Tommy Cash

Tommy Cash
Tommy Cash in 1969
Background information
Born (1940-04-05) April 5, 1940
Dyess, Arkansas, United States
Genres Country
Occupation(s) Singer-songwriter
Instruments Guitar
Years active 1968–present
Associated acts Johnny Cash
Website www.tommycash.com

Tommy Cash (born April 5, 1940) is an American country singer-songwriter and the younger brother of Johnny Cash.

Biography

Cash was born in Dyess, Arkansas, youngest of four sons and three daughters of Ray and Carrie (Rivers) Cash, and eight years after his brother, Johnny Cash. He formed his first band in high school. After high school graduation, he enlisted in the Army. While in the army, he was a disc jockey for the American Forces Radio Network.

After the Army, Cash played with Hank Williams, Jr., and later gained a record deal from Musicor Records in 1965. A year later, he joined United Artists Records and just missed the Country Top 40 in 1968 with "The Sounds of Goodbye."

In late 1969, while on Epic Records, he delivered his biggest hit, a tune dedicated to John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, entitled, "Six White Horses." 1970 saw a pair of Top Ten singles, "One Song Away" and "Rise and Shine", written by Carl Perkins. Cash's final Top 20 hit, "I Recall a Gypsy Woman," was released in 1973.

Cash continues to record albums and currently tours around the world.

Other interests

Cash is a licensed realtor in Tennessee, and an agent with Crye-Leike Real Estate Services in Nashville. He was listing agent for the sale of Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash's home in Hendersonville, TN after they both died in 2003.[1]

Discography

Albums

Year Album US Country Label
1968Here's Tommy CashUnited Artists
1969Your Lovin' Takes the Leavin' Out of Me44Epic
1970Six White Horses18
Rise and Shine37
1971Cash Country20
The American Way of Life
1972The Best of Tommy Cash Volume 143
1975Only a StoneElektra
1978The New SpiritMonument
1982Cashin' InBrylen
All Around Cowboy51-West
1983Tommy CashAudiograph
199025th Anniversary AlbumPlayback
1993Let an Old Racehorse Run
1996Solid Gold CountryCrazy Country
1999The Very Best of Tommy CashCollectables/Sony Music Special Products
ClassicsTomcat
2004Special Edition
Tribute to My Brother
Rise and Shine
2008Rise And Shine / Six White HorsesOmni Recording Group/Sony Music Australia
Shades of BlackInLight Records
Fade to Black: Memories of Johnny

Singles

Year Single Chart Positions Album
US Country CAN Country
1965 "I Guess I'll Live" singles only
"I Didn't Walk the Line"
1966 "Along the Way"
"All I've Got to Show" Here Comes Tommy Cash
1967 "Jailbirds Can't Fly"
"Tobacco Road"
"I'm Not the Boy I Used to Be"
1968 "The Sounds of Goodbye" 41 17 single only
1969 "Your Lovin' Takes the Leavin' Out of Me" 43 Your Lovin' Takes the Leavin' Out of Me
"Six White Horses"A 4 1 Six White Horses
1970 "Rise and Shine" 9 8 Rise and Shine
"One Song Away" 9
"The Tears on Lincoln's Face" 36
1971 "So This Is Love" 20 28 Cash Country
"I'm Gonna Write a Song" 28
"Roll Truck Roll" 67 The American Way of Life
1972 "You're Everything" 32 The Best of Tommy Cash Volume 1
"That Certain One" 22 34
"Listen" 24 48
1973 "Workin' on a Feelin'" 37 30 singles only
"I Recall a Gypsy Woman" 16
"She Met a Stranger, I Met a Train" 21 42
1974 "Will the Circle Be Unbroken"
"Roller Coaster Ride"
1975 "The One I Sing My Love Songs Too" 58 Only a Stone
"Only a Stone"
1976 "Broken Bones" 94 singles only
1976 "She Is Beautiful"
"She Still Has That Look in Her Eyes"
"King for a Day"
1977 "The Cowboy and the Lady" 63 The New Spirit
"Reach Out" single only
1978 "Take My Love to Rita" 98 The New Spirit
"In Crowd"
1979 "I'd Be Better Off Alone" singles only
"When the Lovin' Starts"
1982 "(I Used to Want to Be a) Cowboy"
1983 "My Mother's Other Son" (w/ Tommy Jennings)
"Forgotten Man" Tommy Cash
1990 "Hank and George, Lefty and Me" (w/ George Jones) 25th Anniversary Album
"Guess Things Happen That Way" (w/ Johnny Cash)
1996 "Man of Experience" single only
2009 "Ramblin' Kind" Fade to Black
  • A"Six White Horses" peaked at No. 79 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 72 on the RPM Top Singles chart in Canada.

References

  1. Tommy Cash - Crye-Leike, retrieved January 16, 2011
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