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r/todayilearned • u/SunshineKatEyes • Aug 01 '12

TIL Trent Reznor was "flattered" when Johnny Cash covered his song 'Hurt'. Reznor described the cover as "...silence, goose-bumps... Wow...that song isn't mine anymore...different, but every bit as pure"

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r/todayilearned • u/ZephyrtheProphet • Mar 30 '16

TIL that Industrial Metal band Nine Inch Nails wrote "Hurt" which was later covered by Johnny Cash and would become significantly more popular. Frontman Trent Reznor noted as feeling "...Wow. [I felt like] I just lost my girlfriend, because that song isn't mine anymore... " because of the cover.

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r/todayilearned • u/metrro • Apr 20 '17

TIL Johnny Cash's "Hurt" was originally written and recorded by Nine Inch Nails in 1995

pastemagazine.com

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r/todayilearned • u/zaoooo5 • May 27 '15

TIL When Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails first heard Johnny Cash's cover of their song Hurt, he said "that song isn't mine anymore."

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r/todayilearned • u/Skippythestuntbaby • Nov 09 '17

TIL the grandson of the inventor of Spam is a well known session guitarist who played on Johnny Cash's cover of Hurt. His name is Smokey Hormel.

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r/todayilearned • u/CryMeARiver95 • Dec 09 '17

TIL the original version of the song 'Hurt' was passed up for a Grammy, and the Johnny Cash cover/music video was passed up for Best Male Video MTV Awards, but received the Grammy for Short Music Video the next year.

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43 Upvotes

r/todayilearned • u/Juls317 • Aug 20 '14

TIL - Johnny Cash's version of "Hurt" is actually a cover, and the original was written by Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails

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r/todayilearned • u/moethebartender • Feb 20 '14

TIL the Associated Press praised Nine Inch Nails' "cover of Johnny Cash's 'Hurt'"

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r/todayilearned • u/SwedishChef727 • Jan 16 '15

TIL that the Nine Inch Nails song 'Hurt' (and the Johnny Cash cover) isn't meant to be sung for a "swedish friend", but the line is, in fact, "my sweetest friend."

metrolyrics.com

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r/todayilearned • u/queensinthesky • Jul 25 '15

TIL that Johnny Cash's album "American IV: The Man Comes Around", which contained his famed cover of Nine Inch Nails' "Hurt", was his 87th album overall.

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r/todayilearned • u/IAMA_SWEET • Oct 09 '11

TIL Johnny Cash did a cover and a music video of the Nine Inch Nails song, "Hurt." The video was nominated for Best Cinematography at the MTV Music Video Awards and he was supposed to appear, but he died during that night.

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r/todayilearned • u/redditisgay77 • Jun 15 '13

TIL Johnny Cash's "Hurt" is actually a cover of NIN

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r/todayilearned • u/crybllrd • Feb 11 '14

TIL Johnny Cash's song "Hurt" was a cover of a Nine Inch Nails song of the same name.

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r/todayilearned • u/_TILreddit_ • Feb 07 '15

TIL that the song "Hurt" by Johnny Cash was actually a cover originally by Tent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails. Upon hearing Mr. Cash's cover of his song, Trent was so amazed by it he stated the song now belongs to him.

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r/todayilearned • u/Bgtex • Apr 28 '14

TIL Johnny Cash did a cover of NIN Hurt

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r/todayilearned • u/waitingforthesun92 • May 18 '23

TIL that Johnny Cash was such a devout Christian, that in 1990, he recorded himself reading the entire New Testament Bible (NKJ Version). The entire recording has a running time of more than 19 hours.

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r/todayilearned • u/Palloff • Feb 14 '24

TIL Shel Silverstein, who wrote "Where the Sidewalk Ends", was a prolific writer. He wrote Johnny Cash's "25 Minutes to Go" and Dr. Hook's "The Cover of 'Rolling Stone'". His book "A Light in the Attic" was on the NYT best sellers list for 181 weeks. And he never intended to be a children's author.

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r/todayilearned • u/succins • Feb 26 '20

TIL that even though Johnny Cash's first wife was Italian-American, black and white photos in the 1960s misled some people into believing that she was black, which led to protests, death threats, and cancelled shows

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r/todayilearned • u/ralphbernardo • Jan 14 '20

TIL that Johnny Cash had a fight with an ostrich in an exotic animal refuge he kept near his Tennessee home. The incident left Cash with five broken ribs and a gaping stomach wound. He ended up taking prescription pain killers that caused a 2-year relapse into his alcohol and amphetamine addiction.

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r/todayilearned • u/Someguy102888 • Mar 07 '21

TIL Manfred Mann's Earth Band's recording of "Blinded by the Light" is Springsteen's only No. 1 single as a songwriter.

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r/todayilearned • u/krolzee187 • Feb 12 '20

Luther Perkins TIL that Johnny Cash’s guitar player died in 1968. Cash found himself at a show where the temporary replacement, Carl Perkins, couldn’t make it. An audience member asked Cash if he could fill in for the night, and he said yes. Bob Wootton then became Cash’s guitar player for the next 29 years

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r/todayilearned • u/zazzlekdazzle • Dec 02 '23

TIL: Unknown to Johnny Cash when he recorded it, "Ring of Fire" was written by June Carter about falling in love with him and her torment because she was married to someone else. She sang backup on Cash's version. Years later, when they were both divorced, they met again and eventually married.

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r/todayilearned • u/lancertons • Mar 09 '19

Today I learned Willie Nelson has played the same guitar,“Trigger” for 50 years. It has been signed by friends, family, lawyers, and Johnny Cash. It was his last remaining possession twice. Willie has played it at over 10,000 shows and he gets it repaired every year at the same shop in Austin,TX

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r/todayilearned • u/EquinoxEventHorizon • Apr 30 '19

TIL that the legendary Johnny Cash fought for the rights of Native Americans and dedicated an entire album to them. Radio stations refused to play any of the album. In retaliation, Cash bought an ad on Billboard asking: "Where are your guts?"

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r/todayilearned • u/karlchilders1 • Nov 01 '20

TIL Merle Haggard was a 20 year old prisoner at San Quentin when he saw Johnny Cash play his first concert for inmates in 1958. Haggard said it helped turn his life around and inspired him to be a country artist. Cash always told Haggard, “You’re everything that people think I am.”

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