Johnny Cash's Worst Song Saved His Career

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Johnny Cash is a country music star and legend. He was an artist at the same time as Elvis, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, Prince, Madonna, The Beach Boys, The Rolling Stones, Carl Lewis, Ray Charles, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Elton John, John Denver, Dolly Parton, and Billy Joel. They are different from new artists today, like Taylor swift, Luke Bryan, Zach Bryan, Luke Combs, Morgan Wallen, Carrie Underwood, Chris Stapleton, and Garth Brooks. Johnny Cash was also an actor, he was in movies, westerns, like John Wayne. To close, I will say, trending, tiktok, for you page, new trailers, video essay, like, subscribe, comment. That is all. Thank you to you the viewer who should not be reading this, and to the RU-vid Algorithm.

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@sidneyadnopoz3427 Месяц назад

Ngl, I always liked this tune. Yeah, it's dumb, and clashes with the rest of his material, but that's what makes it fun.

@tam11225 Месяц назад

Can’t argue with that. I always loved his lighthearted approach and Chicken in Black is filled with it lol

@davidaston5773 22 дня назад

I agree Sidney, it's surreal when you hear it for the first time, but, there were plenty of examples of Johnny Cash being creative or inventive. He was human. I seriously doubt he was the serious 'man in black' 24/7. If David Allan Coe can be serious or emotinal, despite being funny with his lyrics and singing, and if Waylon Jennings can write Waylonmore Blues, a song he admitted made no sense, then, why can't Cash parody his own legacy? Even John Lennon was known to have an eccentric sense of humour, while at the same time, making some heart breaking music. Besides, a chicken selling out a country venue singing Cash songs is pretty bonkers and funny.

@thatgirlray2765 20 дней назад

One piece of the time seems to be equally funny?

@sidneyadnopoz3427 20 дней назад

@@thatgirlray2765 that one's great oo

@seirbhiseach 19 дней назад

@@thatgirlray2765 I was gonna mention that one, along with Boy Named Sue and Starkville City Jail. Comedy and novelty songs are a pretty key part of his repertoire, just like they're an integral part of the genre.

@MetalCowboy7 13 дней назад

"I guess you guys aren't ready for that yet, but your kids are gonna love it" -Marty Mcfly

@sadguy399 11 дней назад

I was born in ‘05 and this absolutely applies to me. I used to jam to this song with my ex it was a blast!!

@lt.reubenrozeyt5716 15 дней назад

The song felt like a Weird Al song before Weird Al existed. I kinda liked it as a Johnny Cash fan.

@LegendStormcrow 13 дней назад

I immediately thought that when I came across it earlier today.

@bubbafug00gle51 12 дней назад

Weird Al was doing his thing for almost a decade before this song was recorded

@ZiggyTheHamster 11 дней назад

Weird Al had dropped two albums, one of which peaked at #17, before this song came out. And Weird Al had been doing music for many years as a cult classic before his first album came out. If anything, given Cash’s later collaboration with newer artists, I would bet that Weird Al served as an inspiration.

@cyka6blat989 9 дней назад

Oh, so like a Tom Lehrer song

@hypnotised-clover 8 дней назад

Wait wait, when do you think Weird Al came into existence? You really show your confident ignorance here.

@strateupgamr7 11 дней назад

Chicken in Black clucked so Hurt could cry.

@strateupgamr7 11 дней назад

Also, that clip at the end made me tear up. "Looking back on all that you've done, do you have any regrets about what you've done?" *"I used to, but I don't [anymore], I've forgave myself. When God forgave me, I figured I better do it too. So, uh, everything's alright now."*

@skrudrvr 10 дней назад

Met him once. I was a photographer's assistant in Nashville in the 80s. Another photographer was renting our studio for a photo shoot. I was in the tiny dressing room and I felt a presence behind me. I turned around and Johnny was standing there holding a suit on a hanger. He asked, "Can I hang this here?" I said, "Oh of course." That was the extent of our interaction but I new I had been in the presence of greatness.

