Johnny Bond

Aliases: Jimmy Kenton
Johnny Bond and His Red River Valley Boys
Real name: Cyrus Whitfield Bond
Born: June 1, 1915
Died: June 12, 1978
Country: United States
IPI: 00003623428 21 works
Affiliation: BMI
Comments: Country music guitarist, singer, songwriter and historian.
He was inducted both into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970 and into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1999.

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Originals

Title	Performer	Release date	Covered by
Bartender's Blues	Johnny Bond	August 1948	(3 artists)
Carolina Waltz	Johnny Bond	July 1955	(2 artists)
Five Minute Love Affair	Johnny Bond	June 1960	Eero ja Jussi & The Boys
I Can't Hide the Tears	Johnny Bond	August 1948	Tim McNamara
I Like That Kind	Johnny Bond	December 1964	Charlie Thompson
I Won't Stand in Your Way	Johnny Bond	December 1948	(3 artists)
Love Gone Cold	Johnny Bond and His Red River Valley Boys	January 1945	(17 artists)
Oklahoma Waltz	Johnny Bond & Dick Reinhart	April 1948	(19 artists)
Ten Little Bottles	Johnny Bond	February 1954	(2 artists)
The Daughter Of Jole Blon	Johnny Bond and His Red River Valley Boys	1947	Missing information
The Deadwood Stage	Johnny Bond	July 1961	(2 artists)
The Fool's Paradise	Johnny Bond	1959	(4 artists)
The Long Tall Shadow	Johnny Bond	1959	(2 artists)
Women Make a Fool Out of Me	Johnny Bond and His Red River Valley Boys	1949	(2 artists)

Covers by Johnny Bond

	Title	Performer	Release date	Originally by
	All I Can Do Is Cry	Johnny Bond	July 15, 1957	Wayne Walker
	Any Old Time	Johnny Bond	1974	Jimmie Rodgers [US1]
	A Petal from a Faded Rose	Johnny Bond	December 1949	Leon Rusk
	Beautiful Brown Eyes	Merle Travis and Johnny Bond	May 1969	Arthur Smith Trio
	Blow Yo' Whistle, Freight Train	Merle Travis and Johnny Bond	May 1969	Delmore Brothers
	Blue Railroad Train	Merle Travis and Johnny Bond	May 1969	Delmore Brothers
	Blues, Stay Away from Me	Merle Travis and Johnny Bond	May 1969	Delmore Brothers
	Brown's Ferry Blues	Merle Travis and Johnny Bond	May 1969	Delmore Brothers
	Carry Me Back to the Lone Prairie	Johnny Bond	July 1961	Bentley Ball, Don Hall Trio
	Chattanooga Choo Choo	Johnny Bond	1974	Glenn Miller and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Tex Beneke and The Four Modernaires REL, Glenn Miller and His Orchestra with Tex Benteke and the Modernaires and Dorothy Dandridge and the Nicholas Brothers BRD
i	Cherokee Swing	Johnny Bond	1967	Tommy Hill's Nashville String Band
	Cherokee Waltz	Johnny Bond and His Red River Valley Boys	May 1950	Johnny Bond & Dick Reinhart Covered by (17 artists)
	Cimarron	Johnny Bond	October 1948	Jimmy Wakely and His Rough Riders
	Conversation with a Gun	Johnny Bond	July 1961	Tex Ritter
	Der Fuehrer's Face	Johnny Bond and His Red River Valley Boys	August 1942	Spike Jones and His City Slickers - Vocal Refrain by Carl Grayson
	Divorce Me C.O.D.	Johnny Bond and His Red River Valley Boys	December 16, 1946	Merle Travis
	Dusty Skies	Johnny Bond	July 1961	Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
	Empty Saddles	Johnny Bond	July 1961	The Sons of the Pioneers REL, Bing Crosby BRD, Rudy Vallée and His Connecticut Yankees REC
	Field Hand Man	Merle Travis and Johnny Bond	May 1969	Delmore Brothers
	Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar	Merle Travis and Johnny Bond	May 1969	Delmore Brothers
	High Noon	Johnny Bond	July 1961	Tex Ritter BRD,REC,REL
	Hot Rod Lincoln	Johnny Bond	June 1960	Arkie Shibley and His Mountain Dew Boys, Charley Ryan and The Livingston Bros.
	How I Love Them Old Songs	Johnny Bond	1974	Carl Smith
	I'll Step Aside	Johnny Bond and His Red River Valley Boys	October 1946	Idaho Call and His Sun Valley Cowboys
	I'm Ragged but I'm Right	Johnny Bond	1966	Blue Harmony Boys, George Jones
	It's a Sin	Johnny Bond and His Red River Valley Boys		Unverified
	I Wish I Had a Nickel (For Every Tear You Shed Last Night)	Johnny Bond	May 1949	Jimmy Wakely
	I Wonder Where You Are Tonight	Johnny Bond	August 1953	Jimmy Wakely and His Rough Riders
	Jim, Johnny and Jonas	Johnny Bond	April 1955	Johnny Bond & Dick Reinhart, Johnny Bond and His Red River Valley Boys, Hula-Hawaiian-Quartett Covered by (3 artists)
	Let Me Go, Devil	Johnny Bond	September 1953	Wade Ray
	Remember the Alamo	Johnny Bond	September 1955	Tex Ritter with Orchestra conducted by Rex Koury
	Sick, Sober and Sorry	Johnny Bond	May 1951	Tommy Duncan and His Western All-Stars
	Sick, Sober and Sorry	Lefty Frizzell and Johnny Bond	May 27, 1957	Tommy Duncan and His Western All-Stars
	Somebody Loves You	Johnny Bond	July 1949	(unknown)
	So Round, So Firm, So Fully Packed	Johnny Bond and His Red River Valley Boys	February 1947	Merle Travis REC, Foy Willing and The Riders of the Purple Sage REL
	Squaws Along the Yukon	Johnny Bond	May 1971	Texas Jim Lewis and His Lone Star Cowboys
	Steppin' Out	Johnny Bond	1974	Billy Starr
	Tennessee Saturday Night	Johnny Bond	February 1949	Red Foley and The Cumberland Valley Boys
	That's Where I Oughta Be	Johnny Bond	February 1962	Skeeter Davis
	The Fool's Paradise	Tex Ritter with Music by Johnny Bond	July 1964	Johnny Bond
	There's More Pretty Girls Than One	Merle Travis and Johnny Bond	May 1969	Crocker and Cannon (Leonard Rutherford, John D. Foster)
	The Tiajuana Jail	Johnny Bond	1959	Johnny and Jonie
	The Weary Lonesome Blues	Merle Travis and Johnny Bond	May 1969	Delmore Brothers
	Those Gone and Left Me Blues	Johnny Bond and His Red River Valley Boys	December 1941	Jimmy Wakely and His Rough Riders
	Tomorrow Never Comes	Johnny Bond	January 1970	Ernest Tubb
	When It's Time for the Whippoorwill to Sing	Merle Travis and Johnny Bond	May 1969	Delmore Brothers
	You Can Tell the Man who Boozes (By the Company He Chooses)	Johnny Bond	1966	Frank Crumit
	Your Old Love Letters	Johnny Bond	1966	Joe Maphis & Rose Lee

