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Happiness is You
LP Columbia CS-9337
1966
No Longer Available New On Vinyl
No CD Available At This Time
This Album Was Recorded In The Columbia
Studios, Nashville. Johnny Cash, Vocal ; Guitar : Marshall Grant, Bass; W.S. Holland Drums
: Luther Perkins, Electric Guitar ; Statler Brothers, Vocals; Unknown Organ and
Dobro , Producer Don Law And Frank Jones
Five Sessions
- July 28, 1965
- October 29, 1965
- November 29, 1965
- November 30, 1965
- December 1, 1965
Side #1
- Happiness Is You
- Guess Things Happen That Way
- Ancient History
- You Comb Her Hair
- She Came From the Mountains
Side #2
- For Loving You
- No One Will Ever Know
- Is This My Destiny
- A Wound Time Can't Erase
- Happy To Be With You
( # 9 HIT ) 1965
- Wabash Cannon Ball
Note:
This 1966 album has been found with two names on the record label - the
number 1 album has the name “Happiness Is You” and Number 2 album
has the name "That's What You Get For Lovin’ Me”. They
both have the same number on both albums labels and on the album cover
titles are both "Happiness Is You".
Also,
Number 2 has "unbreakable" written on the record label and the
other doesn’t. I have looked at both of them since I have both
copies, and the number 1 album of the record label is a darker red then
other. Also, the number 2 album has a noticeable misprint in the liner
notes stating "King Of Fire", where it should be "Ring
Of Fire". So which one is the first issue? I don’t know
but I'd like to have an answer. If any one knows the answer to these
questions, please email me and I will post it here on this site along with
this album track list and notes.
This
was brought to my attention by a Johnny Cash Fan from great state of
Alaska
!!
Note:
The front cover was done by Frank Baz. Again does this mean the he did the
drawing of Johnny Cash or was he on the producing end of it? Lots of
questions on this great album by Johnny Cash
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I Walk The
Line
Gold
Album
Lp Columbia
CS-8990
1964
No Longer Available New On Vinyl
No CD Available At This Time
Most Of These Recordings Where Done
On One Studio Session On March 4, 1964 at Columbia Studios Nashville
Johnny Cash Vocal;& Guitar:
Norman Blake Dobro; Carter Family Vocal; Marshall Grant Bass; W.S. Holland, Drums;
Bob Johnson Electric Guitar;
Producers Don Law & Frank Jones
Side #1
- I Walk The Line ( Lyrics To Song )
- Bad News
( # 8 HIT ) 1964
- Folsom Prison Blues
- Give My Love to Rose
- Hey Porter
- I Still Miss Someone
( Lyrics To The Song )
Side #2
- Understand Your Man
( # 1 HIT ) 1964
- Wreck of Old 97
- Still In Town
- Big River
- Goodbye , Little Darin, Goodbye
- Troublesome Waters
Liner Notes
A phenomenon probably unique to
the country and western and folk song fields is composer who is also the
singer of his own songs. One of the notable gifted and most successful
examples in recent years is Johnny Cash, whose hit recordings of original
compositions have appeared repeatedly on national best-seller charts.
Endowed with a vibrant, virile baritone voice, he is one of the best
songwriting talents since the legendary Hank Williams.
The title of Johnny’s new
collection “I Walk The Line” is also the title of the million-seller
that catapulted him into the national spotlight only a few years ago.
Appropriately, the song leads off this alum which includes six Cash
originals and one collaboration. After he sings “Bad News” (I’m Bad
News, Always Getting In Trouble) the effect of which Johnny heightens by a
devilish chuckle, he follows with three other famous Cash originals, the
grim “Folsom Prison Blues” (I Shot A Man In Reno Just To Watch Him Die)
the poignant “Give My Love To Rose” (The Words A Dyin Fella Said) and
“Hey Porter” (Tell Me how Much Longer Will It Be Till We Cross The Mason
Dixon Line) a jubilant goinghome song. “I Still Miss Someone” is a
sentimental song that Johnny wrote to brother Roy’s words.
