Johnny Cash: Ring Of Fire - The Best Of Johnny Cash CD Track Listing
Johnny Cash
Ring Of Fire - The Best Of Johnny Cash (1963)
Ring Of Fire - The Best Of Johnny Cash\n1995 Columbia/Legacy\n\nOriginally Released 1963\nCD Edition Released February 7, 1995\n\nAMG EXPERT REVIEW: Technically, Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash isn't a greatest-hits collection, but it does contain a number of his greatest performances and singles, including "Ring of Fire," "I Still Miss Someone," and "The Rebel -- Johnny Yuma." These are supported by solid originals ("Forty Shades of Green," "I'd Still Be There," "Tennessee Flat-Top Box") and covers ("[There'll Be] Peace in the Valley," "Bonanza"), which help make the record one of Cash's best. -- Stephen Thomas Erlewine\n\nAmazon.com Editorial Review\nThis 1963 release is not a greatest-hits package, as the subtitle would have you believe, although the title cut did top the country charts. Instead, it offers a worthy sampling of Cash's far-ranging moods -- dramatic saga songs, gospel hymns, love songs, honky-tonk weepers, folk ballads. The steady Tennessee Two churn forms the musical foundation, but is at times embellished by everything from banjo to mariachi horns to string section to background chorus to the Carter Family. Cash's august vocal tone and torpid phrasing command attention regardless of song or surroundings. --Marc Greilsamer \n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nLove is a burning thing., August 2, 2005\nReviewer: Johnny Heering "trivia buff" (Bethel, CT United States)\nThis is not a Johnny Cash "Greatest Hits" album. Rather, it's a collection of singles (a-sides and b-sides), that had not already been on an album. So, some big hits like "Don't Take Your Guns to Town" were not included, because they had already been on an album. But, it is still a solid collection of songs. Johnny Cash's fans should enjoy it.\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nGreatest Greatest Hits, August 18, 2004\nReviewer: Sarah Carpenter (Ontario Canada)\nIf you consider that this album is supposed to be a greatest hits collection, there are a lot of songs that you can not find on any other cd. Starting off with the title track, Ring of Fire, it moves right into one of them, I'd Still Be there, then another, What Do I Care. Then they go back to The Fabulous Johnny Cash album for his timeless standard I Still Miss Someone, before yet another unreleased tune Forty Shades of Green. Those three songs might not make it onto one of the hundreds of trashy greatest hits cds that have hit store shelves in the last ten years, but they are great in this collection. It continues on with one of his greatest spiritual recordings, Were You There (When They Crucified My Lord). This song is really a glimpse of heaven as a rough voiced Johnny sings with June or Anita (I'm not sure which) and the rest of the Carter Sisters in a positively electric showcase of talent. After that The Rebel Johnny Yuma lightens things up for a heavily distorted guitar intro to Bonanza!. The Big Battle and Remember the Alamo make up a little Americana before returning to the light hearted Tennessee Flat Top Box and finishing with (There'll Be) Peace In The Valley For Me. For a first time buyer, this cd offers great insight into the vast talent of Johnny Cash and his work in the early sixties. But it is with someone like myself, a Cash fanatic that it resounds the deepest. I hate greatest hits cd's with a passion as they merely throw the same eight or ten tunes on to a cd, add one or two less familiar songs and then wait for the money to roll in. But since this had been originally released in '63, they didn't defile his name as shameless companies nowadays would.\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nClassic LP from the summer of '63, August 21, 2003\nReviewer: Karen Santucci (Basking Ridge, NJ United States)\nIn early 1963, Johnny Cash, with a Columbia contract about to expire, no top hit since '59, and little chance he'd be resigned, "had a dream" - whether it was chemically induced or not, as Cash would often remark, is another matter. Influenced, further, by the popular sounds of the Tijuana Brass hit around that time, he envisioned horns backing up a song written by June Carter and Merle Kilgore, and already recorded & released with little notice by Anita Carter in 1962. Recorded in March 1963 Cash's dream became a musical reality as "Ring of Fire" (released a month later in April)and help contribute to the first resurrection of Cash's legendary musical career. The single reached the C&W No. 1 by late July 1963. The LP "Ring of Fire - The Best of Johnny Cash" was put together quickly by Columbia using previously recorded material from their vaults, coincided closely with the release of the single - it reached certified gold status also that summer of 1963. While remaining one of Cash's most popluar albums ever ( but hardly really his "Best"), it serves as a true testament to Cash's being what he always was: A true orignal stylist in American music. The rest, as they say, is history...
This country cd contains 12 tracks and runs 34min 12sec.
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: Music
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: music songs tracks country Country
- Johnny Cash - Ring Of Fire (02:41)
- Johnny Cash - I'd Still Be There (02:37)
- Johnny Cash - What Do I Care (02:10)
- Johnny Cash - I Still Miss Someone (02:38)
- Johnny Cash - Forty Shades Of Green (02:56)
- Johnny Cash - Were You There (When They Crucified My Lord) (03:58)
- Johnny Cash - The Rebel - Johnny Yuma (01:55)
- Johnny Cash - Bonanza! (02:22)
- Johnny Cash - The Big Battle (04:06)
- Johnny Cash - Remember The Alamo (02:52)
- Johnny Cash - Tennessee Flat-Top Box (03:02)
- Johnny Cash - (There'll Be) Peace In The Valley (02:47)
