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Best of The Johnny Cash Show
I was really looking forward to this one, in fact I went out and bought it (gasp!) which is why it pains me to say that this collection is not what I expected. The Johnny Cash Show (1968-1971) on DVD is encased in a heavy handed documentary format with numerous interviews with show participants like the show's hairdresser, a member of the Tennessee Three, and Hank Williams, Jr. Kris Kristofferson hosts and it's narrated by that guy who does all those PBS documentaries (Peter Coyote). The production overall expends way too much time burnishing Johnny Cash's image, as is done when a superstar dies. Like making it a point to declare that the legendary singer was not conservative or liberal, he was apolitical. With endless platitudes like, "the man for whom family was everything," they could easily be talking about Walt Disney or Abraham Lincoln. While there's no questioning his impact on American music, his extramarital affairs and drug use in the 1970s & 1980s makes statements like that ring somewhat false. The interviews and show history are interesting enough but, except when musical director Bill Walker is on screen, the documentary is (I assume) deliberately vague on details. For instance, Johnny Cash looks buzzed in some of the clips but that is completely ignored. Everything was roses and lollipops on the Johnny Cash Show, if this production is taken at face value. And too much time is given over to lionizing John Carter Cash, Johnny and June's only child who is seen as an infant on the show and featured prominently in the commentaries. No surprise he's one of the producers of the DVD. That said, aside from the commentaries, this is one of my favorite DVD collections of all time. There are many phenomenal musical performances to be found on these 2 discs, they just aren't as easy to access as they should be. There's no 'Play All Music' feature so tunes must be selected one at a time. The second disc has fewer commentaries (until the end), just wall to wall music, as it should be. Besides electrifying performances by Johnny Cash there are musical numbers from seminal artists like Bob Dylan (who appeared on Cash's first episode), Conway Twitty, Mother Maybelle Carter, George Jones, Pete Seeger, Bill Monroe And His Blue Grass Boys, Jerry Lee Lewis, Loretta Lynn and so many more. Here's the line-up of songs: DISC 2: Johnny Cash - I Walk The Line I really shouldn't complain given the outstanding musical numbers contained
between these covers, this program captured luminaries like Neil Young,
James Taylor, Derek And The Don't miss this highly entertaining if flawed DVD collection from The Johnny Cash Show, there's also a single-disc CD version available.
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also a less expensive 1 disc version with these songs:Johnny Cash - I Walk The Line Johnny Cash - Hey Porter Bob Dylan - I Threw It All Away George Jones - Medley (White Lightning with Johnny Cash, She Thinks I Still Care, Love Bug, The Race Is On) Neil Young - The Needle And The Damage Done Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bad Moon Rising Loretta Lynn - I Know How Kris Kristofferson - Loving Her Was Easier (Than Anything I'll Ever Do Again) Johnny Cash, The Carter Family, The Statler Brothers, Carl Perkins and The Tennessee Three - Daddy Sang Bass Ray Charles - Ring Of Fire Johnny Cash - Sunday Morning Coming Down Carl Perkins - Blue Suede Shoes Joni Mitchell and Johnny Cash - The Long Black Veil Waylon Jennings - Brown Eyed Handsome Man Tammy Wynette - Stand By Your Man Roy Orbison - Crying Region: All Regions Los Angeles, CA – Shout! Factory is delighted to bring you holiday cheer with the October 7, 2008 release of the 4-DVD box set The Johnny Cash Christmas Specials 1976-1979, as well as single DVD releases of The Johnny Cash Christmas Special 1978 and 1979. The Christmas Specials of 1976 and 1977 were released in 2007. The footage on these DVDs has been unseen for 30 years, and is being made available through an exclusive agreement between Shout! Factory and the Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum. For his 1978 Christmas special, the third in as many years, Cash moved the usually Tennessee-based taping to Los Angeles, and, unsurprisingly, the program takes on a Hollywood feel. Guests include Kris Kristofferson and singer Rita Coolidge, both friends of the Cash family, who perform a heartfelt “Please Don’t Tell Me How The Story Ends,” and Steve Martin, one of America’s hottest new comics at the time. June Carter Cash, as always, performs with her husband, and other family members make appearances in this special as well. For the 1979 broadcast, Cash’s annual CBS Christmas special returns to Nashville for a program featuring his father, Ray Cash, and his older brother, Roy Cash, in a visit to the small home in Dyess, Arkansas, where Johnny and his siblings were raised. Guests include Canadian pop and country star Anne Murray (“You Needed Me”), who was enjoying the most successful period of her career, and country music’s Tom T. Hall, whom Cash introduces as “my very favorite songwriter” before Cash and Hall launch into a medley