Johnny Cash - A Boy Named Sue (Video)

A Boy Named Sue" is a single composed by Shel Silverstein that was made popular by Johnny Cash.  The concert was filmed by Granada Television for later television broadcast; Carl Perkins played

guitar on the performance. The audio of the concert was later recorded on Cash's At San Quentin album. Cash also recorded the single (with comical variations on the original performance) in December 1969 at Madison Square Garden. The single became Cash's biggest hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and his only top 10 song there, spending three weeks at No. 2 in 1969, held out of the top spot by "Honky Tonk Women" by The Rolling Stones.