Watch Johnny Cash sing the “Bonanza” theme on the Grand Ole Opry television show in 1962:
Although various versions of the Bonanza theme had been recorded before, Cash’s was the first full-length vocal version of it recorded. Cash and songwriter Johnny Western decided not to use the lyrics for the song that had been previously used and instead to write new lyrics themselves.
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