Jackson (song)

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"Jackson"
Single by Johnny Cash and June Carter
from the album Carryin' On with Johnny Cash and June Carter
B-side	"Pack Up Your Sorrows"
Released	February 6, 1967
Recorded	January 11, 1967
Genre	Country
Length	2:45
Label	Columbia Records
Songwriter(s)	Billy Edd Wheeler and Jerry Leiber (as Gaby Rodgers)
Producer(s)	Don Law and Frank Jones
Johnny Cash and June Carter singles chronology
"It Ain't Me Babe" (1965) "Jackson" (1967) "Long-Legged Guitar Pickin' Man" (1967)

"Jackson" is a song written in 1963 by Billy Edd Wheeler and Jerry Leiber. It was recorded in 1963 by the Kingston Trio, Wheeler, and Flatt and Scruggs.^[1] It achieved its most notable popularity with two 1967 releases: a country hit single by Johnny Cash and June Carter, which reached No. 2 on the Billboard Country Singles chart, and a pop hit single by Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood, which reached No. 14 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 39 on Easy Listening.^[2]