Cry! Cry! Cry!
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| "Cry! Cry! Cry!" | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single by Johnny Cash | ||||
| B-side | "Hey, Porter" | |||
| Released | June 21, 1955 | |||
| Recorded | 1955 | |||
| Genre | Rockabilly[1] | |||
| Length | 2:29 | |||
| Label | Sun | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Johnny Cash | |||
| Producer(s) | Sam Phillips | |||
| Johnny Cash singles chronology | ||||
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"Cry! Cry! Cry!" is the debut single by singer-songwriter Johnny Cash. The song was originally released in 1955 and reached number 14 on the Best Sellers charts.[2]
Background
In 1954, before the release of the song "Cry! Cry! Cry!", Cash signed with
With His Hot and Blue Guitar
, one of the first albums released by Sun Records.
Appearance in Walk the Line
The fact that it was Cash's first successful tune was mentioned several times in the dialogue of the 2005 film, Walk the Line. While it appeared on the film's soundtrack album, it was not performed in the film (two deleted scenes show the Johnny Cash character, as played by Joaquin Phoenix, composing the song in the basement of his house and later listening to it on the radio).
Covers
- "Texas" Bill Strength's cover was released as a single by Capitol in August 1955 in the US, only weeks after the issue of Cash's original, and September 1955 in the UK.[7]
- Marty Stuart released a cover of the song in 1989; his version peaked at number 32 on the Hot Country Singles chart.[8]
- Third Eye Blind covered the song with Merle Haggard.
- Elvis Costello released a cover of the song in 1982 as the B-side to "I'm Your Toy".
- Canadian punk rock band the Flatliners recorded their version for the Johnny Cash tribute album All Aboard: A Tribute to Johnny Cash (released in October 2008).
- Norah Jones covered the song; her version was included on the bonus CD Live at The Living Room, available with the album The Fall (2009) in Japan and in the U.S. through iTunes and Target.
- Ian Hunter covered the song on March 5, 2013 in a live performance at the Teatro Miela in Trieste, Italy, with David Roe, Johnny Cash's former bass player, playing.[9]
- Robbie Fulks covered it for the 2002 album Dressed in Black: A Tribute to Johnny Cash.
References
- ^ LIFE Unseen: Johnny Cash - An Illustrated Biography With Rare and Never-Before-Seen Photographs from the Archives of Sony Music Entertainment. TI Incorporated Books. 2013.
rockabilly material, including "Hey Porter" and later "Cry, Cry, Cry"
- ^ Encyclopedia of Popular Music. (subscription required)
- ^ [1] [dead link]
- ^ "Biography." Last.fm. Web. 30 March 2011.
- ^ "Johnny Cash Biography." AOL Music. Web. 23 March 2011.
- ^ "Johnny Cash." Academy of Achievement. Web. 23 March 2011.
- ^ ""Texas" Bill Strength - The Yellow Rose Of Texas". 45cat.com. Retrieved 29 April 2021.
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 338.
- ^ "Ian Hunter, 5 March 2013, Teatro Miela, Trieste, Italy". Blogsmithconsulting.blogspot.com. 5 March 2013. Retrieved 29 April 2021.
