The Sound of Johnny Cash | ||||
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Released | June 4, 1962 | |||
Recorded | April 28, 1961 - February 12, 1962 | |||
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Length | 25:12 | |||
Label | Columbia | |||
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Johnny Cash chronology | ||||
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Singles from The Sound of Johnny Cash | ||||
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AllMusic | [1] |
Billboard | [2] |
The Sound of Johnny Cash is the eighth studio album by American singer-songwriter Johnny Cash, released on June 4, 1962. Among other songs, it contains " In the Jailhouse Now", a Jimmie Rodgers cover which reached #8 on the Country charts, and "Delia's Gone", which Cash would re-record years later, on American Recordings, in 1994. Cash would also go on to record a significantly slower, more ballad-like version of "I'm Free from the Chain Gang Now", which was ultimately released in 2006 on American V: A Hundred Highways as the last track on the album.
During the recording sessions for the album, Cash rerecorded his Sun Records hits " Folsom Prison Blues", " Hey, Porter" and " I Walk the Line", but none of these versions were ultimately used on the album and sat unreleased until the 1990s. [3]
The original 1962 album features a photograph of Johnny Cash taken by American photographer Leigh Wiener at his studio in Los Angeles, California.
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Lost on the Desert" | Dallas Frazier, Buddy Mize | 2:01 |
2. | "Accidentally on Purpose" | Darrell Edwards, George Jones | 1:56 |
3. | " In the Jailhouse Now" | Jimmie Rodgers | 2:23 |
4. | "Mr. Lonesome" | Tompall Glaser | 2:18 |
5. | "You Won't Have Far to Go" | Charles Glaser | 1:50 |
6. | " Cotton Fields (The Cotton Song)" | Lead Belly | 2:34 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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7. | "Delia's Gone" | Karl Silbersdorf, Dick Toops | 2:01 |
8. | "I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know" | Cecil A. Null | 2:27 |
9. | "You Remembered Me" | Cash | 2:05 |
10. | "I'm Free from the Chain Gang Now" | Lou Herscher, Saul Klein | 1:51 |
11. | "Let Me Down Easy" | Tompall Glaser, Jim Glaser | 1:46 |
12. | "Sing It Pretty, Sue" | Cash | 2:00 |
The album did not chart in the Billboard album charts. In 1962 the single " In the Jailhouse Now" peaked at #8 in the Billboard Country Singles. [4]