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"Sink the Bismark" (later "Sink the Bismarck") is a march song by American country music singer Johnny Horton and songwriter Tillman Franks, based on the pursuit and eventual sinking of the German battleship Bismarck in May 1941, during World War II. Horton released this song through Columbia Records in 1960, when it reached #3 on the charts ...
The song was awarded the Grammy Hall of Fame Award and in 2001 ranked No. 333 of the Recording Industry Association of America's "Songs of the Century". Horton had two other successes in 1960 with "Sink the Bismarck" and "North to Alaska" for John Wayne's movie, North to Alaska. [1]
Sink the Bismarck! was the inspiration for Johnny Horton's highly popular 1960 song, "Sink the Bismarck", [8] credited by Variety with boosting the film's American gross alone by an estimated half a million dollars. [9] The film had its Royal World Premiere in the presence of the Duke of Edinburgh at the Odeon Leicester Square on 11 February 1960.
Sink the Bismarck!, a 1960 film based on C. S. Forester's book The Last Nine Days of the Bismarck "Sink the Bismarck", a 1960 song by Johnny Horton inspired by the film of the same name. Computer Bismarck, a 1980 computer game that simulates the battle.
Horton sang other tie-in songs, the most famous being the song for Fox's Sink the Bismarck!. Horton had previously topped the country charts with his song "When It's Springtime in Alaska" in 1959 and with his monster hit of the same year, The Battle of New Orleans.
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The Bismarck was a battleship of the German navy during World War II, named after Otto von Bismarck. Sink the Bismarck!, a 1960 war film about the sinking of the Bismarck starring Kenneth More and Dana Wynter "Sink the Bismark", a 1960 Johnny Horton song inspired by the movie
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