Monday Music "Sink the Bismark" by Johnny Horton

  I have blogged about the Bismark more than once and the effect that the ship had on the German psyche and the British, especially when Bismark sunk the Hood.  HMS Hood was a prewar battlecruiser that was the pride of the British fleet and was sunk in a 15 minute battle with the Bismark with 3 people that survived the Hood sinking. 

"Sink the Bismark" (later "Sink the Bismarck") is a march song by 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. As originally released, the record label used the common misspelling "Bismark"; this error was corrected for later releases of the song. It was inspired by the 1960 British war movie Sink the Bismarck! and was in fact (with the producer John Brabourne's approval) commissioned from Johnny Horton by 20th Century Fox who were worried about the subject's relative obscurity. While the song was used in U.S. theater trailers for the film, it was not used in the film itself.