The Johnny Cash Show — Season 1, Episode 31: Episode 31
Talk • 60 min • 2 seasons, 58 episodes • ★ 6.5/10
Episode synopsis
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 "Nobody Knows". Brenda Lee sings "Higher and Higher" and "I Think I Love You". Charley Pride sings "Is Anybody Goin' to San Antone?". Johnny & Merle Haggard duet on "In the Jailhouse Now". Johnny & Brenda Lee duet on "Bad News". Charley Pride sings "Texarkana Baby". Johnny & Charley Pride do a medley of songs including "Long, Long Texas Road", "Abilene" & "Back To Houston". ...
About The Johnny Cash Show
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.