The Man in BLACK and BLUEberry Hill
Today being the birthday of two bygone giants of popular music, I thought I’d do a bit of a musical remembrance, because one of them is one of my favorites, and the other may be one of yours (if you’re into the early days of rock ‘n’ roll).
I’ll start with the former: The Man in Black, JOHNNY CASH (2/26/1932–9/12/2003). I seem to recall doing a post on Johnny several years ago, so I won’t spend many words on him here. If interested in bio details, here a link you can check out:
https://www.biography.com/musician/johnny-cash
So let’s get to the music, beginning with a song which tells you something about where you’ll usually find me and my partner in time:
Speaking of doing time:
Here’s Johnny….cashing out this segment with wife June Carter Cash, in one of their hottest numbers:
We close with “Mr. Blueberry Hill” himself, FATS DOMINO (2/26/1928–10/24/2017):
Bio: https://www.biography.com/musician/fats-domino
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myplace3187 11:07 pm on February 26, 2020 Permalink |
Love your choice of the songs today. Fats Domino has a great voice for this song. They are all great singers in their own right !
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mistermuse 11:30 pm on February 26, 2020 Permalink |
June could certainly hold her own with Johnny, and Fats was one of the first musicians inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Great singers indeed!
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myplace3187 2:03 am on February 27, 2020 Permalink
Yes, I am very happy you agree with them being Great Singers indeed !
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calmkate 11:36 pm on February 26, 2020 Permalink |
love blueberry hill, wins hands down … didn’t know JCs wife was a singer too!
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mistermuse 11:54 pm on February 26, 2020 Permalink |
I love their singing together, but solo, June was a bit overshadowed by Johnny.
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calmkate 2:20 am on February 27, 2020 Permalink
well he has the name and fame 🙂
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Don Ostertag 11:40 pm on February 26, 2020 Permalink |
Two of the all time greats. I was fortunate to have worked Cash many times. Sometimes with June, sometimes with The Highwaymen. I saw the Fat Man in Vegas but never got to work him. He was the second singer to have a hit with Blueberry. The first was – Gene
Autry.
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mistermuse 12:03 am on February 27, 2020 Permalink |
Thanks for your interesting comment. I’m familiar with Gene Autry’s version of Blueberry Hill — I had it on an old 78 in my record collection. It dates back to 1940, but of course it’s not the oldest song on this post –OLD FOLKS AT HOME (by Stephen Foster) was composed in 1851.
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Garfield Hug 12:24 am on February 27, 2020 Permalink |
Both are legends and are still played on radio here. So regardless of age, we all learn of great song legends that lived. Their songs continues in our heart!
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mistermuse 2:06 am on February 27, 2020 Permalink |
I’m a muse-ic legend in my own mind, GH. Unfortunately, no one else knows it. 😉
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Garfield Hug 4:02 am on February 27, 2020 Permalink
I know it😉👍🤣🤣
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masercot 6:22 am on February 27, 2020 Permalink |
That was quite a thrill!
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mistermuse 12:11 pm on February 27, 2020 Permalink |
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Rivergirl 8:59 am on February 27, 2020 Permalink |
Love JC…. and still have his original Folsom Prison album!
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mistermuse 12:25 pm on February 27, 2020 Permalink |
Likewise, Rg. As I look over the songs on the album, I notice that “Jackson” (the 3rd song on my post, with June Carter) is also on the Folsum Prison album.
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Rivergirl 12:35 pm on February 27, 2020 Permalink
It is! Hotter than a pepper sprout..
😊
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Ashley 9:08 am on February 27, 2020 Permalink |
I think that the older Johnny Cash was the better he became and there is just NOTHING like Fats Domino on “Blueberry Hill” and he’s in the pink!
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mistermuse 12:40 pm on February 27, 2020 Permalink |
I think certain singers (like Cash) get better as they get older because they know better how to sing (Frank Sinatra perhaps being the prime example). A good voice (at least in the “old days”) would only take you so far if you didn’t know how to interpret a song and have a “feel” for it.
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Elizabeth 1:20 pm on February 28, 2020 Permalink |
The last Cash recordings give me the chills in a good way. I loved him throughout my life and also still have the LP from Folsom Prison.
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mistermuse 4:58 pm on February 28, 2020 Permalink |
It’s a great LP. I also have 7 other Johnny Cash LPs in my collection, which shows how much I like him, because I’m not a big fan of country music in general.
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Elizabeth 5:30 pm on February 29, 2020 Permalink
I never thought of him as country since I had decided I didn’t like country.
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JosieHolford 4:47 pm on February 29, 2020 Permalink |
“Cold empty bed, springs hard as lead
Pains in my head, feel like old Ned
What did I do to be so black and blue?
No joys for me, no company….”
Louis Armstrong, “Black and Blue”
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mistermuse 8:12 pm on February 29, 2020 Permalink |
Josie, I was wondering if someone would pick up on that Louis Armstrong classic, because I had it in mind when I thought of this post’s title. Congrats!
This song was co-composed in 1929 by another great black musician, Fats Waller, and Harry Brooks, with lyrics by Andy Razaf, who collaborated with Waller on a number of fine songs. Oddly enough, Waller never recorded the song….but Armstrong did, and the rest is black history.
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Silver Screenings 3:41 pm on March 16, 2020 Permalink |
Thanks for this. I haven’t listened to Johnny Cash much in recent years, and it was lovely to hear some of this music again.
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mistermuse 5:31 pm on March 16, 2020 Permalink |
You’re welcome, SS. I enjoy Johnny’s duets with June just as much as his solos.
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