Johnny Cash's Worst Song Saved His Career

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  • @sidneyadnopoz3427
    @sidneyadnopoz3427 2 месяца назад +1313

    Ngl, I always liked this tune. Yeah, it's dumb, and clashes with the rest of his material, but that's what makes it fun.

    • @tam11225
      @tam11225  2 месяца назад +90

      Can’t argue with that. I always loved his lighthearted approach and Chicken in Black is filled with it lol

    • @davidaston5773
      @davidaston5773 Месяц назад +16

      I agree Sidney, it's surreal when you hear it for the first time, but, there were plenty of examples of Johnny Cash being creative or inventive. He was human. I seriously doubt he was the serious 'man in black' 24/7.
      If David Allan Coe can be serious or emotinal, despite being funny with his lyrics and singing, and if Waylon Jennings can write Waylonmore Blues, a song he admitted made no sense, then, why can't Cash parody his own legacy?
      Even John Lennon was known to have an eccentric sense of humour, while at the same time, making some heart breaking music.
      Besides, a chicken selling out a country venue singing Cash songs is pretty bonkers and funny.

    • @thatgirlray2765
      @thatgirlray2765 Месяц назад +12

      One piece of the time seems to be equally funny?

    • @sidneyadnopoz3427
      @sidneyadnopoz3427 Месяц назад

      @@thatgirlray2765 that one's great oo

    • @seirbhiseach
      @seirbhiseach Месяц назад +11

      @@thatgirlray2765 I was gonna mention that one, along with Boy Named Sue and Starkville City Jail. Comedy and novelty songs are a pretty key part of his repertoire, just like they're an integral part of the genre.

  • @MetalCowboy7
    @MetalCowboy7 Месяц назад +587

    "I guess you guys aren't ready for that yet, but your kids are gonna love it"
    -Marty Mcfly

    • @sadguy399
      @sadguy399 29 дней назад +6

      I was born in ‘05 and this absolutely applies to me. I used to jam to this song with my ex it was a blast!!

  • @strateupgamr7
    @strateupgamr7 29 дней назад +279

    Chicken in Black clucked so Hurt could cry.

    • @strateupgamr7
      @strateupgamr7 29 дней назад +20

      Also, that clip at the end made me tear up.
      "Looking back on all that you've done, do you have any regrets about what you've done?"
      *"I used to, but I don't [anymore], I've forgave myself. When God forgave me, I figured I better do it too. So, uh, everything's alright now."*

  • @lt.reubenrozeyt5716
    @lt.reubenrozeyt5716 Месяц назад +706

    The song felt like a Weird Al song before Weird Al existed.
    I kinda liked it as a Johnny Cash fan.

    • @LegendStormcrow
      @LegendStormcrow Месяц назад +3

      I immediately thought that when I came across it earlier today.

    • @bubbafug00gle51
      @bubbafug00gle51 Месяц назад +41

      Weird Al was doing his thing for almost a decade before this song was recorded

    • @ZiggyTheHamster
      @ZiggyTheHamster 29 дней назад +19

      Weird Al had dropped two albums, one of which peaked at #17, before this song came out. And Weird Al had been doing music for many years as a cult classic before his first album came out.
      If anything, given Cash’s later collaboration with newer artists, I would bet that Weird Al served as an inspiration.

    • @cyka6blat989
      @cyka6blat989 27 дней назад +3

      Oh, so like a Tom Lehrer song

    • @hypnotised-clover
      @hypnotised-clover 27 дней назад +2

      Wait wait, when do you think Weird Al came into existence? You really show your confident ignorance here.

  • @skrudrvr
    @skrudrvr 28 дней назад +171

    Met him once. I was a photographer's assistant in Nashville in the 80s. Another photographer was renting our studio for a photo shoot. I was in the tiny dressing room and I felt a presence behind me. I turned around and Johnny was standing there holding a suit on a hanger. He asked, "Can I hang this here?" I said, "Oh of course." That was the extent of our interaction but I new I had been in the presence of greatness.

