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• Johnny Cash With His Hot and Blue Guitar
• Greatest Johnny Cash
• Johnny Cash Sings Hank Williams
• All Aboard The Blue Train
• Johnny Cash Sings The Songs That Made Him Famous 
• The Original Sun Sound Of Johnny Cash
• Johnny Cash The Rough Cut King Of Country Music
• Now Here's Johnny Cash
• Misc. Sun LP's By ( Johnny Cash )     
• Johnny Cash Vintage Vaults

   The original Sun releases have the number SLP (  or LP ) 12 inch although none were recorded in STEREO

"In the late 60's, early70's were re-issued by Shelby Singleton after he bought the Sun catalogue & re-issued tracks in doctored stereo on the Sun label"

Johnny Cash With His Hot and Blue Guitar 

See through the eye's of a Fan

SUN LP-1220   1957 First release 
Not Recorded In Stereo 
Newly Released On CD 

Side #1

1. The Rock Island Line
2. I Heard That Lonesome Whistle
3. Country Boy
4. If The Good Lord's Willing
5. Cry Cry Cry ( #14 Pos.- On charts 1 week )  11/26/55
6. Remember Me   ( Written By Stuart Hamblen )

Side #2 

1. So Doggone Lonesome   ( # 4 Pos.-On Charts 23 wks. ) 2/4/56
2. I Was There When It Happened
3. I Walk the Line  ( #1 Pos On charts 43 weeks ) 6/9/56
4. The Wreck of Old '97
5. Folsom Prison Blues  ( # 4 Pos.- On charts 23 Weeks ) 2/11/56
6. Doing My Time

Bonus tracks 

1. Hey Porter 

2. Get Rhythm 

3. I Was There When It Happened Unreleased alternate Version 

4. Folsom Prison Blues Unreleased alternate Version 

5. I Walk The Line Unreleased alternate Version 

Rock Island Line

Chorus:

Rock Island Line is a mighty fine road

Rock Island Line is the road to ride

Rock Island Line is a mighty fine road

If you're gonna ride it, got to ride it like you find it

Get your ticket at the station for the Rock Island Line 

I may be right, I may be wrong

Bet you'll miss me when I'm gone 

Chorus 

Sun goes up, sun goes down

Time to leave this lonesome town 

Of all the rockabilly, country, and blues icons that made musical history inside his humble Memphis Studio during the 1950s, Sam Philips chose Johnny Cash as the first of his rising stars to enjoy the prestige of having a full-Length album on Sun Records. This 1957 landmark release turned out to be the first of hundreds of Cash LPs to grace the market place, but until now, quite inexplicably, it's never been available on compact disc ( with it's original Snazzy Artwork intact) 

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SUN SLP-1240  First release 
Not Recorded In Stereo
Newly Released On CD 

Side #1

1. Goodbye little Darlin'  ( Peak Pos.#22-WKS. CHR.>5 ) 11/09/59
2. I just thought you'd like to know
3. You Tell Me
4. Just About Time  ( Peak Pos. #30 - WKS CHR>.1)   1/19/59
5. I Forgot To Remember To Forget
6. Katy Too

Side #2

1. Thanks a Lot ( Peak Pos. #12 - WKS.CHR> 9 ) 3/30/59
2. Luther's Boogie ( Peak Pos. #8 - WKS> CHR.>13 )   3/30/59
3. You Win Again
4. Hey Good Lookin'
5. I Could Never Be Ashamed Of You
6. Get Rhythm  ( Flip side of - I Walk The Line  WKS CHR>9 ) 1956
7. (  Get Rhythm  Reissued 1969  Peak Pos. #23 WKS CHR.>12 )

NOTE:

On a label with a plethora of then-current hit makers and soon-to-be legends, Sun records founder Sam Phillips had no compunctions about titling Johnny Cash's third album for the label GREATEST! It wasn't really a "best of" collection in the tradition of his previous long-player Johnny Cash sings the songs that made him famous, so perhaps we can surmise that the tag paid tribute to the Man In Black himself. If so, it was an apt appellation. 

BONUS TRACKS 

1. FOOLS HALL OF FAME
2. I FORGOT TO REMEMBER TO FORGET
3. HEY GOOD LOOKIN
4. ROCK AND ROLL RUBY

SUN SLP-1245 1960 First release 
Not Recorded In Stereo

Side #1

1. I Can't Help It
2. You Win Again
3. Hey Good lookin'
4. I Could Never Be Ashamed Of You
5. Next In Line (Peak Pos #9-WKKS CHR>12) 5/27/57
6. Straight A's In Love   ( Peak Pos. #16 - WKS CHR>10 ) 2/15/60

Side #2

1. Folsom Prison Blues  ( Peak Pos # 4 .-WKS CHR> 23 ) 2/11/56
2. Give My love to Rose
3. I Walk The Line  (Peak  Pos #1- WKS CHR> 43 ) 6/9/56
4. I Love You Because
5. Come In Stranger
6. Mean Eyed Cat  ( Peak Pos. #30 - WKS. CHR>1 ) 12/26/60

EP Johnny Cash Sing Hank Williams

If there is one man who can fill the void in the hearts of music lovers by the untimely death of Hank Williams, he is Johnny Cash. Only a few years has elapsed since Hank Williams was living – and singing his heart-touching songs. But already he has been accorded that type of immortality which comes to performers who are truly “Great” The little people who enjoyed his music were important tp hank, and this is probably why they in turn idolized this man who was the symbol of all the warmth and sincerity and genuine emotion that country music possesses.

