Elvis Presley’s Dark Secret From Johnny Cash (Rare Footage)

Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash were they intertwined in a love triangle did Cash’s wife June Carter cheat on him for Elvis were they truly friends or did they hate each other well let’s get right into it where we’ll be revealing the entire story these music icons share surprising similarities revealing the truth behind their bond 706 Union Avenue in Memphis Tennessee marks the Genesis of rock and roll where Elvis kickstarted the genre by performing that’s all WR for Sam Phillips at Sun Records in

1954 in the same year Johnny Cash auditioned with Gospel tunes receiving advice from Phillips to go home and sin before returning with marketable material by the end of 1954 Presley and cash were both signed to the label Sun Records President John Singleton told the national I can’t say for sure what pop music would sound like today without a Sun Records in the ‘ 50s but there may not have been a Beatles or Rolling Stones I believe it would be hard to find a successful rock artist who was

not a fan of sun the first time cash met Presley Elvis was performing from the flatbed of a truck to sing for a couple hundred people at a drugstore opening at that time he had only released one single and was left with no choice but to play the same two songs his only songs on a loop it wasn’t much of a show so Presley invited cash and his wife Vivien to see his next con concert it didn’t go much better cash would write the date was a blunder because the place was an adult Club where teenagers

weren’t welcome and so Vivien and I were two of only a dozen or so patrons 15 at the most all the same I thought Elvis was great he didn’t say much he didn’t have to of course his Charisma alone kept everyone’s attention still cash came away impressed especially with prell’s underrated rhythm guitar playing cash could see that Elvis was destined for greater things throughout his life Johnny Cash felt a certain loyalty to the Elvis Presley he knew in the 1950s he wrote in cash the autobiography that

he much preferred Presley’s music when they first met over his popular later work which cash thought was overproduced he said my Elvis was the Elvis of the 50s he was a kid when I worked with him he was 19 years old and he loved cheeseburgers girl girls and his mother not necessarily in that order it was more like his mother than girls than cheeseburgers personally I liked cheeseburgers and I had nothing against his mother but the girls were the thing he had so many girls after him that whenever he was working with us there

were always plenty left over we had a lot of fun Presley his rock and roll songs and his hip shaking famously Drew hordes of enthusiastic girls but cash emphasized in his biography that Presley’s stardom was built on more than sex appeal Elvis was so good every show I did with him I never missed the chance to stand in the Wings and watch we all did he was that charismatic in the mid1 1950s June Carter in the country Trio of the Carter sisters went on tour with Elvis Presley took to playing Cash’s

music on the road in her 1987 autobiography from the heart Carter recalled a time when Presley was trying to tune his guitar and sang Cash’s early hit cry cry cry Carter recalled saying I don’t know Johnny Cash to which Presley replied oh you’ll know cash the whole world will know Johnny Cash he’s a friend of mine in June 1956 Carter and cash finally met at the Grand old Opry in Nashville Tennessee Carter wrote Johnny Cash took me by the hand and said I’ve always wanted to meet you it was

the strangest feeling he came over to me I was afraid to look him in the eyes it was one of the things I did Best I Never stammered and still found myself not able to say much of anything I think I finally blurted out I feel like I know you already Elvis plays you on the jukebox all the time and he can’t tune his guitar without humming cry cry cry now he’s got me doing it in 2008 John Carter Cash the son of Johnny Cash and June Carter released the biography Anchored In Love An Intimate portrait of

June Carter Cash in the book John addressed speculation that June may have had an affair with Elvis Presley he wrote throughout my life I would see Mom get a mischievous twinkle in her eye whenever she mentioned Elvis Presley her eyes would flash merrily and she would say you know son your father was always jealous of Elvis she even told me once that she sometimes wondered what would have happened if she had fallen in love with Elvis John Carter Cash speculated that there may have been more to his

mother’s speculation than idle fancy he wrote though mom always maintained that she never had an affair with Elvis Carl Smith her first husband believed differently and perhaps for good reason after Carl moved out of their Madison home mom would sometimes let Elvis stay at the house to rest after a tour on December 4th 1956 singer songwriter Carl Perkins headed to memphis’s Suns studio for a recording session a pre-fame Jerry Lee Lewis was there on keys and by pure coincidence Elvis Presley and Johnny

