The Johnny Cash Show
The Johnny Cash Show was an American television music variety show hosted by Johnny Cash. The Screen Gems 58-episode series ran from June 7, 1969 to March 31, 1971 on ABC; it was taped at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee. The show reached No. 17 in the Nielsen ratings in 1970. Cash opened each show, and its regulars included members of his touring troupe, June Carter Cash and the Carter Family, The Statler Brothers, Carl Perkins, and The Tennessee Three, with Australian-born musical director-arranger-conductor Bill Walker. The Statler Brothers performed brief comic interludes. It featured many folk-country musicians, such as Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Linda Ronstadt, Kris Kristofferson, Mickey Newbury, Neil Young, Gordon Lightfoot, Merle Haggard, James Taylor and Tammy Wynette. It also featured other musicians such as jazz great Louis Armstrong, who died eight months after appearing on the show.
Episodes
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Johnny Cash sings "One More Ride", "Hey, Porter", "Orange Blossom Special" & "Sunday Morning Coming Down". Johnny and Ray Charles duet on "I Walk the Line". Liza Minnelli sings "Lazy Bones" & "Stormy Weather". Johnny & Arlo Guthrie duet on "Oklahoma". Johnny and the Carter Family perform "Blistered". Johnny & June Carter Cash duet on "Help Me Make it Through the Night". All join in for "Peace in the Valley".
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Johnny Cash sings "A Boy Named Sue", "Rock Island Line", "Alabama Chattanooga Shoeshine Boy" & "Here Was A Man". Johnny & Jackie DeShannon duet on "This Old House". Johnny & Dennis Hopper duet on "Goin' Up Goin' Down". Johnny does "Drillin'" and "Roughneck" (Come Along and Ride This Train sequence). The Carter Family and Statler Brothers perform "Daddy Was An Old Time Preacher Man".
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Johnny with George Lindsey & June Carter perform "Don't It Make You Want To Go Home". Johnny and Joni Mitchell duet on "Girl From The North County" Johnny sings "Cow Poke", "Someday Soon" and "Southwind". Johnny with the Statler Brothers perform "Everybody Love A Nut". Johnny with the Carter Family perform "Big River" and "Poison Red Berries". Johnny with the Carter Family & Statler Brothers perform "Wings Of A Dove". Johnny & June duet with "The Loving Gift".
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José Feliciano sings "Life is That Way". Johnny Cash sings "Five Feet High and Rising" and "These Hands". Bobby Bare sings "Detroit City". Linda Ronstadt sings "Long, Long Time". Mac Davis sings "A Poem For My Little Lady" and "I Believe In Music". Johnny & Linda Ronstadt duet on "Big Yellow Taxi", "The Old Swimming Hole" and "Water Isn't Water Anymore". Carl Perkins sings "I'll Fly Away". Johnny & June Carter Cash duet on "Keep on the Sunnyside". (Come Along And Ride This Train) "Salute To The Delta Queen", "Country Boy" and "Pickin' Time".
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Johnny sings, "Mama Tried", "Just A Closer Walk With Thee" and "What Is Truth". Peggy Lee sings "For the Good Times". The Guess Who perform "Hand Me Down World".
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Johnny Cash sings "On This Side of the Law", a song from the score he wrote for "I Walk the Line" (an unreleased movie starring Gregory Peck). Johnny & Louis Armstrong duet on "Blue Yodel No. 9". Louis Armstrong performs "Almost Persuaded", "Crystal Chandelier" and "Ramblin' Rose". Johnny & Tennessee Ernie Ford duet on "I'll Have A New Life". Kenny Rogers & the First Edition perform "Heed the Call".
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Johnny Cash sings "On This Side of the Law", "Jambalaya", "Louisiana Man", "Bayou Baby" & "Doin' Time". Johnny and Burl Ives duet on "Don't Go Near The Water" & "Johnny Horizon". Johnny and June Carter Cash perform "Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms". The Carter Family & Statler Brothers perform "Suppertime".
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George Gobel sings "Old Skyball Paint". Johnny sings "Blowin' in the Wind", "Allegheny", "I Got Stripes", "Remember Me" and "Big Midnight Special". Stevie Wonder sings "Heaven Help Us". Ian and Sylvia Tyson perform "Four Strong Winds", "Crazy Arms" and "Long, Long Time to Get Old". Bill Monroe performs "Blue Moon of Kentucky". Anita Carter does "Tulsa County".
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Johnny sings "I Have A Journeyed In This Land My Father Walked" and "Sing A Traveling Song". Johnny with the Carter Family perform "Allegheny". Johnny with Cass Elliott & the Statler Brothers perform "Everybody Loves A Nut". Johnny and Cass Elliott duet on "Act Naturally". Johnny, Lorne Greene and the Carter Family do "Way Out west In the Old Days". Johnny With Maybelle, Sara Carter, Carter Family & Statler Brothers perform "I'll Be Satisfied". Cass Elliott sings "I Saw A Man".
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Glen Campbell sings, "Wichita Lineman". Johnny sings, "Workin' Man Blues" and "Folsom Prison Blues". Johnny & Glen Campbell duet on "Arkansas". Stoneman Family perform "Doin' My Time". Tony Joe White sings, "Conjure Woman".
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Johnny Cash with Homer & Jethro perform "Guess Things". Homer & Jethro perform "Portrait Of A Woman". Johnny, the Carter Family and the Statler Brothers perform "Daddy Sang Bass". Johnny, Merle Haggard and Bonnie Owens sing "Sing Me Back Home". Johnny & Merle Haggard duet on "Mama Tried". Johnny, June Carter Cash, Merle Haggard & Bonnie Owens perform "Swinging Doors". Johnny with the Carter Family, Statler Brothers, Merle Haggard & Bonnie Owens perform "Sing Me Back Home". Johnny sings "Fireball Mail", "Wreck Of The Old 97" and "Casey Jones". Johnny with the Carter ...