Johnny Cash is a singer who makes the same type of appeal which Hank Williams did. Audiences like not only his singing and playing – they like him as a person. They trust him and they sense that Johnny is their friend.

It is very appropriate that Johnny Cash should keep alive the music and memory of Hank Williams through this album. Hank Williams fans are almost sure to be Johnny Cash fans, and vice versa. The number recorded here are representative of the best of Hank Williams as a song writer and the best of Johnny Cash as an artist.

Include in the album also are some of Johnny’s million sellers – the choice records that are most in demand by the collectors of Cash records. The Popular Gene Lowery Singers provide an added element on several  provide an added element on several of the selections in the album.

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CD Version Johnny Cash Sings Hank Williams  

Newly Released CD Sun label 

Track List 

1. I Can't Help It (If I'm Still I Love With You)

2. You Win Again 

3. Hey Good Looking 

4. I Could Never Be Ashamed Of You 

5. Next I Line 

6. Straight A's I Love 

7. Folsom Prison Blues

8. Give My Love To Rose 

9. I Walk The Line 

10. I Love You Because 

11. Come In Stranger 

12. Mean Eyed Cat 

Bonus Tracks

1. Cold Cold Heart 

2. (I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle

3. Come In Stranger 

4. Wide Open Road 

5. I Love You Because ( With The Gene Lowery Singers ) 

Note: This CD  is in no way the same as the LP above ( Johnny Cash Sings Hank Williams ) The LP version, had many more tracks with The Gene Lowery Singers on it.  

It’s virtually impossible to envision a pair of country music icons and more revered than Hank Williams and Johnny Cash. Back when Johnny was an impressionable youngster living in rural Arkansas was a regular visitor via the Cash Family’s battery-powered Sears Roebuck radio., forgoing an inexorable musical connection that endured long after Cash commandeered the spotlight himself.  Though the ill-fated Williams was gone from the planet by the time Cash ascended to fame, The Man In black paid homage to the late Drifting  Cowboy by cutting a half dozen songs from his vast and varied songbook for Sam Phillips  Memphis-based Sun Records in 1957-1958

SUN DT-91458   1963  First release 
Not Recorded In Stereo
Newly Released On Vinyl 2003

Side #1

1. Blue Train
2. There You Go ( Peak Pos. # 1 - WKS CHR. 28 ) 12/22/56
3. Train Of Love ( Peak Pos. #7 - WKS CHR- 12 )  1956
4. Goodbye Little Darling
5. I Heard That Lonesome Whistle
6. Come In Stranger  ( Peak Pos. # 6 - WKS CHR. 13 )   1958

Side #2

1. Rock Island line  ( Pos. # 35 WKS CHR.>7) Reissue 2/28/70
2. Give My Love To Rose ( Peak Pos. #13 - WKS CHR.> 2  ) 1957
3. Hey Porter
4. Folsom Prison Blues
5. The Wreck Of The Old 97
6. So Doggone Lonesome

Bonus Tracks 
Originally Un-Issued 

1. Train Of Love 

2. Give My Love To Rose 

3. Hey Porter 

4. Leave That Junk Alone 

5. You're My Baby ( Little Woolly Booger ) 

6. Brakeman's Blues 

Riding the rails of his beloved country was long-term lyrical passion for Johnny Cash. "Hey Porter" the flip side of his 1955 debut single for sun records, was a rip-roaring locomotive jaunt, and five years later the mighty Man In Black conjured up the intriguing concept album "Ride This Tran" for Columbia 

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  SUN SLP-1235   1958   First release 
not in Stereo
Newly Released On CD 

1. Wide Open Road (Late 1954 Originally Un-issued )
2. Big River (Recorded Late 1957 Originally Un-issued )
3. Born To Lose  ( Recorded May 15 1957 ) Alternate Take 
4. The Story Of A Broken Heart 
5. Get Rhythm (Recorded April 2 1956 Alternate Take )
6. One More Ride ( Parcel Recording ) Recorded Oct 1 1956 
   This Song "One More Ride was never recorded on the Sun Label, it was to be on Johnny's first Columbia LP called The Fabulous Johnny Cash. 

SUN SLP-1255   1961  First Release 
Not Recorded In Stereo
Newly Released On CD

Side #2

1. The Wreck  Of The Old 97
2. I Forgot To Remember To Forget
3. Sugar Time
4. Story Of A Broken Heart
5. Katy Too

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