From:   "Dik de Heer"  
Date:  Fri Feb 28, 2003  1:19 am
Subject:  Born To Be With You : Eddie Cash
 
EDDIE CASH (By Shaun Mather)

Born Edward Allen Cash, 28 February 1941, Memphis, Tennessee
(In 2001 there were rumours that Eddie had died, but fortunately
this proved to be untrue.)

Eddie Cash was born in the same hospital that Elvis Presley died in!
They both worked in a little heavenly studio a few blocks east of the
Mississippi River and they both started their careers under the 
management of Bob Neal, but that's about as far as the similarities go.
Cash has managed to maintain a career in the entertainment business
but he's little more than a footnote in the history books.

15 years old when his hometown shook the world, it was unsurprising 
that the Treadwell High School student took to music and began to hang
around with the town's musicians. In 1956 he formed his first band, the
Mad Caps and hooked up with Neal. During the course of the next couple
of years he claims to have worked with both Elvis' band (Scotty and Bill), 
the Bill Black Combo and Conway Twitty's band.

He formed his second band, The Cashiers, and signed to the short-lived
Memphis label, Peak Records - (The label only appears to have released
a couple of Cash records plus Sittin' In The Drive In by the Morgan Twins.)
December 1958 saw the release of his debut single, Doin' All Right. The
record was a treat, and became a top 10 hit in Chicago and parts of the
Midwest. 

His follow-up, Come On Home and Day After Day failed to register, as did
further early 60's singles on Roulette (Lonely Island) and Todd (Livin' Lovin' 
Temptation). In 1966 he began to work in Vegas where he stayed for the 
next two decades. A four year spell back in Memphis was ended when he
took his act to the dreaded Branson, Missouri. His show was a success
and after 5 years he bought his own place, the Wild Mushroom Restaurant
in Burlington, Wisconsin, where The Eddie Cash Show is the hottest show
in town!

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! He's billed as America's Musical 
Storyteller, where he no doubt delights in telling the folks about that big 
Top Tenner that saw him as big as Elvis - in Chicago, in February 1959, well,
second week of Feb anyway!

"Doing allright" has been reissued on seven different compilations. See:
http://els51.law.emory.edu/rcs/artists/c/cash1000.htm