@hendo337 26 дней назад

I like this song, unironically, every song he wrote didn't have to be serious, he was a deeply Christian man, he had children, I believe he liked children, I think wanted to make some more songs that were very of their time, topical, funny, lighthearted fare that a father could play around his family without Johnny singing about cocaine and shooting people just to watch them die. Johnny's sense of humor may have been a touch off, however you must remember he took amphetamines, stimulants , sedatives, pain killers and drank for years. He relapsed many times and the song may have been the result of a manic state however, it was relatively harmless fun. I like this song.

@cassiusmb 16 дней назад

Wanna kiss

@joegibbskins 16 дней назад

I mean he also made songs like “One Piece at a Time”, “Flushed from the Bathroom of your Heart”. Heck even something like “Cocaine Blues” is essentially a joke song. He loved joke songs and they were successful for him. The chicken one is a little goofy but not really even that much of a stand out from some of the comedy songs that have been in country radio except that it’s Johnny Cash singing it and not someone like Ray Stevens. People confuse the popular image of Cash as Rebel throwing a middle finger at the Nashville authorities and the Nixon White House, or the deeply Christian moralist singing about the darkness in life, and what Cash actually was, which is all those things and more because the man had a hugely successful career in popular music that lasted half a century

@Lemmon714_ 15 дней назад

Cash was a great artist, but he was not a good guy. The same with Haggard and Paycheck.

@matcha6710 10 дней назад

The fuck does him believing that a dead dude came back 3 days later have to do with this goofy song

@joegibbskins 10 дней назад

@@matcha6710 woah someone’s discovered Reddit

@thecatnipfarmer 18 дней назад

"when god forgave me i figured i better too.", that got me like a bag of bricks

@Pigness7 17 дней назад

Amen

@OrgaNik_Music 2 дня назад

if you hear the voice of god, seek psychiatric help

@BillyCobbOfficial 14 дней назад

That snapshot of him shaking the hand of an inmate with the same hair as him at 3:26 is iconic

@JOSEPHEROPKIN-wr7co 13 дней назад

Love your work

@carlosemilio5180 12 дней назад

wiliam corncobb himself

@scotchrobbins 10 дней назад

That's Glenn Shirley. He wrote the last song on the At Folsom Prison album, "Greystone Chapel".

@nicholasstilley2370 25 дней назад

I don't know if I just have bad taste but I think chicken in black is a straight banger

@thecausalgamer7916 17 дней назад

No, it means you have the opposite means you have great taste

@CyberCaed 15 дней назад

It is a great song

@cisium1184 14 дней назад

I like it. And I like people who don't take themselves too seriously.

@RealNickTheCoolest 14 дней назад

I think it’s great, this is just a clickbait title for views. Dude obviously has no idea what he’s talking about because a lot of people think it’s a good song.

@JoJoJoker 12 дней назад

Cash despised this song.

@brycehill6678 16 дней назад

I'm surprised you didn't mention his time with the highwaymen. That is some of his best work, during a time that most consider his worst time.

@aros77777 14 дней назад

We will never have a super group like that again

@hisaceinthehole3426 13 дней назад

Agreed. Highwaymen songs were great records! Thats like doing a story on orbsion, but not mentioning his time as a member of the traveling wilburys.

@crnkmnky 12 дней назад

☝🏿

@dg8522 11 дней назад

Self titled is a banger

@UnnecessarilyReal 15 дней назад

You know he had a great career if chicken in black was his worst song

@Rockstaralan 18 дней назад

And how, um, interesting that this video completely bypasses even the briefest mention of Johnny's commercially unsuccessful 4-year association (from 1987-91) with Mercury records, whom he signed with directly after being dropped from Columbia. To be honest, that might've added just a little more depth to the context of the story. But with that glaring omission aside, the vid was otherwise 100% on point! And by the way, as someone who fondly remembers "Chicken In Black" from when I was a kid in the 80's, it's actually pretty hilarious IMO - even if it wasn't necessarily on par with the best of his work! Thanks for taking me back!

@mikeisernie 16 дней назад

Add to that...people really do give Rick Rubin credit for getting Cash to start experimenting with pop covers but the Mercury records show Cash was already doing that.

@MrWesleyDP 12 дней назад

I also think those Highwaymen albums and tours are an important part of the story too. He was playing with friends and reminding the world that he could still be relevant. I think there is a clear line from those albums, their "outlaw country" nature, the approach taken to make them, and American Recordings I.

