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The Johnny Cash Christmas Specials 1976-1979 (2008)
Released By: Shout! Factory   Rating: Not Rated   In Theaters: N/A
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Studio: Shout! Factory
Genre: Non-Fiction
MPAA Rating: Not Rated
Director: N/A
Language: English
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Theatrical Release: N/A
Home Video Release: 10/7/2008
Cast: Johnny Cash
Published ID: 512273
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Plot: For his 1978 Christmas special, the third in as many years, Cash moved the usually Tennessee-based taping to Los Angeles, and, unsurprisingly, the program takes on a Hollywood feel. Guests include Kris Kristofferson and singer Rita Coolidge, both friends of the Cash family, who perform a heartfelt “Please Don’t Tell Me How The Story Ends,” and Steve Martin, one of America’s hottest new comics at the time. June Carter Cash, as always, performs with her husband, and other family members make appearances in this special as well. For the 1979 broadcast, Cash’s annual CBS Christmas special returns to Nashville for a program featuring his father, Ray Cash, and his older brother, Roy Cash, in a visit to the small home in Dyess, Arkansas, where Johnny and his siblings were raised. Guests include Canadian pop and country star Anne Murray (“You Needed Me”), who was enjoying the most successful period of her career, and country music’s Tom T. Hall, whom Cash introduces as “my very favorite songwriter” before Cash and Hall launch into a medley of Hall’s hits “(Old Dogs, Children And) Watermelon Wine,” “The Year That Clayton Delaney Died,” “I Love” and “Country Is.” The show’s comic foil is the late Andy Kaufman, who appears as his character Latka Gravas from the hit network show Taxi. The Johnny Cash Christmas Specials 1976-1979 4-DVD box set includes these two discs as well as the special from 1976 and 1977, previously released on DVD in 2007 by Shout! Factory. Taped from the family homes in Bon Aqua and Hendersonville, Tennessee, The Johnny Cash Christmas Special 1976 featured special guests Roy Clark, Merle Travis, Barbara Mandrell, Tony Orlando and Billy Graham. The Johnny Cash Christmas Special 1977 includes an all-star tribute to Elvis Presley with Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis and Roy Orbison, a selection of Christmas songs, as well as Perkins’s “Blue Suede Shoes,” Orbison’s “Oh, Pretty Woman, and Lewis’s 1957 Sun smash Whole Lot Of Shakin’ Going On.
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Added 11/16/2009
These Christmas specials are classics and have not only Christmas tunes but also hits during the seventies performed by not only country singers but those from a wide range of genres. We have a wide range of ages in our home ... from grandparents in their seventies, parents in their fifties/forties to two toddlers. Everyone loves these specials! These DVDs have given us more fun than we could have imagined.
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