Understand Your Man

"Understand Your Man"
Single by Johnny Cash
from the album I Walk the Line
B-side "Dark as a Dungeon"
Released January 1964
Genre Country
Label Columbia
Writer(s) Johnny Cash
Producer Don Law
Frank Jones
Johnny Cash singles chronology
"The Matador"
(1963)		 "Understand Your Man"
(1964)		 "Dark as a Dungeon"
(1964)

"Understand Your Man" is a 1964 single by Johnny Cash. The single went to number one on the country charts for six weeks.[1]. "Understand Your Man" also crossed over to the Top 40, peaking at number 35.[2]

Cash borrowed parts of the melody from Bob Dylan's "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right".[3]

Chart performance

Chart (1964) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles 1
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 35

References

  1. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 75. 
  2. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research. p. 111. 
  3. ^ Turner, Steve (2005). The man called Cash: the life, love, and faith of an American legend. Thomas Nelson Inc. ISBN 0849908159. http://books.google.com/?id=6qaANnvGwGkC&pg=PT211&dq=%22understand+your+man%22+%22don%27t+think+twice%22#v=onepage&q=%22understand%20your%20man%22%20%22don%27t%20think%20twice%22&f=false. 
Preceded by
"Saginaw, Michigan"
by Lefty Frizzell		 Billboard Hot Country Singles
number-one single
April 4-May 9, 1964		 Succeeded by
"My Heart Skips a Beat"
by Buck Owens