@averydaisyz 26 дней назад

I'm a sucker for stupid random songs that don't fit with anything else the artist has made. and this song is no exception. but learning about the symbolism in the song really helps me get a new appreciation for it. Also, its really nice to see people who aren't older into Johnny Cash. makes me feel not alone haha

@tam11225 26 дней назад

Love to see it! Keep his music alive

@hendo337 26 дней назад

He made silly songs, Boy Named Sue, One Piece at A Time...come to mind, he wasn't adverse to a joke song.

@MarkTheGun 16 дней назад

What are some other ones you know about? I can’t really think of any. Some might say David Bowie’s The Laughing Gnome would be, but it really isn’t all that different from the rest of the music he was putting out at the time

@RyanMcKennaGosling 27 дней назад

Great video. I came here to see that "Chicken in Black" song and the music video since it's going viral on TikTok rn.

@michaelcraig9449 24 дня назад

Tik tok was created for one purpose, in China. To bring down the USA! To put viruses into computers, and steal information about the US. Every time some idiot clicks on tik tok that is what is happening!

@georgesekavec1020 16 дней назад

Yeah wait when did this happen I went on TikTok for the first time in a bit and was very surprised to hear this song of all things thanks world of t shirts

@RyanMcKennaGosling 16 дней назад

@@georgesekavec1020 Yeah people were doing a trend where a person was doing one for their animals. Its fun!

@MordredSimp 27 дней назад

I should check out that Johnny Chicken Show tbh

@zgSH4DOW 13 дней назад

The only thing cooler than announcing a robbery is doing it in song I loved this track immediately

@dondamon4669 15 дней назад

Really shows his sense of humour and without the video wouldn't of been seen as so silly and it's catchy as hell and tbh I'd love to see a whole sitcom series of the "Manhattan flash" 'cmon stick em up im robbing this bank"

@sabineb.5616 25 дней назад

Thanks for this video! I didn't know about "Chicken In Black" . But I have been a Cash fan since I saw him as the singer and murderer Tommy Brown who was hunted down by Inspector Columbo in the episode Swan Song. But then I lost track of him for a few decades. When his great work with Rick Rubin came out, I thought it was better than everything Cash had done before! Rick Rubin and Cash had stripped away all the ridiculous trappings of country music. There was just a man with a still powerful voice and his guitar. This work totally changed our perception of Johnny Cash. It’s great that it happened before he died.

@tam11225 25 дней назад

Thanks so much! I’m glad you enjoyed

@sabineb.5616 25 дней назад

@@tam11225 , thanks for answering 😀

@rexliraii3962 10 дней назад

Left out a large 10 year or so, chunk in the middle! The highwaymen were a great boost in his life

@jr2904 Месяц назад

Great video so far! I'm not the biggest country fan, and I'm casual when it comes to Johnny Cash, I think he's great. This makes me appreciate him more, thank you!

@forslavjo 10 дней назад

I'm only 1/3 the way through your documentary and I love it. Please keep up the good work!

@ogami1972 5 дней назад

Very well done! The tone of narration, the montages, all really great work.

@Predator20357 День назад

I can’t believe that there could’ve been a timeline where Chicken in Black was the final song that Johnny Cash made.

@littlebrav0856 15 дней назад

Wow, I can't believe you've only got 2.5k subs, I thought from the production quality you must've had millions. Keep up the good work

@tam11225 15 дней назад

❤️

@Peter-fu7jl Месяц назад

This is great, just subbed!

@tam11225 Месяц назад

Glad you enjoyed :)

@jefferywilson1840 21 день назад

The song was crazy but funny,Thanks for the music Johnny!

@KAZVorpal 6 дней назад

What always amused me the most is the idea that the brain transplant would leave him still even slightly "him". In reality, his body would be inhabited solely by the robber. And his consciousness, not just singing, would be in the chicken. This is even more insane than the idea of trying to fit his brain in a chicken's head.

@natink1454 21 день назад

I've just started on his music and it's one of my favourite songs, ngl.

@andymassingham 15 дней назад

Chicken in black is a great alternate video to Hurt, just play the video at 0.75 speed. Totally works.

