S01E01 Episode 1
Johnny Cash sings 'Folsom Prison Blues', 'The Wall', 'Greystone Chapel' & 'It Ain't Me, Babe' (with June Carter Cash). Bob Dylan sings 'I Threw it All Away' and 'Livin' the Blues'; Joni Mitchell sings 'Both...
The Johnny Cash Show
S01E08: Episode 8
O.C. Smith sings, 'Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay'. Johnny Cash sings, 'Big River', 'Country Boy', 'What Do I Care?', 'Freight Train Blues' and 'One More Ride'. Merle Haggard sings 'I'm a Lonesome Fugitive'. Merrilee Rush sings 'Everyday Livin' Days'. Johnny & Merle duet on 'Sing Me Back Home'. Carl Perkins sings 'Restless'. Bruce & David sing 'Shy Girl'. Johnny & June Carter Cash duet on 'Long-Legged Guitar Man'. All join in with 'Walk With Your Neighbor'.
Overview
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
S01E02 Episode 2
Johnny Cash sings 'Hey Porter', 'Wreck of the Old 97', 'I've Got a Thing About Trains' and 'Wabash Cannonball'. Johnny & Gordon Lightfoot duet on 'For Lovin' Me'. Johnny, Dan Blocker & Joey Scarborough perform...
S01E03 Episode 3
Johnny Cash sings 'Rock Island Line', 'Cry, Cry, Cry', 'I Tremble For You, Darling Companion' (with June Carter Cash) and 'Wanted Man' (written by Johnny and Bob Dylan); Eddie Albert sings 'Green, Green Grass of...
S01E04 Episode 4
Johnny Cash sings 'I Guess Things Happen That Way', 'Loading Coal', 'Dark as a Dungeon', 'Cocaine Blues', 'Blistered', 'Ballad of a Teenaged Queen' and 'You Beat All I Ever Saw'. Johnny & Buffy Sainte-Marie duet...
S01E05 Episode 5
Johnny Cash sings 'Folsom Prison Blues', 'Ballad of John Henry'. Johnny & Jeannie C. Riley duet on 'Bad News'. Glen Campbell & Johnny do a medley of 'I've Been Everywhere', 'By the Time I Get...
S01E06 Episode 6
Johnny Cash sings 'Ring of Fire', 'Frankie and Johnny', 'Sing it Pretty', 'Sue', 'Johnny Yuma', 'As Long as the Grass Shall Grow', 'Ballad of Ira Hayes'. Ed Ames sings 'The Windmills of Your Mind'. Johnny...
S01E07 Episode 7
Johnny Cash sings 'Doing My Time', 'I'd Be Fool Enough to Try' & 'Billy Christian'. Dale Robertson sings 'Gentle on My Mind'. Johnny & Dale duet on 'The Wayward Wind'. Marty Robbins sings 'Devil Woman'....
S01E08 Episode 8
O.C. Smith sings, 'Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay'. Johnny Cash sings, 'Big River', 'Country Boy', 'What Do I Care?', 'Freight Train Blues' and 'One More Ride'. Merle Haggard sings 'I'm a Lonesome Fugitive'....
S01E09 Episode 9
Diana Trask sings 'Understand Your Man'. Johnny Cash & Diana duet on 'The Last Thing on My Mind'. Johnny Sings 'I Ride An Old Paint', 'Mean As Hell' and 'Shifting Whispering Sands'. Johnny and Pat...
S01E10 Episode 10
O.C. Smith sings 'Friend, Lover, Woman, Wife'. O.C. & O.C. Jr. sing 'For Once In My Life'. Johnny, O.C. & O.C. Jr. perform 'Hickory Holler's Tramp'. Johnny sings 'Remember the Alamo', 'Strangest Dreams', 'The Big...
S01E11 Episode 11
The episode opens with Johnny Cash singing 'Three Feet High and Rising'; Then Lulu sings 'Morning Dew' and duets with Cash on 'Games People Play'; Fannie Flagg sings 'You've Changed'; The 'Ride This Train' segment...
S01E12 Episode 12
Roger Miller sings 'I Got Stripes'. Johnny Cash duets with Odetta on 'Shame And Scandal On The Family'. Johnny sings 'Ballad Of The Blue And Gray', 'On The Line', 'Lornea' and 'Johnny Reb'. Johnny duets...
S01E13 Episode 13
Johnny Cash sings "Five Feet High And Rising", "Busted" and "A Boy Named Sue". Johnny & Charley Pride do a medley with "I Can't Help It", "Your Cheating Heart" and "Kaw-Liga". Ian Tyson & Sylvia...
S01E14 Episode 14
Cass Elliott sings "Soft and Tenderly" and a medley of "Gentle On My Mind", "Born to Lose" & "Release Me". Johnny Cash sings "Going to Memphis", "Don't Take Your Guns to Town", "Hardin Wouldn't Run",...
