Sold Date: May 18, 2018
Start Date: April 28, 2018
Final Price: $165.00 $130.00 (USD)
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PLATINUM AND 24-K GOLD PLATING ON RECORD AND CASSETTE - ALSO GLASS FRAME.  REFLECTIONS ARE OBVIOUS IN PHOTOS AND WILL DISTORT AND  AFFECT APPEARANCE.

NEW LISTING.   Formerly listed the Gold record award for Johnny Cash at San Quentin which was certified by RIAA back in August of 1969.   My father made the Gold and Platinum records for Music Row in Nashville for nearly 5 decades and I inherited his workshop inventory and memorabilia when he passed recently.   Among the gold and platinum awards was the San Quentin gold from 69 which I listed on ebay.  However,   I recently found the Platinum 3X (3-million sales) certified by RIAA in March  of 2003.  Not realizing that San Quentin was Cash's top selling album - thinking that Folsom Prison was. The cassette on the award has a signed photograph of Johnny with his San Quentin audience.   Johnny Cash at San Quentin was first certified Platinum (1 Million in sales)  & double Platinum in 1986 before hitting the 3-million mark in 2003.  Recorded live at San Quentin prison in February1969,  it was a project for a British album and television documentary.  Major hits came from the project including the Grammy winning "Male Country Vocal Performance - A Boy Named Sue." 

The framed photo is from Cash's long-time photographer Jim Marshall who accompanied Johnny to San Quentin and just before the concert said,  "...Johnny,  let's take a picture for the warden."   That's when Johnny turned to the camera and flipped the warden off.  As the words reflect,  Marshall - who died in 2010 - says the photo is the most "ripped off" photo in the world with no credit to him.  This attribution to Marshall is neatly boxed in at the bottom of the 8 X 10 and is legible in the last photo in this listing.

The 9 X 11 frame is a smaller version of the larger shadow box award frame that it accompanies for a nice display.