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JOHNNY CASH - Transcription Discs 1956 -1959 - Voodoo Wagon

Johnny Cash by Duane Michals

A SILENT WAY SPECIAL

JOHNNY CASH 

AND THE ORIGINAL TENNESSEE TWO….
1956-11-12  COuntry Style USA Radio 
1956-XX-XX  Country Style USA Radio 
1959-06-28  Guest Star Radio 

LUTHER PERKINS: LEAD GUITAR
MARSHALL GRANT: UPRIGHT BASS

Silent Way says “ These are vintage radio broadcast transcription discs (at times you can “hear” the vinyl which adds flavor). The sound quality is amazing.

Unknown lineage- per original seeds "I received these many years ago in a trade and transferred them from cassette." _ I have yet to find any good information on the transfer process

1956-11-12  Country Style USA Radio (per http/www.otrsite.com/logs/logc1075.htm)
 1)   Country Style USA Intro
 2)    Hey Porter
 3)    I Walk The Line
 4)    “Join The Reserve For Youth Training Program” spot
 5)    Rock Island Line (Johnny says they haven’t recorded it yet)
 6)    So Doggone Lonesome
 7)    Country Style USA  Outro

1956-XX-XX  COuntry Style USA Radio 

 8)    Country Style USA Intro
 9)    Folsom Prison Blues
10)   Cry Cry Cry
11)   “Reserve For Youth Training Program” spot
12)   I Was There When It Happened
13)   Get Rhythm (“Our latest release on Sun”)*
14)   Country Style USA Outro

1959-06-28  Guest Star (best guess per http://www.otrcat.com/guest-star-radio-p-1350.html)
15)   Guest Star Intro 
16)   Country Boy
17)   Chat w/ Johnny
18)   Don’t Take Your Guns To Town
19)   Johnny Cash “Buy Savings Bonds” spot
20)   Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
21)   Guest Star Outro

Silent Way adds:
Originally seeded 2006 here http://www.thetradersden.org/forums/showthread.php?t=25346 in 2006 with incorrect / incomplete information.
shntools still match the original although these files have been tagged and renamed in tag & rename (2010? by myself)


Country Style USA was a radio program syndicated by the US Army Band and Recruiting Services and broadcast as a recruiting tool for them.          

Produced by the U.S. Treasury Department in the 1940s and 1950s as a public service program, Guest Star features a different often top-name "guest star" (singer, actor, comedian) each week to promote the sales of savings bonds

Previoulsy circulated with incorrect dates of 1958 & 1959. listening to talk n these and doing a bit of digging around determined to be earlier broadcast than originally circulated as

*13 . Get Rhythm " Our Latest Release on Sun" - recorded 1956
released as the B side of Walk The Line - April 2 1956

Difficult to pin down an actual date on this - the website  http://www.otrsite.com/logs/logc1075.htm starts at episode 39 broadcast 07-05-1956 - these would have been recorded at least a couple weeks before broadcast - it is very possible that a May - June 1956 recording date is correct here since that would be correct time in regards to a latest release


1959-06-28  Guest Star best guess per http://www.otrcat.com/guest-star-radio-p-1350.html


Yes you will find these programs for sale online , however these programs were produced by the US Government originally and as such have fallen into the public domain


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