The 12th episode of 'The Johnny Cash Show' aired today in 1969. Watch The Man in Black perform "Johnny Reb" on the broadcast. | Johnny Cash

On this day in 1981, Johnny Cash appeared on The Muppet Show and it’s everything you’d dream it would be. | Hillbilly Talk with Shane Simmons

Johnny loved playing with the orchestra on the TV Show. It posed natural challenges as Tennessee Three bassist Marshall Grant has described. He says, “it was difficult because all of those people (in the orchestra) were reading music and none of us (The Tennessee Three) read music… but Bill Walker did a phenomenal job of bringing us & his orchestra together,” Johnny’s musical vision was never compromised. | Johnny Cash