Johnny Bond

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 Autrys 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 COD 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 Bonds 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