A song with a too-late-now theme,
“Understand Your Man” shows a lighter side ot Johnny writing and
performing talents. A new arrangement of “Wreck Of The Old 97” concludes
with a sobering moral; (Never Speak Harsh Words To Your True-lovin Husband
He May Never Leave You And Never Return). After “Still In Town” Johnny
sings another of his own songs, “Big River” (I Taught The Weepin Willow
How To Cry), Gene Autry’s classic “Goodbye Little Darlin goodbye” and
concludes with the inspirational “Troublesome Waters”
I WALK THE LINE
offers Johnny Cash, renowned story-teller-in-song, at his creative and
performing best
Where Did This
Album Go ?
Now here is an album
of Johnny’s that I feel has almost been forgotten. I have asked myself
many times why? It sold well in 1964 in fact it was a gold record for Cash.
Even though some of the songs where old songs from his Sun Years it is great
to listen to his older songs in the true stereo 360 sound. I thought for
sure that when Sony records re-released some of his older albums on CD for
Johnny Cash’s 70th Birthday last year, that they would
certainly re-release this one. The thing that I most like about this
wonderful Album is that it was done in "Stereo 360 Sound", and has
a little taste of bluegrass on some of his songs. I might say in closing,
that it really sounds great when you put in to a CD. Maybe in the near future
Sony well release it, so we can all enjoy this wonderful album in its
greatest form.
In 1956 while still with Sun Records, Johnny wrote
"I Walk the Line," as a pledge of fidelity for his first wife,
Vivian Liberto, who he married in 1954. The lyrics read: "I keep a
close watch on this heart of mine / I keep my eyes wide open all the time /
I keep the ends out for the tie that binds / Because you're mine, I walk the
line." At first, Vivian was supportive of Johnny's career, but
after joining him on tour with Elvis in 1955, and after seeing the crazed
women and wild lifestyle, she became leery. The two grew more and more
distant as the years passed, and their marriage finally ended in divorce in
1967. In 1964, Johnny recorded the album I Walk the Line with
Columbia. The song "I Walk the Line" led off the album, which
included six original songs and one collaboration. The album achieved great
success, with the song "Understand Your Man" reaching #1 on the
charts.
Steven
Menke
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Debut Date - 3/7//64 - Dark
As A Dungeon - Charted - #49 -
Debut Date - 9/4/65
- Sons Of Katie Elder - Charted - #10
From Sea To
Shining Sea
LP Columbia CS-9447
1968
No longer Available On Vinyl New
Is Still Available On CD
Bear Family Box Set "Come Along And Ride Train" BCD-15563
Side #1
( Johnny Cash's Foot Notes On Album )
- Form Sea To Shining Sea
- The Whirl and The Suck
- Call Daddy From The Mine
- The Frozen Four Hundred Pound Fair To Middlin
Cotton
Picker
- The Walls Of A Prison
- The Masterpiece
Side #2
- You And Tennessee
- Another song to Sing
- The Flint Arrowhead
- Cisco Clifton's Fillin Station
- Shrimpin Sailing
- From Sea To Shining Sea
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Orange
Blossom Special
LP Columbia CS-9109
1965
No longer Available On Vinyl New
Now Available On CD Legacy/Columbia CK-86329 !!!!!
