Here’s the first thing you will notice about Johnny Preston’s “Running Bear”: Johnny Preston’s “Running Bear” is racist as a motherfucker. Now: Johnny Preston probably didn’t think ...

Early in 1960, the two genres combined for Johnny Preston's "Running Bear", the story of the doomed romance of two Red Indians (as they were then known) from rival tribes. The story of Running ...

Here’s the first thing you will notice about Johnny Preston’s “Running Bear”: Johnny Preston’s “Running Bear” is racist as a motherfucker. Now: Johnny Preston probably didn’t think ...

Singer Johnny Preston, whose “Running Bear” was a No. 1 U.S. hit in 1959, died March 4 in Beaumont, Texas. He was 71. Preston had undergone heart bypass surgery late last year and had suffered ...