Songs written by Johnny Bond

Original songs

Title	Written by	Originally by	Original date	Covered by
Carolina Waltz	Johnny Bond	Johnny Bond	July 1955	Covered by (2 artists)
Cimarron (Roll On)	Johnny Bond	Jimmy Wakely and His Rough Riders	August 29, 1940	Covered by (32 artists)
Conversation with a Gun	Johnny Bond	Tex Ritter	May 5, 1959	Covered by (2 artists)
Hot Rod Guitar	Johnny Bond, Joe Maphis	Joe Maphis	1964	Covered by (3 artists)
I Can't Hide the Tears	Johnny Bond, Jack Rivers	Johnny Bond	December 14, 1947	Covered by Tim McNamara
I'll Step Aside	Johnny Bond	Idaho Call and His Sun Valley Cowboys	April 1946	Covered by (10 artists)
I Wonder Where You Are Tonight	Johnny Bond	Jimmy Wakely and His Rough Riders	August 29, 1940	Covered by (65 artists)
I Won't Stand in Your Way	Johnny Bond	Johnny Bond	December 14, 1947	Covered by (3 artists)
Love Gone Cold	Johnny Bond	Johnny Bond and His Red River Valley Boys	July 31, 1942	Covered by (17 artists)
Oklahoma Waltz	Johnny Bond	Johnny Bond & Dick Reinhart	December 14, 1947	Covered by (19 artists)
Ten Little Bottles	Johnny Bond	Johnny Bond	February 1954	Covered by (2 artists)
The Deadwood Stage	Johnny Bond	Johnny Bond	August 3, 1960	Covered by (2 artists)
The Fool's Paradise	Johnny Bond	Johnny Bond	February 1959	Covered by (4 artists)
The Long Tall Shadow	Johnny Bond, Ned Miller [US2]	Johnny Bond	April 6, 1959	Covered by (2 artists)
Those Gone and Left Me Blues	Johnny Bond, Jimmy Wakely	Jimmy Wakely and His Rough Riders	July 1, 1941	Covered by (12 artists)
Tomorrow Never Comes	Ernest Tubb, Johnny Bond	Ernest Tubb	January 13, 1944	Covered by (32 artists)
We Might as Well Forget It	Johnny Bond	Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys	July 14, 1942	Covered by Billy Western
Women Make a Fool Out of Me	Johnny Bond	Johnny Bond and His Red River Valley Boys	September 1947	Covered by (2 artists)
Your Old Love Letters	Johnny Bond	Joe Maphis & Rose Lee	February 22, 1955	Covered by (25 artists)

