Cry! Cry! Cry!
| Cry! Cry! Cry! | |
|---|---|
| Johnny Cash | |
| publication | 1955 |
| Genre (s) | Country music |
| Author (s) | Johnny Cash |
| Publisher (s) | Hi Lo Music |
Cry! Cry! Cry! is a country song by Johnny Cash , which he recorded with the Tennessee Two at Sun Records in 1955 under the production of Sam Phillips , which required 35 takes. The piece appeared as the B-side of Cash's first single Hey, Porter and peaked at number 14 on Billboard Country Songs .
Emergence
Cash wrote the piece because Phillips wanted a quick but sad song as the b-side for Hey, Porter . Cash took the title from a saying by country DJ Eddie Hill : "We've got some good songs, love songs, sweet songs, happy songs, and songs that'll make you cry, cry, cry."
The piece is very different from other ballads of the time. In Cash's song, for example, a man complains about a questionable woman, as Hank Williams had often done before. In addition, the protagonist goes to court with his loved one much harder than was usual at the time, especially with ambiguous lines of text such as "Everybody knows where you go, when the sun goes down" .
Success and covers
The piece became a nationwide success and made Cash known suddenly, so that he already landed a hit with his second single Folsom Prison Blues , which was not only well placed in the country, but also in the pop charts.
In 2005 Joaquin Phoenix played the song for the film Walk the Line . The scenes in which the song is played do not appear in the finished film, but only as "unused scenes" on the DVD accompanying the film. However, Phoenix's version of the song is included on the film 's soundtrack of the same name .
The song was also covered by Marty Stuart , Elvis Costello and Norah Jones, among others .
Remarks
- ^ Whitburn, Joel: The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits. 1944 - 2006. 2nd edition. New York, NY: Billboard Books, 2006, p. 74
- ↑ On the CW charts, Folsom Prison Blues reached number 5 on the bestseller charts; the title was not placed on the Billboard pop charts. Compare Whitburn, Joel: Top Pop Singles 1955-1993 . Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research Ltd., 1994, p. 95
swell
- Johnny Cash - The indispensable manual: story and songs compact by Peter Hogan; published by Bosworth Verlag 2008; ISBN 978-3-86543-290-2