    • @breezyq6449
      @breezyq6449 14 дней назад +1

      I've been on the internet too long, i fully expected this to end with "and then his eyes rolled back and he spoke the language of angels into my mind. Cool guy"

  • @thecatnipfarmer
    @thecatnipfarmer Месяц назад +448

    "when god forgave me i figured i better too.", that got me like a bag of bricks

    • @Pigness7
      @Pigness7 Месяц назад +7

      Amen

    • @OrgaNik_Music
      @OrgaNik_Music 20 дней назад +1

      if you hear the voice of god, seek psychiatric help

    • @jan_kest
      @jan_kest 17 дней назад +5

      if you hear the voice of god, that means you are a very cool person and mentally stable :)

    • @SoSS_Operator
      @SoSS_Operator 16 дней назад +1

      Me too dude

  • @BillyCobbOfficial
    @BillyCobbOfficial Месяц назад +178

    That snapshot of him shaking the hand of an inmate with the same hair as him at 3:26 is iconic

    • @JOSEPHEROPKIN-wr7co
      @JOSEPHEROPKIN-wr7co Месяц назад +2

      Love your work

    • @carlosemilio5180
      @carlosemilio5180 Месяц назад +4

      wiliam corncobb himself

    • @scotchrobbins
      @scotchrobbins 28 дней назад +2

      That's Glenn Shirley. He wrote the last song on the At Folsom Prison album, "Greystone Chapel".

  • @hendo337
    @hendo337 Месяц назад +399

    I like this song, unironically, every song he wrote didn't have to be serious, he was a deeply Christian man, he had children, I believe he liked children, I think wanted to make some more songs that were very of their time, topical, funny, lighthearted fare that a father could play around his family without Johnny singing about cocaine and shooting people just to watch them die. Johnny's sense of humor may have been a touch off, however you must remember he took amphetamines, stimulants , sedatives, pain killers and drank for years. He relapsed many times and the song may have been the result of a manic state however, it was relatively harmless fun. I like this song.

    • @cassiusmb
      @cassiusmb Месяц назад

      Wanna kiss

    • @joegibbskins
      @joegibbskins Месяц назад +35

      I mean he also made songs like “One Piece at a Time”, “Flushed from the Bathroom of your Heart”. Heck even something like “Cocaine Blues” is essentially a joke song. He loved joke songs and they were successful for him. The chicken one is a little goofy but not really even that much of a stand out from some of the comedy songs that have been in country radio except that it’s Johnny Cash singing it and not someone like Ray Stevens. People confuse the popular image of Cash as Rebel throwing a middle finger at the Nashville authorities and the Nixon White House, or the deeply Christian moralist singing about the darkness in life, and what Cash actually was, which is all those things and more because the man had a hugely successful career in popular music that lasted half a century

    • @Lemmon714_
      @Lemmon714_ Месяц назад +5

      Cash was a great artist, but he was not a good guy. The same with Haggard and Paycheck.

    • @matcha6710
      @matcha6710 28 дней назад

      The fuck does him believing that a dead dude came back 3 days later have to do with this goofy song

    • @joegibbskins
      @joegibbskins 28 дней назад +21

      @@matcha6710 woah someone’s discovered Reddit

  • @nicholasstilley2370
    @nicholasstilley2370 Месяц назад +326

    I don't know if I just have bad taste but I think chicken in black is a straight banger

    • @thecausalgamer7916
      @thecausalgamer7916 Месяц назад +9

      No, it means you have the opposite means you have great taste

    • @CyberCaed
      @CyberCaed Месяц назад +8

      It is a great song

    • @cisium1184
      @cisium1184 Месяц назад +9

      I like it. And I like people who don't take themselves too seriously.

    • @RealNickTheCoolest
      @RealNickTheCoolest Месяц назад +4

      I think it’s great, this is just a clickbait title for views. Dude obviously has no idea what he’s talking about because a lot of people think it’s a good song.

