Johnny Crawford Best of Johnny Crawford Genres:Pop, Rock, Broadway & Vocalists During the early Sixties, Johnny Crawford (ex-original Mousketeer/TV 'Rifleman' co-star and bona fide teen idol) had more Billboard Hot 100 charting hits than any other Del-Fi recording artist at the time, including 'Da... more »ydreams,' 'Cindy's Birthday,' 'Patti Ann,' 'Rumors,' and 'Proud,' to name a few. Del-Fi Records.« less
During the early Sixties, Johnny Crawford (ex-original Mousketeer/TV 'Rifleman' co-star and bona fide teen idol) had more Billboard Hot 100 charting hits than any other Del-Fi recording artist at the time, including 'Daydreams,' 'Cindy's Birthday,' 'Patti Ann,' 'Rumors,' and 'Proud,' to name a few. Del-Fi Records.
"Johnny permenently gave up singing pop when he went in the army in 1964, but he's still going strong in the music business today performing 20's and 30's big band era music with his own 16 piece orchastra and the crowds love him as much as ever. http://www.johnnycrawford.com"
Good Stuff
Mike Shaw | London, Ontario Canada | 04/27/2005
(5 out of 5 stars)
"I don't know about the USA, but here in Canada, we do not hear enough Johnny Crawford on the oldies stations. His voice and the types of songs he recorded in the 60s are part of a style of music that really made people feel good. I recommend this CD both for the great music and the memories it will bring to all those folks who grew up watching Johnny on TV and listening to him on the radio... It is five stars all the way.
Mike Shaw"
Today is Johnny's birthday.
Johnny Heering | Bethel, CT United States | 03/26/2006
(3 out of 5 stars)
"Back in 1961, Johnny Crawford appeared on the TV show The Rifleman, playing the son of Chuck Conners. He was a good looking kid who was popular with girls, so LA based independent record label Del-Fi decided to turn him into a singing teen idol. Fortunately, it turned out that he had a pleasant light tenor voice. He went on to become the most successful recording artist that Del-Fi had. He placed eight singles on the Hot 100, including one Top 10 and two Top 20s. His records were all of the teenage pop variety, mostly ballads that didn't rock too hard. Most of them are pretty enjoyable. The first eight songs on this CD are his eight chart singles, in order of how big a hit they were. Then there are 16 other songs, which consist of b-sides, album tracks and flop singles. This is more Johnny Crawford than most people will want to listen to, but it's better too have too many songs than not enough songs."
Another Mouseketeer Who Could Hold A Tune
08/01/2007
(4 out of 5 stars)
"Of the various young early 1960's TV/movie stars pushed into recording studios by executive suits seeking utmost publicity [Shelley Fabares, Paul Petersen, Patty Duke, Annette, and Hayley Mills were some of the others], Johnny Crawford was one of the better ones.
Between his first, Daydreams [# 70 Billboard Hot 100 in June 1961], and his last, Judy Loves Me [# 95 in January 1964] he had six other chsrters: Patti Ann [# 43 in March 1962]; Cindy's Birthday [# 8 and his best hit in June 1962]; Your Nose Is Gonna Grow [# 14 in September 1962 b/w Mr. Blue]; Rumors [# 2 Adult Contemporary/# 12 Billboard Hot 100 in December 1962 b/w No One Really Loves A Clown]; Proud [# 25 in February 1963 b/w Lonesome Town]; and Cindy's Gonna Cry [# 72 in September 1963 b/w Debbie].
Beside each the title on the back of the disc is shown the single Del-Fi label number or LP number from which the song was culled, although they do not show chart performances. There is also another nice shot of Johnny with the liner notes [two pages of text which DO show the highest position attained for each selection].
To many such as Rolling Stone and Irwin Ambler, Johnny Crawford was the epitomy of cloying, high-school soda-pop fluff, but hey, he was only doing what he was told to do and you can't ignore his considerable success over three years.
From the perspective of a completist collector of hit singles this fails to achieve 5 stars only because Ace left off four flipsides - So Goes The Story, Donna, and Something Special which backed his first three hits, and Living In The Past which was the B-side of his last charter.
Even so, one of the better such compilations available."