of Hall’s hits “(Old Dogs, Children And) Watermelon Wine,” “The Year That Clayton Delaney Died,” “I Love” and “Country Is.” The show’s comic foil is the late Andy Kaufman, who appears as his character Latka Gravas from the hit network show Taxi. The Johnny Cash Christmas Specials 1976-1979 4-DVD box set includes these two discs as well as the special from 1976 and 1977, previously released on DVD in 2007 by Shout! Factory. Taped from the family homes in Bon Aqua and Hendersonville, Tennessee, The Johnny Cash Christmas Special 1976 featured special guests Roy Clark, Merle Travis, Barbara Mandrell, Tony Orlando and Billy Graham. The Johnny Cash Christmas Special 1977 includes an all-star tribute to Elvis Presley with Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis and Roy Orbison, a selection of Christmas songs, as well as Perkins’s “Blue Suede Shoes,” Orbison’s “Oh, Pretty Woman,” and Lewis’s 1957 Sun smash “Whole Lot Of Shakin’ Going On.” The Johnny Cash Christmas Specials 1976-1979 Distributed by Sony BMG Release Date: October 7, 2008 Selection No.: 826663-10940 Suggested List Price: $49.98 The Johnny Cash Christmas Special 1976 Distributed by Sony BMG Release Date: November 13, 2007 Selection No.: 826663-10697 Suggested List Price: $14.98 Performances: Wandering – Johnny Cash Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Ole Oak Tree – Tony Orlando, Johnny Cash & June Carter Cash Christmas As I Knew It – Johnny Cash Far Away Places – Johnny Cash & Roy Clark Juke Box Saturday Night – Roy Clark That Lucky Old Sun – Johnny Cash The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas To You) – Roy Clark Stephen Foster Medley: Camptown Races – Johnny Cash, Roy Clark & Tony Orlando Beautiful Dreamer – Roy Clark Old Folks At Home – Johnny Cash Jeanie With The Light Brown Hair – Tony Orlando Oh! Susanna – Johnny Cash, Roy Clark & Tony Orlando Follow Me – June Carter Cash Cannonball Rag – Merle Travis That Christmasy Feeling – Tommy Cash In The Pines – Carter Family Steel Guitar Rag – Barbara Mandrell It’s A Beautiful Morning With You – Barbara Mandrell Old Time Feeling – Johnny Cash & June Carter Cash A Story Of Christmas – Billy Graham The Johnny Cash Christmas Special 1977 Distributed by Sony BMG Release Date: November 13, 2007 Selection No.: 826663-10698 Suggested List Price: $14.98 Performances: Christmas Time’s A-Comin’ – Johnny Cash Darlin’ Companion – Johnny Cash & June Carter Cash This Ole House – Johnny Cash & The Statler Brothers Blue Christmas – Johnny Cash & The Statler Brothers Here Comes Santa Claus – Johnny Cash & Roy Clark Frosty The Snow Man – Johnny Cash & Roy Clark Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer – Johnny Cash and Roy Clark Big River – Johnny Cash Blue Suede Shoes – Carl Perkins Oh, Pretty Woman – Roy Orbison Whole Lot Of Shakin’ Going On – Jerry Lee Lewis White Christmas – Jerry Lee Lewis This Train Is Bound For Glory – Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison & Carl Perkins Silent Night –Johnny Cash, Family & Friends O Little Town Of Bethlehem – June Carter Cash Hark! The Herald Angels Sing - Johnny Cash, Family & Friends Children Go Where I Send Thee - Johnny Cash, Family & Friends The Johnny Cash Christmas Special 1978 Distributed by Sony BMG Release Date: October 7, 2008 Selection No.: 826663-10699 Suggested List Price: $14.98 Performances: Christmas Can’t Be Far Away – Johnny Cash Talking About Friends – Steve Martin Comedy Sketch Ballad Of A Teenage Queen – Johnny Cash Sunday Morning Coming Down – Johnny Cash & Kris Kristofferson I Wonder How The Old Folks Are At Home – Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson & Steve Martin Jean-Pierre Louey – Steve Martin Comedy Sketch Fourth Man – Johnny Cash I Will Rock And Roll With You – Johnny Cash You’re A Part Of Me – Johnny Cash & June Carter Cash Christmas Time’s A-Comin’ – Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash, Kris Kristofferson & Rita Coolidge Love Me Again – Rita Coolidge Please Don’t Tell Me How The Story Ends – Kris Kristofferson & Rita Coolidge The Greatest Cowboy Of Them All – Johnny Cash The Card Trick - Steve Martin Comedy Sketch Silent Night – Johnny Cash with daughters Carlene, Tara, Rosanne, Cindy, Kathy & Rosie The Johnny Cash Christmas Special 1979 Distributed by Sony BMG Release Date: October 7, 2008 Selection No.: 826663-10700 Suggested List Price: $14.98 Performances: Opening – Andy Kaufman Comedy Sketch (Ghost) Riders In The Sky – Johnny Cash Five Feet High And Rising – Johnny Cash You Needed Me – Anne Murray That Christmasy Feeling – Johnny Cash & Anne Murray The Ballad Of The Harp Weaver – Johnny Cash That’s Why You Have To Be You – Tom T. Hall Tom T. Hall Medley: Country Is – Johnny Cash & Tom T. Hall Old Dogs, Children And Watermelon Wine – Tom T. Hall The Year That Clayton Delaney Died – Johnny Cash & Tom T. Hall I Love – Johnny Cash & Tom T. Hall Country Is – Johnny Cash& Tom T. Hall If I Were A Carpenter – Johnny Cash & June Carter Cash That’s When Your Heartaches Begin – Andy Kaufman Christmas Is – Tom T. Hall Back Up And Push – June Carter Cash Christmas Wishes – Anne Murray Let There Be Peace On Earth – Johnny Cash
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