Johnny Cash had a surprise hit in early 1958 with “Ballad of a Teenage Queen” turning him into an unlikely but short-lived pop star! The record inspired an interesting marketing campaign involving teenage beauty pageants held in Hudson’s Bay department stores across Western Canada.  Johnny Cash at the Edmonton Hudson's Bay store, March 13, 1958. (Photo by Richard Proctor, Provincial Archives of Alberta) Johnny decided to record “Ballad of a Teenage Queen”, written by his new

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