Released Date, 19 March 2002
Note Ed
Gizzard, who is not identified on the session logs, assumes the role of an
inquisitive friend asking the singer when he has plans to return to Florida
This Album Was Done Mostly In On Two
Sessions At Columbia Studios In Nashville On December 20th 1964
Johnny Cash, Vocal Guitar June Carter, Vocal Marshall Grant, Bass: W.S Holland, Drums;
Charlie McCoy, Harmonica: Luther Perkins, Electric Guitar: Bill Pursell, Piano;
Boots Randolph, Saxophone
Produced By Don Law & Frank Jones
Side #1
- Orange Blossom Special ( # 3 HIT ) 1965
- The Long Black Veil
- It Ain't Me Babe
(
Session Date August 27,1964 )
- The Wall
- Don't Think Twice It's All Right
- You Wild Colorado
Note; You Wild Colorado Is Done With Only
Guitar Acconpiment. Male Vocals On Amen Sounds Like Statler Brothers But Columbia Ledger
Sheets Make No Mention Of This
Side #2
- Mama You Been On My Mind
- When It's Springtime In Alaska
- All Of God's Children Ain't Free
- Danny Boy
- Wildwood Flower
- Amen
Bonus Tracks Newly
Released CD Version only
Bonus Tracks
- Engine 143 (Mono)
- (I'm Proud) The Baby Is mine
- Mama, You've Been On My Mind
Note: In 1975 Johnny Cash Used The Instrumental Portion
Of "Orange Blossom Special" And Re-Recorded The Vocal For Release On
Promotional Album --------"Destination Victoria Station"
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Bitter Tears
LP Columbia CS-9048 -
1964
No Longer Available On Vinyl New
Is Still Available On CD Box Set Of Three
Alternate LP Cover
LP Harmoney KH-32388
Vinyl
Ira Hayes Link
Side #1
- As Long as The Grass Shall Grow
- Apache Tears
- Custer
- The Talking Leaves
Side #2
- The Ballad Of Ira Hayes ( # 3 HIT ) Debut
Date July 11,1964
- Drums
- White Girl
- The Vanishing Race
- Old Apache Squaw
( CD format only )
Individuality is a
prerequisite for an artist! Johnny Cash is singular in his individuality.
There is no artist on the American scene quite like this ex-farm boy from
Arkansas.
One of the most striking
things about Johnny’s writings and performance is his perceptiveness.
His insight into the deep feelings for his fellows is startling. His few
years rule out his having “lived” all he sings of and writes about so
well. One must conclude that Johnny is gifted with a perception that
allows him to express, so that others can understand, that which we did
not see before. His quite unorthodox broach to the literature of the song
has brought home, with great impact many things we have not taken the time
to consider. This album contains an abundance of such literature.
We, as Americans, have many
things of which we can be proud. But we, alas, have some things in our
history that we must wear as millstones of shame. One of the least
discussed is the manner in which we have treated the Indians. These
people, of many languages and cultures, preceded us on this continent by
more than ten thousand years. At some distant date they followed mammoths
and giant prehistoric game over a now vanished land bridge between Siberia
and Alaska and tracked them all over the Western Hemisphere, moving in
wave after wave, spreading and changing.
The Indians of the Great
Plains continued to be nomadic hunter. Others settled in the Southwest to
plant crops and build great cliff dwellings and adobe pueblos. The Indians
built their richest and most complex cultures in the Midwest and East and
South. Some Indians built large fortified towns with temples and streets
and pyramids-like buildings that only recently have been unearthed.
Our white ancestors looked
upon the Indians as a lesser being. Language barriers hid the culture of
race and the dignity of the individual. The white man’s greed for land
and fur and gold blinded him to the indignities he was forcing on another
of the human kind. The knowledge and energy that our forefathers brought
from Europe propelled the white man with force and speed that put fear in
the heart and mind of the leisurely-paced Indian. And fear comes
misunderstanding. We have spent three hundred years with fewer lands, less
game, broken promises. All of the aforementioned mean death for the
Indian.
First, families died, then
tribes and now we are faced with whole cultures dying away. We have made
promises, only to break them. We have signed treaties, only to have them
become “white leaves that blow away in the wind”. True, the Indians
fought and killed white men, but we fail to remember that we, the white
men, were invaders. The Indians was defending that which had been his for
thousand of years. We are still displacing the American Indian. This year
hundreds of families are being moved from a New York State revelation
granted them in a treaty signed by George Washington, to make way for a
dam. We are still the invader.
The content of the album is
the Indian’s side of the story. The songs, written by Peter Lafarge and
Johnny Cash, view some of the problems cited here from the Indian’s
viewpoint. Listen well to these words. They are the thoughts and feelings
of a people who deem Custer’s Last Stand not a massacre but an Indian
victory over a foe who had broken a promise. Hear the words well and you
will discern that simply because we are white, that does not make us pure.
Johnny
Cash sings well these tales of the Indian’s woe. His facility for
perception and insight lends validity to these tales of anguish. Johnny is
justified in the stand he takes.
