One thing you missed on the Elvis connection. Elvis was madly in love with Anita Carter, he even proposed to her a couple of times but she turned him dow. Prior to that Hank Williams pursued Anita, but, Maybelle ran him off.
It was Anita who originally performed & recorded the song 'Ring of Fire' (12:40) as a folk composition. As a vocalist, Anita was in the same class as Judith Durham. Exceptional.
I always liked listening to Johnny Cash. After they were married, they always did everything together. I also remember on 'Liittle House on the Prarie" they played a married couple down on their luck. True Love!!! ❤❤❤❤❤
I'll never forget the day I met Johnny Cash in person. He was so nice and loved that I loved his music and was there to see his show. This was right after his major heart attack. He really made some good jokes about it, too. After all his songs his last song was, "Old Rugged Cross." It had everyone in tears. It was amazing. He certainly had a story to tell.
Holy cow!! What an experience!! Oh this story warms my heart. I always want to cover good-hearted people on this channel and to tell not only good stories, but keep their memories alive as well. I'm so glad you shared this!! I should do another one all about the story behind Old Rugged Cross, now I'm sorry I didn't talk about that more in this one!
I agree. It's unfair how Vivian is looked as "the other woman" and June is such a saint. Vivian simply wanted a husband to stay at home more and help raise their daughters, while Cash just wanted to have his wild times on the road We all have regrets and Cash wrote that missing his daughters growing up was one of them.
John and June were deeply in love, but their relationship was very, very complex. Around 1980, Johnny’s addictions were back with a vengeance (he was probably only really sober from around 1972-1978). He fired his long term bassist. May have had an affair. And June moved to England to live with her daughter (who was married to Nick Lowe). They did patch things up, but it was not easy. In the 90s, Johnny was in very poor health and June developed a pills addiction herself. Yes, they were in love until the end, but it’s also not the storybook fairy tale often depicted in media. (John Carter Cash himself was an addict by his early teens too, having been around all of this conflict).
Did Johnny have an older brother that was accidentally killed in real life like they depicted in the movie, Walk The Line? In the movie the dad said, “he wished it was him who died and not the other son.” I’m curious, and I’ll try and look it up online, but if that was true that would explain a lot of his messed up behaviors in life with the pills.
@@angeleyes1000yes he did. Some kind of fence machine tore his stomach open. Quite brutal. The pills addiction I’d attribute more to the life of a touring musician in the 50s. They had to drive over night between shows, so all took uppers to keep going. Then they’d need downers to sleep when they got home. Get stuck in a cycle, and then you’re addicted. Happened to basically all of the Sun artists (Elvis, and check out the car accident that sidelined Carl Perkins’ career, for two examples).
OUTSTANDNG article/video ! Tons of talking but jam packed with information. i enthusiastically absorbed every word ! i learned SO much about Johnny and June and the Carter family. THANk YOU SO MUCH !!! P.S. TONS of excellent pictures too ! GREAT !!!
Thank you so much for supporting my channel! I love telling these stories and put a lot of work into the research, scripts and overlays so it means a lot!
Cash's "2 guitarists" have names. Luther Perkins and Marshall Grant who would go on to play bass. They gave Cash the sound that made him popular. Also, they met as soon as Cash returned home from the air force not a year into his marriage.
I think that he died of a broken heart over her lose. Sometimes People are so connected that it is impossible to live with out each other. My mothers parents both born in the 1890s. They married 24 Dec1919, while he was in the Army stationed at Camp Lee, VA. Married 62 years, having Nine children and 29 grand children. They redid their vows on their 50 anniversary. As long as I can remember they argued and fused at each other and had separate bed rooms in the house. Carrie passed away on 25 Sept 1981, one day after her 86th birthday on my mothers birthday. Roy passed away just 4m 11d later 15 day before his 86th birthday on 5 Feb1982. Roy left home in 1910 at the age of 14, by the time he entered the Army in 1918 he had traveled all the way to the west coast and was working as a labor in Idaho. Nelson
Johnny Cash was for sure a great singer/song writer,but in my opinion a very weak man. He just up & left his wife & four babies. From lots of interviews I have watched, I do not get a good feeling fro June.
