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Wikipedia article


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| artist = Johnny Cash

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| A-side = "Everybody Loves a Nut"
"Austin Prison"

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| genre = country, novelty

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| label = Columbia 4-43673

| writer = Jack Clement

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| producer = Don Law and Frank Jones

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"'Everybody Loves a Nut'" is a song written by Jack Clement and originally recorded by Johnny Cash on Columbia Records for his 1966 novelty album 'Everybody Loves a Nut'.

Released in May 1966 as the second single (Columbia 4-43673, with "Austin Prison" on the opposite side) from the yet-to-be-released album,


the song became a U.S. country top-20 hit.


Background and critical response



In this song Cash "proclaim[s] that the world likes people a little off center and slightly weird."

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