The Johnny Cash Show

1969 – 1971
Ended
Talk
~1h / ep
2 seasons
6.5/10

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.

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E1. Episode 1
Sep 23, 1970 · 60m
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".
E2. Episode 2
Sep 30, 1970 · 60m
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".
E3. Episode 3
Oct 7, 1970 · 60m
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".
E4. Episode 4
Oct 14, 1970 · 60m
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".
E5. Episode 5
Oct 21, 1970 · 60m
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".
E6. Episode 6
Oct 28, 1970 · 60m
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".