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“The Battle of New Orleans” / “All for the Love of a Girl” – Doyle’s Space: Music Hall of Fame – SOS Award

This “Stand Out Single” was one of my Mother’s 45s that I kept in my play stack growing up.

Johnny Horton’s 1959 Columbia Records single “The Battle of New Orleans” backed with “All for the Love of a Girl” became one of the defining country-pop releases of its era and helped establish Horton as one of the premier story-song performers in American music. Released on April 6, 1959,

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