    • @JoJoJoker
      @JoJoJoker Месяц назад +1

      Cash despised this song.

  • @UnnecessarilyReal
    @UnnecessarilyReal Месяц назад +71

    You know he had a great career if chicken in black was his worst song

  • @brycehill6678
    @brycehill6678 Месяц назад +129

    I'm surprised you didn't mention his time with the highwaymen. That is some of his best work, during a time that most consider his worst time.

    • @aros77777
      @aros77777 Месяц назад +4

      We will never have a super group like that again

    • @hisaceinthehole3426
      @hisaceinthehole3426 Месяц назад +7

      Agreed. Highwaymen songs were great records! Thats like doing a story on orbsion, but not mentioning his time as a member of the traveling wilburys.

    • @crnkmnky
      @crnkmnky Месяц назад

      ☝🏿

    • @dg8522
      @dg8522 29 дней назад

      Self titled is a banger

  • @Predator20357
    @Predator20357 19 дней назад +10

    I can’t believe that there could’ve been a timeline where Chicken in Black was the final song that Johnny Cash made.

  • @rexliraii3962
    @rexliraii3962 28 дней назад +17

    Left out a large 10 year or so, chunk in the middle! The highwaymen were a great boost in his life

  • @zgSH4DOW
    @zgSH4DOW Месяц назад +26

    The only thing cooler than announcing a robbery is doing it in song
    I loved this track immediately

  • @averydaisyz
    @averydaisyz Месяц назад +98

    I'm a sucker for stupid random songs that don't fit with anything else the artist has made. and this song is no exception. but learning about the symbolism in the song really helps me get a new appreciation for it. Also, its really nice to see people who aren't older into Johnny Cash. makes me feel not alone haha

    • @tam11225
      @tam11225  Месяц назад +4

      Love to see it! Keep his music alive

    • @hendo337
      @hendo337 Месяц назад +4

      He made silly songs, Boy Named Sue, One Piece at A Time...come to mind, he wasn't adverse to a joke song.

    • @MarkTheGun
      @MarkTheGun Месяц назад +1

      What are some other ones you know about? I can’t really think of any. Some might say David Bowie’s The Laughing Gnome would be, but it really isn’t all that different from the rest of the music he was putting out at the time

  • @Rockstaralan
    @Rockstaralan Месяц назад +120

    And how, um, interesting that this video completely bypasses even the briefest mention of Johnny's commercially unsuccessful 4-year association (from 1987-91) with Mercury records, whom he signed with directly after being dropped from Columbia. To be honest, that might've added just a little more depth to the context of the story. But with that glaring omission aside, the vid was otherwise 100% on point! And by the way, as someone who fondly remembers "Chicken In Black" from when I was a kid in the 80's, it's actually pretty hilarious IMO - even if it wasn't necessarily on par with the best of his work! Thanks for taking me back!

    • @mikeisernie
      @mikeisernie Месяц назад +5

      Add to that...people really do give Rick Rubin credit for getting Cash to start experimenting with pop covers but the Mercury records show Cash was already doing that.

    • @MrWesleyDP
      @MrWesleyDP Месяц назад +10

      I also think those Highwaymen albums and tours are an important part of the story too. He was playing with friends and reminding the world that he could still be relevant. I think there is a clear line from those albums, their "outlaw country" nature, the approach taken to make them, and American Recordings I.

  • @RyanMcKennaGosling
    @RyanMcKennaGosling Месяц назад +60

    Great video. I came here to see that "Chicken in Black" song and the music video since it's going viral on TikTok rn.

    • @michaelcraig9449
      @michaelcraig9449 Месяц назад +1

      Tik tok was created for one purpose, in China. To bring down the USA! To put viruses into computers, and steal information about the US. Every time some idiot clicks on tik tok that is what is happening!

