Johnny Cash DARED Elvis to Sing GOSPEL Live — What Happened Made Cash Break Down on Stage

October 22nd, 1972. The Ryman Auditorium, Nashville. A gospel benefit for a children's hospital. Elvis Presley was in the fourth row — a guest, forbidden by Colonel Parker to perform. Then Johnny Cash stopped the show, pulled a folded letter from his coat, and dared Elvis to do the one thing he hadn't done in fourteen years: sing gospel the way his mother taught him. The last time Elvis tried, he collapsed at her casket. What happened when he took off his sunglasses and walked to that microphone broke Johnny Cash so completely that his own bass player thought he was dying. And the recording of it was locked in a vault for three decades — on purpose. This is the story of that night, the letter Elvis kept in his nightstand until the day he died, and why two of the biggest stars in the world hid the truest thing they ever did. This video is a dramatized retelling inspired by the lives and careers of Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash. Dialogue and certain events have been recreated for storytelling purposes. Subscribe for more true and untold stories from the life of the man they called the King.