Jackson (song)

This article is about the Wheeler/Leiber song recorded by the Cashes and by others. For the Lucinda Williams song, see Car Wheels on a Gravel Road.
"Jackson"
Single by Johnny Cash and June Carter
from the album Carryin' On with Johnny Cash and June Carter
B-side"Pack Up Your Sorrows"
ReleasedFebruary 6, 1967
RecordedJanuary 11, 1967
GenreCountry, pop, easy listening
Length2:45
LabelColumbia Records
Songwriter(s)Billy Edd Wheeler and Jerry Leiber (as Gaby Rodgers)
Producer(s)Don Law and Frank Jones
Johnny Cash and June Carter singles chronology
"It Ain't Me Babe"
(1965) 		"Jackson"
(1967) 		"Long-Legged Guitar Pickin' Man"
(1967)

"Jackson" is a song written in 1963 by Billy Edd Wheeler and Jerry Leiber. It was recorded in 1963 by the Kingston Trio, Wheeler, and Flatt and Scruggs.[1] It achieved its most notable popularity with two 1967 releases: a country hit single by Johnny Cash and June Carter, which reached No. 2 on the Billboard Country Singles chart, and a pop hit single by Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood, which reached No. 14 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 39 on Easy Listening.[2]

  1. ^ "Cover versions of Jackson by the Kingston Trio". SecondHandSongs.
  2. ^ Whitburn, Joel (1993). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961–1993. Record Research. p. 221.