I've lost all respect for Johnny Cash.

[baldguy]

http://www.aprilwinchell.com/multimedia/media/mp3/cash_german.mp3

[aquart]

1. Because he's dead?

Lots of people are dead.

[getoffmytrain]

2. I can't get it to play...

What'd he do?

[C_eh_N_eh_D_eh]

4. It sounds like "I Walk the Line" in German.

What's wrong with that?

[mopinko]

3. artists have to eat

you have to do stuff to eat. don't know what kind of purity you expect from your idols. but i think you should try to grow up.

[Momof1]

5. Johnny didn't do squat !!!!

In August of 03, John said the invasion of Iraq was a mistake that his grand children would be paying for, and I just found this on Rosannes site..

Dear Friends,

I hope by now everyone reading this column is a registered voter, and plans on going to the polls next month.

I cannot remember a more compelling election than the one we are currently about to participate in. I remember exciting elections, and boring elections, and elections where we all knew the outcome months in advance (poor Michael Dukakis), but I don't remember an election where so much was at stake, and where people who have never been interested in the electoral process before are now so passionately political.

Did I mention how much was at stake?

I read that Bush said that "God wanted to be president." This kind of comment makes my blood run cold. Anytime anyone, including the president of the United States, presumes to know the mind of God and uses that presumption for his own purposes, all my alarms go off. Red flags everywhere. As Lincoln said, and I paraphrase badly, "Let us not assume God is on our side, Let us hope we are on God's side".

The kind of thinking that leads one to declare that he knows what God wants and what God thinks and is certain that he is acting under divine Ordinance and Will, is exactly the kind of thinking that leads people to fly airplanes into tall buildings and kill thousands of people. Does that sound like a radical statement? Yes. Fundamentalism of any stripe is radical. Doesn't matter if it's Islamic, Christian, Mormon, or Judaic... fundamentalism is, by definition, intolerant at best, catastrophic at worst.

It is my opinon that we must get George Bush out of office. If he is given four more years, I fear that he will use it as a mandate to lead us to the edge of the apocalypse. As it is, our grandchildren will still be sorting out the disaster in Iraq, paying for the environmental regressions he has instituted, trying to extricate Halliburton from our energy policy, attempting to restore the finer points of the Constitution that have been trampled on by the Patriot Act, and still trying to get affordable health care. Just for starters.

I played at a fundraiser for John Kerry here in New York last week, and Geraldine Ferraro spoke to the guests for a few minutes. She was brilliant, and outlined the issues at stake in the most clear and reasoned way. I wish I could do as well as her here in this column, but I'm a songwriter, not a policy wonk.

All I can say is, please go to the polls. Please don't take our democracy for granted. If you love America, then VOTE. It is your moral obligation as a citizen of this great country to participate in the democratic process.

And take someone with you. And make it a woman! (Check out 50millionwomencount.org)

See you after the election!

Rosanne Cash

[GoddessOfGuinness]

15. Beautiful!

Thanks for posting that! :yourock:

[Momof1]

20. Your welcome.... Rosanne kicks some serious

ass.

But I'm just a CASH fan...lol

[Kenneth ken]

6. too bad for you then.

He was a good man who grew up poor, and never forgot that. Much of his music speaks of a desire for a just and fairer world.

Other than posting a link, why don't you delineate your reasons for your loss of respect.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

7. What do you have against Johnny?

He is one of Country's few good, talented, sincere, singers.

:eyes:

[pagerbear]

8. He spoke highly of you.

[Dookus]

9. because he recorded a hit in another language?

seems pretty cool to me.

Johnny will always be worthy of more respect than you or I.

[miss_kitty]

10. Don't forget those damned "Der Beatles!"

Sie liebt dich,
yeah, yeah, yeah
Sie liebt dich,
yeah, yeah, yeah
Sie liebt dich,
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Du glaubst sie liebt nur mich
Gestern hab' ich sie gesehen
Sie denkt ja nur an dich
Und du solltest zu ihr gehen

O ja, sie liebt dich
Schoner kann es gar nicht sein
Ja, sie liebt dich
Und da solltest du dich freuen

Du hast ihr weh getan
Und sie wuBte nicht warum
Du warst nicht schuld daran
Und drehtest Dich nicht um

O ja, sie liebt Dich,
Schoner kann es gar nicht sein.
Ja, sie liebt dich,
Und da solltest du dich freuen. Oooh!

Sie liebt dich, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Sie liebt dich, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Denn mit dir allein
Kann sie nur glucklich sein.

Du muBt jetzt zu ihr gehn
Entschuldig' dich bei ihr.
Ja das wird sie verstehen
Und dann verzeiht sie dir.

O ja, sie liebt Dich,
Schoner kann es gar nicht sein.
Ja, sie liebt dich,
Und da solltest du dich freuen. Oooh!

Sie liebt dich, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Sie liebt dich, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Denn mit dir allein
Kann sie nur glucklich sein
Denn mit dir allein
Kann sie nur glucklich sein
Denn mit dir allein
Kann sie nur glucklich sein!
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[argyl]

11. Flip side-"Komm Gib Mir Deine Hand".Used to have the 45.Spelling wrong,

I would bet.

[elperromagico]

12. The Beach Boys did it too. "Ganz Allein" was a German version

of "In My Room."

There was an impression in the late 50s and early 60s that American and English music wouldn't sell in Germany unless it was in German. And so, some of the big name recording stars of the era recorded at least a couple of their biggest hits in German.

Hell, Monty Python filmed a whole comedy show in German.

[No2W2004]

18. yeah I remember.....

did they do the "most dangerous joke" sketch, and if they did, then did they have to say the joke in English?

[elperromagico]

19. No, but they did do The Lumberjack Song in German,

with Michael Palin in lederhosen. Eric Idle has said that Palin looked like Hitler...

That's also where the infamous story about Monty Python's visit to Dachau comes from. It was near closing time at the camp, and the comedy team was being denied admission. Graham Chapman said "Tell them we're Jewish" and they were admitted.

[allalone]

13. I don't get it

why? and link won't work

[jdj]

14. It's him, it's really him.

The man in black singing in German. Amazing.

[No2W2004]

16. if it was recordings in different languages,

LOTS of artist had to do it.

Elvis had to
The Beatles had to
Jerry Lee Lewis had to (when he wasn't drunk or raiding the high schools)

[donheld]

17. His ghost never had any respect for you

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