Johnny Cash - Ballad Of The Teenage Queen

From the Christmas show, 1978
note: Audio went a little bit out of sync after KZbin's processing

[@SamNieztsche]

I wish Johnny Cash was still alive. In my honest opinion, he was one of the greatest musicians to ever live.

[@692ALBANNACH]

THAT VOICE ?WHAT MORE CAN ANYONE SAY.

[@felicitymaemble3681]

I'm from africa country'n grew up with country music. Been listening Jonny Cash in my teen time. Love this memory of the icon Johnny. RIP

[@omsirock]

now this is some real music !! i will always have respect for johny !!

[@thaaargler]

Great song. Brings back memories of my teen days in the long ago. And my teenage queen who went away. But she never came back to me.

[@goddessswarrior]

I think this is the best version of this song. Look at how happy Cash is!! I was in love with that girl incidentally

[@95emmalee]

this is my favorite song of all time!

[@LaVerne37]

I found this gem at the neighborhood Woolworth's...I walked all the way home to get enough money to purchase the record...and all the way back...I just loved/love this classic gem!!! Many thanks for posting...

[@packingten]

MY HERO!!! I Loved Johnny Cash, I played his Records when I was 5 or 6 over and over one of his biggest fans... RIP Johnny& June

[@GenericGene]

One of my favorites - we will miss him -

[@Grifiki]

The very first song I ever heard cash sing. June 1959. Then I bought an LP. All his old "Sun Recordings" Six feet high and rising. The Indian? etc...

[@BigOldScout]

This is truly one of the greatest songs Johnny Cash wrote.

[@MrGrandad4]

I absolutely love this song and have since I first heard it in the1950s. I saw that great movie Walk the LIne and was annoyed this song didn't feature. Thank you so much

[@kevinpeterson1398]

It's 2021 and this song is still better than 90% of the songs being played today. Country music died with Mr. Cash. I'm happy I got to see him in concert. RIP Johnny.

[@definitelynotanalt9157]

Its 2024 now, still holds true

[@kaKarlee13]

My grandpa told me that Johnny cash wrote a song about a girl like me, then he proceeded to sing it.

[@starfire746]

Johnny Cash is still my favorite. His voice is music. As the previous writer stated Johnny Cash's voice is gold. He is still remains as the greatest musicians ever.

[@LaVerne37]

Priceless clip...FIVE BIG OL' STARS!!! :)

[@evetsgolb]

We were blessed to have his great songs to make life a bit more "agreeable"..They sure don't make them like Johnny,Waylon, Marty Robbins ...anymore do they?

[@starfire746]

Johnny Cash thee greatest and still King of Country.

[@Alex.Kalashnik]

This is a truly good old song! Thank God for Johnny Cash!

[@w00tbeerisgood]

Hearing his voice on radio or itunes or youtube, it can bring tears to your eyes thinking he passed away. :_(

[@lennybuttz2162]

This has always been one of my fav Cash songs. When I was little I would play this record over and over until I knew every word. I almost wore that old 45 out.

[@thefrisquette]

The great great Johnny Cash.....with her marvellous wife,June Carter

[@LaVerne37]

100% AGREEMENT...I wore this record out!!! Wayne in Texas....I'll be at the candy store!

[@mkl62]

The first #1 Country & Western song by "The Man in Black" in the Rock Era. It was the twenty-third #1 C&W song in the Rock Era. Johnny Cash would soon become a breakout star on the Country Music scene.

[@LaVerne37]

And thank God we have Johnny doing this live...it doesn't get any better than this!!! Wayne in Texas....dream on, dream on....

[@ApocalypseKurtz]

This song is so addicting

[@215jami]

I was in foxhole in 66 and the man I was with told me about the Teen Age Queen from Scotsbluff Neb. His name was Bill and he was all Marine and in love with the Teen Age Queen.

[@townonhill]

A Johnny Cash GREAT this one

[@silvislav]

Beautiful live show

[@andywebb7630]

One of Johnny's greatest songs😁

[@sweetwilly]

Hypnotic.

[@BigOldScout]

That is the first Johnny Cash Song I remember listening too. I thought it was cool then and it is great now. The Best was when he sang that with many other great songs at my home towns county fair back in '84

[@CashPresley32]

You can say that again. I love Johnny Cash's music and always will, but don't forget four others, Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis and Roy Orbison.

[@CoronaTheFatCat]

its sad hes not still here today sharing his amazing voice with us.

[@starfire746]

Johnny Cash is still number one.

[@19960215]

I love the boy next door working at the candy store too. Well, it's not EXACTLY next door, but it's close, it's not EXACTLY a candy store, but they have candies :-], I'm not EXACTLY a teenage QUEEN, but I'll be, soon, I know it, and I don't EXACTLY love him,, but still...

[@DingusStudley]

That's good that he sang it to you before he passed. It'd be pretty creepy if he sang it to you after.

[@mattfraser9]

Great quality upload for the time, great performance, great song.

[@chezfun]

Nice one to find and send to Shey Shey....thanks Way Way!!

[@carbinbane380]

I like how this is a late 70's performance but it sounds like the original recording from the late 50's. When artist from the 50's or 60's would perform songs from that era in the70's they often would sound nothing like the originals due to them being re arranged by just natural progression due to them being performed for many years, but its nice to hear this in its almost original presentation.

[@CashPresley32]

I am way into Johnny Cash.

[@bubbah671]

johns smile wow.

