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Music's Lost History A Song Meant For Johnny Cash About Traveling The Back Roads · Arroe Collins Music's Lost History

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  Speaker 1: Collins! Music's lost history The stories that made you move
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  Speaker 1: Your soundtrack on fire Music's lost history Name the.
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  Speaker 2: Song There used to be a time when radio, MTV, VH1,
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  Speaker 2: and even YouTube put a lot of importance on the
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  Speaker 2: physical act of storytelling. Today, we've got AI. Well, guess what?
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  Speaker 2: AI didn't live it. Do you know the name? What
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  Speaker 2: songs do you sing? Hey, welcome back to Music's Lost History.
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  Speaker 2: I love it when a song comes with a twist.
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  Speaker 2: It's seen as well as heard as being one of
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  Speaker 2: those tunes that is a love letter. Well, here's the thing.
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  Speaker 2: The man who made the song legendary, he didn't write it.
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  Speaker 2: In 1970, Bill Danoff and Taffy Nivert were known for
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  Speaker 2: performing in Maryland. They dreamed of one day living on
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  Speaker 2: the road, but it had to be the back roads
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  Speaker 2: and completely away from interstate highways. And who better to
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  Speaker 2: sing a song like that than Johnny Cash? Yeah, Bill
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  Speaker 2: and Taffy had Johnny Cash on the path the entire way,
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  Speaker 2: even when the lyrics were forced to be changed and
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  Speaker 2: it got a different identity. But one will tell you
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  Speaker 2: that that collaboration did not materialize. But a trip to Washington, D.C.
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  Speaker 2: led to them meeting somebody who would turn it into
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  Speaker 2: a modern day classic. Back, back, we're coming back. Music's
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  Speaker 2: lost history. Name the song before we do.
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  Speaker 1: Arrow Collins is coming back.
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  Speaker 2: Coming up next, it is the song that shoulda, coulda, woulda,
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  Speaker 2: but it didn't land in the right hands or the
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  Speaker 2: right john.
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  Speaker 1: Music's lost history.
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  Speaker 2: You didn't have to do it, but you did it.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much for coming back to Music's Lost History.
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  Speaker 2: This is a song that shoulda, coulda, woulda, but it
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  Speaker 2: didn't land in the lap of the songwriters and performer
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  Speaker 2: they found to be the one that would take it
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  Speaker 2: to the top. Nope. They gave it to a man
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  Speaker 2: that broke his thumb in a car accident.
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  Speaker 1: What?
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  Speaker 2: Injury or not, Bill and Taffy... went into the studio
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  Speaker 2: and 24 hours later this john performed it live on
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  Speaker 2: stage at the cellar door not johnny cash not that
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  Speaker 2: john it was a different john who wasn't afraid to
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  Speaker 2: sing the song while holding that sheet of paper with
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  Speaker 2: the lyrics written on it it went on to reach
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  Speaker 2: number two on billboard's charts nowhere near as high as
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  Speaker 2: a rocky mountain high but it might be as high
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  Speaker 2: as denver colorado The song really isn't about the state
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  Speaker 2: of Virginia. Bill and Taffy were actually inspired by Massachusetts.
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  Speaker 2: It has outlasted time. In fact, it was recently chanted
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  Speaker 2: at the 2026 World Cup. It's now an anthem. Take
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  Speaker 2: me home, country road, from the legendary John Denver. Music's lost.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Arrow, and that's Music's Lost History.