News you can use

Johnny Cash walks the Hi-Line

Today is Johnny Cash’s birthday, and perhaps Havre remembers the day the man in black graced a stage in Havre in January 1960.

A Havre Daily News article from 1960 announced a concert later that day that would fill the Havre Central gymnasium at St. Jude Thaddeus School with Havreites and Hi-Liners to watch Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Gordon Terry and The Tennessee Two.

Tickets to the KOJM Radio-hosted show were $1.25 in advance and $1.75 at the door.

The article’s biographical information on Cash included the following:

“Cash is a native of Rison, Ark. After high school he entered the Air Force and took up music seriously learning to play the guitar. He also began writing songs which later became some of his hits. He attended radio school in Memphis, Tenn. and auditioned for Spun Record Co. He later went with Columbia and now has his own music company.

“He first appeared regularly on The Louisiana Hayride in Shreveport, La., and in 1956 he went with the famed Grand Ol’ Opry of Nashville, Tenn. where he was a top attraction. In July 1948 Cash moved to California to further his career in television and motion pictures.”

The article lists his well-known hit songs as “I Got Stripes” and “Katy, Too.”

By that time, Cash had released “Cry! Cry! Cry!,” “I Walk the Line” and “Don’t Take Your Guns to Town.”

Three years after his 1960 Havre show, he would release “Ring of Fire.”

Cash died Sept. 12, 2003, a music legend.

 

Reader Comments(0)