More Cash, Fewer Panties
A Second Look At The Best of Johnny Cash Show On DVD
Because of the email I’ve received about the Johnny Cash TV Show DVD featured in Heck of a Guy Recommends Cash - Best of Johnny Cash Show On DVD, today’s post focuses again on this entertainment gem.
The Heck of a Guy DVD Diner Luncheon Menu - Today’s Specials:
1. For the musical gourmands among our guests, we’re offering a pictorial smörgåsbord with screenshots of most of the performances on the DVD arrayed in groups of complementary tastes
2. For the more adventuresome, Chef DrHGuy has prepared a spicy Linda Ronstadt episode, served either with dressing (specially purchased for this dish) or, in an extra zesty version, sans panties with a side of June Carter Cash Remonstration providing a piquant counterpoint
The Visuals From The Johnny Cash Show
From Left to Right
Top Row: Joni Mitchell and Johnny Cash, Marty Robbins, Creedence Clearwater Revival
Middle Row: Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Louis Armstrong and Johnny Cash
Bottom Row: Kris Kristofferson, Glen Campbell, Ray Price, Stevie Wonder
From Left to Right
Top Row: Carl Perkins, Eric Clapton, & Johnny Cash; Carl Perkins1
Middle Row (Far Right): Neil Young
Bottom Row: Tammy Wynette, James Taylor,2 Pete Seeger
From Left to Right
Top Row: Loretta Lynn, Neil Diamond, Conway Twitty, Roy Orbison
Middle Row: Hank Williams Jr and Johnny Cash, Chet Atkins
Bottom Row: Bill Monroe And His Blue Grass Boys, Tony Joe White and Johnny Cash, Ray Charles
From Left to Right
Top Row: George Jones, Merle Haggard,3 Waylon Jennings4
Bottom Row: Jerry Lee Lewis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Jerry Lee Lewis5
Johnny Cash, Linda Ronstadt, June Carter Cash, And Linda’s Missing Panties
The Narrative
By Penni Lane, hairstylist on the Johnny Cash Show:
The Storyboard
Top Row (Left): Penni Lane (hairstylist for the show) narrates
Top Row (Middle): Linda Ronstadt and Johnny Cash embrace
Top Row (Right): Linda Ronstadt and Johnny Cash prepare to chat
Bottom Row (Left): Linda Ronstadt, presumably wearing bloomers, cautiously seats herself
Bottom Row (Right): Johnny Cash spells “R-O-N-S-T-A-D-T”
Top Row: Johnny Cash discovers Linda is from Tucson, Arizona, notes that he likes to hunt jackrabbits in that area, and asks Linda if she participates in the same sport
Bottom Row (Left): Linda answers hat she can’t bring herself to pull the trigger (note left hand used as visual aid)
Bottom Row (Right): In response to Johnny’s explanation that he actually doesn’t like killing the rabbits, just hunting them, Linda observes that it’s all right to kill the bunnies
Top Left: Johnny sings with Linda enthralled (repeat X30)
Bottom Left: Johnny administers quasi-chaste kiss to Linda’s cheek
Between Top Left and Bottom Right: Singing in sub-optimal conditions (i.e., not bare-butted), Linda’s musical expressions run gamut from A to B
Footnotes
- An unsolved mystery is why Carl Perkins, who one assumes had a steady salary as a regular on the show, chose to wear a toupee that couldn’t cost more than $7.22 ~back~
- This was the first appearance of James Taylor on national TV, and, in case you’re wondering why I chose a shot with his eyes closed, as far as I can determine, he sang the entire song with his eyes shut ~back~
- This is Merle before he was haggard. ~back~
- Yep, Waylon was once this young - but still scary ~back~
- The only reason I can discover that The Killer’s piano playing gyrations on the show are heralded as spectacular is that he gave the same incredible performance a few hundred times in a few hundred other venues ~back~
