JOHNNY CASH SHOW, THE {LORNE GREENE, CASS ELLIOT, KRIS KRISTOFFERSON} (TV)
Summary
One in this series of music/variety programs hosted by Johnny Cash. Guests include singers Cass Elliot and Kris Kristofferson, and actor Lorne Greene.
Highlights include: Cash performing “Allegheny”; Kristofferson performing “Sunday Morning Coming Down” and “Loving Her Was Easier”; Cash and the Statler Brothers singing “Everybody Loves a Nut,” accompanied by Elliot; Elliot singing “Ain’t Nobody Else Like You”; Cash and Elliot singing “Act Naturally”; Cash singing “I Have Journeyed In This Land My Father Walked” and discussing the plight of modern Native Americans; Cash and Greene singing “Way Out West In the Old Days”; Greene singing “The Times They Are a-Changin’,” along with a message about change in the world; Cash singing “Sing a Travelling Song,” accompanied by the Carter Family; Maybelle and Sara Carter performing “You Are My Flower,” and accompanied by Cash, June, the Carter Family, and the Statler Brothers for “I’ll Be Satisfied”; and Cash singing “I Saw a Man,” accompanied by the Carter Family and the Statler Brothers. Commercials deleted.
Details
- NETWORK: ABC
- DATE: November 18, 1970 9:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:51:08
- COLOR/B&W: B&W Copy of Color Telecast
- CATALOG ID: B:77003
- GENRE: Music/Variety
- SUBJECT HEADING: Music/Variety
- SERIES RUN: ABC - TV series, 1969-1971
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Harold D. Cohen … Executive Producer
- Joe Byrne … Executive Producer
- Stan Jacobson … Producer, Writer
- Jack Thompson … Associate Producer
- Allan Angus … Director
- Merle Travis … Writer
- Garry Ferrier … Writer
- Aubrey Tadman … Writer
- Red Lane … Writer
- Bill Walker … Conductor
- Statler Brothers, The … Music Group
- Carter Family, The … Music Group
- Johnny Cash … Host, Performer
- Kris Kristofferson … Performer
- Cass Elliot … Performer
- Lorne Greene … Performer
- June Carter (See also: June Carter Cash) … Performer
- Maybelle Carter … Performer
- Sara Carter … Performer