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Johnny Cash Biography
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He has recorded more than 1,500 songs and they can be found on about 500 albums, counting only American and European releases.
More of his albums (45) remain in print today than most artists ever make.
He is the youngest person ever chosen for the Country Music Hall of Fame and the only person ever selected for the Country and Rock Music Hall of Fame, until this 1998, when Elvis Presley was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.
He has placed 48 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 Pop charts, about the same number as the Rolling Stones and the Beach Boys.
He has tallied more Pop hit singles than Barbra Streisand, Michael Jackson (including his Jackson 5 hits), the Four Seasons, David Bowie, the Supremes, Elton John, Billy Joel, Kenny Rogers, the combined totals of Art Garfunkel, Paul Simon and Simon & Garfunkel, Martin Gaye, B.B. King, Roy Orbison, Kool & the Gang, Linda Ronstadt. Diana Ross, the combined total of all of the Osmond Family, Jerry Lee Lewis and the combined total of Lionel Richie and the Commodores.
He has won 11 Grammies, the most recent include the 1999 Lifetime Achievement Award and the 2002 shared Grammy for Best Country Album. Two of his Grammys came for writing liner notes, for his At Folsom Prison album and Bob Dylan's Nashville Skyline record.
Cash's 1987 Grammy came through his participation in The Class Of '55 recordings with the late Roy Orbison, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis. The project represented a rebirth of "The Million Dollar Quartet" recordings featuring Cash, Perkins, Lewis and the late Elvis Presley and, interestingly enough, it predated Orbison's participation in The Traveling Wilburys.
He has had chart success as a solo artists, as part of a duet, as the leader of a trio, and as a part of the award-winning Highwayman quartet.
Long before the term "concept album" was coined, Cash created such thematically unified albums Ride This Train (1960), Blood, Seat, & Tears (1963), Bitter Tears (1964). and Johnny Cash Sings Ballads Of The True West (1965).
People forget just how hot Johnny Cash was, when his sales career was at its zenith. In the fall of 1969, Johnny Cash was the hottest act in the world, selling around 250,000 albums per month of his Folsom Prison and San Quinten albums. At that time, he was even outselling the Beatles.
As Rich Kinezie observed it Country Music magazine 10 years ago, Cash "strengthened the bonds between folk and country music so that both sides saw their similarities as well as their differences. He helped to liberalize Nashville so that it could accept the unconventional and the controversial and he did as much as anyone to make the 'outlaw' phenomenon possible."
As host of The Johnny Cash Show on ABC-TV (1969-1971), he served up 60 hours of prime-time TV, which featured performers like Bob Dylan, Stevie Wonder, Linda Ronstadt, Ray Charles, Neil Young, James Taylor, Neil Diamond, Joni Mitchell, Gordon Lightfoot, Kenny Rogers, Roy Orbison, Hank Williams Jr., Dennis Hopper, Judy Collins, Charley Pride, the Oak Ridge Boys, Patti Page and Merle Haggard, most rarely seen on TV back then.
His 1975 autobiography Man in Black has so far sold around 1.5 million copies, about 300,000 in hardcover.
He is one of the very few people in the history of music to sell more than 50 million records.
He has placed at least two singles on the Country charts for 38 consecutive years, including an amazing 25 hits between 1958 and 1960.
He produced and co-scripted a movie about the life of Jesus, Gospel Road, and filmed it in Israel. The film was distributed by Billy Graham's organization and is still in great demand today.
He has starred in four additional theatrical films including one of the last great westerns, A Gunfight, with Kirk Douglas. In addition, he has been a featured star in seven TV movies including The Pride Of Jessee Hallam, a hard-hitting, poignant story of one man's struggle against illiteracy. The show has proven to be a valuable tool in the battle against illiteracy.
He has posted over 130 hits on the Billboard Country singles chart, more than anyone in history, except George Jones. (Discounting duets by both men, Cash's total exceeds Jones.)
• He has won over two dozen songwriting awards from BMI; two of his songs, Folsom Prison Blues and I Walk The Line have earned million-performance citations from BMI.
Over a hundred acts have recorded Cash's I Walk The Line.
He has toured extensively for 38 years on a scope far beyond the normal tour bus routine of U.S. honky-tonks, state fairs, and showrooms. Hundreds of thousands of fans in Japan, Australia, New Zealand and throughout Europe have seen The Johnny Cash Show. He has toured in Vietnam and throughout the U.S. State Department, he has appeared in concert in many Eastern European nations such as Hungary, Poland and Czechoslovakia.
He has fathered four daughters (Rosanne, Tara, Cindy and Kathy) and a son (John Carter), all of whom have performed with him at one time or another. In addition, Rosanne has become our of country music's top singer-songwriters.
Cash's influence on younger musicians in the Rock/Pop field is as strong a it was in the 60's: A group of European musicians last year released Til Things Get Brighter, an album 100% composed of Johnny Cash covers by such acts as Michelle Shocked and Marc Almond. In addition, fresh recordings of Cash classics like I Still Miss Someone and Big River have recently been made by Stevie Nicks and the Beat Farmers. He is a featured guest soloist on U-2's album ZOOROPA.