Hello i found your video by listening to katy perry's song the one that got away where she mentions this two person so i thought it would be a good love story i am a fan of love stories.🤭 sorry but u r beautiful mam Love from india🥰ur voice is also happy happy 😅i am been creep.
Should have never left his first love and beautiful wife. Married 2nd wife June for the fame and status. She was deliberate with her nasty actions towards Vivian. I have no respect for that one.. Although Jonny was a coward he still spent his last days with his first love Vivian.
Viven seemed wonderful. I think of Johnny and Viven quite often being in Nashville and observing the music scene here. My favorite couple is Dolly Parton and Carl Dean. I did another Roots Rockumentary on Dolly Parton and was surprised it hardly has gotten any views! But I talked about Dolly's life and love with Carl Dean there quite a bit. ruclips.net/video/-bk8jzkO4Q8/видео.html
Well everyone is entitles to their opinion. However, Vivian wanted Johnny to stop his music (truly his first Love), he didn't and in the end She Left Him!!! Not sure what ya mean by he shouldn't have left her? If he did, the world would have very little of his music and we'd all have missed out on a truly great artist. Even Cash's daughters have said that Vivian and Johnny had a very toxic relationship. Is it not better to leave someone who you may love and love deeply if it hurts them and all of those around, especially this kids? Both Vivian and Johnny ended up with marriages that lasted till the end. Nobody talks about Vivian's second husband who helped raise the girls and was a good hard working man. They loved one another, even Roseanne had stated he was good for her mother. Guess my point is, nobody knows what happens behind closed doors, we change as we get older, some either grow together or grow apart. Leaving is a very tough decision that people don't do lightly, only the people involved can make that choice and in the end have never seen one couple get back together later on where it stuck. In this case from all the information gathered, would say both made the right choice.
You’d have to tell my grandpas about how great the new deal was because they went through depression too, but they also live in Oklahoma during the dust bowl at the same time. I think you’ll have to put off talking to them for a couple years unless you’re in the Ouija boards and stuff like that. You could have 3 families in an old sod houses. You would be amazed at how many country music legends are not allowed to be inducted in the Hall of Fame, especially yeah, the grand old Opry
OMG, I’ve told friends that had that many girls. I’m glad I didn’t have to live through that estrogen nightmare. June died 6 months after Jonny covered “Hurt”. Nine inch nails said this is Johnny’s song because you could hear the pain in yhay song
@ thymusichour... A weak man. Took the easy way out. Abandoned his four baby girls . Went on to do his own thing. June & himself deserve each other . Not a great live story in my book😕
Remember the first generation of the Carter family were there right at the beginning of AM radio. There was no before them. Might have been the first country, folk and gospel music to ever go out over the airwaves in the rural South.
P.S. i only recently learned about the Carter sisters and their mother, and i can't get enough of them. i did read that while touring with Johnny, Anita got pregnant with his child.. which she aborted out of respect for June who was pregnant with son John. Evidently it is not clearly proven... but it made me very sad. Anita struck me as an angel.. and June was extremely funny and always smiling and laughing. if this did happen, it would not surprise me in the world of music and touring...
Oh my word! That's the kind of thing you just don't want to believe but of course there's a chance it is true! I love music and I love making these videos but one thing that always has rubbed me the wrong way is how many affairs occur in the music industry. It's just plain upsetting. While I do love the Johnny and June love story, I even feel an immense amount of sadness for Vivien and Carl Smith and the failure that went on in both of their first marriages. I hope you subscribe and like some of the other videos, too! I love making these and hope you love watching them just as much!
Excellent work. I was 7 when I first heard "hound dog". Amazing how those dynamos all came together in Memphis and basically ushered in rock and roll. It really was a blitz kreig for the first 5 years and then it morphed into superficiality until the Beetles gave it an injection You deserve a greater following. I came to this after watching a great Johnny Carson show that had June Cash talking about some of what you cover. In case you haven't seen it, here it is! ruclips.net/video/4QX64YbqGUo/видео.html As AI and google seem to do, your biography showed up on the side and I jumped right in! Very much enjoyed it!
