Everybody Loves a Nut (song) explained
| Everybody Loves a Nut |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Johnny Cash |
| Album: | Everybody Loves a Nut |
| A-Side: | "Everybody Loves a Nut"
"Austin Prison" |
| Genre: | country, novelty |
| Label: | Columbia 4-43673 |
| Producer: | Don Law and Frank Jones |
| Url: | https://www.discogs.com/Johnny-Cash-Everybody-Loves-A-Nut/release/1882609 |
| Johnny Cash - Everybody Loves A Nut (1966, Terre Haute Pressing, Vinyl) |
| Website: | Discogs |
| Year: | 1966 |
| Accessdate: | 2020-05-07 |
"Everybody Loves a Nut" is a song written by Jack Clement and originally recorded by Johnny Cash on Columbia Records for his 1966 novelty album Everybody Loves a Nut.
Released in May 1966[1] as the second single (Columbia 4-43673, with "Austin Prison" on the opposite side) from the yet-to-be-released album,[2] [3] [4] the song became a U.S. country top-20 hit.[5]
Background and critical response
In this song Cash "proclaim[s] that the world likes people a little off center and slightly weird."[6]
External links
Notes and References
- Book: Peter Lewry. I've Been Everywhere: A Johnny Cash Chronicle. 2001. Helter Skelter. 978-1-900924-22-1.
May
"Everybody Loves A Nut"/"Austin Prison" (Columbia 4-43673) released. This is the second single to be lifted from the forthcoming Everybody Loves A Nut album and it will spend nine weeks on the charts in July and August, reaching a high of #17.. 49–50.
- Book: Steve Turner. The man called Cash: the life, love, and faith of an American legend. 1 November 2005. Thomas Nelson Inc. 978-0-8499-0815-6. ... and started recording a lighthearted album that appeared to be a deliberate diversion from all the morbidity around him. In the first ....
- Book: Nielsen Business Media, Inc.. Billboard. 23 May 1970. Nielsen Business Media, Inc.. 1–. 0006-2510.
Book: Standard Catalog of American Records, 1950-1975. 2000. Krause Publications. 978-0-87341-934-5.
Book: Tim Neely. Goldmine Standard Catalog of American Records: 1950-1975. 31 August 2006. Krause Publications. 9780896893078.
Book: The Johnny Cash Record Catalog. 1994. Greenwood Publishing Group. 978-0-313-29506-5. 8.
- Book: George Albert. The Cash Box Country Singles Charts, 1958-1982. 1984-01-01. Scarecrow Press. 978-0-8108-1685-5.
- Book: Joel Whitburn. Top Country Singles, 1944 to 2001: Chart Data Compiled from Billboard's Country Singles Charts, 1944-2001. 2002. Record Research. 978-0-89820-151-2.
Book: Joel Whitburn. Joel Whitburn's Top Country Songs: 1944-2005, Billboard. 2005. Record Research. 978-0-89820-165-9.
- Book: Johnny Cash. Johnny Cash, the Songs. 2004. Thunder's Mouth Press. 9781560256298. This song was followed by "Everybody Loves a Nut," also written by Clement, which has Cash proclaim that the world likes people a little off center and slightly weird..
