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Billy Edd Wheeler

Jackson

1963 · via Billy Edd Wheeler and 1 more · kept by 1

Billy Edd Wheeler’s 1963 recording of “Jackson” is the earliest release on file. Billy Edd Wheeler shares the writing credit with Jerry Leiber. Also recorded by Johnny Cash (released 1967), Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood (released 1967) and Jerry Lee Lewis & Linda Gail Lewis (released 1969), among 163 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.

Billy Edd Wheeler – Jackson
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Wheeler put "Jackson" on record himself in 1963, and Johnny Cash kept returning to it, solo and with June Carter. Start with the writer's take, then hear what Cash made of it.

Billy Edd Wheeler wrote "Jackson" with Jerry Leiber and cut it himself before Cash, Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood, or Jerry Lee Lewis ever got to it. Hear the writer's own take, then the hand-me-downs make more sense.

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Credited writers: Jerry Leiber and Billy Edd Wheeler.

Earliest release on file: this one, 1963.

Other recordings on file · first release year

163 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.

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Billy Edd Wheeler co-wrote "Jackson" with Jerry Leiber and was the first to record it. Which of these singers later took the song on?Johnny Cash
a knot from Billy Edd Wheeler · next: Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash made "Jackson" a duet staple, but it wasn't his song first. Which of its two writers made the first recording of it?Billy Edd Wheeler
a knot from Johnny Cash · next: Billy Edd Wheeler
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