The Johnny Cash Show had been on the air for exactly two weeks when Johnny Cash booked 22-year-old Linda Ronstadt as a guest. It was June 21, 1969. The show was taped at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. June Carter Cash sat in the house watching every rehearsal. Ronstadt had just put out her debut solo album Hand Sown … Home Grown. She arrived for rehearsal in a very short dress with nothing underneath. June noticed immediately.
June sent someone running to the nearest department store. According to hairstylist Penni Lane, “June noticed that Linda didn’t have any panties on, so she came running back to the dressing room saying, ‘Somebody get down the street and buy her some bloomers. She’s out there showing herself.'” Someone there ran to Cain-Sloan department store in Nashville and came back with a pair of underwear. When Ronstadt was told she’d have to wear it, her response was, “I sing better bare-butted.” June’s response: “Not in front of my Johnny.” Ronstadt put on the underwear. The show went on.
What Cash and Ronstadt produced when they finally got to the stage was something neither the wardrobe crisis nor the television format could have predicted. His baritone and her soprano found each other in the Ryman, and it sounded less like a TV performance and more like two people discovering a song for the first time. You can see Cash smiling at her. He knew exactly what had transpired just before the cameras began to film.
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Here’s what nobody mentions. The song they performed — “I Never Will Marry” — is about a woman who throws herself into the ocean because her lover’s gone. June Carter Cash sent someone to buy Linda Ronstadt underwear so she could sing a song about drowning for love with June’s husband. And here’s the part that makes it even better. “I Never Will Marry” was first recorded by the Carter Family in 1933 — June Carter Cash’s own family. June nearly canceled Ronstadt’s performance with her husband of a song her family made famous — on national television.
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Eight years later, Ronstadt recorded “I Never Will Marry” for her own album Simple Dreams — this time with Dolly Parton on backing vocals. It was the first time they ever recorded together. The Trio albums with Emmylou Harris came later, but this is where it started. Simple Dreams knocked Fleetwood Mac‘s Rumours off No. 1 after Rumours had held that spot for 29 weeks. It also knocked Elvis off the top of the country chart. Asylum Records released “I Never Will Marry” as a single in April 1978. Nine years after the Cain-Sloan run, it was on the radio.
Some things are worth fighting over. June Carter would probably agree.
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