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. . . . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. Cash. A searching and intimate portrait of America's charismatic country and western singer. A film which explores the links between Johnny Cash's origins and the red dirt heartland of America. And his artistic mastery of an increasingly important genre of American popular culture. Tonight's program will last 90 minutes.
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I ain't got no will, and I can make my feet too. I won't be like this with you, sir. Well, if I hadn't read that, Mr. Crow, I didn't know what to do with it. I knew it. Well, if I could fly like Mr. Crow, Woman, I know where I would go, I'd leave. Woman, I'd have to leave you, but ain't got no wings to fly, so I guess I'll get by, and I don't know which way to fly, so
I don't know why I've got to stay. If I had wings like a Gregus got, I'd leave you whether my heart breaker not, I'd leave you. Woman, I'd leave you. I can't make my feet walk. Oh, no, no, no, no, no. But if I could fly like Mr. Crow, Woman, I know I'd go. Ah! One, two, three, four. Oh, I ain't so bad. I leave him completely off the intro. And then wait until I'm into the song, you know?
I keep that black top guitar away up on the intro, because that's powerful, the way that with the drums left. Don't you think, Bob? Yeah. Because when they come in, I can hear this kind of a pleasant surprise, you know? I just want to fill it up so you can help what you wanted to to choose. OK. As we go along, Johnny, tell me where you want to matter out when I'm right at the end. OK. One, two, three. From the top of the side, they hide to the sea of yellow beam. Every hill and a lane is full. Every place is there to be.
There is the reason to tell the story. Oh, what so recently? Tell off the way things have happened. And the land will open right up. Here where most of us have the problem. Oh, God, what do we need? I'll never be a liar. And the best thing to keep a dream. Won't you hear the give of the call? I'll never be a call as well. I'll call every rock and mountain. And the land will be mine. But then it was born. Yeah.
Kingsland. And that's where I was born. Yeah. Right. Right. Right. Right. Watch out. Can we go right now? No. We'll turn. We'll turn. We'll turn. We'll turn. We'll turn. We'll turn. We'll turn. We'll roll up. Put my glove in. Be on the side of that river and that's part of the country. You'll learn to understand most everything you have to. This is a grind member time you get up to. They called out an A net and give to you sweat. Somebody had in a family to foot a Mammoth. And he's the middle side of a baby's And it's usually the whole family it takes to make a living. So it's cotton and people are farming the land. It's not the one that gets the money. Somebody owns it and you get part of it. It's white prey and I hate it. Be real.
They move pretty fast through here. It's flat land. There's white prey and they move out. It was one of the best, it's coming up into the park. I thought he was going to be that white man. Go across the six, does it? If they just found their giant clothes, get the stuff set up. I remember when I was the last times where hard and things were bad. But there's a silver light in the behind every cloud. Just four people, that's all we were. Trying to make a living out of black land. We'd get together in a family circle singing loud. Daddy's singing bass. Mama playing dinner. Me and my brother are joined right in there. All singing seems to help a trouble soul. One of these days that it won't be long. How are you going to let us go? I'm going to join a family circle at the throne. No, the circle won't be broken.
Find, find, find, find, find. Daddy's singing bass. Mama playing dinner. Me and my brother are joined right in there. In the sky, Lord in the sky. I remember after work, Mama would call in all of us. You could hear us singing for a country mile. Now little brother and son going. Daddy's joining us home. We'll be together again up the under in a little while. Daddy's singing bass. Mama playing dinner. Me and my brother join right in there. All singing seems to help a trouble soul. One of these days that it won't be long. How are you, Lord? How are you? How are you? How are you?
How are you? Hello, I'm Johnny Care. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. I hear the train coming. It's rolling around the wind. And I see the sun shines. I don't know where. I'm stuck in the holes of prison. And time keeps dragging on. Let that spring keep moving. Hold down the sun and blow. But I was just believing. My mama told me, son, always be a good fool. They don't ever play with God. But I shot a man in Reno. Just watch you die. But I hear that it was moving. I ain't got here there. Hey, boy. I bet there's rich folks eating in a fancy dining car.
They're probably drinking coffee. And smoking big cigars. Well, I know I had it coming. I know I can't be free. But those people keep moving. And I saw tortures be. But if they'd read me from this prison, if that railroad train was mine, then I'd move it on a little farther down the line. Far from wholesome prison. That's where I want to stay. And I'd let that little swim whistle. Oh, my blues, oh, wait.
I don't know that it's different. I'm a lot of other music. I think a lot of other music, or a bar from country music. Do you think it's not a main theme going throughout country or what's the music, a main message, or a type of thing they're trying to appeal to in the country or what's in songs that you do? Well, the things of country music are much the same and other music. There's love and love. There's a main theme of all music, of course. There's a much more sadness and in country music. I don't know what the real reason is, maybe because I don't know, because of the fact that it is from the grassroots and from the simple way of life, of the simple way of life, basically. He wants to have him. He wants to have him.
