Season 1

1969 · 32 episodes

Episodes

1Episode 1Johnny Cash sings 'Folsom Prison Blues', 'The Wall', 'Greystone Chapel' & 'It Ain't Me, Babe' (with June Carter Cash). Bob Dylan sings 'I Threw it All Away' and 'Livin' the Blues'; Joni Mitchell sings 'Both Sides Now'; Doug Kershaw sings 'Diggy, Liggy Lo'; Johnny & Bob Dylan duet on 'Girl from the North Country'.
2Episode 2Johnny Cash sings 'Hey Porter', 'Wreck of the Old 97', 'I've Got a Thing About Trains' and 'Wabash Cannonball'. Johnny & Gordon Lightfoot duet on 'For Lovin' Me'. Johnny, Dan Blocker & Joey Scarborough perform 'Folsom Prison Blues'. The Carter Family & Statler Brothers perform 'Swing Low, Sweet Chariot'. Johnny does a medley of 'Get Rhythm', 'There You Go', 'Still In Town' and 'The One On the Right is on the Left'.
3Episode 3Johnny Cash sings 'Rock Island Line', 'Cry, Cry, Cry', 'I Tremble For You, Darling Companion' (with June Carter Cash) and 'Wanted Man' (written by Johnny and Bob Dylan); Eddie Albert sings 'Green, Green Grass of Home'; Jerry Reed sings 'This Thing Called Love' and 'Blue Moon Over Kentucky'; Linda Ronstadt sings 'The Only Man That'll Walk the Line' and 'I'll Be Your Baby Tonight'; Johnny & Eddie duet on 'Detroit City', 'Sloop' & 'John B'. All join in for 'He's Got the Whole World in His Hand'.
4Episode 4Johnny Cash sings 'I Guess Things Happen That Way', 'Loading Coal', 'Dark as a Dungeon', 'Cocaine Blues', 'Blistered', 'Ballad of a Teenaged Queen' and 'You Beat All I Ever Saw'. Johnny & Buffy Sainte-Marie duet on 'Custer'. Johnny & Doug McClure duet on 'Cowboy Buckaroo'. The Cowsills duet with Johnny on 'Children Go Where I Send Thee'. Johnny & June Carter Cash perform 'Keep On the Sunnyside'. The Carter Family & Statler Brothers perform 'Lead Me Gently Home'.
5Episode 5Johnny Cash sings 'Folsom Prison Blues', 'Ballad of John Henry'. Johnny & Jeannie C. Riley duet on 'Bad News'. Glen Campbell & Johnny do a medley of 'I've Been Everywhere', 'By the Time I Get to Phoenix', 'Folsom Prison Blues', 'Galveston', 'Abilene', 'Arkansas', 'I Got Stripes' and 'I Still Miss Someone'. Johnny & June Carter Cash duet on 'Jackson'. The Carter Family & Statler Brothers perform 'These Hands'.
6Episode 6Johnny Cash sings 'Ring of Fire', 'Frankie and Johnny', 'Sing it Pretty', 'Sue', 'Johnny Yuma', 'As Long as the Grass Shall Grow', 'Ballad of Ira Hayes'. Ed Ames sings 'The Windmills of Your Mind'. Johnny and Ed duet on 'Love of the Common People'. Joni Mitchell sings 'The Gallery'. Johnny & Joni duet on 'The Long Black Veil'. The Monkees perform 'Nine Times Blue'. Johnny and the Monkees duet on 'Everybody Loves a Nut'. Roy Clark performs the 'Twelfth Street Rag'. The Carter Family & Statler Brothers perform 'Lead Me, Father'.
7Episode 7Johnny Cash sings 'Doing My Time', 'I'd Be Fool Enough to Try' & 'Billy Christian'. Dale Robertson sings 'Gentle on My Mind'. Johnny & Dale duet on 'The Wayward Wind'. Marty Robbins sings 'Devil Woman'. Johnny & Marty duet on 'The Streets of Laredo'. Lynn Kellogg sings 'When Papa Rolled His Own'.