    • @georgesekavec1020
      @georgesekavec1020 Месяц назад +2

      Yeah wait when did this happen I went on TikTok for the first time in a bit and was very surprised to hear this song of all things thanks world of t shirts

    • @RyanMcKennaGosling
      @RyanMcKennaGosling Месяц назад +2

      @@georgesekavec1020 Yeah people were doing a trend where a person was doing one for their animals. Its fun!

  • @MordredSimp
    @MordredSimp Месяц назад +40

    I should check out that Johnny Chicken Show tbh

  • @dondamon4669
    @dondamon4669 Месяц назад +19

    Really shows his sense of humour and without the video wouldn't of been seen as so silly and it's catchy as hell and tbh I'd love to see a whole sitcom series of the "Manhattan flash" 'cmon stick em up im robbing this bank"

  • @murrayshekelberg9754
    @murrayshekelberg9754 27 дней назад +5

    He was good friends with my grandfather. Has dinner with him at my grandad's house several times as a kid. Friendly man but absolutely terrifying to me as a child. Wished I had spoke with him more

  • @sabineb.5616
    @sabineb.5616 Месяц назад +18

    Thanks for this video! I didn't know about "Chicken In Black" . But I have been a Cash fan since I saw him as the singer and murderer Tommy Brown who was hunted down by Inspector Columbo in the episode Swan Song. But then I lost track of him for a few decades. When his great work with Rick Rubin came out, I thought it was better than everything Cash had done before! Rick Rubin and Cash had stripped away all the ridiculous trappings of country music. There was just a man with a still powerful voice and his guitar. This work totally changed our perception of Johnny Cash. It’s great that it happened before he died.

    • @tam11225
      @tam11225  Месяц назад +1

      Thanks so much! I’m glad you enjoyed

    • @sabineb.5616
      @sabineb.5616 Месяц назад

      @@tam11225 , thanks for answering 😀

  • @andymassingham
    @andymassingham Месяц назад +11

    Chicken in black is a great alternate video to Hurt, just play the video at 0.75 speed. Totally works.

  • @echoesdetoi537
    @echoesdetoi537 11 дней назад +1

    Thanks for the video, Johnny Cash helps me get through tough times at school... and in my life in general

  • @jr2904
    @jr2904 2 месяца назад +8

    Great video so far! I'm not the biggest country fan, and I'm casual when it comes to Johnny Cash, I think he's great. This makes me appreciate him more, thank you!

  • @forslavjo
    @forslavjo 28 дней назад +1

    I'm only 1/3 the way through your documentary and I love it. Please keep up the good work!

  • @mayas4625
    @mayas4625 Месяц назад +9

    Love that tiktok has taken the song and ran with it

  • @billfoster7951
    @billfoster7951 Месяц назад +7

    Nobody is cooler than Johnny Cash.

    • @Bubba960
      @Bubba960 18 дней назад +2

      It's clear somebody never saw that Johnny Chicken show

  • @careful__Icarus
    @careful__Icarus Месяц назад +16

    Metallica wasn't signed to Columbia. They were on Elektra. A Warner Bros headed company. WEA, Warner,Elektra,Asylum. So Johnny's fears of being pushed aside on Columbia had nothing to do with Metallica.

  • @ogami1972
    @ogami1972 23 дня назад

    Very well done! The tone of narration, the montages, all really great work.

  • @4232emmie
    @4232emmie 14 дней назад +1

    Really great video, thank you!

  • @natink1454
    @natink1454 Месяц назад +2

    I've just started on his music and it's one of my favourite songs, ngl.

  • @AppoapsisStudios
    @AppoapsisStudios 6 дней назад

    my grampa was friends with johnny cash- He passed away before I found out so I never really heard much about it, but ever since this song popped up everywhere I couldnt get it out of my head

  • @jefferywilson1840
    @jefferywilson1840 Месяц назад +6

    The song was crazy but funny,Thanks for the music Johnny!

  • @Peter-fu7jl
    @Peter-fu7jl 2 месяца назад +7

    This is great, just subbed!

