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{{Infobox song
{{Infobox song
| name = Katy Too
| name = Katy Too
| cover =
| cover =
| alt =
| alt =
| type = single
| type = single
| artist = [[Johnny Cash]] and the Tennessee Two
| artist = [[Johnny Cash]] and the Tennessee Two
| album =
| album = [[Greatest!]]
| A-side = "Katy Too"<br>"[[I Forgot to Remember to Forget]]"
| A-side = "Katy Too"<br>"[[I Forgot to Remember to Forget]]"
| B-side =
| B-side =
| released = {{start date|1959|06|}}
| released = {{start date|1959|06|}}
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| recorded =
| format = 7" vinyl, 10" shellac
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| recorded =
| studio =
| studio =
| venue =
| venue =
| genre = [[Country music|Country]]
| genre = [[Rockabilly]]
| length =
| length =
| label = [[Sun Records|Sun]] <small>321</small>
| label = [[Sun Records|Sun]] <small>321</small>
| writer = [[Jack Clement]], [[Johnny Cash]]<ref>{{cite web
| writer = [[Jack Clement]], Johnny Cash<ref>{{cite web
|url=https://www.discogs.com/Johnny-Cash-Katy-Too-I-Forgot-To-Remember-To-Forget/master/455379
|url=https://www.discogs.com/Johnny-Cash-Katy-Too-I-Forgot-To-Remember-To-Forget/master/455379
|title=I Forgot To Remember To Forget / Katy Too
|title=I Forgot To Remember To Forget / Katy Too
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|accessdate=2019-01-20}}</ref>
|accessdate=2019-01-20}}</ref>
| producer =
| producer =
| prev_title =
| prev_title = [[Frankie's Man, Johnny]]
| prev_title2 =
| prev_title2 =
| prev_year =
| prev_year = 1959
| next_title =
| next_title = [[I Got Stripes]]
| next_title2 =
| next_title2 =
| next_year =
| next_year = 1959
| misc = {{External music video|{{YouTube|Y1DfNP9ZWE4|"Katy Too" (audio only)|link=no}}}}<!-- Provided to YouTube by Sony Music Entertainment -->
| misc = {{External music video|{{YouTube|Y1DfNP9ZWE4|"Katy Too" (audio only)|link=no}}}}<!-- Provided to YouTube by Sony Music Entertainment -->
}}
}}
{{Album ratings

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| rev1 = ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]''<ref name="Billboard 6 July 1959">{{cite book|author=Nielsen Business Media, Inc.|title=Billboard|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2AoEAAAAMBAJ&q=%22KATY+TOO%22&pg=PA27|date=6 July 1959|publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc.|pages=27–|issn=0006-2510}}</ref>
| rev1score = Spotlight winner of the week
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"'''Katy Too'''" is a song co-written and originally recorded by [[Johnny Cash]].<ref name="Smith1999">{{cite book|author=John L. Smith|title=Another Song to Sing: The Recorded Repertoire of Johnny Cash|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vysKAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Katy+Too%22|date=1 January 1999|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-3629-7}}</ref>
"'''Katy Too'''" is a song co-written and originally recorded by [[Johnny Cash]].<ref name="Smith1999">{{cite book|author=John L. Smith|title=Another Song to Sing: The Recorded Repertoire of Johnny Cash|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vysKAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Katy+Too%22|date=1 January 1999|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-3629-7}}</ref>