8Episode 8O.C. Smith sings, 'Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay'. Johnny Cash sings, 'Big River', 'Country Boy', 'What Do I Care?', 'Freight Train Blues' and 'One More Ride'. Merle Haggard sings 'I'm a Lonesome Fugitive'. Merrilee Rush sings 'Everyday Livin' Days'. Johnny & Merle duet on 'Sing Me Back Home'. Carl Perkins sings 'Restless'. Bruce & David sing 'Shy Girl'. Johnny & June Carter Cash duet on 'Long-Legged Guitar Man'. All join in with 'Walk With Your Neighbor'.
9Episode 9Diana Trask sings 'Understand Your Man'. Johnny Cash & Diana duet on 'The Last Thing on My Mind'. Johnny Sings 'I Ride An Old Paint', 'Mean As Hell' and 'Shifting Whispering Sands'. Johnny and Pat Boone duet on 'Peace In The Valley'. Pat sings 'Train Of Love'. Tom T. Hall sings 'Worried Man Blues'. Johnny with the Carter Family & Statler Brothers perform 'Steal Away'.
10Episode 10O.C. Smith sings 'Friend, Lover, Woman, Wife'. O.C. & O.C. Jr. sing 'For Once In My Life'. Johnny, O.C. & O.C. Jr. perform 'Hickory Holler's Tramp'. Johnny sings 'Remember the Alamo', 'Strangest Dreams', 'The Big Battle', 'So Doggone Lonesome' and 'Seasons of My Heart'. Kenny Rogers & The First Edition perform 'Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town'. Melanie sings 'Baby Guitar'. Melanie & Grandpa Jones perform 'Silver Threads and Golden Needles'. Grandpa sings 'Mountain Dew'. June Carter Cash sings 'Tall Lover Man'.
11Episode 11The episode opens with Johnny Cash singing 'Three Feet High and Rising'; Then Lulu sings 'Morning Dew' and duets with Cash on 'Games People Play'; Fannie Flagg sings 'You've Changed'; The 'Ride This Train' segment features Cash singing 'San Quentin' and 'Give My Love To Rose.' John Hartford sings 'Tear-Stained Monologue' then jams on bluegrass medley with Cash and Norman Blake. Chet Atkins follows with a brilliant instrumental, then Cash recites a poem he's written to Atkins' accompaniment. The closing series of songs finds Cash essaying 'Wanted Man' then turning ...
12Episode 12Roger Miller sings 'I Got Stripes'. Johnny Cash duets with Odetta on 'Shame And Scandal On The Family'. Johnny sings 'Ballad Of The Blue And Gray', 'On The Line', 'Lornea' and 'Johnny Reb'. Johnny duets with Roger on 'King Of The Road'. Johnny performs an instrumental with Carl Perkins and The Tennessee Three on 'Outside Looking In' and 'Luther Played The Boogie'. Johnny with the Carter Family & Statler Brothers perform 'How Great Thou Art'.
13Episode 13Johnny Cash sings "Five Feet High And Rising", "Busted" and "A Boy Named Sue". Johnny & Charley Pride do a medley with "I Can't Help It", "Your Cheating Heart" and "Kaw-Liga". Ian Tyson & Sylvia duet on "Country Boy". "Mister Garfield" with the Carter Family & Statler Brothers perform "Pickin' Time".
14Episode 14Cass Elliott sings "Soft and Tenderly" and a medley of "Gentle On My Mind", "Born to Lose" & "Release Me". Johnny Cash sings "Going to Memphis", "Don't Take Your Guns to Town", "Hardin Wouldn't Run", "The Ballad of Boot Hill". Ramblin' Jack Elliott sings "If I Were a Carpenter", and "Take Me Home" (duet with Johnny Cash). The Staple Singers sing "We'll Get Over". Tommy Cash (Johnny's brother) sings "That Lucky Old Sun".
