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["Ruth Suehle" <wuzzled AT nc.rr.com>]

They talked about this on Wait Wait Don't Tell Me a couple of weeks ago.
IIRC, they said that Johnny Cash actually used to joke about it when he
would sing the song, so it didn't seem like he'd be too offended by the
commercial.


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> The man in black is rolling over in his grave: Merle Kilgore, who
> co-wrote Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire" with June Carter Cash, says he
> didn't mean any harm when he almost let a TV producer use the song for a
> hemorrhoid commercial; he thought it was funny. Luckily, Cash's daughter
> Roseanne stepped in and nipped the idea in the bud. (BBC)
>
> Rowland
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