[@sauquoit13456]

On this day in 1958 {January 21st} Johnny Cash performed "Ballad of a Teenage Queen" on the late Dick Clark's 'American Bandstand' One month later on February 3rd it entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; eventually it peaked at #14 and spent 19 weeks on the Top 100 And on the very day it entered the Hot Top 100 it reached #1 {for 5 weeks} on Billboard's Hot Country Singles chart 'The Man in Black' passed away on September 12th, 2003 at the age of 71 R.I.P. Mr. Cash and Mr. Clark {1929 - 2012}

[@didsburyduck]

Brilliant, clever, unique composition, and one of Cash's finest recordings. So lightweight and yet so beautifully crafted. Reputed to be Mick Jagger's favourite song and recording. Why isn't it universally known? Make it the backing track of a commercial ad, someone!

[@Lightney]

he's happy. he's yellow and he's in love what else does he need? hey i also love the girl described in the song, take away the candy store and you have it (:

[@PrinCessCcutie]

i love this song! it is so sweet! just like the candystore the guy worked in. lol!

[@WindowsAreCool99]

Moral of this song is if a girl likes you and your not as popular. It doesn't matter because a person loves you because they like your personality. Not of your looks.

[@Robatzen]

I love this song ...

[@tiagoamaral6370]

The legend

[@Ultramarmac]

me and pop drive around a lot and on his CD he has this song we love it

[@CoronaTheFatCat]

"Other boys could offer more, but she loved the boy next door, who worked at the candy store."

[@gwynnfindlay5223]

This is so nice of you to write this, thank you for taking the time to care about both of these really special men. They live on as long as people like you are around to keep the memory alive. God bless you.

[@michaeldunning1688]

Brings back some old memories..

[@LoveRalphos]

Let me be your teenage queen! =D

[@rafhenlow]

So have I. On a comp. cd. I think. Good version.

[@markbadgett7419]

He truly loves to sing this song

[@emile235]

mind blowin man just mind blowin

[@19960215]

Dream on, dream on, teenage queen 8->

[@c4shFan]

more and more ppl should be into johnnycash -_- oh well JohnnyCash Fans FOREVER!!!! =)

[@ConfusionPlace]

AMEN brother!!!!!

[@xxravenxx411]

I love it!!!

[@bevnewham8072]

bought fantastic 3cd,of j cash in tesco £3,well worth it.

[@mortician54]

THIS WAS REAL TREAT.... THANKS

[@chuckieinmt5094]

With love for my girlfriend from the summer between 9th & 10th grade, who's parents owned the Marion Store...

[@LaVerne37]

I'm glad he didn't abandon this cross-over hit...it is a wonderful video....THANKS for posting....he looks great and sounds great....great backup singers.....do I have to tell you more? EXCELLENT!!!

[@markbadgett7419]

The only music star that sounds better live than in a studio.

[@Mikael909]

so true!

[@RideMyBMW]

amazing!!! youtube : "James T Bravo"

[@bevnewham8072]

fab song,fab voice

[@IronMonkee]

Probly in a better mood

[@yourmomsrevenge]

9 people need to stop smoking crack, thumbs up

[@rustyoneify]

U GOT THAT RIGHT

[@kozmocramer24]

he also dose this with a woman can't remember your name but thats the one without the back up singers and this on is a bit faster to.go johnny R.I.P

[@Champ675]

AMEN!!!!!

[@arkyron1947]

@whitmerdude Johnny recorded this in 1958 way before Rodney Crowell,BTW he's a great singer also. It was on both charts Country and R&R.

[@zaaritha]

So good, but there is another version wich also is great!

[@kylemyers6105]

good good song

[@LoveRalphos]

Let me be your teenage queen! =D (en natuurlijk ook de knapste die je ooit hebt gezien :)

[@coletteconroy]

my fav by the man in black

[@leeperryismerry]

he died 12th September 2003

[@RideMyBMW]

Love Cash`s Christmas Specials. Great job dude! BTW, check out my cousin`s version of "Teenage Queen" (youtube search) : "James T. Bravo"

[@CashPresley32]

It was not written by Johnny, it was written by Jack Clement.

[@stew771]

what a reat old song written by Cowboy Jack Clement...

[@definitelynotanalt9157]

Haven’t been a comment here in a minute

[@TheWhitehall]

The soundtrack sounds like the recorded version.

[@dakabje]

@TheStubbleking Cool how a not so fasinating story can actually be fasinating :) ( no idea how to spell that :))

[@sathina1]

so much better than the shit singers make today !!!

[@Alex.Kalashnik]

Lior Lupo Totally agree! Not much that's meaningful around today.

[@sophiah88]

When songs told a story and singers could sing, not scream.

[@Alex.Kalashnik]

sophiah88 So true!

[@valverdista]

God must be... Johnny Cash.

[@markbadgett7419]

80 to 1 +

[@tuguybear]

@mirr1111 Well if the movie is to be believed his first wife Vivienne,didn't support his musical ambitions at all.

[@215jami]

Its only fitting that my typing isnt that great nether was My driving when we stole a jeep to go visit the boy that was in love with the teenage queen ,Dong Ha 67

[@Larissa9471]

Eventually she sold all her fame to go back to the boy from the candy store because amid it all she was unhappy without him ~ beautiful.....but..!

[@JeNRAii]

OMG!!!! WHERE IS HIS BAGETTE AND HIS BERET and not even a hint of garlic! :(

[@rhpositive2002]

He didn't sleep at all in the movie.

[@ARTOFAX92]

gogo, yellowface

[@12macz12]

i think ther was a reply,if so what was it

[@jorgebeltranzapata4153]

XD

[@thefrisquette]

Who??June was all for him.Without her ,he was lost(and her music too)...