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Johnny's Paychecks Were Made Out to 'CASH'!
- Thread starter Joe Riley
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Now for the real Johnny Cash
Jane Morgan "A Girl Named Johnny Cash" on The Ed Sullivan Show
Thanks @Faye 2.0 That was in the back of my mind when I titled this thread!
Jane Morgan "A Girl Named Johnny Cash" on The Ed Sullivan Show
Thanks @Faye 2.0 That was in the back of my mind when I titled this thread!
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White Oak Mountain Ranger: Johnny Cash And Johnny Paycheck
"Somehow, the book about the Battle of Athens also takes us to another Johnny Cash story about a crooked Judge by the name of Sue Hicks. It was Judge Sue Hicks who let a murdering McMinn County Deputy off of a blatant home invasion and murder charge. DeRose writes: “Judge Hicks had gained fame as a young lawyer on the prosecution team in the Scopes Monkey Trial, testing Tennessee’s prohibition on teaching the theory of evolution. He was named for his mother, Sue, who died after childbirth, pursuant to her last request."
"Years later Hicks spoke at a judicial conference where author Shel Silverstein was in attendance. Silverstein thought about the challenges for a man with a women’s name (“I tell ya, life ain’t easy for a boy named ‘Sue’”). He wrote a song inspired by the Judge and later it was recorded by Johnny Cash, who sent Hicks an autographed picture: “To Sue, how do you do?”
"Now I always figured that Johnny Paycheck called himself Johnny Paycheck just to mess a little with Johnny Cash. But, with a minimal amount of research, the Wikipedian’s tell us different. Born Donald Eugene Lytle, Donald Eugene legally changed his name to Johnny Paycheck in 1964, taking the name from Johnny Paycheck, a top-ranked boxer from Chicago who once fought Joe Louis for the Heavyweight title. "