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Luther Played the Boogie
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Wikipedia article
{{Infobox song
| name = Luther Played the Boogie
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| type = single
| artist = Johnny Cash and the Tennessee Two
| album =
| A-side = "Luther Played the Boogie"
"Thanks a Lot"
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| genre = Country, rockabilly
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| label = Sun 316
| writer = Johnny Cash
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| prev_title = Don't Take Your Guns to Town
| prev_title2 =
| prev_year = 1958
| next_title = Frankie's Man, Johnny
| next_title2 = 1959
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"'Luther Played the Boogie'" is a song written and originally recorded by Johnny Cash.
The song was recorded on July 10, 1958. during Cash's final sessions for Sun Records. It would be released as a single (Sun 316, with "Thanks a Lot", another song from the same session, on the opposite side) on February 15 of the next year, when he already left the label for Columbia.
Before that, the song appeared on Sun Records' album 'Greatest! Johnny Cash', that came out in January 1959.
Cash received a BMI award for this single.
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Category:Johnny Cash songs
Category:1959 singles
Category:Songs written by Johnny Cash
Category:Sun Records singles
Category:1959 songs
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