    • @tam11225
      @tam11225  2 месяца назад

      Glad you enjoyed :)

  • @captainstabbin4172
    @captainstabbin4172 2 месяца назад +2

    Nice vid mate!

  • @TheDude8008
    @TheDude8008 Месяц назад

    I love that I know what this is about just by having read the comments on that music video

  • @mallard_streamer3508
    @mallard_streamer3508 Месяц назад +1

    I remember hearing this song on RUclips for the first time a few months ago and thinking "what the heck is this, this is so silly" but it's a good silly

  • @davidg1612
    @davidg1612 Месяц назад +4

    I know a reasonable amount of Johnny's songs but I never heard of this. The thing to say about this is you can't say he didn't have a sense of humor. Lol

  • @littlebrav0856
    @littlebrav0856 Месяц назад +5

    Wow, I can't believe you've only got 2.5k subs, I thought from the production quality you must've had millions. Keep up the good work

  • @CartoonKingdom77
    @CartoonKingdom77 11 дней назад

    Great video!

  • @casey6556
    @casey6556 22 дня назад +1

    I stumbled across Chicken in Black thanks to RUclips Music autoplay and honestly it was a delightfully funny contrast with his other material and showed him being able to make some fun of himself

  • @Fast_Eddy_Magic
    @Fast_Eddy_Magic Месяц назад +2

    I have to go find this now. I need to listen to it.

    • @dondamon4669
      @dondamon4669 Месяц назад

      It's basically " a boy named sue" and if not for the goofy video wouldn't be considered such a silly song

  • @OceanlinerDesigns
    @OceanlinerDesigns Месяц назад +5

    This was awesome!

  • @thesaltnation5570
    @thesaltnation5570 Месяц назад +5

    Chicken in black is a great song its whacky and silly in the best way possible

  • @unperson5713
    @unperson5713 Месяц назад

    Thank you for sharing.

  • @theianmce
    @theianmce 27 дней назад +1

    Im so grateful for Johnny and his music, and for what Rick Rubin did for him.

  • @travisjordan1528
    @travisjordan1528 Месяц назад +3

    I wish you brought up John Fogerty getting sued by the label for CCR because he sounded like himself, could be another video idea though

  • @MrMetalclay
    @MrMetalclay Месяц назад +1

    I didn't know the song existed until today. It's funny and creative.

  • @jimthetrainengineer2564
    @jimthetrainengineer2564 Месяц назад +5

    What happened with Johnny's work with Mercury? It seems like you just skipped over that point in his recording history

  • @cyka6blat989
    @cyka6blat989 27 дней назад +1

    Dude I personally fell in love with the song, because it got a good beat and funny lyrics man lol

  • @JohnSparkmanandBlackTopHerd
    @JohnSparkmanandBlackTopHerd Месяц назад

    great job!

  • @PerunsZGRevenge
    @PerunsZGRevenge 8 дней назад

    11:05 what a nice sentiment, if only more people who produce could share it.

  • @mrvgsdoesstuff
    @mrvgsdoesstuff Месяц назад +3

    5:08 Metallica was never on Columbia in the mid-80's, they were on Elektra, the label that had the Doors, Queen (US distribution), & 2 Detroit proto-punk bands like the Stooges (with Iggy Pop) & MC5, Television (also influential for punk), TMBG, the Detroit punk bands were influential in the development of punk in which 80's UK bands like GBH & Discharge (which they play a faster form of punk) influenced Metallica.

  • @brandon2544
    @brandon2544 Месяц назад +2

    What's the song in the background at the very beginning? I can't quite put a name to it

    • @hisaceinthehole3426
      @hisaceinthehole3426 Месяц назад

      It really isn't a song. It sounds like a higher pitched and looped segment of folsom prison.

