Johnny Bond (1915-1978) born Cyrus Whitfield Bond in Oklahoma, was a popular country music entertainer of the 1940s through the 1960s.
He also acted on occasion in films like Duel in the Sun and was later a regular on the 1950s 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.
Bond's 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. Here, Hell's Angels, 1966.
He also acted on occasion in films like Duel in the Sun and was later a regular on the 1950s 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.
Bond's 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. Here, Hell's Angels, 1966.
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