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Song recorded by Wheeler

This article is about the Wheeler/Leiber song recorded by the Cashes and by others. For the Lucinda Williams song, see Car Wheels on a Gravel Road.

"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]

Background

Actress Gaby Rodgers is cited as co-author^[3] of "Jackson", because Leiber, in writing it with Wheeler, used his then-wife's name as a pseudonym.

First recorded in 1963 by Wheeler, he explains the evolution of the song, and Leiber's contribution:

'Jackson' came to me when I read t