  • @brianlauf2143
    @brianlauf2143 Месяц назад +1

    Really good video

  • @nevermore1570
    @nevermore1570 Месяц назад

    His story is great I beileve there have been a lot of movies about it. It's sad he wasn't more famous for his time. When nowdays most consider him a legend

  • @dondamon4669
    @dondamon4669 Месяц назад +1

    It's crazy how important labels were back then and how it was to promote yourself without them or even make a video

  • @5roundsrapid263
    @5roundsrapid263 27 дней назад

    I think his video was filmed in the same bank where Ernest Goes to Jail was. I went in it 15-20 years ago, but it’s gone now.

  • @BillLaBrie
    @BillLaBrie 26 дней назад +1

    He had humility. That was his greatness.

  • @macsnafu
    @macsnafu Месяц назад

    I had to click to find out what Johnny's worst song was. And now I've got to find the video for The Chicken in Black!

  • @dylanacar3677
    @dylanacar3677 Месяц назад +1

    This is such a fun song I loved it

  • @klausschnieder8070
    @klausschnieder8070 Месяц назад

    This was always my favorite Cash song.

  • @taddersauce3672
    @taddersauce3672 2 месяца назад +2

    This is quality!

    • @tam11225
      @tam11225  2 месяца назад

      Thank you ! 🙏

  • @WesTheHunter
    @WesTheHunter 13 дней назад +2

    He was cool in Columbo

  • @marthwest
    @marthwest 2 месяца назад +7

    i got here from tcnick3

  • @verdant2215
    @verdant2215 9 дней назад

    The Album "The Ballads of the true west" Is a personal favorite of mine.

  • @adamdavis4690
    @adamdavis4690 24 дня назад

    I randomly sing this song sometimes

  • @fergieferg9192
    @fergieferg9192 8 дней назад

    This song is the only Johnny Cash song I've ever heard allthe way through

  • @americanightmare
    @americanightmare 17 дней назад +1

    Recording that way with Tock Ruben is basically EXACTLY what he was telling himself he wanted to do unbeknownst to Ruben at the time. If I was Cash, I would have seen it as meant to be. No way THAT doesn’t come across as real and authentic.
    This entire part of Johnny cash’s career is something I had been unaware of

  • @BlazingOwnager
    @BlazingOwnager 4 дня назад

    It's so hard to remember that Hurt was a Nine Inch Nails song, not a Johnny Cash song, originally. He totally made it his own.
    It's like The man Who Sold The World; the Bowie version cannot hold a candle to the Midge Ure version.

  • @atleegillette8013
    @atleegillette8013 Месяц назад +1

    This is one of the greatest songs ever written

  • @jonvia
    @jonvia 21 день назад +1

    To all up and coming musicians, and creatives in general, keep your publishing!!! Dont sell your music for pennies to a label when you can keep your publishing rights and work the music yourself!

  • @KAZVorpal
    @KAZVorpal 24 дня назад +7

    What always amused me the most is the idea that the brain transplant would leave him still even slightly "him".
    In reality, his body would be inhabited solely by the robber.
    And his consciousness, not just singing, would be in the chicken.
    This is even more insane than the idea of trying to fit his brain in a chicken's head.

  • @yamato6114
    @yamato6114 Месяц назад +1

    Honestly this song’s great. Funny story and catchy.

  • @CustomsByOrangeH
    @CustomsByOrangeH 9 дней назад

    I've never seen Cash with a mustache before. he looks like Charles Bronson with a guitar.

  • @lostcauselancer333
    @lostcauselancer333 Месяц назад

    Never heard this song. I always thought the one about stealing a car “one piece at a time” was his worst.

  • @cheriblossom983
    @cheriblossom983 Месяц назад +2

    I’m obsessed with this song ❤

  • @shawnedwards5369
    @shawnedwards5369 Месяц назад +1

    I loved "Chicken in Black."