The content of the program is factual and accurate as far I as know from years of looking into Johnny and June and their families, but the nervous delivery of the hostess is ridiculously and amateurishly rapid-fire and takes away from the audience being able to enjoy and soak in the program. I slowed it down with the control center and it was far more enjoyable. Much appreciated are the excellent visual supporting materials. //
I can't say anything. My grandparents were third cousins. Lol....so my mom and her sisters had a great grandmother and great aunt Jenny. Make that make sense. Lol.
CAN'T SHE HAVE A MIRE NORMAL VOICE (THAT IS, NOT SO HIGH AND ACUTE AND IRRITATING?) EACH TIME I LEAVE THE STORY THAT WOULD HAVE INTERESTED ME BUT NARRATED BY THIS VOICE, IT'S IMPOSSIBLE
You were so close - you often only missed the facts by a whisker. Did you get this from a magazine article? Although there might be some I don't yet have, I own 32 books about or by Johnny Cash. And while they all disagree somewhat, none would recognize your take. Nice try, though.
Their relationship was not TWISTED. It was complex. They were deeply and spiritually connected. Your perspectives are so shallow and superficial. No depth of perception. June and Johnny would not approve.👎
One thing you missed on the Elvis connection. Elvis was madly in love with Anita Carter, he even proposed to her a couple of times but she turned him dow. Prior to that Hank Williams pursued Anita, but, Maybelle ran him off.
I love that you added this!!!! ❤️❤️❤️
@@Teabag697 Me too! Except I am only 12 years younger than her. I have also seen her in person twice, back around 1962.
It was Anita who originally performed & recorded the song 'Ring of Fire' (12:40) as a folk composition. As a vocalist, Anita was in the same class as Judith Durham. Exceptional.
I always liked listening to Johnny Cash. After they were married, they always did everything together. I also remember on 'Liittle House on the Prarie" they played a married couple down on their luck. True Love!!! ❤❤❤❤❤
I'll never forget the day I met Johnny Cash in person. He was so nice and loved that I loved his music and was there to see his show. This was right after his major heart attack. He really made some good jokes about it, too. After all his songs his last song was, "Old Rugged Cross." It had everyone in tears. It was amazing. He certainly had a story to tell.
Holy cow!! What an experience!! Oh this story warms my heart. I always want to cover good-hearted people on this channel and to tell not only good stories, but keep their memories alive as well. I'm so glad you shared this!! I should do another one all about the story behind Old Rugged Cross, now I'm sorry I didn't talk about that more in this one!
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His appearance at Glastonbury was amazing 🎤🎤🎸🎸
Vivian was wonderful
I agree
I agree. It's unfair how Vivian is looked as "the other woman" and June is such a saint. Vivian simply wanted a husband to stay at home more and help raise their daughters, while Cash just wanted to have his wild times on the road We all have regrets and Cash wrote that missing his daughters growing up was one of them.
And Vivian was so beautiful. June was just a plain looking person.
you say that just bc she's black
On all the Hank Williams recordings, many had June Carter who had the role of clown or comedian at the time
June was beautiful, but in a different way from Vivian.
I agree. I thought Vivian was so beautiful
John and June were deeply in love, but their relationship was very, very complex. Around 1980, Johnny’s addictions were back with a vengeance (he was probably only really sober from around 1972-1978). He fired his long term bassist. May have had an affair. And June moved to England to live with her daughter (who was married to Nick Lowe). They did patch things up, but it was not easy. In the 90s, Johnny was in very poor health and June developed a pills addiction herself. Yes, they were in love until the end, but it’s also not the storybook fairy tale often depicted in media. (John Carter Cash himself was an addict by his early teens too, having been around all of this conflict).
I love this ❤
J & J deeply in love to the end.
How sad!
Did Johnny have an older brother that was accidentally killed in real life like they depicted in the movie, Walk The Line? In the movie the dad said, “he wished it was him who died and not the other son.” I’m curious, and I’ll try and look it up online, but if that was true that would explain a lot of his messed up behaviors in life with the pills.
@@angeleyes1000yes he did. Some kind of fence machine tore his stomach open. Quite brutal. The pills addiction I’d attribute more to the life of a touring musician in the 50s. They had to drive over night between shows, so all took uppers to keep going. Then they’d need downers to sleep when they got home. Get stuck in a cycle, and then you’re addicted. Happened to basically all of the Sun artists (Elvis, and check out the car accident that sidelined Carl Perkins’ career, for two examples).
