Cry! Cry! Cry!

", Cash signed with Sun Records after he came home from serving with the United States Air Force.

[3] During that time, he wrote the song "Hey, Porter" which was met with little excitement from the executives at his record label.

For the recording of the song, Johnny Cash was backed by "The Tennessee Two", Luther Perkins on guitar and Marshall Grant on bass.

[2] The early success of the song led to a featured spot on the Louisiana Hayride Tour and kicked off the career of Johnny Cash in the process.

The fact that it was Cash's first successful tune was mentioned several times in the dialogue of the 2005 film, Walk the Line.