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(More customer reviews)By the mid-1970s, Johnny Cash was a veteran TV performer, and new how to keep a show humming. This disc follows an earlier show from 1976 that featured Johnny and June Carter Cash hosting a folksy, round-robin "guitar pull" in their spacious Tennessee ranch house.
The following year, Cash had a much glitzier, punchier production, trading his funky ranch home vibe for a big, shiny soundstage, decked out with a gigantic golden holly wreath and twenty-foot tall panels of frosted-glass snowflakes. This show, which broadcast on November 30, 1977, was also a tighter show, mainly featuring the seasoned cast of Cash's long-running road show: June Carter Cash, the reconstituted Carter Family, Carl Perkins and the ever-jovial Statler Brothers, and another appearance by Roy Clark, who helped anchor the previous year's Christmas show. Although there's plenty of holiday music and seasonal cheer, there's also a wealth of secular music -- Johnny and June sing a duet of "Darling Companion," and the second half of the show is devoted to a tribute to Elvis Presley, who had passed away a few months earlier. Along with Carl Perkins, Cash hosts other buddies from his Sun Records rockabilly years -- Roy Orbison is in fine form on "Pretty Woman," while Jerry Lee Lewis tears it up on a modernized "Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On," then slows things down for a sentimental reading of "White Christmas." Surprisingly, the Carter Family is kept mostly in the background -- Mother Maybelle wasn't in the show at all -- while Anita and the sisters only sang as part of a larger chorus. All in all, this is a lively, well-paced TV show, with a very sincere religious emotional core, sure to be a delight for Cash fans and country Christmas enthusiasts everywhere. Recommended! (DJ Joe Sixpack/Slipcue)
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Johnny Cash was a unique figure in the turbulent 1970s, outspoken enough to be embraced by the counterculture, and yet conventional enough to be safe for middle America. It was in this latter mode that Cash devised one of his most successful forays into television ever: The Johnny Cash Christmas Special. Now for the first time since the original airing on CBS is the Johnny Cash Christmas Special 1977 Program Listing 77: Christmas Time's A Comin' - Johnny Cash Darlin' Companion - Johnny Cash & June Carter Cash This Ole House - Johnny Cash & The Statler Brothers Blue Christmas - Johnny Cash & The Statler Brothers Here Comes Santa Claus - Johnny Cash & Roy Clark Frosty The Snow Man - Johnny Cash & Roy Clark Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer - Johnny Cash, Family & Friends Big River - Johnny Cash Blue Suede Shoes - Carl Perkins Oh, Pretty Woman - Roy Orbison Whole Lot Of Shakin' Going On - Jerry Lee Lewis White Christmas - Jerry Lee Lewis This Train Is Bound For Glory - Johnny Cash,Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison & Carl Perkins Silent Night - Johnny Cash, Family & Friends O Little Town Of Bethlehem - June Carter Cash Hark! The Herald Angels Sing - Johnny Cash,Family & Friends Children Go Where I Send Thee - Johnny Cash,Family & Friends
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