The Battle of New Orleans

YouTube ^ | 1959 | Johnny Horton

[4Runner]

Some of the grit we had in 1814 would have taken care of Mexico and this invasion years ago. What happened to the trucker convoy that was headed to Eagle Pass last week? All of a sudden the showdown there has been wiped off the news map. Greg Abbott and the State of Texas aren't being mentioned anywhere. Neither is DC. Wonder what the MSM/FEDS are busy cooking up. Looks like a blackout to me.

[Fiji Hill]

The original version:

The Eighth of January (The Battle of New Orleans)--Jimmy Driftwood (1957)

And the British side of the story:

The Road to Charlamette (The Answer to the Battle of New Oreans)--Jimmy Driftwood (1959)

[4Runner]

I never said Horton’s was the original version. Actually, I think his is vastly superior to the plunkity one you dug up. Horton’s is the one I know, because I grew up in the ‘50s and that was when his version was being played all over the country on the radio.

[mountainlion]

Grandparents of mine were there. My family seems to have been in every war in this country.

[Mark17]

https://youtu.be/aXfuQqkwa5I?si=Q2qIQlPXMDe7zNOT

Johnny Horton.

[Jolla]

I was wondering what was going on with the convoy, looked it up a couple of days ago, very little in the news. Swamp is planning something nefarious.

[the OlLine Rebel]

More appropriate is probably Pancho Villa.

Not only is he Mexican, but he was just a gang. Not “Mexico” invading with intention to fight for some goal, but some guy with lesser intentions, bad as they might’ve been.

Britain we had been at war with, and Brits intended to fight as a nation against a nation.

Honestly these people aren’t intending simply to fight. But they are indeed invaders, as surely as we call out “home invasion”. We don’t like people trying to sneak in our windows or back doors, and this should be the same.

[Fiji Hill]

I like Jimmy Driftwood's version, despite some errata--Edward Pakenham was a general, not a colonel, and Minié balls had yet to be invented.

But I also like Johnny Horton's version--and everything else that he did. It even made the playlists of pop stations like KFI, which pretty much eschewed rock and Top 40 music. In August 1959, we heard it frequently on the radio in our 1958 Edsel Villager station wagon.

[Daveinyork]

In 1814 we took a little trip.

[the OlLine Rebel]

Too bad it was neither “Charlamette” nor “Chalamette”. It is Chalmette.

[the OlLine Rebel]

How old ARE you?

[Fiji Hill]

This tune, highly politically incorrect in 2024, rose to #54 on the pop charts but made the Top 10 on the country western charts.

Johnny Reb--Johnny Horton (1959)

[Vermont Lt]

You had grandparents in the War of 1812? Yikes.

[cowboyusa]

Andrew Jackson, Trump’s hero and mine. He and Polk are the 2 best Presidents.

[mountainlion]

I forgot. a few greats.

[Vermont Lt]

That’s funny.

Just as an aside, I was telling my kids that when you can tell how young this country is when they consider that I have a great, great grand uncle who was killed by Indians…in Indiana.

We are not too far from the roots of our country.

[mairdie]

Miami Vice - Battle of New Orleans- Johnny Horton
https://youtu.be/impaURplyAc

[Paal Gulli]

Homer & Jethro’s take on the battle:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0mGFjAySTw

[Fiji Hill]

Homer & Jethro’s take on the battle:

There's also another take, "The Battle of Chavez Ravine" by Homer Escamilla & the Ranks (1959) which recounts the battle to remove residents of Chavez Ravine, a residential neighborhood in Los Angeles, to make way for the construction of Dodger Stadium. I have the 45 rpm disc, but there is currently no online version.