@davidg1612 14 дней назад

I know a reasonable amount of Johnny's songs but I never heard of this. The thing to say about this is you can't say he didn't have a sense of humor. Lol

@captainstabbin4172 Месяц назад

Nice vid mate!

@OceanlinerDesigns 20 дней назад

This was awesome!

@tam11225 20 дней назад

Thanks so much!

@unperson5713 12 дней назад

Thank you for sharing.

@mayas4625 27 дней назад

Love that tiktok has taken the song and ran with it

@jonvia 3 дня назад

To all up and coming musicians, and creatives in general, keep your publishing!!! Dont sell your music for pennies to a label when you can keep your publishing rights and work the music yourself!

@JohnSparkmanandBlackTopHerd 13 дней назад

great job!

@careful__Icarus 13 дней назад

Metallica wasn't signed to Columbia. They were on Elektra. A Warner Bros headed company. WEA, Warner,Elektra,Asylum. So Johnny's fears of being pushed aside on Columbia had nothing to do with Metallica.

@cyka6blat989 9 дней назад

Dude I personally fell in love with the song, because it got a good beat and funny lyrics man lol

@Fast_Eddy_Magic 15 дней назад

I have to go find this now. I need to listen to it.

@dondamon4669 15 дней назад

It's basically " a boy named sue" and if not for the goofy video wouldn't be considered such a silly song

@brianlauf2143 15 дней назад

Really good video

@thesaltnation5570 23 дня назад

Chicken in black is a great song its whacky and silly in the best way possible

@billfoster7951 14 дней назад

Nobody is cooler than Johnny Cash.

@murrayshekelberg9754 9 дней назад

He was good friends with my grandfather. Has dinner with him at my grandad's house several times as a kid. Friendly man but absolutely terrifying to me as a child. Wished I had spoke with him more

@travisjordan1528 17 дней назад

I wish you brought up John Fogerty getting sued by the label for CCR because he sounded like himself, could be another video idea though

@TheDude8008 13 дней назад

I love that I know what this is about just by having read the comments on that music video

@dylanacar3677 15 дней назад

This is such a fun song I loved it

@taddersauce3672 Месяц назад

This is quality!

@tam11225 Месяц назад

Thank you ! 🙏

@MrMetalclay 17 дней назад

I didn't know the song existed until today. It's funny and creative.

@mrvgsdoesstuff 12 дней назад

5:08 Metallica was never on Columbia in the mid-80's, they were on Elektra, the label that had the Doors, Queen (US distribution), & 2 Detroit proto-punk bands like the Stooges (with Iggy Pop) & MC5, Television (also influential for punk), TMBG, the Detroit punk bands were influential in the development of punk in which 80's UK bands like GBH & Discharge (which they play a faster form of punk) influenced Metallica.

@jimthetrainengineer2564 26 дней назад

What happened with Johnny's work with Mercury? It seems like you just skipped over that point in his recording history

@brandon2544 28 дней назад

What's the song in the background at the very beginning? I can't quite put a name to it

@hisaceinthehole3426 13 дней назад

It really isn't a song. It sounds like a higher pitched and looped segment of folsom prison.

@komaa4010 6 дней назад

he's a silly dood what a legend

@casey6556 4 дня назад

I stumbled across Chicken in Black thanks to RU-vid Music autoplay and honestly it was a delightfully funny contrast with his other material and showed him being able to make some fun of himself

@mallard_streamer3508 23 дня назад

I remember hearing this song on RU-vid for the first time a few months ago and thinking "what the heck is this, this is so silly" but it's a good silly

@nevermore1570 12 дней назад

His story is great I beileve there have been a lot of movies about it. It's sad he wasn't more famous for his time. When nowdays most consider him a legend

@atleegillette8013 22 дня назад

This is one of the greatest songs ever written

@yamato6114 17 дней назад

Honestly this song’s great. Funny story and catchy.

@marthwest Месяц назад

i got here from tcnick3

@BillLaBrie 8 дней назад

He had humility. That was his greatness.

