Tommy Cash

Tommy Cash, 1969

Tommy Cash (born April 5, 1940 in Dyess , Arkansas ) is an American country singer and musician .

Career

He watched his brother Johnny Cash, who was eight years older than him, play the guitar and initially played occasionally at school parties. At the age of 18 he joined the US Army and was stationed in Frankfurt am Main for a while, where he hosted his own radio show Stickbuddy Jamboree at AFN .

In the mid-1960s he appeared in army clubs and temporarily played together with Hank Williams Jr. In 1969 he had his first and biggest hit: Six White Horses , a song about the assassinations of Martin Luther King , John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy , which reached # 4 on the country charts and # 79 on the pop charts. This was followed in 1970 by two more top 10 hits, Rise And Shine (9th place) and One Song Away (9th place). Cash reached the top 20 with two other titles, 1971 with So This Is Love and 1973 with I Recall A Gypsy Woman . Cash's latest hit, She Met A Stranger, I Met A Train reached number 21 on the country charts in early 1974.

Discography

Albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)	Remarks
		Country
1969	Your Lovin 'Takes the Leavin' Out of Me	Country44 (4 weeks) Country
1970	Six White Horses	Country18 (22 weeks) Country
	Rise and Shine	Country37 (6 weeks) Country
1971	Cash Country	Country20 (7 weeks) Country
1972	The Best of Tommy Cash Volume 1	Country43 (3 weeks) Country

More albums

• 1968: Here's Tommy Cash
• 1971: The American Way of Life
• 1975: Only a Stone
• 1978: The New Spirit
• 1982: Cashin 'In
• 1982: All Around Cowboy
• 1983: Tommy Cash
• 1990: 25th Anniversary Album
• 1993: Let an Old Racehorse Run
• 1996: Solid Gold Country
• 1999: The Very Best of Tommy Cash
• 1999: Classics
• 2004: Special Edition
• 2004: Tribute to My Brother
• 2004: Rise and Shine
• 2008: Rise And Shine / Six White Horses
• 2008: Shades of Black
• 2008: Fade to Black: Memories of Johnny

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)		Remarks
		US	Country
1968	The Sounds of Goodbye	-	Country41 (9 weeks) Country
1969	Your Lovin 'Takes the Leavin' Out of Me Your Lovin 'Takes the Leavin' Out of Me	-	Country43 (11 weeks) Country
	Six White Horses Six White Horses	US79 (6 weeks) US	Country4 (16 weeks) Country
1970	Rise and Shine Rise and Shine	-	Country9 (14 weeks) Country
	One Song Away Rise and Shine	-	Country9 (13 weeks) Country
	The Tears on Lincoln's Face Rise and Shine	-	Country36 (9 weeks) Country
1971	So This Is Love Cash Country	-	Country20 (11 weeks) Country
	I'm gonna write a song cash country	-	Country28 (10 weeks) Country
	Roll Truck Roll The American Way of Life	-	Country67 (2 weeks) Country
1972	You're Everything The Best of Tommy Cash Volume 1	-	Country32 (11 weeks) Country
	That Certain One The Best of Tommy Cash Volume 1	-	Country22 (11 weeks) Country
	Listen The Best of Tommy Cash Volume 1	-	Country24 (11 weeks) Country
1973	Workin 'on a feelin'	-	Country37 (10 weeks) Country
	I recall a gypsy woman	-	Country16 (13 weeks) Country
	She Met a Stranger, I Met a Train	-	Country21 (13 weeks) Country
1975	The One I Sing My Love Songs Too Only a Stone	-	Country58 (9 weeks) Country
1976	Broken Bones Only a Stone	-	Country94 (4 weeks) Country
1977	The Cowboy and the Lady The New Spirit	-	Country63 (6 weeks) Country
1978	Take My Love to Rita The New Spirit	-	Country98 (3 weeks) Country

More singles

• 1965: I Guess I'll Live
• 1965: I Didn't Walk the Line
• 1966: Along the Way
• 1966: All I've Got to Show
• 1967: Jailbirds Can't Fly
• 1967: Tobacco Road
• 1967: I'm Not the Boy I Used to Be
• 1974: Will the Circle Be Unbroken
• 1974: Roller Coaster Ride
• 1975: Only a Stone
• 1976: She Is Beautiful
• 1976: She Still Has That Look in Her Eyes
• 1976: King for a Day
• 1977: Reach Out
• 1978: In Crowd
• 1979: I'd Be Better Off Alone
• 1979: When the Lovin 'Starts
• 1982: (I Used to Want to Be a) Cowboy
• 1983: My Mother's Other Son (with Tommy Jennings)
• 1987: Radio Lover
• 1990: Hank and George, Lefty and Me (with George Jones )
• 1990: Guess Things Happen That Way (with Johnny Cash )
• 1996: Man of Experience
• 2009: Ramblin 'child

Remarks

1. ^ Whitburn, Joel: Top Pop Singles 1955-1993. Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research, 1994, p. 96
2. ^ Whitburn, Joel: Top 40 Country Hits 1944-2006. 2nd updated and expanded edition. New York: Billboard Books, 2006, pp. 77f
3. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources: US

Web links

• Official website