Hey porter
| Hey porter | |
|---|---|
| Johnny Cash | |
| publication | 1955 |
| length | 2:10 |
| Genre (s) | Country music |
| Author (s) | Johnny Cash |
| Publisher (s) | Hi Lo Music |
Hey, Porter is a country song by Johnny Cash that he recorded with the Tennessee Two on Sun Records in September 1954 . The producer was Sam Phillips . The single Sun 221, released on June 21, 1955, was the first in Cash's long career. The B-side of the single was Cry! Cry! Cry! , which reached number 14 on Billboard Country Songs while Hey, Porter missed the charts. The piece was released again as a single in 1969; this time under Sun 1103 as Hey Porter together with Get Rhythm .
The lyrics are about a man who is homesick and travels by train from the north back to his homeland, the southern states, crossing the Mason-Dixon Line towards Tennessee . The text was originally written as a poem by Cash while he was in the Air Force and published in the Army magazine Stars and Stripes .
The song was also released by Ry Cooder on his second album Into the Purple Valley in 1972 .
Remarks
- ^ Whitburn, Joel: The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits. 1944 - 2006. 2nd edition. New York, NY: Billboard Books, 2006, p. 74
swell
- Johnny Cash - The indispensable manual: story and songs compact by Peter Hogan; published by Bosworth Verlag 2008; ISBN 978-3-86543-290-2