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On this date in 1959, THE BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS by JOHNNY HORTON went to No.1 on both the Country and Pop charts in the US, where it would stay for two months (Jun 2, 1959) Although he is better-remembered for his historical songs, Johnny Horton was one of the best and most popular honky tonk singers of the late '50s. Horton managed to infuse honky tonk with an urgent rockabilly underpinning. His career may have been cut short by a fatal car crash in 1960, but his music reverberated throughout t