15Episode 15Johnny Cash sings "Folsom Prison Blues", "You're the One I Need", "I Walk the Line" & "This Land is Your Land". Roy Orbison sings "Cryin'". Johnny & Roy duet on "Pretty Woman". Creedence Clearwater Revival performs "Bad Moon Rising" & "Proud Mary". Phil Harris sings "Smoke, Smoke, Smoke That Cigarette". Johnny & Phil Harris duet on "That's What I Like About the South". Bobbi Martin sings "Your Cheatin' Heart". Johnny & June Carter Cash duet on "Jackson". Johnny with the Carter Family & Statler Brothers perform "Battle Hymn of the Republic".
16Episode 16Johnny sings "Folsom Prison Blues", "Ring of Fire", "If I Were a Carpenter" (with June). Arlo Guthrie sings "Highway in the Wind" & "Come on Little Children". Jose Feliciano performs "Muleskinner Blues". Bobbie Gentry sings "Fancy".
17Episode 17Johnny Cash sings "Country Boy", "Five Feet High and Rising", "The Prisoner's Song", "Peace in the Valley" and "Daddy Sang Bass". Glen Campbell sings "Sweet Country Girl". Marty Robbins sings "El Paso", "Running Gun" and "Big Iron". Nancy Ames sings "Tulsa Country". Johnny & Glen Campbell duet on "Papa Played the Dobro" & "Orange Blossom Special".
18Episode 18Johnny Cash sings "The Talking Leaves", "Trail of Tears", "South Wind", "I Still Miss Someone" and "Folsom Prison Blues". Dusty Springfield sings "Understand Your Man" & "Sugar Time". Johnny & Kirk Douglas duet on "I Walk the Line". Johnny & Rod McKuen duet on "Doesn't Anybody Know My Name?". Johnny and the Statler Brothers perform "This Old House". Johnny and the Carter Family perform "Johnny Yuma".
19Episode 19Johnny Cash sings "I Got Stripes", "He Turned the Water into Wine", "Flesh and Blood" and "Rock Island Line". Ray Charles sings "I Can't Stop Loving You" and "Them That Got". Neil Diamond sings "Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show". Tammy Wynette sings "I'll See Him Through".
20Episode 20Vikki Carr performs "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down" from "Nashville by Carr" (1970) LP.
21Episode 21Johnny sings, "Hey, Porter", "Jesus Was A Carpenter" and "Big River". Mama Cass sings, "New World Coming". Kenny Rogers and the First Edition perform "Something's Burning".
22Episode 22Johnny Cash sings "A Boy Named Sue", "The Devil To Pay", "Church In The Wildwood" & "Old Country Church". Johnny and the Carter Family & Statler Brothers sing "Preachin', Prayin', Singin'". Brenda Lee sings "Ballad Of A Teenaged Queen". Johnny duets with Roger Miller on "Home". The Carter Family, Statler Brothers & Carl Perkins perform "Greystone Chapel". Johnny, the Carter Family, Statler Brothers & Carl Perkins perform "Were You There".
23Episode 23Johnny sings, "The One on the Right is on the Left". O.C. Smith sings, "Son of Hickory Holler's Tramp" and "Moody". Hank Williams Jr. sings, "I Walked Out on Heaven". Johnny and June duet on "If I Were A Carpenter". Linda Ronstadt sings, "Will You Love Me Tomorrow?".
24Episode 24Johnny sings, "Lumberjack", "Timberman" and "Paul". George Gobel sings, "Sweethearts or Strangers". Merle Haggard sings, "The Fightin' Side of Me". Jeannie C. Riley sings, "Country Girl". Tommy sings, "Six White Horses".
25Episode 25Waylon Jennings sings, "I Guess Things Happin That Way" & "Bad News". Johnny Cash duets with Jackie DeShannon on "No Light Will Shine On Me". Johnny & Waylon duet on "Waylon's Back In Town". Johnny duets with Michael Parks on "Oklahoma Hills". Johnny sings "Land Of Israel", "He Turned The Water Into Wine", "God Is Not Dead" & "Rock Island Line". Johnny & June Carter Cash duet on "Love's Been Good To Me". Johnny with Carter Family, Statler Brothers & Carl Perkins perform "Seeing Nellie's Home".
