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This status is sponsored by: P®oJë©T M@¥hέm I Mod VG's ass! | posted on 04-02-2001 @ 7:41 PM |    | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00  | The one & only, Johnny Cash...The "original" Man In Black. Johnny Cash has been writing, recording & performing for almost 50 years. Over his amazing carrer he has recorded songs with and/or written by Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan, Waylon Jennings, Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, The Rolling Stones, Kris Kristofferson, Bruce Springsteen, Roy Orbison, Beck, Tom Petty, Danzig, Soundgarden & dozens more. Most recently he has been recording records under the production of Rick Rubin who has produced such acts as Tom Petty, the Beastie Boys, Slayer and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. This is what Legends are made of... • 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. And he is currently the only person that has been inducted to the Rock, Country & Song Writers 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 10 Grammies, the most recent in 1999, being the Lifetime Achievement Award. • 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. • 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. • Over a hundred different acts have recorded Cash's I Walk The Line. Not to mention the multitude of people who have recorded some of his other songs. • Prior to his latest release, Solitary Man, his last two albums, American Recordings and Unchained, have earned him Grammy Awards — the latter for Best Country Album in 1998. • Despite country music stations refusing to play his newer music, Cash and American Recordings have been honored with Country Music Television-Europe's #7 Video of the Year for Rusty Cage (a Soundgarden song), and Playboy Magazine has honored Cash with the 1998 Music Poll Winner "Hall of Fame" Award, besides the Grammy for Unchained.  ...and now a couple of the Man in Black's legendary songs about doin' time... Folsom Prison Blues I hear the train a comin'; it's rollin' 'round the bend, And I ain't seen the sunshine since I don't know when. I'm stuck at Folsom Prison and time keeps draggin' on. But that train keeps rollin' on down to San Antone. When I was just a baby, my mama told me, "Son, Always be a good boy; don't ever play with guns." But I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die. When I hear that whistle blowin' I hang my head and cry. I bet there's rich folk eatin' in a fancy dining car. They're prob'ly drinkin' coffee and smokin' big cigars, But I know I had it comin', I know I can't be free, But those people keep a movin', and that's what tortures me. Well, if they freed me from this prison, if that railroad train was mine, I bet I'd move on over a little farther down the line, Far from Folsom Prison, that's where I want to stay, And I'd let that lonesome whistle blow my blues away. San Quentin San Quentin, you've been livin' hell to me You've hosted me since nineteen sixty three I've seen 'em come and go and I've seen them die And long ago I stopped askin' why San Quentin, I hate every inch of you. You've cut me and have scarred me thru an' thru. And I'll walk out a wiser weaker man; Mister Congressman why can't you understand. San Quentin, what good do you think you do? Do you think I'll be different when you're through? You bent my heart and mind and you may my soul, And your stone walls turn my blood a little cold. San Quentin, may you rot and burn in hell. May your walls fall and may I live to tell. May all the world forget you ever stood. And may all the world regret you did no good. San Quentin, you've been livin' hell to me.  Professional Slacker To look at all of my photo albums click my sig pic or just Visit this Website E-Mail Me Proud Adoptor of candy girl & (position available) | ||||
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