<Tr> <Th> Songwriter (s) </Th> <Td> Shel Silverstein </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Producer (s) </Th> <Td> Chet Atkins, Felton Jarvis </Td> </Tr> <P> "A Boy Named Sue" is a song written by humorist and poet Shel Silverstein and made popular by Johnny Cash . Cash recorded the song live in concert on February 24, 1969 at California's San Quentin State Prison for his At San Quentin album . Cash also performed the song (with comical variations on the original performance) in December 1969 at Madison Square Garden . The live San Quentin version of the song became Cash's biggest hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and his only top ten single there, spending three weeks at No. 2 in 1969, held out of the top spot by "Honky Tonk Women" by The Rolling Stones . The track also topped the Billboard Hot Country Songs and Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks charts that same year and was certified Gold on August 14, 1969, by the RIAA . </P> <P> Silverstein's own recording was released the same year as "Boy Named Sue", a single on the album Boy Named Sue (and His Other Country Songs), produced by Chet Atkins and Felton Jarvis . </P>

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