The Best of Johnny Cash

~ Release by Johnny Cash (see all versions of this release, 2 available)

Tracklist

1▶CD: Folsom Prison Blues
2▶CD
3▶CD
4▶CD
5▼CD
#TitleRatingLength
1It Was Jesus
recording of:
It Was Jesus
lyricist and composer:
Johnny Cash (country music legend)
publisher:
Anne-Rachel Music Corp. and Songs of Cash, Inc.
2:12
2Suppertime
cover recording of:
Suppertime
lyricist:
Ira Stanphill (American gospel writer)
composer:
Ira Stanphill (American gospel writer) (in 1950)
2:47
3All Over Again
recording of:
All Over Again
lyricist and composer:
Johnny Cash (country music legend)
2:04
4Give My Love to Rose
recording of:
Give My Love to Rose
lyricist and composer:
Johnny Cash (country music legend)
publisher:
Aberbach (London) (publisher) and Carlin Music
2:27
5Pickin’ Time
recording of:
Pickin’ Time
lyricist and composer:
Johnny Cash (country music legend)
2:05
6I Was There When It Happened
recording of:
I Was There When It Happened
writer:
Jimmie Davis (American politician, singer and songwriter) and Fern Jones
2:43
7Five Feet High & Rising
recording of:
Five Feet High and Rising
lyricist and composer:
Johnny Cash (country music legend)
arrangement of:
Wo ist Zuhause, Mama
1:50
8Big River
recording of:
Big River
lyricist and composer:
Johnny Cash (country music legend)
publisher:
Hi Lo Music Inc. (BMI-affiliated), House of Cash, Inc. (BMI-affiliated, publisher for works of Johnny Cash) and Knox Music, Inc.
1:45
9God Has My Fortune Laid Away
cover recording of:
God Must Have My Fortune Laid Away
lyricist and composer:
Ted Harris (US Rockabilly/Country artist Theodore Clifford Harris)
3:17
10Heartbreak Hotel
cover recording of:
Heartbreak Hotel
writer:
Mae Boren Axton, Tommy Durden and Elvis Presley (“The King of Rock and Roll”)
publisher:
Belwin Mills Music Ltd., Durden Breyer Publishing, EMI Harmonies Limited, EMI Mills Music Limited (PRS for Music-affiliated), Sony/ATV Songs LLC, Sony/ATV Tree Publishing and Unichappell Music
sub-publisher:
ヤマハミュージックエンタテインメントホールディングス (Yamaha Music Entertainment Holdings, Inc., holding company – do not use as release label), コンソーシアム音楽出版 C・F事業部 (Consortium Music Publishing, CF Division) (until 2021-06-30) and ソニー・ミュージックパブリッシング CMP外国事業部 (sub‐publisher for foreign (non‐Japanese) works) (from 2021-07-01 to present)
2:51
11I Got Stripes
recording of:
I Got Stripes
lyricist and composer:
Johnny Cash (country music legend) and Charlie Williams (Country songwriter)
is based on:
On a Monday
2:05
12Guess Things Happen That Way
recording of:
Guess Things Happen That Way
lyricist and composer:
Jack Clement
1:42
13Ways of a Woman in Love
recording of:
Ways of a Woman in Love
writer:
Bill Justis and Charlie Rich (US country singer)
publisher:
Hi Lo Music Inc. (BMI-affiliated)
2:01
14You’re the Nearest Thing to Heaven
producer:
Jack Clement
acoustic guitar and lead vocals:
Johnny Cash (country music legend) (on 1958-05-15)
double bass:
Marshall Grant (on 1958-05-15)
drums (drum set):
Jimmy Van Eaton (on 1958-05-15)
electric guitar:
Luther Perkins (on 1958-05-15)
piano:
Jimmy Wilson (rockabilly piano) (on 1958-05-15)
vocals:
Gene Lowery Singers (on 1958-07-09)
recorded at:
Sun Studio in Memphis, Tennessee, United States (on 1958-05-15, on 1958-07-09)
recording of:
You’re the Nearest Thing to Heaven (from 1958-05-15 until 1958-07-09)
lyricist:
Johnny Cash (country music legend)
writer:
Jim Atkins (US country musician), John R. Cash (country music legend) and Hoyt Johnson
version of:
It’s a Little More Like Heaven
42:33
15Frankie & Johnny
recording of:
Frankie and Johnny (traditional song, version of “Frankie and Albert”)
publisher:
Hughie Cannon (in 1904) and Carl Sandburg (in 1927)
lyricist, writer and composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
part of:
Roud Folk Song Index (number: 254)
is based on:
You’re My Baby
2:19
16Don’t Take Your Guns to Town
recording of:
Don’t Take Your Guns to Town
lyricist and composer:
Johnny Cash (country music legend)
publisher:
Anne-Rachel Music Corp.
3:09

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Release

ASIN:UK: B001DXL1CY [info]