Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1915-06-01
Day of Death
1978-06-12
Place of Birth
Enville, Oklahoma, USA
Johnny Bond
Biography
Cyrus Whitfield Bond (June 1, 1915 – June 12, 1978), known professionally as Johnny Bond, was a popular American country music entertainer of the 1940s through the 1960s. Bond was born in Enville, Oklahoma. He got his first break working for Jimmy Wakely in the late 1930s and went on to join Gene Autry's Melody Ranch in 1940. He also acted on occasion in films including Wilson and Duel in the Sun; and was later a regular on the 1950s Los Angeles 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 at number two. 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.
Filmography (23)
Swing the Western Way
1947
Song of the Wasteland
1947
Duel in the Sun
1946Git Along Little Pony
1944
Kansas City Kitty
1944
Marshal of Gunsmoke
1944
Arizona Trail
1943
The Lone Star Trail
1943
Robin Hood of the Range
1943
Cowboy Commandos
1943
Frontier Law
1943
Raiders of San Joaquin
1943
Cheyenne Roundup
1943
The Old Chisholm Trail
1942
