jan 5, 1955 - Johnny Cash wrote his first songs.
Hey, Porter was not received well at
sun records and he was told
to go home and write a song that
sun records would be able to sell.
He went home and came back with
cry cry cry, which he wrote overnight.
The song was released with hey porter
as a B side of the record.
He was backed by the Tennessee two,
Luther Perkins and Marshall Grant.
Cry cry cry entered the charts soon
after it was released 1at #14 and
sold 10,000 copies in the
southern states of America