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Hello
I'm Johnny Cash
Gold Album
LP Columbia
KCS-9943 1973
No Longer Available On Vinyl New
No CD Available At This Time
This Is One Of My All Time Favorite Albums.
I Remember Him doing Most Of These Songs On this Album On His ABC Television
Shows. I Have Hi-Lighted My Favorite Songs On this Album
NOTE:
This Album Is Rumored To Be The Next Album To Be Released On CD
Side #1
- Southwind
- The Devil To Pay
- Cause I Love You
- See Ruby Fall
- Route #1 Box 144
- Sing a Traveling Song
Side #2
- If I Were A Carpenter ( #2 HIT )
1970 Duet with June
Carter
- To Beat The Devil
- Blistered
- Wrinkled Crinkled Wadded Dollar Bill
- I've Got a Thing About Trains
- Jesus Was A Carpenter
to commemorate the sale of more than $1 million in sales
of the Columbia Records long-playing record album
The album was released in 1970, reaching #1 on the
country charts and #6 on the pop charts.
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Any
Old Wind That Blows
Lp Columbia
KC-32091 1973
No Longer Available On Vinyl New
No CD Available At This Time
Side #1
- Any Old Wind that Blows ( # 3 HIT ) 1972
- Kentucky Straight
- The Loving Gift
- The Good Earth
- Best Friend
Side #2
- Oney (#2 HIT) 8/26/72 On Charts 15 Weeks Columbia
45660
- The Ballad Of Annie Palmer
- Too Little Too Late
- If I Had A Hammer ( # 29 HIT ) 1972
- Country Trash
- Welcome
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Everybody
Loves A Nut
LP
- CS 9292 STEREO LP - 2492
MOMO
Produced By Don Law & Frank Jones
Not Available Vinyl New
No CD Available At This Time
S ide #1
- Everybody Loves A Nut ( # 17 HIT ) 1966
- The One on The Right Is On The Left
( # 2 HIT ) 1966
- A Cup Of coffee
- The Bug That Tried To Crawl Around The World
- The Singing Star's Queen
Side #2
- Austin Prison
- Dirty Egg-Sucking Dog
- Take Me Home
- Please Don't Play Red river Valley
- Boa Constrictor ( # 39 HIT ) 1966
- Joe Bean
Remember
Aladdin? We may figure him to be a bit out of his skull, but we love him for
his crazy lamp! We still quote what “Confucis says” and shake our heads.
But doesn’t he put us on beautifully with that fortune-cookie wisdom? You
realize, too, that Pied piper gained his popularity and gathered crowds
because he was hung up on parades. You don’t have to dig into an
encyclopedia, reference book or your librarian’s memory to understand that
screwballs have a timeless, universal appeal. And now, in a captivating
collection of fun songs, Johnny Cash steps forward to remind us that
“Everybody Loves A Nut”
Johnny
doesn’t need history to prove the eternal popularity of lovable nuts, but
he does have much to contribute to our understanding of the world today. His
philosophical comments are offbeat, personal and often devastating. Listen,
for example, to “The One On The Right Is
On The Left” a laugh-provoking
look at a politically mixed-up folk
group
Johnny
Cash is wise wayfarer who sings about foibles that strike his fancy. Most
songs are about man and his environment; some are about unusual occupations
“A Cup Of Coffee” is the saga of a genial truck driver ”A Singing
Star’s Queen” is about just
about that; “Austin Prison” concerns a jailbird and his escapades;
“Take Me Home” describes the woes of a sick-and-tired traveler, and
“Please Don’t Play Red River Valley” tells a story of an amateur
harmonica player. “Joe Bean” is the tragicomic story of a hanging.
“The Bug That Tried To Crawl Around The World” is about an itinerant
insect; there is a musical warning to a “Dirty Old Egg-Sucking Dog” and
an appeal to a “Boa Constrictor” complete with the first sound of a
snake’s satisfaction ever recorded. Johnny Cash sees laughter And
Life all Around
His
Although these are not folk songs, like them they tell
the tales of people and places and things. They’re way out, full of
surprises and just plain funny. Johnny Cash knows that “Everybody Loves A
Nut” listen, and you’ll agree. Only a nut wouldn’t.