The song was recorded by Cash at [[Sun Records]]<ref name="Smith1999" /> on May 28, 1958 and released by Sun as a [[single (music)|single]] (Sun 321, with "[[I Forgot to Remember to Forget]]" on the opposite side) in June 1959,<ref name="Alexander2018">{{cite book|author=John M. Alexander|title=The Man in Song: A Discographic Biography of Johnny Cash|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CJlHDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA40&dq=%22Katy+Too%22|date=16 April 2018|publisher=University of Arkansas Press|isbn=978-1-61075-628-0|pages=41–}}</ref><ref name="Foundation1974">{{cite book|author=John Edwards Memorial Foundation|title=JEMF Quarterly|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yh7aAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Katy+Too%22+%22Sun+321%22|year=1974|publisher=John Edwards Memorial Foundation}}</ref><ref name="Whitburn2005 and 2005">{{cite book|author=Joel Whitburn|title=Top Country Singles, 1944 to 2001: Chart Data Compiled from Billboard's Country Singles Charts, 1944-2001|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AZszAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Katy+Too%22+%22Sun+321%22|year=2002|publisher=Record Research|isbn=978-0-89820-151-2}}<br>{{cite book|author=Joel Whitburn|title=Joel Whitburn's Top Country Songs: 1944-2005, Billboard|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OC4KAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Katy+Too%22+%22Sun+321%22|year=2005|publisher=Record Research|isbn=978-0-89820-165-9}}</ref><ref name="Neely2004">{{cite book|author=Tim Neely|title=Goldmine Records & Prices|url=https://archive.org/details/goldminerecordsp00neel|url-access=registration|quote=Katy Too I Forgot to Remember to Forget Sun 321.|date=2004-05-01|publisher=Krause Publications|isbn=978-0-87349-781-7}}</ref><ref name="EscottHawkins1980">{{cite book|author1=Colin Escott|author2=Martin Hawkins|title=Sun Records: The Brief History of the Legendary Recording Label|url=https://archive.org/details/sunrecordsbriefh00esco|url-access=registration|quote=Katy Too I Forgot to Remember to Forget.|year=1980|publisher=Quick Fox|isbn=978-0-8256-3161-0}}</ref><ref name="Albert1984">{{cite book|author=George Albert|title=The Cash Box Country Singles Charts, 1958-1982|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t5BHAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Katy+Too%22+%22Sun+321%22|date=1984-01-01|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-1685-5}}</ref><ref name="Lewry2001">{{cite book|author=Peter Lewry|title=I've Been Everywhere: A Johnny Cash Chronicle|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ocQK9YBdRhkC&q=%22Katy+Too%22+%22I+Forgot+to+Remember+to+Forget%22+%22Sun+321%22|year=2001|publisher=Helter Skelter|isbn=978-1-900924-22-1|quote=<br>June<br>Sun Records issue another single pairing, “Katy Too” and “I Forgot To Remember To Forget” (Sun 321) and it reaches #11 during its chart residency.}}</ref> when he already left the label for [[Columbia Records|Columbia]].
The song was recorded by Cash at [[Sun Records]]<ref name="Smith1999" /> on May 28, 1958, and released by Sun as a [[single (music)|single]] (Sun 321, with "[[I Forgot to Remember to Forget]]" on the opposite side) in June 1959,<ref>{{cite book|author=Peter Lewry|title=I've Been Everywhere: A Johnny Cash Chronicle|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ocQK9YBdRhkC&q=%22Katy+Too%22+%22I+Forgot+to+Remember+to+Forget%22+%22Sun+321%22|year=2001|publisher=Helter Skelter|isbn=978-1-900924-22-1|quote=Sun Records issue another single pairing, "Katy Too" and "I Forgot To Remember To Forget" (Sun 321) and it reaches #11 during its chart residency.}}</ref> when he had already left the label for [[Columbia Records|Columbia]].


== Composition ==
== Composition ==
{{quote|"Katy Too," cowritten by Cash and Clement, would be the last song Cash wrote or cowrote for Sun. The prevailing thought was that Cash was saving his new compositions for [[Columbia Records|Columbia]], where he would begin recording a few months later. "Katy Too" is a light, clever play on words, in which the singer lists all his girlfriends and what each does best. Although he can't make up his mind, and would like to marry all of them, he still misses "ol' Katy," too. It was released as a single by Sun in 1959, and reached number 11 on the country chart and number 66 pop.|source=John M. Alexander. ''The Man in Song: A Discographic Biography of Johnny Cash''<ref name="Alexander2018" />}}
{{quote|"Katy Too," cowritten by Cash and Clement, would be the last song Cash wrote or cowrote for Sun. The prevailing thought was that Cash was saving his new compositions for [[Columbia Records|Columbia]], where he would begin recording a few months later. "Katy Too" is a light, clever play on words, in which the singer lists all his girlfriends and what each does best. Although he can't make up his mind, and would like to marry all of them, he still misses "ol' Katy," too. It was released as a single by Sun in 1959, and reached number 11 on the country chart and number 66 pop.|source=John M. Alexander. ''The Man in Song: A Discographic Biography of Johnny Cash''.<ref>{{cite book|author=John M. Alexander|title=The Man in Song: A Discographic Biography of Johnny Cash|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CJlHDwAAQBAJ&q=%22Katy+Too%22&pg=PA40|date=April 16, 2018|publisher=University of Arkansas Press|isbn=978-1-61075-628-0|pages=41–}}</ref>}}


