THE EDDIE CASH SHOW
America's Musical Storyteller

The Eddie Cash Show welcomes Bus Tours, Senior Groups and other Special Events!
We are also available for private shows and public engagements.

In addition to our regularly scheduled shows, we offer special weekday and evening performances to your groups of 35 or more. Plus, we will be happy to host your parties and special events with The Eddie Cash Show!

Keep in mind that The Eddie Cash Show is available for special performances for groups of 35 or more! Call and check availability!

Eddie Cash strongly believes in community and encourage growth, strength and common good for everyone. For this reason, Eddie and Cheryl Cash have provided a variety of fundraising opportunities for educational, civic and other non-profit groups. Call to find out how The Eddie Cash Show can help your organization!

God Gave Us Memories So We Might Have Roses In December

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THE EDDIE CASH BIOGRAPHY:
It was cold the 28th of February in 1941, and to be quite honest, there was not a lot to be happy about. World War II was engulfing Europe, and Tennessee was feeling the pinch of rationing. But, as he finished his coffee and began to run as fast as he could down the hall of the Baptist Hospital, J.W. Cash could not have been happier..

The nurse had opened the door and informed J.W. that his wife, Virginia, had just given birth to his son, Edward Allen Cash. As J.W. peered through the glass, he noticed that one baby in the room full of crying infants seemed to be screaming louder than the rest. He smiled and he said t himself... "He's going to be a singer!"

There was not a lot of reason for J.W. Cash's observation to come true, but then, who would imagine just 15 years later, the sleepy southern town of Memphis would be shaken with as much intensity as World War II rationing? A truck driver from the Crown Electric Company in Memphis would grow sideburns and shake forever the entire world of music.

As this young 15-year old Eddie Cash began to notice the kids around town with their collars turned up, James Dean red nylon jackets and sideburns, he would be caught in the same web that would snare the rest of the children in the world. However, Eddie Cash would be privileged to see the inner workings of the greatest explosion the music industry has ever known because the chemicals for the explosion were, in fact, the kids in his neighborhood! The golden days of the Sun Recording Company in Memphis would produce and package the explosion...Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, B.B. King, Charlie Rich and so many more.

The musicians that Eddie Cash would begin to associate with in Memphis were the same musicians that played and recorded with all of these great names. Thus, the ground work was laid for friendships, stories and music to begin.

It's always been known that in the music business, luck is much more important than talent - and thank goodness - because in 1956, when Eddie Cash's career began and he organized his first band, "The Mad Caps," there was a great deal of luck and no talent. His first agent, Bob Neal, a radio personality on WMPS in Memphis, called and said Elvis was making his first movie in Hollywood. They were looking for someone to work with the original Presley band at a ballroom out on the highway called Clearpool. "Since you know all of Presley's music," Neal told Eddie, "the job is yours if you want it."

After working with the original Elvis Presley band on several engagements, a friendship was struck with Scotty Moore and Bill Black, the two original Elvis Presley players. As a matter of fact, just a few years later, when the world famous Bill Black Combo was formed, several of the musicians working with Eddie Cash were the same musicians working with The Bill Black Combo. Even Bill Black himself, before his first million-seller record, played bass with the Eddie Cash band.

The notoriety from that piece of good fortune seemed to give confidence to a young Eddie Cash - and what's more important - allowed him to begin developing his talents.

About the time Eddie was forming his second band, "The Cashiers," his friend Joe Lewis called from Newport, Arkansas, saying a singer named Harold Jenkins from Marianna, Arkansas, was about to change his name to Conway Twitty and jump into the middle of the 1950's. Conway's records began to sell as well as Elvis's, and he, too would hear the call of Hollywood. While away making his first motion picture, you will never guess who they called to fill in with the Conway Twitty band, singing Conway's music. Yes, Lady Luck had smiled on Eddie Cash again!

By 1959, working for everybody else in the business had been more than just an opportunity, it had given the young graduate of Memphis' Treadwell High School a taste for recording. In early 1960, after Eddie's first record, "Doin' All Right," hit the top ten in Chicago and parts of the Midwest, he knew that he could finally break away from the musical nobility in Memphis. Perhaps now Eddie could forge his own career.

However, success is even stranger than Lady Luck. Now, when Eddie Cash performed, people wanted to know what it was like to work with Elvis, Conway and The Bill Black Combo...Not to mention, "Oh, are you Johnny's brother?"

If Eddie cash ever learned anything it was that entertaining the audience is always the bottom line. Because the audience wanted to hear the stories about yesterday, Eddie decided to write a small portion of his show around those stories of Memphis. The stories went over so well that the next step of evolution in his career was ready.

Because the stories were, in fact, built around the most important ingredients of the professional entertainer, Eddie Cash would have to compose, produce, act and direct to tell the stories, rather than just singing songs like the others did. Seeing Eddie Cash on stage today will explain why you see, feel and hear things from Eddie Cash's performance that you do not see, feel and hear in other performers.

After working the Midwest and East Coast for the next six years, the stories of the stars, as well as his acting and singing ability, began to improve. Now Eddie was about to meet its most difficult challenge...

In 1966, an agent from Studio City, California, saw Eddie Cash perform in the Midwest and offered him a ten-day contract at the Mint Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. Eddie's first response was happiness, but he knew, financially, it would cost him two weeks out of his schedule. Eddie also knew the musicians had to be paid whether they worked or not. It was a gamble - but if his friend, Lady Luck, was still around, this time she would have a professional concert performer to work with. And together, they would take Las Vegas!

The ten-day contract at the Mint Hotel in Las Vegas was wearing into its 20th year when Eddie noticed that the audiences were changing, and so were the times. Now his audience was even more eager, not only to hear the stories of yesterday, but to watch them come alive on stage by one of the only professionals that actually lived it. So in 1992, after four hard years in Memphis saying his final good-bye to his father and mother, he was prepared for his newest adventure - Branson, Missouri.

In Branson, Missouri, the challenge was even more intense than Las Vegas. In order to effectively perform the 53 one-act musicals that he had written and produced over the decades, and compete with some of the biggest names in the business, Eddie Cash realized a small combo would not have the same impact as a forty piece orchestra surrounding him. Eddie then remembered that the most powerful show in Las Vegas, Siegfried and Roy, had all of their music and special arrangements sequenced on computers and sound modules with names like Apple Macintosh and Roland. It would require a year of hard work and sacrifice, but it could be - if it worked - the biggest sound in Branson!

After five very successful years in Branson with the most beautiful sound he had ever accomplished, Eddie Cash and his New Sequence Orchestra, conducted by his wife, Cheryl Cash, are now ready to take the most logical step since 1956. Now, armed with the best orchestra money can buy and decades of experience from New York to Las Vegas - It's time for The Eddie Cash Show to have a home of its own!

One of these days, if you happen to see the Eddie Cash name on a sign or a marquee and you would like to relive some music and some history, stop in and see America's Musical Storyteller in person. You probably won't notice the decades of work, training and dedication. You may not remember the Baptist Hospital in Memphis, nor the sideburns and slot machines in Las Vegas...but, you will notice that the memory of the performance will never leave you!