Adapted songs

Title	Written by	Originals	Originally by	Covered by
Cherokee Waltz	Johnny Bond	Oklahoma Waltz	Johnny Bond and His Red River Valley Boys	Covered by (17 artists)
Jim, Johnny and Jonas	Johnny Bond	Jim, Jonny und Jonas	Johnny Bond	Covered by (3 artists)

Releases

Albums

Title	Performer	Release date	Label
Bottles Up	Johnny Bond	1966	Starday Records
Great Songs of the Delmore Brothers	Merle Travis and Johnny Bond	May 1969	Capitol Records
Here Come the Elephants	Johnny Bond	May 1971	Starday Records
Hot Rod Lincoln and Three Sheets in the Wind and Other New Favorites of Johnny Bond	Johnny Bond	December 1964	Starday Records
How I Love Them Old Songs	Johnny Bond	1974	Lamb & Lion
Sick Sober & Sorry	Johnny Bond	1967	Nashville [US]
Something Old, New, Patriotic, and Blue	Johnny Bond	January 1970	Starday Records
That Wild, Wicked but Wonderful West	Johnny Bond	July 1961	Starday Records
The Branded Stock	Johnny Bond	1966	Starday Records
The Man Who Comes Around	Johnny Bond	1966	Starday Records

Singles

Title	Performer	Release date	Label
All I Can Do Is Cry	Johnny Bond	July 15, 1957	Columbia [US]
A Petal from a Faded Rose	Johnny Bond	December 1949	Columbia [US]
Bartender's Blues	Johnny Bond	August 1948	Columbia [US]
Cherokee Waltz	Johnny Bond and His Red River Valley Boys	May 1950	Columbia [US]
Cimarron	Johnny Bond	October 1948	Columbia [US]
Divorce Me C.O.D.	Johnny Bond and His Red River Valley Boys	December 16, 1946	Columbia [US]
Drowning My Sorrows	Johnny Bond and His Red River Valley Boys	1949	Columbia [US]
Heart and Soul	Johnny Bond	December 1948	Columbia [US]
Hot Rod Lincoln	Johnny Bond	June 1960	Republic [US1]
I'll Step Aside	Johnny Bond and His Red River Valley Boys	October 1946	Columbia [US]
I'm a Pris'ner of War (On a Foreign Shore)	Johnny Bond and His Red River Valley Boys	August 1942	OKeh
I've Had the Blues Before	Johnny Bond and His Red River Valley Boys	December 1941	OKeh
I Wish I Had a Nickel (For Every Tear You Shed Last Night)	Johnny Bond	May 1949	Columbia [US]
I Wonder Where You Are Tonight	Johnny Bond	August 1953	Columbia [US]
John's Other Wife	Johnny Bond	April 1948	Columbia [US]
Let Me Go, Devil	Johnny Bond	September 1953	Columbia [US]
Louisiana Swing	Johnny Bond	April 1955	Columbia [US]
Lover By Appointment	Johnny Bond and Lefty Frizzell	May 27, 1957	Columbia [US]
Remember the Alamo	Johnny Bond	September 1955	Columbia [US]
Sick, Sober and Sorry	Johnny Bond	May 1951	Columbia [US]
Somebody Loves You	Johnny Bond	July 1949	Columbia [US]
Somebody's Pushin'	Johnny Bond	July 1955	Columbia [US]
So Round, So Firm, So Fully Packed	Johnny Bond and His Red River Valley Boys	February 1947	Columbia [US]
Ten Little Bottles	Johnny Bond	February 1954	Columbia [US]
Tennessee Saturday Night	Johnny Bond	February 1949	Columbia [US]
The Fool's Paradise	Tex Ritter with Music by Johnny Bond	July 1964	Capitol Records
The Long Tall Shadow	Johnny Bond	1959	20th Fox
The Tiajuana Jail	Johnny Bond	1959	Ditto Records
You Don't Care	Johnny Bond and His Red River Valley Boys	January 1945	OKeh