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Jackie DeShannon sings "A Thing Called Love". Hank Snow sings "Remember Me". Johnny Cash with the Carter Family, Statler Brothers & Carl Perkins perform "Old Time Religion". Johnny and Al Hirt duet on "I Walk The Line". (Come Along And Ride This Train) Johnny sings "Johnny Reb" (Civil War Theme) and "Ballad Of The Harp Weaver".
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Johnny with the Carter Family & Statler Bros. perform "Twelve Days Of Christmas". Johnny with the Carter Family & Statler Bros. Everly Bros. Ike Everly, Tommy Cash, Mr. & Mrs. Ray Cash & Roy Orbison perform "Do What You Do Do Well". Johnny sings "Little Drummer Boy" & "I Never Picked Cotton". Johnny & June duet on "Turn Around". Entire Cast & Carrie Cash On Piano join in for "Silent Night".
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Eric Andersen sings "Born Again," with the vocal backing of the Carter Family. In his introduction, Johnny Cash explains that Andersen wrote the song specifically for his appearance on this show.
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Gordon Lightfoot sings "When Uncle Bill Quit Dope". Bill Anderson sings "Amazing Grace". Johnny with the Carter Family & Statler Brothers perform "In The Sweet Bye And Bye". Johnny with the Carter Family & Statler Brothers perform "Are We Washed In the Blood Of The Lamb" and "Bringing In The Sheaves". Johnny and Jane Morgan duet on "A Boy Named Sue" and "A Girl Named Cash". Johnny with the Carter Family & Statler Brothers, Jane Morgan, Bill Anderson, Jan Howard, Gordon Lightfoot, and Homer & Jethro join in for "One More Ride".
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Roy Acuff performs "Wabash Cannon Ball". Eddy Arnold sings "You Don't Know Me" & Portrait of My Woman". Carl Perkins sings "Blue Suede Shoes". Marty Robbins sings "The Master's Call". Buck Owens performs "I've Got a Tiger by the Tail" & "Tall Dark stranger". Buck & the Buckaroos do "Train Whistle Blues". Merle Haggard sings "Snow" & "Mule Skinner Blues". Johnny sings "Ring of Fire", "Gone Again" & "The Prisoner's Song". Also includes filmed performances by Patsy Cline, Johnny Horton and Jimmie Rodgers.
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Chet Atkins performs "Windy and Warm". Merle Haggard sings "I Can't Be Myself". Sonny James sings "Endlessly". Gordon Lightfoot performs "If You Could Read My Mind". Bill Monroe sings "Uncle Pen". Webb Pierce does "I Ain't Never". Takahiro Saito does "Folsom Prison Blues". B.J. Thomas sings "I Could Cry". Kitty Wells sings "It Wasn't God Who Make Honky Tonk Angels". Tammy Wynette sings "Stand by Your Man". Minnie Pearl does a comedy routine. Red Foley (on film) performs "Heart of Stone". Faron Young sings "Goin' Steady". Johnny Cash sings "Old-time Religion" & "The ...
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"Captain Campbell's Medicine Show" barrels into town with songs, dances and remedies for every ailment; the students of "Dear old Jaspar High" raise a ruckus at a year-end bash; the farmer's daughter-traveling salesman joke gets another go-round.
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James Taylor sings "Sweet Baby James", "Fire and Rain" and "Country Road". Johnny Cash sings "A Boy Named Sue", "One Too Many Mornings" and "A Man in Black". Linda Ronstadt sings "A Very Lovely Woman". Neil Young sings "Needle and the Damage Done" and "A Journey Through the Past". The Dillards perform "I'll Fly Away" and "St. Peter is Going to Put Me Up". Tony Joe White sings "Daddy, Travelin' Bone". June Carter Cash sings "He's a Good Man".
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Johnny sings "The Preacher Said". Mahalia Jackson sings "Amazing Grace". Edwin Hawkins Singers perform "My Father's House". Staple Singers perform "More Than a Hammer and a Nail". Blackwood Brothers perform "Old Country Church". Oakridge Boys perform "I Know". Stuart Hamblin sings "This Old House". Johnny & June duet with "The Nazarene, "Water into Wine" and "The Wailing Wall". All join in for "Old Time Religion" and "When the Saints Go Marching In".
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Circus For Children Of All Ages. Johnny sings "The Very Biggest Circus Of Them All", "Old Shep", "Big Rock Candy Mountain" and "Boa Constrictor". Johnny with Carter Family perform "Jesus Loves Me". Johnny with Carter Family & Statler Bros. perform "I'll Fly Away".
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Johnny sings "Man In Black", "Ballad Of John Henry" and "These Men With Broken Hearts". Johnny & June duet on "You'll Be All Right" and "It Ain't Me Babe". Johnny with the Carter Family & Statler Bros. perform "I'll Fly Away".
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Johnny sings "Folsom Prison Blues", "If Not For Love (I Could Be One Of These)" and "Singing In Viet Nam Talking Blues". Johnny with the Carter Family & Statler Bros. perform "June Makes The Flowers Grow". Johnny with the Carter Family & Statler Bros. perform "Belshazah".
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Johnny sings "I Walk The Line" & "Sunday Morning Coming Down". Johnny & June duet on "Darlin Companion", "If I Were A Carpenter" and "Jackson". Merle Travis performs "Sing Sing Sing".
