Johnny Cash: When Uncle Bill Quit Dope
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Cash's show-opener from the January 13, 1971 episode of "The Johnny Cash Show." The title says it all except that he didn't write it himself, he gives credit to a Nashville songwriter apparently named "Dick Feller." Also includes Cash's trademark opening greeting, in response to a commenter's request. This one's for you!
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took some really really big balls to sing a song about Cocaine in 1971! The man!!!
why, what happened in the 70's?
Drugs happened
Steve Austin stay in drugs, schools.
Absolutely no one can tell a story like Mr Cash........no one RIP man in black
Johnny Cash was so talented .This is when country music was real country music
Thank you so much for posting this... I heard it on this show in 1971. I had just turned 17. I never missed a Johnny Cash show. I'd been hooked on JC since 68'. In the summer of that same year, I saw him live at the Illinois State Fair. It was the greatest moment in my young life. I don't think I sat down the whole night. Still maybe the greatest concert I've ever seen. No one like him, before or since...
Hey...I'm from Springfield Illinois!!
As relevant today as when recorded in the seventies perhaps more so .my hero JR Cash r ! P great man
When country really WAS good. Why can't there be songs like this anymore? This song is fuckin awesome.
I love Johnny Cash.
We all have a uncle Bill in our lives Thanks Johnny
As long as we are free.
I love this song!!...and I never heard it before, either.
Thanks so much for posting this!
@abargle I couldn't say, but he often writes for artists and situations, such as "Eastbound & Down" (Jerry Reed) for the movie, Smokey & The Bandit. He worked briefly as a contract writer for House of Cash, and this may have been during that time.
I always thought that Feller was one of the cleanest fingerpickers out there, and he's done a lot of session work in Nashville. A good example is his guitar work on "Makin' The Best of a Bad Situation", which you can find here on the 'Tube.
He was the man, Johnny Cash. Who else could have done this?
Great song!
he´s amazing. How can do such music, I love it.
Hi Abargle and Rockhard. Thanks for responding. Those suggestions make sense. I've never been to any shows like this and didn't think of that possibility. Thanks again. all the best. John..
U never hear this popular educational poetry anymore ... Its what our young people need :) Sooo many years, same old fuckin problems!
been there down that.
I can relate
@moproducer Do you know if he wrote this song specifically for Cash? Man, it sure sounds like it.
KEEP PRESSING 5!
0:00 dramatic chipunk
@thedayxyz SAME HERE!!! except my mothers brother Bill still does dope. with his arms he doesnt have a choice but to pop oxys. he got caught in a big machine years ago and it tore his muscels to bits. half his forearms are gone on both arms and i feel really bad for him. he jokes he cant even beat off anymore but it really isnt funny, my aunt is a witch too so i wouldnt blame him if he wouldnt quit if he could.
you go fknfrkshit!!! :)
music starts at 0:35
What he describes sounds more like heroin withdrawls.
Coke withdrawls are mostly mental and don't last as long.
You go crazy from doing it, not stopping it.
Lol,,,I will Never Smoke Weed with Willie anymore
@Alex16993 i beat that demon cocaine
As long as I live I won't forget when uncle bill quit dope. lol
I once nursed someone going through methadone withdrawals. Basically, he mostly laid in my arms, and he had convulsions, and he repeatedly lost and regained consciousness, and he talked several different kinds of nonsense. Some of it was very sexual, and some of it was about wanting to die. It wasn't anything like this song.
Yes they are.
Never heard this one before, Johnny was an expert on this subject!
Wow! This is fantastic! Thanks for posting!
BIG JOHN WAS NOT ONLY A GREAT SINGER HE WAS ALSO A SHOWMAN--GREAT PERSONALTY--WE ALL MISS HIM--JOHN
Why did he have to go?
He was tired. God called him home, to sing with his wife and mother.
@luxurytheme It is strange, but I'm guessing something happened out of camera range the Ryman audience saw that the TV audience didn't. Why would they hit the Applause sign in the middle of the song except maybe by accident, but I don't buy it.
Here's my guess. He had about a half a dozen new songs to learn every week--and this isn't one of his own compositions--so I'm going to bet he was glancing at cue cards, just a little too far away, to read the next lyric.
I Googled it and came up with this: Uncle Bill And The Cocaine (aka When Uncle Bill Quit Dope). Apparently kudos go out to Dick Feller, who wrote the tune. Thanks for keeping me honest!
Come on now, everybody play nice. We're all here for the thing we agree on, not the stuff we don't. Let's set an example for America the way Cash would want us to!
Haven't heard this song before. I thought i had heard all of Johnny Cash's songs. Johnny was bigger than life on stage, a great entertainer and definitely one of country music's legends.
What a terrible loss for all of us when Johnny Cash died; I miss him terribly, and I never had the good fortune to meet the man.
Actually, he was a guy who had been clean and sober for two years at the time of this performance.
Written by Dick Feller, but chances are Mr. Feller wrote it with Cash in mind!
I can't find the lyrics of this!! Sure that this is the real song's name?
I ♥you jhonny cash
thank you for the post great song
Not really. According to Marshall Grant in "I Was There When It Happened", the story of Johnny going completely clean in late 1967 was a myth. Grant claimed that Johnny continued to use pills - albeit in greatly reduced proportion - until sometime in mid-1970, after the birth of his son. It was only then that he went completely clean and stayed off drugs until 1977, when he allowed himself to become addicted again.
