Get Rhythm
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| "Get Rhythm" | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Side A of 1969 US single | ||||
| Single by Johnny Cash | ||||
| B-side | "Hey Porter"[1] | |||
| Released | September 1969 | |||
| Recorded | 1956 | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Length | 2:13 | |||
| Label | Sun 1103 | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Johnny Cash | |||
| Producer(s) | Sam Phillips | |||
| Johnny Cash singles chronology | ||||
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"Get Rhythm" is a song written and recorded by American singer-songwriter and musician Johnny Cash. It was originally released as the B-side to the single release "I Walk the Line" in 1956 on Sun 241. It was re-released with overdubbed "live" effects in September 1969 as an A-side single and reached number 60 on the Billboard Pop chart.
Alice Randall in the book My Country Roots: The Ultimate MP3 Guide to America's Original Outsider Music asks the question, "racist, racialist, or race appreciating? You decide. Maybe the grinning 'boy' hides something worth knowing in his mask as well as behind his mask. Well maybe he was white trash."[2]
Chart performance
"Get Rhythm" was released in 1956 as the B-side to Cash's first #1 hit, "I Walk the Line." In 1969, the original recording of "Get Rhythm" was released as a single itself, with sound effects dubbed in to simulate the sound of a live recording.[1] This rerelease went to #23 on the country charts.
| Chart (1969) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[3] | 23 |
| US Billboard Hot 100[4] | 60 |
| Canadian RPM Country Tracks | 1 |
| Canadian RPM Top Singles | 59 |
