Johnny Cash "I Got Stripes" promo mono vinyl 45

Written by Charlie Williams, Johnny Cash
Produced by Don Law
Released July 1959 Columbia Records 4-41427
Recorded March 12, 1959, Bradley Film and Recording Studio, 804 16th Ave. South, Nashville, Tennessee
Johnny Cash [vocal/guitar], Luther Perkins [guitar], Marshall Grant [bass], Buddy Harman [drums], Marvin Hughes [piano]
Entered the Billboard Singles Chart on August 10, 1959, remaining for 20 weeks, peaking at #4. Entered the Billboard Hot 100 on August 3, 1959, remaining for 11 weeks, peaking at #43
July 6, 1959, Billboard Spotlight Winners of the Week: “Cash turns in two powerful tunes of his own cleffing. ‘Stripes’ is a ballad of a jailbird, set to a fine New Orleans rhythm beat, while the flip is the story of a flood and the troubles it breeds. Either of these grass-roots sides can go.”
July 18, 1959 The Cash Box Pick of the Week: “Look for Johnny Cash to make another big pop-country splash with his new Columbia twosome. The deep-voiced chanter relates the problems of a convict on the rhythmic, quick beat ‘I Got Stripes’ and of a flood on the slightly up tempo ‘Five Feet High and Rising.’ (From his ‘Songs of the Soil’ LP.) Terrific vocal and musical support for Cash’s affectionately light-hearted approach to the problems. Tag both for dual-mart ‘hitsville.’”

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