What a horse he's going to be on. Was he a monkey? Whoa, that's me, who likes that apple? Oh, it's praise. Go onto the engagement bridge or something. Well, she's doing pretty good. She was back the show in as part of her. it was sooo lit. Silly Jane's 100, she was at the show and met. Hey Jon, If Johnny would have chuffed that lamb, look up there. That's some good looking there. The best apples are still up in the tree. We're up in the top. But I couldn't take them down without letting them. I don't want to. I don't want to. I don't want to. I don't want to. I don't want to. Too many apples. I don't want to tell me she'll pick you better watch me. I'm going to see a little bit better.
I don't want to go there. We're up behind her. I'm sorry. You would just pick her in the header back there and that would have been all it would have taken. You going behind her? You're over here, girl. Oh, John. Please. That's true, I'll see. Oh, Jenny. It's all I can say. Don't worry about that. It's all I can say. I don't want to go. I don't want to go. I don't want to go. You're afraid of just like a Jack. You're all that big, beautiful. Not like Gordon used to do, you know. The first year that we was at dies, let's see how were you. You wouldn't go for you the whole year or so. I went to Tyra's room while leaving. Now, this is true. Oh, John. Come on. Oh, come on in here, come here, come here, come here, come here, come by, come by, come by, you have two, I really don't have to sing that song again, do I?
Yeah, I'm about to sing, on Monday we have friends, on Tuesday it's crazy and Brad, on Wednesday and Thursday is gravy and toast, the fat's only gravy and bread, on Friday which sets his own Lord, my Lord, oh please give us something instead, don't Saturday morning by way of a change, we had gravy without any bread. Okay, girl sing, did he all sing his song, Johnny I, I ain't no singer, there's one thing that I was singing about, I don't know, and the name is by a singer, what's going on, they own a World War I song, I don't think I could do it, about where you walked up to the fire alarm box, and then New York sing out, let me hear it up, wrapped up a color, I'd written some letters on the train that I wanted to mail back home and tell them about the
things I'd seen and just how far I'd come, I'd seen a box all painted red and I'd drop them at us in, fire engines came from all around and the bells began to ring, and oh my what the did to me squirted water all over me, I'd wrapped up a man and I said to him, oh me out, I don't want a crown, he said you just have turned all roof from a high-graced town, but I don't remember all that I'm saying, I ain't gonna sing the most, Tom Ford used to sing that, he learned that to me when I was a little boy, I was a little boy about four years old when the Mississippi River broke the levee at Wilson, blood waters come over the cotton land, come up to the door step in front of the house, one morning I was laying in the bed and I heard my momma holler did my daddy said, how high is the water daddy, to be high, high as the water mother said it's to be high dry, we can make it to the road and the homemade boat, that's the only thing we got left to the boat, it's already over all
of the wheat boats to be high dry, high as the water mother, to be high dry, high as the water puffle said it's three feet high dry, while I have to go on a lot of the bees, chicken to sleep and then the willow trees, gals and water up past her knees, three feet high dry, high as the water puffle said it's four feet high dry, take a look through the wind the pain, the bus is coming, gonna take us to the drain, look like we'll be blessed with a little more rain, we'll be high dry, high as the water puffle said it's five feet high dry, the rails are washed out north of town, we got a hit for a higher ground, we can't come back till the water goes down, five feet high dry, five feet high dry, oh must be her,
thank you, that's to be with you, thank you very much, thank you very much, thank you thank you thanks, thank you, thank you for watching, bye guys, thank you, thank you, thank you Kumar up here withJennifer Adams.
He doesn't squares Germany like a bitch. Thank you. It's a super bon-harime. Thank you, go see me. It's all that you've got to do with him today? Please and in this one, I think it's about the best we can play about guns. Well, it's better. I ain't got a tune to it. – That's a her TODAY! – That's our helper. – I'm Larry Little. And I think it's about the best we could play about the guns. Well, it's better. I even got a cue to it. That was hard. It's fun. We're riding in Rainor's League. Johnny Cash just can't be beat the same. No lion and ain't no buff when Johnny sings. He does his stuff. He does his stuff. That's right. See, Johnny, we got talent up here in Portland. You sure do. You sure do. Nice meeting you. Thank you very much. Thanks for coming. Enjoy the show. Good. Good. What's the time? Good to see you. Sure. Thank you. Good to see you. Good. Honey, this young man.
