Johnny Sea

4 records in the archive · 1966

About the artist

Johnny Sea (born John Allan Seay Jr., July 15, 1940, Gulfport, Mississippi; raised in Atlanta) was a country singer who debuted on the Louisiana Hayride in Shreveport. He scored a Top 20 hit with "Frankie's Man Johnny" (1959) and a Top 20 remake of Jimmie Davis's 1937 classic (1960), followed by "My Old Faded Rose" (1965, co-written by June Carter and Johnny Cash). His best-known record, the spoken-word single "Day For Decision" (Warner Bros. W1659, 1966, written by Allen Peltier), reached No. 14 country and became a pop Top 40/Grammy-nominated hit, widely characterized as a patriotic answer…

Records

  1. Johnny Sea – Day for Decision (1966)
  2. Johnny Sea – Generation (1966)
  3. Johnny Sea – The Turning Point (1966)
  4. Johnny Sea – When Johnny Comes Marching Home (1966)

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