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The track also topped the Billboard Hot Country Songs and Easy Listening charts that same year and was certified Gold on August 14, 1969, by the RIAA. Silverstein's recording was released the same year as "Boy Named Sue", a single on the album Boy Named Sue (and His Other Country Songs), produced by Chet Atkins and Felton Jarvis. [2]
Other songs co-written by Silverstein include "The Taker" written with Kris Kristofferson and recorded by Waylon Jennings, and a sequel to "A Boy Named Sue" titled "Father of a Boy Named Sue", which is less known, but he performed the song on television on The Johnny Cash Show. He also penned a lesser known song titled "Fuck 'em." [14] [15]
They quickly earn the titles such as "The First Couple of Country Music", "Country's Sweethearts" and "The President and First Lady". February 24 – Johnny Cash records his second live album behind prison walls in as many years at San Quentin State Prison. The resulting album is At San Quentin, and contains his hit "A Boy Named Sue." The ...
All boy moms and boy dads can agree that having a son is quite the life-changing experience—an experience that can be best described in heartfelt country songs.Yes, there are country songs out ...
Released as a single in August of 1969, "A Boy Named Sue" was Johnny Cash's biggest pop success, a No. 2 hit for three weeks that was blocked from the top spot on the Billboard chart only by that ...
Johnny Cash for A Boy Named Sue; Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group. Waylon Jennings & the Kimberlys for MacArthur Park; Best Country Instrumental Performance. The Nashville Brass & Danny Davis for The Nashville Brass Featuring Danny Davis Play More Nashville Sounds; Best Country Song. Shel Silverstein (songwriter) for A Boy Named Sue ...
It rose to the top of the country music charts where it stayed for six weeks. It was a Country Music Association nominee for Song of the Year the next year. Perkins also played lead guitar on Cash's single A Boy Named Sue, recorded live at San Quentin prison. It went to number one for five weeks on the country chart and number two on the pop chart.
On "Let There Be Country", the album's opening track, Cash shares songwriting credit with Shel Silverstein, who had written Cash's biggest hit up to this time, "A Boy Named Sue". "Go On Blues" was later re-recorded during the American Recordings session with Rick Rubin. It was not on the album but part of the promo single for "Delia's Gone".