26Episode 26Johnny Cash sings "Rock Island Line", "Long Black Veil", "I Got Stripes", "Walk With Your Neighbor" and "Six Days on the Road". Kenny Rogers and the First Edition perform "When I'm On My Journey", "Reuben James" and "Ruby". Roy Orbison sings "Pretty Woman", "So Young", "Cryin'" and "Only the Lonely".
27Episode 27Johnny sings "Sunday Morning Coming Down", "Six Days On the Road", "There Ain't No Easy Run", "Sailor On a Concerte Sea" & "Country Boy". Johnny does a medley With Patti Page of "Elusive Dreams", "Cross Over The Bridge", "Detour" & "Gentle On My Mind". Johnny with the Carter Family sings "Blistered". Johnny with Carter Family performs "Wanted Man". Johnny duets with Tony White on "Poke Salad Annie". All join in for "Smile On Your Brother" & "Ten Commandments".
28Episode 28Johnny Cash sings "Frankie's Man Johnny", "Po' Folks", "Wrinkled, Crinkled, Wadded Dollar Bill" and "What Is Truth". George Jones sings "White Trash" and "Pickin' Time". Bobby Goldsboro sings "Blue Moon Of Kentucky". Johnny duets with Judy Collins on "Turn, Turn, Turn". Flesh And Blood perform "You're The One I Need". Johnny & June Carter Cash perform "If I were A Carpenter" & "Jackson".
29Episode 29Johnny Cash duets with June Carter Cash on "South Wind". Johnny duets with Lynn Anderson on "I've Been Everywhere". Johnny sings "Goin' To Memphis", "Doin' My Time" & "Another Man Done Gone". Johnny does a medley with Burl Ives; songs include "Mary Don't You Weep", "Eating Goober Peas", "Lorena" & "Give My Love To Rose". Johnny duets with June on "Darlin' Companion". All join in for "Children Go How I Send Thee".
30Episode 30Johnny Cash sings "Delia", "Black Wind", "California Cotton Fields" & "In the Jailhouse". Chet Atkins does a medley of "Back Home in Indiana", "Country Gentleman", "Mister Sandman", "Wildwood Flower" & "Freight Train". Ricky Nelson performs "Come on In" & "Easy to Be Free". Loretta Lynn sings "I Know How". Johnny duets with Kris on "The Pilgrim". Johnny duets with June Carter Cash on "It Ain't Me Babe". Doug Kershaw duets with Johnny on "Louisiana Man". Johnny sings "No One Will Ever Know" and I'm Moving On".
31Episode 31Johnny Cash sings "Life is Like a Mountain Railway", "One More Ride", "As Long as the Grass Shall Grow", "Ira Hayes" and "Wreck of the Number Nine". Merle Haggard sings "New York City Blues" and "Nobody Knows". Brenda Lee sings "Higher and Higher" and "I Think I Love You". Charley Pride sings "Is Anybody Goin' to San Antone?". Johnny & Merle Haggard duet on "In the Jailhouse Now". Johnny & Brenda Lee duet on "Bad News". Charley Pride sings "Texarkana Baby". Johnny & Charley Pride do a medley of songs including "Long, Long Texas Road", "Abilene" & "Back To Houston". ...
32Episode 32Johnny Cash and his mother Carrie Cash duet on "Uncloudy Day". Johnny sings "Walk the Line", "Cry, Cry, Cry" and "Keep on the Sunny Side". Tex Ritter sings "Wayward Wind" and "Boll Weevil". Roy Acuff sings "Wabash Cannonball" and "Great Speckled Bird". Marty Robbins sings "The City" and "Don't Worry". Danny Davis & the Nashville Brass perform "Kaw-Liga", "Sweet Dreams" and "Columbus Stockade Blues". Johnny & Marty Robbins do a medley of "Cool Water", "I Ride an Old Paint" and "Streets of Laredo".