"Sunday Morning Coming Down" was also Kristofferson's first No. 1 hit as a songwriter. "I'm just real grateful for that song because it opened up a whole a lot doors for me," Kristofferson tells NPR .

Cash debuted his definitive version of “Sunday Morning Coming Down” 50 years ago today, on the Wednesday, February 25th, 1970, edition of his ABC variety series’ “Ride This Train” segment.

Instead, three songs released in 2015 have engaged the dour “Sunday Morning Coming Down,” in which a hungover single male looks at the world around him and wallows in loneliness.

Kris Kristofferson says he had to leave the room the first time he heard a recording of his song 'Sunday Morning Coming Down.' Not Johnny Cash's version, but actually Ray Stevens' -- who was the ...

"Sunday Morning Coming Down" (1970) - When Bob Dylan not only singles out a song for its greatness but quotes its lyrics at length (as he did in the 2015 speech referenced above), it's hard to top.

Few songs about hangovers sound as sweet as “Sunday Morning Coming Down.” Kris Kristofferson sings the song with a deep, almost meditative drawl. He sounds as sleepy as the lyrics suggest.

Can you hear the deep voice of Johnny Cash singing the hit song “Sunday Morning Coming Down” this morning? The lyrics include the lines “Cause there’s something in a Sunday; that makes a ...

(soundbite of song, "sunday morning coming down") JOHNNY CASH: (Singing) On a Sunday morning sidewalk, I'm wishing, Lord, that I was stoned 'cause there's something in a Sunday that makes the body ...

Many of his songs are better known by other singers’ interpretations, like Janis Joplin’s “Me and Bobby McGee,” Johnny Cash’s “Sunday Morning Coming Down” and more.

From 'Sunday Morning Coming Down' and 'Help Me Make It Through the Night' to 'Feeling Mortal,' Variety picks 10 Kris Kristofferson immortal classics.