His last three albums earned him Grammy Awards:American Recordings Best Folk Album 1994; Unchained - Best Country Album 1998 and Solitary Man - Best Country Male Vocal Performance 2000. Cash received the most coveted of Grammy award for Lifetime Achievment in 1999.
Cash was honored with a Kennedy Center Award in December of 1996.
Despite country music stations refusing to play his newer music, Cash and American Recordings were honored with Country Music Television-Europe's #7 Video of the Year for Rusty Cage, and Playboy Magazine honored Cash with the 1998 Music Poll Winner "Hall of Fame" Award. |
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Racisim | Reviewer: E. victor | 5/30/2008You white people are no better than the blacks or the mexican Telling the blacks to go back to africa. Is like telling the mexicans or you the whites to go back to europe. Because this is Native american land not the whites or the blacks or the mexicans
Stupid people | Reviewer: Toshia | 4/17/2008
You guys are stupid for thinking that Cash was a racist. I may only be 16, but my view on him is way more accurate and mature than any of yours who may think he was a racist critic. He never stepped into the country business to be a racist, he became who he was because he loved playing music and wanted to finally show the world the truth beyond the lies and grief that anyone else was showing them. He was a successful man who set the point across straight when it came to the reality of this tarnished world. Johnny was a good man. Not a racist!
RE: nine inch boils | Reviewer: Anonymous | 4/17/2008
every one is racist, so don't try to pin Johnny Cash, and that one song is the truth, if things are sooooooo bad in America send the blacks back to africa, with the starvation, drought, inner city gangfights between warlords, rampant AIDS Syphulus smallpox Ebola and Yellow fever, yeah lets send them back. heres some advice, shut the hell up and leave a dead man alone.
If you are then you are | Reviewer: Anonymous | 1/22/2008
i don't care if the guy is a racist but i sure do know one thing for sure he can sing and one song that i listen to the most is hurt' this song is great it almost makes you don't care about the damn racism he did or whatever, everything happens for a reason if he was or still is a racist its because he chose to be or tought that way theres nothing to it everyone has their opinon on other people and how they look HELL i'm black and i like the guy even if he is a racist, i'm very optimistic about everyone i have no hate for anybody except not to like them if they hate me theres nothing to it.
doesn't matter | Reviewer: Victor | 1/21/2008
racist or not, he still sang very good and had alot of good things to say. he felt bad for the poor and was a very religious man which many artists now cant say. i dont care that he had those views, which i dont agree with, i still think he was one hell of a man.
doesn't matter | Reviewer: Victor | 1/21/2008
Johnny Cash didn't write that song or sing it. it was Odis and the 3 Bigots, which sound an awful lot like him. Johnny was a good man, dont let false information tarnish his name.
The racist who calls Johnny Cash a racist. | Reviewer: Anonymous | 1/11/2008
This garbage is a dam lie. Johnny Cash has never been a racist. I saw him many times on the Ed sullivan show and he never sang about this crap. According to your article you can't even spell the word correctly. Get your facts right before telling your lies.Black people loved Johnny Cash.I think your the racist.
What? | Reviewer: sean | 1/2/2008
Look at an artist like John Lennon, who was all about love and piece during our country’s time of social turmoil. That’s true talent and intelligence…. Now Racism….. That’s equal to stupidity because in the end we’re all human. Cash may have been an excellent artist, but he had a terrible view of the world. And his "view" of the world is portrayed in his music... So how can any intelligent person love and respect his music without loving and respecting an ignorant racist.
Yes, he was racist, it's not deniable, stop trying | Reviewer: Nine Inch Boils | 12/29/2007
Umm, for those who keep saying "Johnny ain't never done nothing racist (sic)" what about the "ship 'dem niggers back" song. That was racist. Oh, you say, "That ain't no real Johnny." Well, he still 'done' sung that song, and it's still a damned racist tune, so that's pretty much that. Did he become more tolerant later in life, maybe, I don't know him, I can't say one way or the other, but I can say, pretty confidently, that at one point in his life, he was very racist, so, fans and non-fans alike, please stop saying he wasn't.
Re: Johnny Cash forever!!!!!!!! | Reviewer: Christy | 9/9/2007 | Reviewer: Alan Mickleson | 12/29/2007
"Why is it that people who has families let their children listen to Johnny."
I don't know... maybe the same reason they done fails ingalish class. Why is that people who has like on of Johnny Cash always goes saying 'has' when they done prob'ly means 'have' and vice versa (that is to say topsy turvy in hickspeak).
But to answer the point of your garbled question, maybe they just don't think. People used to let their children listen to Franco... people still let their children listen to Castro. Therefore, I guess, Fidel is also a great man and you should love him too. Embargo over. People let their children listen to a lot of idiots, (at least 95% of professional atheletes and actors are idiots) especially when the parents are idiots, too. Your statement means nothing, and your poor grammar only serves to undermine the poor logic you based it on.
btw, "If he did not like people then why would someone want to go to a prison where there was people who are murder's, rapest, and so forth?" Even if you hadn't butchered the word 'rapist' and inexplicably applied the possessive "'s" to murder (presumably, murderers?), that's still among the stupidest things I've ever heard.
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