S01E15 Episode 15
Johnny Cash sings "Folsom Prison Blues", "You're the One I Need", "I Walk the Line" & "This Land is Your Land". Roy Orbison sings "Cryin'". Johnny & Roy duet on "Pretty Woman". Creedence Clearwater Revival...
S01E16 Episode 16
Johnny sings "Folsom Prison Blues", "Ring of Fire", "If I Were a Carpenter" (with June). Arlo Guthrie sings "Highway in the Wind" & "Come on Little Children". Jose Feliciano performs "Muleskinner Blues". Bobbie Gentry sings...
S01E17 Episode 17
Johnny Cash sings "Country Boy", "Five Feet High and Rising", "The Prisoner's Song", "Peace in the Valley" and "Daddy Sang Bass". Glen Campbell sings "Sweet Country Girl". Marty Robbins sings "El Paso", "Running Gun" and...
S01E18 Episode 18
Johnny Cash sings "The Talking Leaves", "Trail of Tears", "South Wind", "I Still Miss Someone" and "Folsom Prison Blues". Dusty Springfield sings "Understand Your Man" & "Sugar Time". Johnny & Kirk Douglas duet on "I...
S01E19 Episode 19
Johnny Cash sings "I Got Stripes", "He Turned the Water into Wine", "Flesh and Blood" and "Rock Island Line". Ray Charles sings "I Can't Stop Loving You" and "Them That Got". Neil Diamond sings "Brother...
S01E20 Episode 20
Vikki Carr performs "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down" from "Nashville by Carr" (1970) LP.
S01E21 Episode 21
Johnny sings, "Hey, Porter", "Jesus Was A Carpenter" and "Big River". Mama Cass sings, "New World Coming". Kenny Rogers and the First Edition perform "Something's Burning".
S01E22 Episode 22
Johnny Cash sings "A Boy Named Sue", "The Devil To Pay", "Church In The Wildwood" & "Old Country Church". Johnny and the Carter Family & Statler Brothers sing "Preachin', Prayin', Singin'". Brenda Lee sings "Ballad...
S01E23 Episode 23
Johnny sings, "The One on the Right is on the Left". O.C. Smith sings, "Son of Hickory Holler's Tramp" and "Moody". Hank Williams Jr. sings, "I Walked Out on Heaven". Johnny and June duet on...
S01E24 Episode 24
Johnny sings, "Lumberjack", "Timberman" and "Paul". George Gobel sings, "Sweethearts or Strangers". Merle Haggard sings, "The Fightin' Side of Me". Jeannie C. Riley sings, "Country Girl". Tommy sings, "Six White Horses".
S01E25 Episode 25
Waylon Jennings sings, "I Guess Things Happin That Way" & "Bad News". Johnny Cash duets with Jackie DeShannon on "No Light Will Shine On Me". Johnny & Waylon duet on "Waylon's Back In Town". Johnny...
S01E26 Episode 26
Johnny Cash sings "Rock Island Line", "Long Black Veil", "I Got Stripes", "Walk With Your Neighbor" and "Six Days on the Road". Kenny Rogers and the First Edition perform "When I'm On My Journey", "Reuben...
S01E27 Episode 27
Johnny sings "Sunday Morning Coming Down", "Six Days On the Road", "There Ain't No Easy Run", "Sailor On a Concerte Sea" & "Country Boy". Johnny does a medley With Patti Page of "Elusive Dreams", "Cross...
S01E28 Episode 28
Johnny Cash sings "Frankie's Man Johnny", "Po' Folks", "Wrinkled, Crinkled, Wadded Dollar Bill" and "What Is Truth". George Jones sings "White Trash" and "Pickin' Time". Bobby Goldsboro sings "Blue Moon Of Kentucky". Johnny duets with...
S01E29 Episode 29
Johnny Cash duets with June Carter Cash on "South Wind". Johnny duets with Lynn Anderson on "I've Been Everywhere". Johnny sings "Goin' To Memphis", "Doin' My Time" & "Another Man Done Gone". Johnny does a...
S01E30 Episode 30
Johnny Cash sings "Delia", "Black Wind", "California Cotton Fields" & "In the Jailhouse". Chet Atkins does a medley of "Back Home in Indiana", "Country Gentleman", "Mister Sandman", "Wildwood Flower" & "Freight Train". Ricky Nelson performs...
S01E31 Episode 31
Johnny Cash sings "Life is Like a Mountain Railway", "One More Ride", "As Long as the Grass Shall Grow", "Ira Hayes" and "Wreck of the Number Nine". Merle Haggard sings "New York City Blues" and...
S01E32 Episode 32
Johnny Cash and his mother Carrie Cash duet on "Uncloudy Day". Johnny sings "Walk the Line", "Cry, Cry, Cry" and "Keep on the Sunny Side". Tex Ritter sings "Wayward Wind" and "Boll Weevil". Roy Acuff...
Cast
Johnny Cash
Self - Host
June Carter Cash
Self