Cash both stopped by the studio the forsome then played a 23 song blend of gospel Blu grass and contemporary hits including Presley’s own Love Me Tender and don’t be cruel recognizing the unusual and now historic nature of this meeting of musical Minds Sun Records founder Sam Phillips alerted the Memphis press Scimitar the paper ran the story the following day complete with a photo of the four musicians captioned the million dooll quartet cash described the session in cash the autobiography writing I was the first to

arrive and the last to leave contrary to what has been written I was just there to watch Carl record which he did until midafternoon when Elvis came in with his girlfriend at that point the session stopped and we all started laughing and cutting up together then Elvis sat down at the piano and we started singing gospel songs we all knew though some have said that cash can’t be heard in the recordings he wrote that this isn’t true contrary to what some people have written my voice is on the tape it’s not

obvious because I was farthest away from the mic and I was singing a lot higher than I usually did in order to stay in key with Elvis but I guarantee you I’m there in 1959 Johnny Cash opened for Elvis Presley on a live tour he began with a slapstick hip swiveling Elvis impression and a rendition of the king’s 1958 hit Heartbreak Hotel then when Presley would enter the stage he would take his turn impersonating the man in Black Presley’s cash impression reportedly traveled offstage and on the

road according to Chuck chauli and George Klein’s 2010 book Elvis my best man Radio Days rock and roll nights and my lifelong friendship with Elvis Presley during Presley’s 1957 tour he was riding a train when a teenage girl approached him greeted him with an excited Johnny Cash and asked him to sing one of his Cash’s songs kleene wrote Elvis would never sing one of his own songs in that type of situation but for this little Johnny Cash fan he dropped his voice to its lowest notes and started singing a few lines of hey

Porter a song cash had cut at Sun that seemed especially appropriate for a midnight train ride the girl was thrilled and even ended up with an autograph from Elvis which read best wishes Johnny Cash the level of stardom that Elvis Presley experienced inevitably came with its share of scrutiny and although Presley was eager to shake his hips on the world stage he had a hard time with criticism of any kind and particularly the rumors about him using drugs as Johnny Cash noted in cash the autobiography Presley was very sensitive

easily hurt by the stories people told about him being on dope and so on I myself couldn’t understand why people wanted to say that back in the ‘ 50s because in those days he was the last person on Earth Earth who needed dope he had such a high energy level that it seemed he never stopped though maybe that’s why they said he was on dope cash went on to say that as far as he knew there was no basis to the rumors I never saw any evidence of it I never saw him use any kind of drug or even alcohol he

was always clear-headed around me and very pleasant cash himself didn’t see Presley as a bad boy or a contentious figure at all he wrote Elvis was such a nice guy and so talented and charismatic he had it all that some people just couldn’t handle it and reacted with jealousy it’s only human I suppose but it’s sad growing distance beyond the 1950s Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash went their separate ways in 2020 Cash’s son John Carter Cash told Express Elvis went on to make his films and some more music

later on and they never worked began together after the 1950s cash explained why in cash the autobiography he wrote he and I liked each other but we weren’t that tight I was older than he was for one thing and married for another and we weren’t close at all in his later years I took the hint when he closed his world around him I didn’t try to invade his privacy I’m so glad I didn’t either because so many of his old friends were embarrassed so badly when they were turned away at Graceland in the 1960s

and70s Cash’s occasional interactions with Presley were positive but professional and conducted from a distance cash recalled in his book he and I chatted on the phone a couple of times and swap notes now and again if he were closing at the Las Vegas Hilton as I was getting ready to open he’d wish me luck that kind of thing but that was about the extent of it Elvis Presley died on August 16th 1977 at the age of 42 that December Johnny Cash recorded the Johnny Cash Christmas special which

included an Allstar tribute to the king he was joined by the other two members of the million dooll quartet Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis as well as fellow Sun record star Roy Orbison the group then performed the gospel standard this train is Bound for Glory in Presley’s honor with cash saying he was a star and he always was a star because all of us remember him and how he loved gospel songs and how we liked him this song is for Elvis the special also included performances of three songs that Presley

had recorded cash teamed up with the quartet The Statler Brothers to perform Blue Christmas a song presle popularized in 1957 Perkins performed Blue Suede Shoes which he wrote and initially recorded in 1955 before Elvis covered it in 1956 Lewis performed whole lot of shaking going on which he popularized in 1957 and Presley covered in 1971 still a fan Johnny Cash was known for transcending the boundaries of genre and getting crowds ranging from devout Christians to prison inmates on their feet but by 1988 after three decades of

touring with countless rock and roll icons cash had his own idea of which artist had the best Stage presence the king himself cash said during a 1988 interview on The Late Late Show the best performer probably Elvis Presley I don’t think anybody could touch him cash expounded on just why Elvis stood out from the rest saying he had a lot of Rhythm he was a very good singer and he was a fabulous performer in the way he moved the people and not only the girls loved Elvis but every man backstage was standing in

the wings watching Elvis He had that Charisma one thing is certain we’ll never see the likes of Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley again subscribe if you love Elvis and Johnny Cash and click this video right here