Beverly Maher - Crescent City Blues video free download

illinoisben

cash did settle      with her out of court..

bobsolo55

I dont hear the similarity to Folsom Prison Blues.

Michael Barber

This song sucks....Cash fixed it.

Mazinombies

To anyone that has come here and noticed the similarity between this and Folsom Prison Blues, he payed royalties willingly due to him being inspired.

Francesco Renna

Hi Jan, it's Beverly Mahr :-)

NOTABOOS

Ridiculous graphics. Nothing to do with Beverly Maher.

wolfgang cotton

I always knew johnny cash was a thieving peice of trash. I bet he said he wrote Hurt too.

Austin Casey

Beverly Mahr was actually married to Gordon Jenkins. She sang on his "Manhattan Tower" album as well. A great singer... I'll take her over Johnny Cash any day of the week.

Dawn McShee

No doubt, Crescent City Blues and Johnny Cash's Folsom Prison Blues are one and the same.  However, imitation is flattery and  the ultimate compliment.  I really like Beverly Maher singing Crescent City Blues.  I also really, really like Johnny Cash singing Folsom Prison Blues.  Both versions are modern day classics today!

Phoebe Barnum

Johnny Cash stole this song from Gordon Jenkins. Notice the similarity of Crescent City Blues to Folsom Prison Blues, the images in this video do not go with the song.

oldskoolgamer

75K adjusted to 2014 est 500kJohnny done the right thing with this and the band members deal.There where lots of times they would also take another artists song that never made it and make it a hit.johnny,Waylon,Willie did this just to name a few.I read a quote from johnny cash that when he got in the song writing mood that he would listen to other artists and get ideas

TheStockwell

Some dates worth noting: the album this song was on made the Billboard Top Ten in late 1953/early 1954. Cash's song came out in December 1955. Cash wasn't stealing an obscure song by unknown artists. He was using a recent chart hit by one of Sinatra's arrangers. Cash's song didn't attract much attention at the time because country music didn't have the huge audience it would later have.Jump ahead to 1968: Cash's live Folsom City Prison concert is released in May. "Folsom City Blues" becomes a top 40 hit and THEN it becomes a big deal. Later, Cash had this to say about "writing" the song in the early 1950s:"At the time, I really had no idea I would be a professional recording artist; I wasn't trying to rip anybody off. So when I later went to Sun to record the song, I told Sam Phillips that I rewrote an old song to make my song, and that was that. Sometime later I met up with Gordon Jenkins and we talked about what had happened, and everything was right."Did Cash rip off Jenkins? Absolutely - and he paid Jenkins 75 grand as a result.Did Cash turn the song into a genuine Johnny Cash masterpiece? Absolutely - and you can't price on something like that.

Kurt Armbruster

Beverly MAHR and Gordon JENKINS, please. It's not hard to spell 'em correctly.

Ka Boom

Wow Johnny Cash pulled a Kanye West - He not only ripped off someone else's song but the words as well. Well at least Cash didn't go around declaring himself a genius after doing it.

Clive Marcus

I like Johnny Cash, but I'm surprised that he didn't end up in Folsom for this grand theft!!

badcanadian

Cash ripped this off.

Muzikman127

Thanks, it's nice to find out a little something about the mysterious voice on this recording. She really has a wonderful vocal sound

Haleanna Fulcher

It's so wonderful to find Bev on YouTube! :) If you like her voice, check out Angelica -Ella - Jenkins (Beverly and Gordon's granddaughter). Ella has a similar vocal quality to Beverly and she plays both Harp and Banjo, too. Good stuff. :) Married I Can Always Get is my favourite Beverly and Gor song. Ed- she is also the prominent female voice in Sinatra and Gor's Christmas album. I love that she follows me around each Christmas time. Miss you, Bev!

Ed Liss

I think she was also the soprano voice on the 1962 recording "All Alone" by Frank Sinatra. Her husband Gordon Jenkins did the arrangement & orchestration. Her voice was heard on the last line of the tune -- very beautiful and haunting to say the least.

David Christian

This is one occasion when Cash should not have listened to Sam Phillips, who allegedly told him not to worry about getting sued.

Johnny Cash

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