Girl in Saskatoon
"Girl in Saskatoon" is a song co-written by Johnny Cash with Johnny Horton and originally recorded by Cash for Columbia. It was released as a single (Columbia 4-41920, with "Locomotive Man" on the opposite side). in December 1960, the same month Sun Records released "Oh, Lonesome Me" / "Life Goes On" (Sun 355). U.S. "Billboard" picked the song "Girl in Saskatoon" as one of the "Spotlight winners of the week", giving it four stars that corresponded to a "very strong sales potential". The review called the song "another fine folkish effort by Cash" and continued: Nevertheless , the song didn't chart on "Billboard" at all: On the "Cash Box" country singles chart, "Girl in Saskatoon" reached number 25 during its nine weeks stay. Later the song was included on Johnny Cash's albums "Heart of Cash" (1968) & "More of Old Golden Throat" (1969). Background. John M. Alexander writes in his book "The Man in Song: A Discographic Biography of Johnny Cash":