Johnny Cash → Billy Edd Wheeler → Elvis Presley

Before Johnny Cash ever sang "Jackson," one of the song's own writers made the first recording of it. Who was that writer?Billy Edd Wheelerlearned

Billy Edd Wheeler

Jackson · 1963 · via Johnny Cash

Everybody knows Cash's "Jackson," but Billy Edd Wheeler wrote it with Jerry Leiber and put out the first recording in 1963. Hear the writer's take, then go back to Cash and listen for what he kept.

Billy Edd Wheeler co-wrote "It's Midnight" with Jerry Chesnut. Which singer recorded it first, in 1974?Elvis Presleylearned

Elvis Presley

It’s Midnight · 1974 · via Billy Edd Wheeler

Same writer, different king: Wheeler and Jerry Chesnut handed "It's Midnight" to Elvis Presley, and he cut it first. Follow that and you've walked from Cash's corner of the store straight into Elvis's.