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Odetta appears on The Johnny Cash Show
The soul singer and Cash sang a duet of "Shame And Scandal On The Family"
September 3rd, 1969: Odetta appeared on The Johnny Cash Show over the weekend. The 39-year-old soul singer from Birmingham, Alabama performed a duet with Johnny Cash, singing Sir Lancelot's 1940's song "Shame And Scandal On The Family".
Watch the duet along with a brief interview between Cash and Odetta below.
Odetta also performed what sounded like a medley of delta blues songs.
Odetta released The Best of Odetta last year, including her cover of "Shame and Scandal". Listen below.
For reference, here's Sir Lancelot's original version of the song from 1943. Sir Lancelot was a calypso singer originally from Trinidad and Tobago.