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June
You gave so much to this world
we�ll miss you, but you�ll live on in our hearts
and your light will shine forever
June
Carter Cash
-- singer, songwriter, actress, author and the daughter, wife, mother
and stepmother
of some of the brightest stars in the country music firmament --
died Thursday (May 15) at 5:04 p.m. at Baptist Hospital in Nashville
of complications from heart surgery. She was 73.
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June
23, 1929, in Maces Springs, Va., to Ezra J. and Maybelle Addington
Carter. Two years earlier, Maybelle -- with her cousin Sara and Sara's
husband, A. P. -- had joined several other acts in the
Virginia-Tennessee border town of Bristol to make a series of
recordings that would launch country music as a distinct commercial
art form.
Taught
by her mother to play autoharp, Carter gave her first public
performance in 1937 along with her sisters, Bristol
radio show. After the original Carter
Family
broke up in the early 1940s, she joined her mother and sisters to tour
and perform on radio as the Carter Sisters. In 1949, she teamed
up with the musical comics Homer & Jethro for a parody recording
of "Baby, It's Cold Outside." Although it was not her first
record, it was the first one to chart, reaching the No. 9 slot. The
following year, she made her Grand Ole Opry debut.
In
1952, Carter married fellow Grand Ole Opry star Carl
Smith,
who was then one of the hottest young acts in country music. Their
daughter, Rebecca Carlene, was born in 1955. She would later achieve
fame as Carlene
Carter
and gain her greatest prominence as a solo country artist in the early
1990s. June Carter and Smith divorced in the late 1950s. She then
married Rip Nix, a union that produced another daughter, Rosie.
Sn
New
York. This led to roles in such TV series as Gunsmoke
and Jim Bowie,
as well as a part in the 1958 movie, Country
Music Holiday.
Johnny
Cash's
road show in 1961. Cash had a No. 1 hit in 1963 with "Ring of
Fire," a song Carter co-wrote with Merle Kilgore. In 1967, Carter
and Cash scored their first duet hit, "Jackson." It went to
No. 2 on the country charts and won them a Grammy. They followed
"Jackson" a few months later with "Long-Legged Guitar
Pickin' Man," which climbed to No. 6. The two singers married in
1968. The next year, they won the Country Music Association award for
vocal group of the year. Their 1970 recording of "If I Were a
Carpenter" rose to No. 2 on the charts and earned them another
Grammy. That same year, their son, John Carter Cash, was born.
Carter
penned two autobiographies -- Among My Klediments, published in
1979, and From My Heart, which came out in 1987. She released
the solo album Press
On
in 1999. Her first such project since Appalachian Pride in 1975,
Press On won her a Grammy for best traditional folk album. At
the time of her death, she was recording an album for Dualtone
Records. She and Cash performed together last September at the
Americana Music Awards in Nashville. One of her last public
appearances was on April 7 in Nashville at the CMT
Flameworthy 2003 Video Music Awards,
where she accepted a career achievement award on behalf of her husband,
who had recently returned home after being hospitalized for pneumonia.
She underwent surgery on May 7 to replace a heart valve.
June
Carter Cash is survived by her husband, Johnny, daughters Carlene
Carter and Rosie,
son John Carter Cash, and step-daughters Rosanne,
Tara, Kathy and Cindy.
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June
Carter/Johnny Cash It's
All In The Family
1.
Losin'
You
2. Shadow
Of A Lady, The
3. Gatsby's
Restaurant
4. Once
Before I Die - (with Jerry Hensley)
5. L&N
Don't Stop Here Anymore, The
6. East
Virginia Blues
7. Gone
8. Appalachian
Pride
9. I
Love You Sweetheart
10. Another
Broken Hearted Girl
11. Big
Balls In Nashville
12. Nasty
Dan
13. One
And One Makes Two
14. I
Gotta Boy (And His Name Is Joe) - (with June)
15. Little
Magic Glasses
16. Miss
Tara
17. Dinosaur
Song
18. Tiger
Whitehead
19. Call
Of The Wild
20. Little
Green Fountain - (with June & Rosey Nix)
21. Old
Shep
22. Timber
Man, The
23. Mystery
Of Number Five, The
24. Ben
Dewberry's Final Run
25. Grandfather's
Clock
26. Abacida
27. Why
Is A Fire Engine Red?
28. Very
Biggest Circus Of Them All, The
2
LPs on 1 CD:
June Carter's APPALACHIAN PRIDE (1976) / Johnny Cash's
THE JOHNNY CASH CHILDREN'S ALBUM (1975).
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