Maybelle & Sarah Carter on The Johnny Cash Show 

It's like seeing the Founding Fathers talk about writing the U.S. Constitution on a 1970s TV show.

there are a bunch of other performances, more significant is the one that John Cohen filmed of Maybelle and Sara Performing at the Carter Family old home together several years before this in part to decorate and commemorate Pleasant 's grave, or if someone can find film of it, the last known performance of AP, Sara, and Maybelle at the Jimmie Rodgers commemoration in Meridian somewhere in the 1950s that was seminal to the creation of the Country Music Association

He was being polite and appropriate with someone he knew was not comfortable with performing in a setting like this, someone he had respected since childhood and someone who was the sister of his mother in law. Maybelle was his mother in law, more importantly, she was the person who saved him from completely destroying his life from drug addiction, drinking and womanizing. At a certain stage he just came to her like she was his mother and did what she told him to put himself back together. There would not have been the Johnny Cash of the Johnny Cash show if it had not been for her making what we would call today an intervention in his life. She had enormous respect in the Nashville Country music milieu at that time both as a musician and someone with her head screwed on right, even though her career really fell so far that she worked for a while in Nashville as a nurse's aide in a hospital to make ends meet.

@@writerrad Maybelle was his mother in law, Not Sara

There is a much better video on Foilkstreams made by the late John Cohen of performances that Maybelle and Sara did at the Carter Family Fold in the mid 1960s when Sarah came East to decorate Pleasant's grave there.

Thanks for serving Gramps !

Thanks old vet this is awesome 👌

Sarah did not like performing in public period. She didnt like it, and did not care to do it after 1941. It was very awkward given the reality of a divorce between herself and Pleasant in the late 1930s, but even before then she did not like public performances. She was by all accounts quite happy, kept in touch with the rest the family, and even dropped in a few times to Va to check up on Pleasant, and she wrote a few songs that Maybelle and her daughters performed.

Tony Thomas Do you happen to know what some of those songs Sara wrote that the Carter sisters sang? I’d love to look into those

@@colinhaines6652 Railroading on the great divide is the only real example. You get the picture Sarah was pretty much glad to be out of the music business living a fairly comfortable life in California. She wasn't playing music or anything. She didnt trumpet that she had done this. One or two times when she mentioned she had been a recording artist to neighbors, they were shocked. This wasnt what she wanted to do apparently and perhaps it reminded her of her failed marriage to Pleasant

Tony Thomas yes, she was very happy out of the music business. I believe that for years her best friend Gladys in California had no clue she was a part of the Carter Family. I believe she still enjoyed music, no doubt, just not the business

@@tonythomas8937 She and her husband, Coy Bayes, drove cross-country, pulling a little trailer, to visit for a while with Maybelle and Ezra in Tennessee, then on to Virginia. I asked her once why she didn't move back and she said, "Well, I have a mother-in-law in California..."

He was pretty much rescued from drug addiction and alcoholism by Maybelle Carter and her husband, Maybelle and her daughters regularly performed with them

Mám je také ráda,ale zpěv Sáry se mi tady nelíbí

Lap board yes, it’s a shame though that Pleasant wasn’t there to sing with them. I know if A.P. Had lived just a few more years he would’ve finally seen his music become so popular again. He would’ve been very happy

she never liked it when they were in VA. She probably needed the money. She did this only three or four times including once in the mid 50s when she and Pleasant and Maybelle performed.

@@writerrad Probably right, and the money wasn't that great. The Cash show paid only minimum AF of M and AFTRA-SAG scale (like most other network programs, artists did the show mainly for the publicity value.) Even Merle Travis, who created and wrote many segments during the show's run, got only a couple of hundred bucks per episode.

sara did not like to perform in public, to be photographed or any of that, and was in a terrible marriage to Pleasant that she finally left. She did not seek to be an entertainer after the contractual obligations to Peer ended in 1942., She did not tell people she knew in California necessarily that she had been a singer or musician. She was glad to be away from to all accounts

@@writerrad That must have been hard for Janette and Joe. They stayed and founded the Carter Family Fold in keeping the promise to AP.

what happened to the first 3?

Ashley Godbee she is my 2nd cousin and namesake

If Maybelle is your 4th cousin, so is Sara.

poop!

I'll bet somebody is sitting on the full-color versions to everything, and as soon as they get released, these clips will get yanked! (Totally worth it)