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Red Velvet (song)
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Wikipedia article
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| type = single
| artist = Johnny Cash
| album = Old Golden Throat
| A-side = "Red Velvet"
"The Wind Changes"
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| genre = country
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| label = Columbia 4-44288
| writer = Ian Tyson
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| producer = Don Law and Frank Jones
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"'Red Velvet'" is a song written by Ian Tyson and recorded by Johnny Cash. While the Cash version is the best known, it was first recorded by Ian & Sylvia Tyson in 1965 on their album 'Early Morning Rain'.
Recorded by Cash at the Columbia Studios in Nashville, Tennessee, the song was released in September 1967 as a single (Columbia 4-44288, with "The Wind Changes" on the opposite side).
U.S. 'Billboard' gave the song a "Country Spotlight" review, stating: "Folkster Ian Tyson's plaintive ballad serves as potent material for Cash as he performs it in his compelling and winning style. Another big Cash hit," but in the end, "Red Velvet" did not chart at all, while the flip side charted on the 'Billboard' country chart, but made it only to number 60 and dropped off completely after only six weeks.
Later the song was included on Johnny Cash's album 'Old Golden Throat' (1968).
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Other Versions
* Gordon Lightfoot included it on a 1998 album, A Painter Passing Through.
* Tom Russell includes the song in his tribute album to Ian & Sylvia, 'Play One More - The Songs of Ian & Sylvia', 2017.
Track listing
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References
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