Ad won’t feature Cash’s ‘Ring’
From Associated Press
Advertising writers in Florida were planning to pitch hemorrhoid-relief products with a commercial featuring the Johnny Cash classic “Ring of Fire,” but Cash’s family said there’s no way they will let it happen.
“We would never allow the song to be demeaned like that,” Cash’s daughter, Rosanne, told the Tennessean of Nashville.
The hit was written by Cash’s wife, June Carter Cash, and Merle Kilgore, now Hank Williams Jr.’s manager. Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash died in 2003.
TV producer Sula Miller of Big Grin Productions in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., said she thought of the idea when she heard the song on the radio while struggling with the uncomfortable condition.
Kilgore said at first he thought the idea was funny. Cash’s family didn’t.