@dondamon4669 15 дней назад

It's crazy how important labels were back then and how it was to promote yourself without them or even make a video

@timedwards8944 9 дней назад

I do understand what you are saying though 👍👍👍

@5roundsrapid263 9 дней назад

I think his video was filmed in the same bank where Ernest Goes to Jail was. I went in it 15-20 years ago, but it’s gone now.

@klausschnieder8070 18 дней назад

This was always my favorite Cash song.

@sylaswojciechowski2584 7 дней назад

12:40 Probably one of the most famous chairs

@kristinbryant6669 20 дней назад

This is a great song.

@theianmce 9 дней назад

Im so grateful for Johnny and his music, and for what Rick Rubin did for him.

@timedwards8944 9 дней назад

You could say something besides washed up he was never washed up..he could play his old stuff and make thousands he has never been washed up he could fill theaters and stadium's in a heartbeat on his own love uncle john

@cruncmcfuncle564 5 часов назад

I actually love this song. It’s fun.

@macsnafu 13 дней назад

I had to click to find out what Johnny's worst song was. And now I've got to find the video for The Chicken in Black!

@andrewmalcolm79 16 дней назад

Get 'em telt Tam!

@partytimejew3771 9 дней назад

I fell asleep to this song last night

@rustyrobinson8027 16 дней назад

I like it 👍🇺🇸

@despairthewumbo9804 10 дней назад

This is such a good ass funny ass song

@kentholle2166 6 дней назад

Johnny Cash decided to write and perform something he thought would be unreleasable and it still came out fun, catchy and as a sly dig at the suits. He was too talented for his own good, apparently.

@shawnedwards5369 15 дней назад

I loved "Chicken in Black."

@hypnotised-clover 8 дней назад

The band Klaatu, most famous for the whole Beatles theory in 1976, released an album to insult their record label which wanted them to make more "popular" music, so they made an intentionally bad album which featured songs that directly mocked their label, especially a song called "sell out", and it was their second last album ever released.

@anndennis7163 11 дней назад

Chicken In Black could have been done by Ray Stevens.

@crnkmnky 12 дней назад

5:01 I'm a little confused by the artists you've portrayed as receiving more attention from Columbia Records. Michael Jackson was signed to Epic, which is technically a _sister_ label to Columbia. Metallica signed with Elektra Records. Only Billy Joel was Johnny's labelmate at Columbia.

@818deadboys 11 дней назад

These type of channels ain't shit

@thehippo2211 16 дней назад

I told people to listen to this song because it was underrated. Then tiktok came around and that changed.

@tam11225 16 дней назад

As tik tok does 😞

@itsmxtwist 16 дней назад

I think it’s great that TikTok has brought some attention and appreciation to a lesser know song

@Oldfarmersgarage 2 дня назад

Johnny cash could make any song sound good. No matter how goofy

@jodythomas4324 6 дней назад

Rick Rubin is the reason more so than anyone for Cash’s late career success. Period.

@adamdavis4690 6 дней назад

I randomly sing this song sometimes

@Blitzkrieg_Wolf 8 дней назад

When an artist can make a deliberately bad song... and still have it slap, that is a definitive Hall of Fame artist right there. Love all of Cash's works and this song holds a special place in my heart, right next to "One Piece At A Time".

@HumbleBeeUK День назад

Do people think the song is trash because it doesn't fit his other songs? JUst listen to the full song, and listen to how the seocnd chorus (and then after) just decides to come in at total random. I'm no musician, but I have ears.

@bensmith8682 9 дней назад

"Washed up country artist" Are you fucking high?

@bensfixitpage341 15 дней назад

God bless Johny Cash

@jeffweyler6283 11 дней назад

What about the Highway Men?

@joenormanmusic 16 дней назад

Of course. All musical stories lead to Rick Ruben.

@jefferywilson1840 21 день назад

June Carter and the Almighty God saved Johnny from the world

@mastatheif9909 11 дней назад

I liked that song 😢

@IshijimaKairo 8 дней назад

"Intentionally atrocious" Chicken In Black is so "Bad" that it's good.

@ABtheButterfly День назад

And then 21 years his song became an Internet meme with people using their pets as a gun during the bank robbing scene I wonder how he would think about that I hope he would have a sense of humor about it I guess in long run even Chicken in Black had last laugh