Johnny
Cash And His Woman
LP Columbia KC-32443 1973
No Longer Available On Vinyl New
No CD Available At This Time
Side #1
- The Color Of Love
- Saturday Night In Hickman County
- Allegheny
- Life Has Its Little Ups And Downs
- Matthew 24
Side #2
- The City Of New Orleans
- Tony
- The Pine Tree
- We're For Love
- Godshine
Bonus Tracks On Newly Released CD Only
- The Wind Of Change
- From Sea To Shinning Sea
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Carryin On With Johnny Cash And June Carter
LP Columbia CS-9528
1967
No Longer Available On Vinyl New
Now Available On CD Legacy/Columbia Released 19 March 2002
Album liner Note Below ( New )
Side #1
- Long-Legged Guitar Man
- ShantyTown
- It Ain't Me Babe
- Fast Boat To Sydney
- Pack Up Your Sorrows
- I Got A Woman
Side #2
- Jackson ( # 2 HIT ) 1967 Duet With June Carter
- Oh What A Good Thing We Had
- You'll Be All Right
- No No No
- What'd I Say
Bonus Tracks On Newly Released CD Only
- The Wind Of Change
- From Sea To Shinning Sea
The story of Johnny Cash and June Carter
Cash is one of the great love stories of the twentieth century. And their album
“Carryin On” originally released in 1967, epitomizes the playful, loving
relationship of two entertainment giants who eventually became husband and wife.
Twelve long miserable years
have passed since I was introduced to Johnny Cash. Then and there I
decided that this Long-Legged, hungry-looking vacuum-cleaner salesman
would be better off selling eggs than records. He couldn’t tune or even
play his worn out, busted, German guitar – but along with guitarist
Luther Perkins ( no relative of mine, thank God!) and bass player Marshall
Grant, a couple of self-made mechanics, he cur his first horrible record.
Then you, you unsuspecting record buyers outran motorcycles, even
roadrunners, to get record shops to lay down those many dollars for it.
And you ain’t stopped running yet !!! That’s what makes me sick. I
hope you’re satisfied now that you’ve made Johnny Cash the biggest
damn thing in country music.
And then !! Poor little Miss
June Carter, a sweet lady who, after many weeks of watching Cash go on
stage wearing streaked, spotted, striped and wrinkled shirts and baggy
pants, persuaded him to buy himself a suit with a coat and pants the same
color. Recently she personally bought him three suits with matching coats
and pants.
The Tennessee Three and
myself insisted that she send him the bill for them. June is
affectionately as “Brindi” has had a tough time these last few years.
She fought a battle to tame a man with a wild streak-trying and succeeding
most times in eliminating the streak She has used horrible tactics for
doing this, such as cooking ham on a shaky stove while enroot to
High Point N.C., in a beat-up Dodge Motor Home, pressing suits,
hair cuts, hot biscuits and all. Pickin up and singing when she got the
notion was too much for John and the babies (W.S. Marshall, Luther and me
) so old John joined in to protect his ears. The duet didn’t come out
near so badly as we thought it would. They sang an old song called
Jackson, then there was the Long-Legged Guitar Pickin
Man – and finally this album.
Now they’re singing
together, and though we tried to drown them out the Tennessee Three and
myself, I suppose, Damn it, you’ll hear them Carry On in this album.
Carl Perkins
Note: This Is The Same
Album As Above Just A Newer Version Of Cover
NOTE: All Of The Johnny Cash CD's That Are
Available, Can Be Purchased At Most Major CD Online Music Outlets
Johnny and June would win two Grammy's together,
including one for the single "If I Were a Carpenter" (lot 170) in
1970. "Jackson" is probably the most loved duet the couple
performed over the course of their career, and also appears on the album Johnny
Cash at Folsom Prison the following year, for which Johnny Cash won two
other Grammy's. The song was a fan favorite largely for the
vibrancies of
Johnny and June's live duets. Their chemistry is perfect and their
respective senses of humor shine through. It is by far their biggest hit
together. "Jackson" would reach #2 on the Country Western charts
in 1967, and John and June would be married early the following year
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