== Charts ==
== Charts ==
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{{single chart|Billboardhot100|66|artist=Johnny Cash|accessdate=2019-01-17|refname=}}
{{single chart|Billboardhot100|66|artist=Johnny Cash|accessdate=January 17, 2019|refname=}}
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{{single chart|Billboardcountrysongs|11|artist=Johnny Cash|accessdate=2019-01-17|refname=}}
{{single chart|Billboardcountrysongs|11|artist=Johnny Cash|accessdate=January 17, 2019|refname=}}
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[[Category:Johnny Cash songs]]
[[Category:Johnny Cash songs]]

Latest revision as of 11:46, 21 September 2023

"Katy Too"
Single by Johnny Cash and the Tennessee Two
from the album Greatest!
A-side"Katy Too"
"I Forgot to Remember to Forget"
ReleasedJune 1959 (1959-06)
GenreRockabilly
LabelSun 321
Songwriter(s)Jack Clement, Johnny Cash[1]
Johnny Cash and the Tennessee Two singles chronology
"Frankie's Man, Johnny"
(1959) 		"Katy Too"
(1959) 		"I Got Stripes"
(1959)
Music video
"Katy Too" (audio only) on YouTube
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Billboard[2]Spotlight winner of the week

"Katy Too" is a song co-written and originally recorded by Johnny Cash.[3]

The song was recorded by Cash at Sun Records[3] on May 28, 1958, and released by Sun as a single (Sun 321, with "I Forgot to Remember to Forget" on the opposite side) in June 1959,[4] when he had already left the label for Columbia.

Composition

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"Katy Too," cowritten by Cash and Clement, would be the last song Cash wrote or cowrote for Sun. The prevailing thought was that Cash was saving his new compositions for Columbia, where he would begin recording a few months later. "Katy Too" is a light, clever play on words, in which the singer lists all his girlfriends and what each does best. Although he can't make up his mind, and would like to marry all of them, he still misses "ol' Katy," too. It was released as a single by Sun in 1959, and reached number 11 on the country chart and number 66 pop.

— John M. Alexander. The Man in Song: A Discographic Biography of Johnny Cash.[5]

Charts

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Chart (1959) Peak
position
US Billboard Hot 100[6] 66
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[7] 11

References

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  1. ^ "I Forgot To Remember To Forget / Katy Too". Discogs. Retrieved 2019-01-20.
  2. ^ Nielsen Business Media, Inc. (6 July 1959). Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. pp. 27–. ISSN 0006-2510. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help)
  3. ^ a b John L. Smith (1 January 1999). Another Song to Sing: The Recorded Repertoire of Johnny Cash. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-3629-7.
  4. ^ Peter Lewry (2001). I've Been Everywhere: A Johnny Cash Chronicle. Helter Skelter. ISBN 978-1-900924-22-1. Sun Records issue another single pairing, "Katy Too" and "I Forgot To Remember To Forget" (Sun 321) and it reaches #11 during its chart residency.
  5. ^ John M. Alexander (April 16, 2018). The Man in Song: A Discographic Biography of Johnny Cash. University of Arkansas Press. pp. 41–. ISBN 978-1-61075-628-0.
  6. ^ "Johnny Cash Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved January 17, 2019.
  7. ^ "Johnny Cash Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard. Retrieved January 17, 2019.
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