens County had been part of the Chickasaw Nation in the “Indian Territory.” His parents were farmers. ![]() Cyrus Whitfield Bond was born in 1915 in southern Oklahoma. ![]()
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