OUTSTANDNG article/video ! Tons of talking but jam packed with information. i enthusiastically absorbed every word ! i learned SO much about Johnny and June and the Carter family. THANk YOU SO MUCH !!! P.S. TONS of excellent pictures too ! GREAT !!!
Great video! Thank you for sharing.
Thank you so much for supporting my channel! I love telling these stories and put a lot of work into the research, scripts and overlays so it means a lot!
Cash's "2 guitarists" have names. Luther Perkins and Marshall Grant who would go on to play bass. They gave Cash the sound that made him popular. Also, they met as soon as Cash returned home from the air force not a year into his marriage.
Thank you so much for adding this detail!!! ♥️♥️🙊🎵🙌
I think that he died of a broken heart over her lose. Sometimes People are so connected that it is impossible to live with out each other.
My mothers parents both born in the 1890s. They married 24 Dec1919, while he was in the Army stationed at Camp Lee, VA. Married 62 years, having Nine children and 29 grand children. They redid their vows on their 50 anniversary. As long as I can remember they argued and fused at each other and had separate bed rooms in the house. Carrie passed away on 25 Sept 1981, one day after her 86th birthday on my mothers birthday. Roy passed away just 4m 11d later 15 day before his 86th birthday on 5 Feb1982.
Roy left home in 1910 at the age of 14, by the time he entered the Army in 1918 he had traveled all the way to the west coast and was working as a labor in Idaho.
Nelson
A most beautiful love story
So glad you liked it, Tekno Tony!
Johnny Cash was for sure a great singer/song writer,but in my opinion a very weak man. He just up & left his wife & four babies. From lots of interviews I have watched, I do not get a good feeling fro June.
Hello i found your video by listening to katy perry's song the one that got away where she mentions this two person so i thought it would be a good love story i am a fan of love stories.🤭 sorry but u r beautiful mam
Love from india🥰ur voice is also happy happy 😅i am been creep.
June Carter is disgusting. No matter what the dynamics were, Johnny Cash was still a married man with 4 young children...shame on both Johnny and June
june went after Johnny!! she made sure she was going to have him and i heard she told vivian he is going to be mine!!
Should have never left his first love and beautiful wife. Married 2nd wife June for the fame and status. She was deliberate with her nasty actions towards Vivian. I have no respect for that one.. Although Jonny was a coward he still spent his last days with his first love Vivian.
Viven seemed wonderful. I think of Johnny and Viven quite often being in Nashville and observing the music scene here. My favorite couple is Dolly Parton and Carl Dean. I did another Roots Rockumentary on Dolly Parton and was surprised it hardly has gotten any views! But I talked about Dolly's life and love with Carl Dean there quite a bit. ruclips.net/video/-bk8jzkO4Q8/видео.html
@@ROOTSMUSICHISTORY: No disrespect intended, but you TWICE misspelled Vivian as “Viven”! If you can’t self-edit, please hire someone to do it for you!
Well everyone is entitles to their opinion. However, Vivian wanted Johnny to stop his music (truly his first Love), he didn't and in the end She Left Him!!! Not sure what ya mean by he shouldn't have left her? If he did, the world would have very little of his music and we'd all have missed out on a truly great artist. Even Cash's daughters have said that Vivian and Johnny had a very toxic relationship. Is it not better to leave someone who you may love and love deeply if it hurts them and all of those around, especially this kids? Both Vivian and Johnny ended up with marriages that lasted till the end. Nobody talks about Vivian's second husband who helped raise the girls and was a good hard working man. They loved one another, even Roseanne had stated he was good for her mother. Guess my point is, nobody knows what happens behind closed doors, we change as we get older, some either grow together or grow apart. Leaving is a very tough decision that people don't do lightly, only the people involved can make that choice and in the end have never seen one couple get back together later on where it stuck. In this case from all the information gathered, would say both made the right choice.
@@dlewtweentorla1210
Spot on!!
Very well stated!!
@@nanwilder2853 That is not a bad spelling error. I have often seen my name spelled wrong because there are more than one ways to spell it.
