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Johnny Cash → Billy Edd Wheeler
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
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Billy Edd Wheeler
Jackson · 1963 · via Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash’s version · 1967
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.
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