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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. ==Biography== 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, sometimes performing with his Red River Valley Boys. 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 No. 2. 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 stroke in 1978, at the age of 63. Bond was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1999, and to the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. His song "Stars of the Midnight Range" was later featured in the role-playing video game, ''Fallout: New Vegas''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Johnny Bond」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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