I love you so much. I don't know how to work with cheaters. I'm going to take it off. I don't know how we're going to get much of a sound. I want to hear what you think is your best song that I might possibly could do out. I think probably the best songs is on the album there. John, that you might do. I'd like to. I'd like to do some for you. They're not on the album. Okay. I'd be all right. Can I sing you this one song I wrote for this? Now, everybody got a pet name for the wife and I got this one for this. It's good. My little woman's like a bad gentleman. It's good. How she'll turn out. I never really know. Sometimes she's warm and soft. It's sweet like a fresh pig, light red biscuit. But sometimes she's cold. I'd like to have a big shower to go. So I just go and fill in for a bad name.
And I've just seen the better it's too deep. Now, buttern up a hot biscuit. Apparently, easy thing to do. But stay on the flutter on a cold heart. Biscuit is a near disaster. Forget that. When I'm alive, I'm hard. Time flutter and best to love tonight. She'll be cold and hard for two presents. Probably four or five. I have to turn off all the charm. Lire with all of your mind. Even then it won't be easy. But it won't be best to love tonight. It's not that I'll get to home to the cache, but maybe check. Running to a cute little hooky eye is in the low. Now I'm heading home when I'm drunk and sick. Well, I'm out of existence. I'm in a cute little cookie. We spent all the flutter and best to go. But I'm going to have a hard time flutter and best to get up tonight. She'll be cold with the heart and best to address.
One or four or five. I'll have to turn on all the charm. Lire with all of my mind. Even then it won't be easy. I'm better than this. Good night. Good night. Good night. Good night. Oh, John, you don't want to place you this to be a good thing for me. Oh, man. I've enjoyed it. Even if you're really putting the words together good. We're having a big show on your heels tomorrow night. The vlog is world newspapers, sponsors. We're having a world champion. It's a big climber, the white climber, and the world champion tree topper, and all of them are at the show with us. Well, all of a sudden, you see. And if it's sure we'd like to have you people there, but I know you can. I would give anything to be there. But I've got to be on the piano tomorrow night. This is... Oh, just tell him, John, see this bass. Yes. Tell us what I said. I wish I was there. All right.
I see him. Can I tell him you did to you? Yeah. We certainly wish we could be there. We should be there. All right. We want you to play something for us. What? Great speckle bird. I mean, that's asking for you, right? You're going to run me out of here. All right. Let's go. Come on. Come on. Come on. This part of it. We got it. We got it. A lot of you, people thought I am thinking. Uncernied of great speckle bird. And to know that my name is recorded. The pages of God, Holy Word, desiring to lower her standard. I watch every move that she makes.
They long to find balls with her teaching, but really she makes no mistakes. And when it comes, descending from death, on a cloud like he rose in his word. I'll be joined, will he care it to meet him? On the wings, I'll look great, smack over. What do you think that means? It's just a great speckle bird is a symbol of the church. That's what it means. You were talking about the song's been a part of me now. I lost him properly if near Smithville, woods, and there's a trash stream running to a cliff.
We're up there not long ago, Jim, and the girls went. And I sat down on a rock and started riding. A thing that I don't know if it would be, it might possibly be recorded commercially. I don't know what it's called. What I need is you, all I need is you. You're all I need. Side a singing mountain stream, where the pussy will agree. Where the silver leaf of maple sparkle, and the mornin' view. I braid it twigs of willow, made a string of buck-eye beads. But flesh and blood needs flesh and blood, and you are what I need. Flesh and blood needs flesh and blood, and you are what I need.
I leaned against the bark of birds, and I smelled the honey do. I watched the flock of geese, against the sky of baby blue. I walked among the lily pads, carved a whistle from a read. Mother Nature's quite a lady, but you are what I need. Mother Nature's quite a lady, but you are what I need. I get pretty. And there's another verse, of course, I always forget the last verse. I'm walking birds, saying in the trees, and I thanked him for the song. Then the sun went slowly to the west, and I had to move along.
I walked, I walked through, I walked beside the wild oats. Where the ropeuck, where the deer and the ropeuck be. But flesh and blood calls for flesh and blood, and you are what I need. Flesh and blood calls for flesh and blood, and you are what I need. There's another little thing I wrote just in one of my long moments. We got married in a peter, on a little bit of flesh brown. We went up the path of Jackson, ever since the fire went out. I'm going to Jackson, I'm going to mess around. Yeah, I'm going to Jackson, I'm going to Jackson.
But I'm going down in Jackson, go ahead and wreck your hill. Don't pay your hand in, talk your family, guess it's too loud you'll feel. Yeah, go to Jackson, go comb your hand. I'm going to snowball Jackson, deep back in. Well, I've reason that I'd sit in. People going to stoop and bow. All I'm women going to make me teach you what they don't know how I'm going to Jackson. You turn to loosen my coat. Yes, I'm going to Jackson. I've learned to adapt very well to prosperity.
