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As of January 1, 2012 Titanic Johnson is now TJ ROX!

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Scheduled Performances

Hermosa Saloon Friday December 9th 2011 at 9 pm

Sully's in Torrance Saturday December 17th 2011 at 9 pm

Godmother's in San Pedro New Year's Eve Party Saturday December 31st 2011 at 9 pm

Sully's in Torrance Friday January 27th 2012 at 9 pm

The Crest in Torrance January 28th 2012 at 9pm

Zina's in Torrance February 3rd 2012 at 9pm

Breakwall (Kill Kenny's) Sat. February 4th 2012 in Redondo Beach

The Crest in Torrance Friday February 17th 2012 at 9pm

Godmother's in San Pedro Saturday February 18th 2012 at 9pm

Hermosa Saloon Saturday February 25th 2012 at 9 pm

About The Band

This 5 piece band is dedicated to making music for everyone and having a real good time doing it. Utilizing the groups years of playing together they present a unique, solid, energetic package to Rock The House. The corner stone of the group is its' huge soul tinged vocal harmonies, meshed with gun slinging type lead guitar, sonic keyboards, well rounded out and held together with a dynamic duo on percussion & bass. The "play anything band" can jam on the hardest or easiest listening rock, then glide right on through with plenty of soul and R&B. All pulled from the 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's & well into the 2000's.

They are the "Real All Around Dance Band" Named after one of the few male survivors of the ocean going vessel, who worked in the shipyards and lived in the Los Angeles / Long Beach Harbor area where the Band hails from. They choose to honor the man as a person who persevered (and lived into his 90s) and ROCKED ON!

Contact And Booking Info.

Booking the band email us: titanicjohnson@yahoo.com

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Naming The Band

Johan Cervin Svensson, age 14, was born March 5, 1898, son of Sven Peter Johansson and Elisabeth Jönsdotter of Knäred, Halland, Sweden. Johan's father and elder sister Jenny had gone to South Dakota in 1911 with the remainder of the family (sister Anna, and brothers Johan Rudolf, Leonard, Reinhold, and Gösta) planning to follow. His father sent for Johan, so he took the train from Knäred to Gothenburg, Sweden, then a small boat to Hull, England. He boarded the Titanic in Southampton, England as a third class passenger. As the ship was sinking on that fateful night, he was awakened by a knock on the door of the cabin that he shared with three other Swedes. Everyone was yelling, but he didn't understand English. Once he saw everyone donning lifejackets, he supposed he had better get one on, too. He jumped 10 or 20 feet down into on Lifeboat Number 13 at approximately 2:10 a.m. The Titanic fully sank about 10 minutes later. Lifeboat 13 arrived at the rescuing ship Carpathia in the early morning of April 15, 1912.

When he arrived in South Dakota he changed his name to John C. Johnson and worked as a farmhand. The man known as "Titanic" Johnson later moved to California where he worked as a ship welder for a marine construction company based in the Long Beach harbor, not far from the Queen Mary. He and his wife Hazel G. (Lindley) lived in a simple one story house on the corner of Termino Avenue and Stearns Street in Long Beach, not far from the infamous Long Beach Traffic Circle.

He died there on July 4, 1981. He and his wife are now buried side by side on a slight slope in the beautiful Rose Hills cemetery near Whittier, California, which is about 20 miles north of Long Beach. His gravemarker mentions that he was a Titanic survivor.

Johan's daughter, Joy Johnson said that her father always wondered "Why was I saved when so many others were lost?" and suffered nightmares for the remainder of his life.

There were 164 Swedish passengers on the Titanic; only 44 of them survived.

More articles on Johan Cervin Svensson can be found here:

Encyclopedia-Titanica: Passenger Biographies- Johan Cervin Svensson

Encyclopedia-Titanica: Document Archive- SD Man survived Titanic's plunge

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