I've mentioned how Mom taped the Johnny Cash show on reel-to-reel. considering I was 7 when this was aired, somehow I think she cut this out of the tape. I hadn't heard the name "Paul Goebbels," then, and wouldn't for another decade, but she would have kept this song away from my impressionable ears the way Goebbels kept the truth about Max Schmeling's defeat by Joe Louis from the German people in 1938--by pulling the plug.
@luxurytheme Exactly. The producers of the Cash show wanted applause at every turn, including response to a song lyric or an instrumental break. I can tell you that it got to be annoying, because they would usually mix the audience so loud that you couldn't hear the music.
In this instance, the cue for the audience to affirm Uncle Bill's pledge came a couple of measures too late. But this was a not exactly unusual on the Cash show.
i think he just doesnt like that bit of lyric right there,
as long as i live i wont forget when uncle bill qit dope
its kinda a lame line for the last line of the chorus
youd want something more interesting for that slot
i think he just wants to improve the song
they where pumping out songs quik for this show
I'm from Germany and I like this song very much. But I don't understand one word in the sentence at 3:00. Could somebody tell me please what he is saying? Just write that sentence down and I'll be able to translate it.
"But I finally kicked that devils habit, I beat that ??? in cocaine." What is that missing word? I don't understand it. Thanks for answers! :-)
Hi Everyone. This is an addition to the question below. I noticed Mr Cash first looks up to his left at about 1.30 and then at the times listed below. To me his facial expressions appear to go quite dark as if he's upset by what he sees.
Thumbs up if you want the whole Johnny Cash Show - the full run - on DVD :P
I don't know, but Feller did write songs and pitch them to specific performers. Some of them, such as "Lord, Mr. Ford" (which had been written for Jimmy Dean), ended up being recorded by artists other than originally intended.
Thank you very much. :-)
Haha, I'd like to, but actually I'm not a Rammstein-fan. In my opinion that's no music compared to the great Johnny Cash. But any questions about german words - just ask. ;-)
That's one way of killing a drug addict Tara, you definitely have no idea how to cure a drug addict! You wouldn't say that if it was your father, brother or mother
Just great. At 2.07, 2.24 and 2.27 Mr Cash looks up to his left and something seems to upset him. Would anyone know what that might be or what he sees?
I beat it also.
NOOOO NOBODY SAID TO CLAP THEY TOLD THEM TO KEEP QUIET TELL HE STARTED TO PLAY--LOL GREAT JOHNNY CASH
@luxurytheme they were clapping for June whom entered stage left-everyone knew if she wasn't there the beloved Johnn would be gone
THis is NO BS, I have an Uncle Bill, He is my Mothers Brother, He is a Farmer in Minnesota, And He has done dope many times..
At 1:17 the crowd breaks into applause all at once. Hmmmm wonder if an applause sign turned on?
@luxurytheme I think the applause was for the beginnings of Uncle Bil's "Moment of Clarity" Only by the grace of God.
I love this song so much.
hey guys i love music and i need some advice... so if u can tell me any good country songs just give me a shout.
The lyric is "I beat that demon, cocaine." Now go decipher some Rammstein double meanings for us Americans!
i was just guessing, i didnt say im right and you're wrong.... but anyway you got a great attitude ;)
Man, can you believe he sang this on TV at that time?
Great song! LOL Hello type in "Ron Howard Palace" listen to Opie sing "Lady" and "Reason to Believe".
lol I didnt read ur comment but yea it sounds more like that heroin dope rather than coke
I'd loved to have met uncle bill lol
Great song. Very inspirational. JESUS is greater than dope.
I guess its because he starts singing the chorus. At 3:06 you got the same "mystery"
who else but john would have the courage to address the problem on t.v at the time
hi,
can somebody tell me what he's singin at 0:50? (his eyes ?? out in...) thanks
Feller was also a co-writer with Jerry Reed on "East Bound and Down".
No one can sing like Johnny about that kind of stuff, he was so great. You can't say you don't like Johnny's music, the truth straight.
some of us where uncle bill too.
so thank you Johny from all of us too..
MY OLDER BROTHER PLAYED LEAD WITH JOHNNY BACK IN THE 60s LOL
Why he had to go? He's the first person in line of people that i want to be revived!
Right - and he could keep up with Reed on a guitar, to boot.
my grandpa is named bill and his last name is cash.... o.o
This handsome devil .......... anything he sings is ACE. Love this.
Another awesome Cash song!...
At 1:27- 1:30 Johnny's looking at the cause.
Awesome! I`ve never heard this before!
I found one I haven't heard before --- yeah I won tonight! chicken dinner
do know how long it has been since found a song I haven't heard before ?--
1 year I think
he wasn't on cocaine. It was amphetamines.
the funny thing is I have an uncle Bill lol
Great story song!!
Johnny cash sounds like uncle bill
Dick Feller, a Missouri native, was fairly prolific in the 70s, writing hits for Sheb Wooley, Jimmy Dean, Tex Williams ("Miss Nancy Ann's Hotel"), Jerry Reed ("Lord, Mr. Ford"), John Denver ("Some Days Are Diamonds") and Cash ("Any Old Wind That Blows").
He had a few charted hits himself, including "Biff, the Friendly Purple Bear", "The Credit Card Song" and "Makin' The Best of a Bad Situation".
Feller made his network TV singing debut on the Cash show with "Georgia Clay".
obviously he wrote it about himself
Great Song!
great cool Johnny!
sounds more quitting h
sounds more like heroin
beat that demon hell ya
2 words for mr. cash......AWESOME AND AMAZING....and to all you HATERS out there NOBODY'S perfect!!!!!!!
withdrawls is hell,.
How about that, never heard this song before, and like all of Johnny's songs, it's a 10 out of 10.
0:15
Cocaine dream??