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Johnny Cash
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Known to the
world as Johnny Cash, J.R. Cash was born in 1932 in Arkansas. His music was
part of such movie soundtracks as Tumbleweeds and Dead Man Walking.
His love for Westerns prompted the singer to record his own arrangements of
the themes to TV's Bonanza and the Duke's The Sons of Katie Elder.
Cash notable sang the theme song to Andrew J. Fenady's TV series, The
Rebel, starring Nick Adams, and was a member of the Million Dollar
Quartet that also included Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins.
Cash also produced and sang music for the contemporary films Walking Tall,
Dawn of the Dead, The Rundown and Starsky and Hutch. He
is, perhaps, best known for his classic songs, "Ring of Fire," "A Boy Named
Sue," "I walk the Line," and "These Hands," but his lengthy career included
some acting gigs as well like the television mini-series, North and South
(1985), The Last Days of Frank and Jesse James (1986) and the remake
of Stagecoach (also 1986). Interestingly, Cash has often been accused
of being an even greater actor than singer, which might be substantiated
when viewing his gripping, heart-warming performance as a con-artist
disguised as a circuit-riding preacher who finally finds redemption, in
television's The Little House on the Prairie. |
