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Johnny Cash is widely considered to be one of the most influential American musicians of the 20th century. In this video, musicians Little Richard, Sheryl Crow and Merle Haggard, as well as Cash’s children, discuss the artist’s wide-ranging influence.

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“He Was All Things To All People” appeared first on Witnify.

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Dolly Parton is an American singer-songwriter known for her numerous country music hits. Parton is the most honored female country performer of all time, and has had 25 songs reach number one on the Billboard Country charts. In this video, Parton speaks of the time that Elvis Presley almost recorded her hit “I Will Always Love You”, why that didn’t happen, and how Whitney Houston came to sing it years later.

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Dolly Parton On One Of Her Most Famous Songs appeared first on Witnify.

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On January 13, 1968, Johnny Cash recorded a live album at Folsom State Prison. Cash had been performing at prisons since the late 1950s. The album reached number one on the country charts in the United States, and was in the top 15 of the national album chart. One of the songs Cash performed on the album, Greystone Chapel, was written by inmate Glenn Shirley. Shirley was unaware at the time of the recording that his song was going to be played. In this video, Shirley’s children, friends and Cash himself remember how Cash came to hear Shirley’s song and decide to perform it.

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Johnny Cash Performs At Folsom Prison appeared first on Witnify.

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Shel Silverstein makes an appearance on the Johnny Cash show where he talks about where he got his nickname from, his children’s books, as well as sings a duet of “A Boy Named Sue” with the one and only legend, Johnny Cash himself.

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A Duet With Silverstein and Cash appeared first on Witnify.