Johnny Horton is a member of both the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame and the Rockabilly Hall of Fame. Once a gold prospector in Alaska, Horton released this song in 1959 and it became his first number 1 hit.
Temperament that it hits on: Melancholic
When It's Springtime In Alaska hits on my melancholic because it is very slow and full of very powerful emotion.
That the narrator was killed at the end of the song was a shocker to me. The song was definitely not going that direction, I figured, when Big Ed got aggressive. Because it has such a quick and dramatic change, I once considered rating this song partly sanguine.
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