I like it. I didn't mind the hard work on the farm all that much. Like Louis said, it's something that we had to do. And so we accepted that the hard work was part of our life. Two weeks ago, Louis got came backstage to ask about how the whole family said in 1935 in the winter of 1935, he was 17 years old. And he worked for a trucking company. And rise in Arkansas, him and his daddy drove the truck that took us to dies. In 1935, in the wintertime, the 240-mile trip took about two days because a lot of the roads were muddy. I remember sleeping in that truck almost this road right here going to die. I'm sure to be by the limit on a cotton patch or in part of the country, where times are hard.
But you appreciate the good things when they do something much more. And I thought for many times about the old saying, that line in it says, deal is strong because it knew the hammer and why he. I was 14, I used to. But I'd go after water at a farmer's house seat. As a river crew progress, Father, cutting the banks like they'd make a hundred yards a day. Well, after a few days, I'd carry water from another farm. I'd throw them down the river. And sometimes I'd carry the water a quarter of a mile, sometimes a half a mile. And at noon, I used to go and turn on the car radios. Some of the workmen that were working on the river leave their cars up there. I'd turn on the car radio and listen to the good stations in Memphis. Listen to the country music shows. If you want a chance to know, what do you mean to try to be? Maybe.
I can't get her maybe traveling along the side of each other about asking something very often. He wouldn't even answer me. I've asked him maybe the second time. I'd look already. But his mind seems to be far away. So I guess he was wearing a man. Or maybe some of the things he might do one of these days. From the home of the world around Grand Ole Opry and Nashville, Tennessee. The grand musical presents the second annual country music award. The grand musical presents the second annual country music award. We'd like to start off by doing a sort of a little medley as some of the old tunes. It kind of helps to make a country music what it is today.
And I'm sure you'll recognize each one of these songs as they come to. Deep within my heart I stand. I saw a voice and a tone. Where in dreams I live with a man. The instrumentalist of the year. Thank you. The next award is for the country music album of the year. This award is to the artist, but there will also be a plaque later for the producer. The albums nominated are Best of Merle Haggard, Performer, Merle Haggard. By the time I get to Phoenix, Performer, Glenn Campbell. Divorce, Performer, Tammy Winette, General on my mind, Performer, Glenn Campbell. And Johnny Cash at Fos and Prison, Performer, Johnny Cash. The winner is... The album of the year, Johnny Cash at Fos and Prison.
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Series
Fanfare
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Public Broadcast Laboratory
Episode Number
15
Episode
Cash!
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Episode Description
Fanfare: Cash!: An intimate view of Johnny Cash, country and western phenomenon, as he performs at a prison, an Indian reservation, the Grand Old Opry, and Carnegie Hall, and ranges the country with his troupe. Nationally distributed in motion picture theaters as "Cash! The Man, His World, His Music," this film is a far-ranging study of an American entertainment phenomenon - Johnny Cash. It was produced by two-time Emmy winner Arthur Barron and his wife Evelyn. Cash's appeal as a singer of country music is evoked both through his performances and his private moments, during a tour that includes segments at a Tennessee prison , a South Dakota Indian reservation, Nashville's Grand Old Opry, and New York's Carnegie Hall. He also visits his former home in Dyess County, Arkansas and reminisces on his life there during the Depression - a subject treated frequently in his songs. At the Tennessee State Prison in Nashville, Johnny and his troupe, which includes the Carter Family (his wife June, her sisters Helen and Anita, and Mother Maybelle) regale the convicts with Jacksonand The Folsom Prison Blues. At Rosebud, a Sioux reservation in South Dakota, Cash sings about Drunken Ira Hayed, an Indian hero at Iwo Jima who later died of drink. The Cash road company also includes The Statler Brothers, Carl Perkins, and The Tennessee Three. Appearing with Cash in the broadcast are Godfrey Cambridge, Debbie Reynolds, Jack Jones, Dick Clark, and Ray Rogers and Dale Evans. Also making appearances in the broadcast are Tex Ritter, Hugh Cherry, Merle Haggard, and Charlie Pride. He is also seen with Bob Dylan during a recording session of One Too Many Mornings for Columbia Records. Cash! is an NET presentation, produced for PBS by Arthur and Evelyn Barron. This aired as an episode of PBL on March 16, 1969 and as Fanfare episode 15 on January 17, 1971.(Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche) The end of the episode features a brief film called "The Sun's Gonna Shine".
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Fanfare is an anthology series of performing arts programming.
Broadcast Date
1969-03-16
Broadcast Date
1970-01-17
Asset type
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Genres
Documentary
Performance
Topics
Music
Media type
Moving Image
Duration
01:29:29
Credits
Director: Elfstrom, Robert
Executive Producer: Oppenheim, David, 1922-2007
Performer: Cash, Johnny
Performer: Cash, June Carter
Producer: Barron, Arthur
Producer: Barron, Evelyn (Television producer)
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Color: Color
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