Johnny Cash was born February 26, 1932, in Kingsland Arkansas, to Carrie Cash and Raymond Cash (Glickman). He made his first single,"Hey Porter",for Sun Records in 1955. In 1958 he moved to Columbia Records (Carlin). He had long periods of drug abuse during the 1960s, but later that decade he successfully fought his addiction with the help of singer June Carter Cash who he married in 1968 (Johnson). In 1971 he appeared in the western A Gunfight with 'Kirk Douglas'.Cash made a few films but quite a few appearances on television, both in series and made for TV films and was especially effective as a rural Southern sheriff in the 1930s determined to bring to justice a wealthy landowner who committed murder because he believed he was above