  • @despairthewumbo9804
    @despairthewumbo9804 28 дней назад +1

    This is such a good ass funny ass song

  • @sylaswojciechowski2584
    @sylaswojciechowski2584 25 дней назад

    12:40 Probably one of the most famous chairs

  • @partytimejew3771
    @partytimejew3771 27 дней назад

    I fell asleep to this song last night

  • @bensmith8682
    @bensmith8682 27 дней назад +1

    "Washed up country artist"
    Are you fucking high?

  • @kristinbryant6669
    @kristinbryant6669 Месяц назад +1

    This is a great song.

  • @Blitzkrieg_Wolf
    @Blitzkrieg_Wolf 26 дней назад

    When an artist can make a deliberately bad song... and still have it slap, that is a definitive Hall of Fame artist right there.
    Love all of Cash's works and this song holds a special place in my heart, right next to "One Piece At A Time".

  • @ABtheButterfly
    @ABtheButterfly 19 дней назад

    And then 21 years his song became an Internet meme with people using their pets as a gun during the bank robbing scene
    I wonder how he would think about that I hope he would have a sense of humor about it
    I guess in long run even Chicken in Black had last laugh

  • @andrewmalcolm79
    @andrewmalcolm79 Месяц назад

    Get 'em telt Tam!

  • @crnkmnky
    @crnkmnky Месяц назад +1

    5:01 I'm a little confused by the artists you've portrayed as receiving more attention from Columbia Records. Michael Jackson was signed to Epic, which is technically a _sister_ label to Columbia. Metallica signed with Elektra Records. Only Billy Joel was Johnny's labelmate at Columbia.

    • @818deadboys
      @818deadboys 29 дней назад +2

      These type of channels ain't shit

  • @thewinner6752
    @thewinner6752 Месяц назад

    “… I asked the jailer why I was there if he’d be so kind, he said for stopping the traffic while I was hugging and kissing the Chattanooga City Limit Sign.”

  • @hypnotised-clover
    @hypnotised-clover 27 дней назад

    The band Klaatu, most famous for the whole Beatles theory in 1976, released an album to insult their record label which wanted them to make more "popular" music, so they made an intentionally bad album which featured songs that directly mocked their label, especially a song called "sell out", and it was their second last album ever released.

  • @komaa4010
    @komaa4010 24 дня назад +1

    he's a silly dood what a legend

  • @NorthernChev
    @NorthernChev Месяц назад

    I still have a bunch of original Sun Records 45s. They were originally bought new by my dad when he was a kid. EDIT: In fact, I still have "Cry! Cry! Cry!" I had no idea these were important recordings.

  • @thehippo2211
    @thehippo2211 Месяц назад +2

    I told people to listen to this song because it was underrated. Then tiktok came around and that changed.

    • @tam11225
      @tam11225  Месяц назад

      As tik tok does 😞

    • @itsmxtwist
      @itsmxtwist Месяц назад +4

      I think it’s great that TikTok has brought some attention and appreciation to a lesser know song

  • @JoJoJoker
    @JoJoJoker Месяц назад

    Everybody Loves a Nut (from 1966 )is filled with songs like Chicken in Black.

  • @joenormanmusic
    @joenormanmusic Месяц назад

    Of course. All musical stories lead to Rick Ruben.

  • @bensfixitpage341
    @bensfixitpage341 Месяц назад +1

    God bless Johny Cash

  • @dannybrezelhorner2715
    @dannybrezelhorner2715 29 дней назад

    I actually love chicken in black I think it goes kinda hard and it's so unique and funny

  • @AsaGee-yw7ti
    @AsaGee-yw7ti 2 месяца назад +2

    WAIT IS THE TC NICK GUY!!!??!??

  • @anndennis7163
    @anndennis7163 29 дней назад +1

    Chicken In Black could have been done by Ray Stevens.

  • @jackcarter-to5gx
    @jackcarter-to5gx 27 дней назад

    Its funny how I loved chicken in black

  • @coyoteartist
    @coyoteartist 26 дней назад

    I always liked the Chicken song. It was a fun bookend song to Man In Black.