"Jackson" is a song written in 1963 by Billy Edd Wheeler and Jerry Leiber.

[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] 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 the script for Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

It relates the desire of both partners to travel to "Jackson" where the husband believes he will be turned loose, be with many women and be practically worshipped as he has his wild time.

[5] And, Johnny Cash is quoted in the video from the same source: "Well, I was gonna take her down to see Carl Perkins in Jackson.

[13] The Australian rock band INXS included "Jackson" on the 1985 release of their Dekadance EP.

Phil Alvin and Exene Cervenka recorded their version for Fun on Saturday Night, a 2012 album by the Blasters.

According to the Guinness Book of British Hit Singles & Albums, the name of UK pop band Prefab Sprout was a mondegreen from the lyrics "We got married in a fever, hotter than a pepper sprout", misheard by frontman Paddy McAloon.

In the finale one of those characters, Nolan, asks if a recording of the song is available, and quotes one line of it as he leaves Earth.