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''The Johnny Cash Show'' was an American television music variety show hosted by Johnny Cash. The Screen Gems 58-episode series ran from June 7, 1969 to March 31, 1971 on ABC; it was taped at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee. The show reached No. 17 in the Nielsen ratings in 1970.〔 Cash opened each show, invariably preceding the first number with his customary "Hello, I'm Johnny Cash" greeting, and its regulars included members of his touring troupe, June Carter Cash (his wife) and the Carter Family, The Statler Brothers, Carl Perkins, and The Tennessee Three, with Australian-born musical director-arranger-conductor Bill Walker. The Statler Brothers performed brief comic interludes. An instrumental version of "Folsom Prison Blues" was used for the opening credits. It featured many folk-country musicians, such as Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Linda Ronstadt, Kris Kristofferson, Mickey Newbury, Neil Young, Gordon Lightfoot, Merle Haggard, James Taylor and Tammy Wynette. It also featured other musicians such as jazz great Louis Armstrong, who died eight months after appearing on the show.〔 ==History== Cash had been approached by ABC to host a television show after the major success of his two live prison albums, ''At Folsom Prison'' and ''At San Quentin''.〔 *〕The show started with an hour-long tryout offered by ABC as "a summer replacement for their Saturday night variety extravaganza ''The Hollywood Palace''."〔Kienzle, Rich (2007) "Notes for ''The Best of the Johnny Cash TV Show''" DVD Boxed Set (Reverse Angle Productions)〕 While Cash had a large degree of freedom, he "had to accept some compromises by hosting showbiz royalty like Bob Hope, George Gobel, Kirk Douglas, Burl Ives, Peggy Lee and Lorne Greene. They gave the show gravitas that satisfied both advertisers and the network".〔 The show was recorded at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium, then home of the Grand Ole Opry.〔 The show was conceived by Bill Carruthers, who also served as executive producer and director for the first season. Stan Jacobson was also a producer on the show. Myles Harmon was the program executive for ABC Television. The first show featured Joni Mitchell, Cajun fiddler Doug Kershaw, Fannie Flagg as a comic, and Bob Dylan. The show included a "Country Gold" segment which featured legends rarely or never seen on network TV such as Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys. Author Rich Kienzle suggests that as well as providing entertainment, the show operated as a "Country Music 101".〔 Cash persisted in the face of ABC "network anxieties" on several occasions. He refused to cut the word "stoned" from Kris Kristofferson's "Sunday Morning Coming Down", he stood by his Christian faith "despite network anxieties", and persisted in bringing on Pete Seeger whose anti-Vietnam War song on another network had "caused a firestorm".〔 He premiered his "Man in Black" song on an episode taped at Nashville's Vanderbilt University campus. In 1970, Columbia Records released ''The Johnny Cash Show'', a live album, as a tie-in with the TV series, though the record is not considered a soundtrack. The release is unusual as Columbia was affiliated with competing network CBS. Cash's version of Kris Kristofferson's "Sunday Morning Coming Down", included on the series, is included on the album and was released as a single, which was a major hit for Cash. One unusual taping occurred in 1971. Cash began the program assuming it was a regular episode. Moments after Cash greeted the audience, June Carter Cash came on stage and said she had a special guest. Ralph Edwards then joined the two on stage; as the audience erupted in a standing ovation, Cash realized that it was actually a taping for an installment of ''This is Your Life'' honoring him. The show was canceled in 1971 as part of ABC's involvement in the so-called "rural purge" in which all three major broadcast networks eliminated rural and older-skewing programs. The purge also affected ABC's ''The Lawrence Welk Show''. (However, on the ''Best of the Johnny Cash Show'' DVD, musical director Bill Walker contradicts this by stating that the cancellation was due to the federal government mandating that networks give up the first hour of prime time for local programming, which resulted in the series being cancelled. In 1976, CBS ran a revival of the show, ''Johnny Cash and Friends'', as a replacement series for four weeks from August 29 to September 20, 1976.〔http://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/the-johnny-cash-show/202417〕 The new show was taped at the newly constructed Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville. Aside from musical performances, this series also featured a greater emphasis on comedy, with Steve Martin and Jim Varney appearing as regulars, and with June Carter Cash performing several comedy routines as "Aunt Polly" (reviving a character she had performed early in her career). Following ''Johnny Cash and Friends'', an annual ''Johnny Cash Christmas Special'' series was launched, starting in 1976, with specials airing almost every year until 1985. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Johnny Cash Show (TV series)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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