You’d have to tell my grandpas about how great the new deal was because they went through depression too, but they also live in Oklahoma during the dust bowl at the same time. I think you’ll have to put off talking to them for a couple years unless you’re in the Ouija boards and stuff like that. You could have 3 families in an old sod houses. You would be amazed at how many country music legends are not allowed to be inducted in the Hall of Fame, especially yeah, the grand old Opry
But of trivia: June always called him “John”
OMG, I’ve told friends that had that many girls. I’m glad I didn’t have to live through that estrogen nightmare. June died 6 months after Jonny covered “Hurt”. Nine inch nails said this is Johnny’s song because you could hear the pain in yhay song
June is a home wrecker
What is Johnny?
@ thymusichour... A weak man. Took the easy way out. Abandoned his four baby girls . Went on to do his own thing. June & himself deserve each other . Not a great live story in my book😕
We never had electric when I was growing up.
Roller Rink .. roller skating, her daughter has her skates now
I just saw his daughter's interview. She said they met at a roller rink, roller skating, and he was at boot camp.
And Vivian still had the skates she wore when she met him there.
Remember the first generation of the Carter family were there right at the beginning of AM radio. There was no before them. Might have been the first country, folk and gospel music to ever go out over the airwaves in the rural South.
P.S. i only recently learned about the Carter sisters and their mother, and i can't get enough of them. i did read that while touring with Johnny, Anita got pregnant with his child.. which she aborted out of respect for June who was pregnant with son John. Evidently it is not clearly proven... but it made me very sad. Anita struck me as an angel.. and June was extremely funny and always smiling and laughing. if this did happen, it would not surprise me in the world of music and touring...
Oh my word! That's the kind of thing you just don't want to believe but of course there's a chance it is true! I love music and I love making these videos but one thing that always has rubbed me the wrong way is how many affairs occur in the music industry. It's just plain upsetting. While I do love the Johnny and June love story, I even feel an immense amount of sadness for Vivien and Carl Smith and the failure that went on in both of their first marriages. I hope you subscribe and like some of the other videos, too! I love making these and hope you love watching them just as much!
Excellent work. I was 7 when I first heard "hound dog". Amazing how those dynamos all came together in Memphis and basically ushered in rock and roll. It really was a blitz kreig for the first 5 years and then it morphed into superficiality until the Beetles gave it an injection
You deserve a greater following. I came to this after watching a great Johnny Carson show that had June Cash talking about some of what you cover. In case you haven't seen it, here it is!
ruclips.net/video/4QX64YbqGUo/видео.html
As AI and google seem to do, your biography showed up on the side and I jumped right in! Very much enjoyed it!
The content of the program is factual and accurate as far I as know from years of looking into Johnny and June and their families, but the nervous delivery of the hostess is ridiculously and amateurishly rapid-fire and takes away from the audience being able to enjoy and soak in the program. I slowed it down with the control center and it was far more enjoyable. Much appreciated are the excellent visual supporting materials. //
I can't say anything. My grandparents were third cousins. Lol....so my mom and her sisters had a great grandmother and great aunt Jenny. Make that make sense. Lol.
That's hilarious!!! Completely the norm especially in early america!
If it makes you feel any better, my great grandparents were FIRST cousins! Lol.
CAN'T SHE HAVE A MIRE NORMAL VOICE (THAT IS, NOT SO HIGH AND ACUTE AND IRRITATING?) EACH TIME I LEAVE THE STORY THAT WOULD HAVE INTERESTED ME BUT NARRATED BY THIS VOICE, IT'S IMPOSSIBLE
You were so close - you often only missed the facts by a whisker. Did you get this from a magazine article? Although there might be some I don't yet have, I own 32 books about or by Johnny Cash. And while they all disagree somewhat, none would recognize your take. Nice try, though.
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Thank you for the sweet comment!!
Got to be twisted to fancy that
What about johnny cash affair with anita carter?
faster, more monotone
Their relationship was not TWISTED. It was complex. They were deeply and spiritually connected. Your perspectives are so shallow and superficial. No depth of perception. June and Johnny would not approve.👎
Sorry again i am small but why dont u gave ur insta id in ur about part😅 please give it
Are you illiterate, drunk, or both?