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JOHNNY CASH
The Men in Black
Johnny Cash was
born in the small town of Kingsland, Arkansas
On February 26-12
-1932,
Johnny Cash was
writing, Poems, Songs and Stories,
Despite working
other jobs to help his Family,
Johnny Cash had
his heart set on a music creer to this end,
He entered
talented contest and sang any time,
And anywhere
peopple would listen,
When Johnny Cash
graduated from high school in 1950,
And with the
Korean War raging,
He enlisted in
the united States Air Force,
While in the
service,
He formed a club
band The Barbarians,
Which played in
small night clubs near the air base,
When Johnny
Cash's service ended,
Johnny Cash moved
to Memphis,
Where he sold
appliances,
Door to door
while trying to break into the music business.
In 1954,Johnny
Cash auditioned as solo artist ,
For Sam Phillip's
Sun Records,
His hopes were to
record Gospel music,
Sam Phillips
nixed that idea,
Telling Johnny
Cash that was something that wouldn't sell,
The folowing
spring, Cash and the Tennessee,
Two wre in the
studio recording "Hey Porter",
His first release
for Sun Label,
Though an
impressive single, the song failed to chart.
His recording of
"Cry, Cry, Cru" hit the Billboard's Top Twenty,
A long succession
of chart singles followed,
"So Doggone
Lonsome" and Folsom Prison Blues",
Both broke into
the trade publications's Top Ten.
But Johnny's
fourth single proved to be his career song,
"l Walk The
Line", went to Billboard's No 1,
Position and
remained on the charts for 43 weeks,
Selling over two
million copies,
By 1957 had
Johnny Cash racked up an impressive string,
Of hits and was
working more than 200 dates a year,
That same year,
he was invited to perform on the Grand Ole Opry,
The following
year he switched to Columbia Records,
In search of more
freedo,
He still wanted
to make Gospel,
And felt he had a
better chance achieving,
His goal with
another record label.
Throughout the
remainder of the fifties,
And into the
sixties Cash continued ,
To produce
remarkable records and charted consistently,
"Don't Take Your
Guns to Town",
"l God Stripes,
and Ring of Fire",
A fourth Rubin
produced effort, a Gospel album,
Was in the can,
while a new three disc retrospective,
"Love, God,
Murder",
Together with
expanded editions of his two seminal,
"Prison" albums
1968,"At Folsom Prison",
And 1969 "At San
Quentin had shed fresh light on his singular,
Four and a half
decade history,
As a recording
artist and bona fide American icon,
In 1997 was
Johnny Cash received two Grammy nominations,
"Unchained: was
nominated for Album of the Year,
And the song
"Rusty Cage",written by Leonard Cohen,
Was nominated for
Song of the Year.
In March 1998,
with just one finger Johnny Cash was raising,
Eyebrows and
turning heads in the Country music World,
A full page ad in
Billboard magazine showed Cash "Giving the Finger"
With the caption
"American Recordings,
Johnny Cash would
like to acknowledge the Nashville music establishment,
And country radio
for your support,
The ad also
congratulated Johnny Cash for winning ,
A Grammy Award
for Best Country Album Unchained.
Johnny Cash was a
Great man,
"We learned more
from Johnny Cash than you can learn,
From any other
one single person,
Johnny Cash was
our higher education in the music business.
Johnny Cash
died on
September 9-
2003
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