AN EXCELLENT COPY OF THIS GREAT DOUBLE SIDER FROM BETTY JOHNSON ON A UK LONDON LABEL 78

"1492" b/w LITTLE WHITE LIES

Betty Johnson's first career in music coincided with the music career of her family, the Johnson Family Singers. Starting in 1938 and throughout the 1940s, the young soprano sang hymns with her parents and three brothers. The family had a daily broadcast on the powerful WBT radio in Charlotte, North Carolina and appeared at churches, military bases, and all-night sings throughout the South. Singing in the vein of the Carter Family and Speer Family, the Johnsons garnered enough attention to appear on the Grand Ole Opry and record for RCA-Victor and Columbia records.

As the 1950s dawned, Betty charted a course that would take her away from the Johnson Family Singers and toward popular music stylings. In New York City, Johnson shared the top prize on Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts and also found a regular Sunday evening radio job singing with the CBS orchestra as well as a Saturday morning spot on the Galen Drake Show.

Betty Johnson's career took a decided turn upward in 1954 when she joined the Csida-Grean management company which handled the careers of Eddy Arnold and Bobby Darin. Charles Grean of Csida-Grean would produce much of her music over the next few years.

The organization helped her find her first hit in November of 1954, "I Want Eddie Fisher For Christmas." Betty then recorded for RCA and then Bell Records. But Johnson would have better luck at her next stop, Bally Records, in Chicago. Bally, a young label in 1956, was owned by the famous pinball and slot machine, and would release the biggest hit of Johnson's career, "I Dreamed." At the time, Johnson also appeared regularly on Don McNeil's Breakfast Club and Eddy Arnold Time.

Johnson posted other hits in 1956 -- "I'll Wait" and "Clay Idol" -- and she frequently appeared on programs hosted by Bob Newhart, Jack Benny and Perry Como. Television viewers could also often catch her on The Ed Sullivan Show and Jack Paar's Tonight Show where she was featured as the regular girl singer.

Johnson kept a breathless pace. In addition to her recordings and television, she was the spokeswoman for Borden dairy products and starred in summer stock performances of Brigadoon, The King And I and South Pacific. She met live dates at the Copacabana in New York, the Roosevelt Hotel in New Orleans, the Drake Hotel in Chicago, the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco, the Sands in Las Vegas, the Cocoanut Grove in Los Angeles, and other clubs around the nation.

Betty scored two more US hits in 1957, "Little White Lies" and "1492."

In 1958, Betty Johnson joined Atlantic Records and hit the pop charts with "The Little Blue Man." It camped on the charts for four months. Later in the year, she racked up two more hits -- "Dream" and "Hoopa Hoola."

Betty Johnson continued to make regular appearances on television and the club circuit, and longed to more pop standards. "I wanted to do more of the standards, and I would do standards in my personal appearances," explains Johnson. "But recording-wise, your A&R people really were in charge. You could sneak a few [in]." In 1958, Johnson did just that. Atlantic released the LP Songs You Heard When You Fell In Love which included "Red Sails In The Sunset," "Dancing In The Dark" and "Always." In the late 50s, Johnson entered Gotham Studios in New York City to record a series of radio shows for the U.S. Marine Corps to be aired on Armed Forces Radio and U.S. commercial radio stations. The shows featured pop standards such as "You Go To My Head" and "Just In Time."

 

RECORD DETAILS:- 

UK LONDON HLU 8432      10" 78rpm  (1957)

A SIDE:-    1492

AA SIDE:-  LITTLE WHITE LIES

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TWO GREAT SONGS FROM BETTY JOHNSON

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