Johnny Cash singles discography explained

Artist:Johnny Cash
Singles:170
Music Videos:20
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The Johnny Cash discography chronicles the output of American singer Johnny Cash. His lengthy career, spanning 1954 to 2003, saw the release of 91 albums and 170 singles on several record labels. Over the years, Cash also collaborated with many of the industry's most notable artists.

Singles

1955–1958: Sun years

YearSinglePeak chart positionsCertificationsAlbum
US Country
[1]
US
[2]
AU
1955"Cry! Cry! Cry!"
 b/w "Hey, Porter"
14With His Hot and Blue Guitar
"So Doggone Lonesome"
/ "Folsom Prison Blues"
4
1956"I Walk the Line"
 / "Get Rhythm"
11743
"There You Go"
/ "Train of Love"
1Sings the Songs That Made Him Famous
7
1957"Next in Line"
/ "Don't Make Me Go"
999
"Home of the Blues"
/ "Give My Love to Rose"
388
13
1958"Ballad of a Teenage Queen"
/ "Big River"
11415Sings the Songs That Made Him Famous
4
"Guess Things Happen That Way"
 / "Come In, Stranger"
11154
6669
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

1958–1985: Columbia years

Color key

1950s

YearSinglePeak chart positionsAlbum
US Country
US
AU
1958"The Ways of a Woman in Love"
 / "You're the Nearest Thing to Heaven"
32428Sings the Songs That Made Him Famous
5
"All Over Again"
 / "What Do I Care"
43885Old Golden Throat
75257
"It's Just About Time"
/ "I Just Thought You'd Like to Know"
3047Greatest!
8589
"Don't Take Your Guns to Town"
 b/w "I Still Miss Someone"
1323The Fabulous Johnny Cash
1959"Luther Played the Boogie"
/ "Thanks a Lot"
843Greatest
1281
"Frankie's Man, Johnny"
 / "You Dreamer You"
95797The Fabulous Johnny Cash
13Old Golden Throat
"Katy Too"
 b/w "I Forget to Remember to Forget"
116691Greatest
"I Got Stripes"
 / "Five Feet High and Rising"
44331Old Golden Throat
1476Songs of Our Soil
"Goodbye Little Darlin'"
 b/w "You Tell Me"
22Greatest
"Little Drummer Boy"246339The Christmas Spirit
"Straight A's in Love"
/ "I Love You Because"
1684Sings Hank Williams
20
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

1960s

YearSinglePeak chart positionsCertificationsAlbum
US Country
US
US ACCAN CountryCANCAN ACAUUK
1960"Smiling Bill McCall"
/ "Seasons of My Heart"
1311077Old Golden Throat
10Now, There Was a Song!
"Second Honeymoon"
 / "Honky-Tonk Girl"
1579More of Old Golden Throat
92
"Down the Street to 301"
/ "The Story of a Broken Heart"
8584Now Here's Johnny Cash
107
"Going to Memphis"
 b/w "Loading Coal"
Ride This Train
"Mean-Eyed Cat"
 b/w "Port of Lonely Hearts"
30Sings Hank Williams
"Girl in Saskatoon"
 b/w "Locomotive Man"
More of Old Golden Throat
"Oh Lonesome Me"
 b/w "Life Goes On"[4]
1393Now Here's Johnny Cash
1961"The Rebel – Johnny Yuma"
 b/w "Forty Shades of Green"
24108Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash
"Sugartime"
 b/w "My Treasure"
Now Here's Johnny Cash
"Tennessee Flat Top Box"
 b/w "Tall Men"
118450Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash
1962"The Big Battle"
 b/w "When I've Learned"
24Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash
Hymns from the Heart
"Blue Train"
 b/w "Born to Lose"
All Aboard the Blue Train with Johnny Cash
Original Sun Sound of Johnny Cash
"In the Jailhouse Now b/w "A Little At A Time"8The Sound of Johnny Cash
"Bonanza"
 b/w "Pick a Bale o' Cotton"
94Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash
"(There'll Be) Peace in the Valley"
 b/w "Were You There (When They Crucified My Lord)"
Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash
"Busted" (with The Carter Family)13Blood, Sweat and Tears
1963"Ring of Fire"
 b/w "I'd Still Be There"
11712 Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash
"The Matador"
 b/w "Still in Town"
24439Old Golden Throat
1964"Understand Your Man"
/ "Dark as a Dungeon"
13550I Walk the Line
49119Old Golden Throat
"Wide Open Road"
/ "Belshazah"
Original Sun Sound of Johnny Cash
"The Ballad of Ira Hayes"
/ "Bad News"
32
85I Walk the Line
1965"Orange Blossom Special"
 b/w "All Of God's Children Ain't Free"
380251Orange Blossom Special
"Mister Garfield"
/ "The Streets of Laredo"
15Sings the Ballads of the True West
124
"The Sons of Katie Elder"
 b/w "A Certain Kind of Hurtin'"
10119Old Golden Throat
"Happy to Be with You"
 b/w "Pickin' Time"
9Happiness Is You
1966"The One on the Right Is on the Left"
 b/w "Cotton Pickin' Hands"
2463568Everybody Loves a Nut
"Everybody Loves a Nut"
 b/w "Austin Prison"
179690
"Boa Constrictor"
 b/w "Bottom of a Mountain"
39107
More of Old Golden Throat
"You Beat All I Ever Saw"
 b/w "Put the Sugar to Bed"
20
1967"Red Velvet"
 b/w "The Wind Changes"
Old Golden Throat
60
"Rosanna's Going Wild"
 b/w "Roll Call"
2911International Superstar
More of Old Golden Throat
1968"Folsom Prison Blues" (live)13211743
  • BPI: Silver
At Folsom Prison
"Daddy Sang Bass"14214988The Holy Land
1969"A Boy Named Sue" (live)12113134
  • RIAA: Gold
  • BPI: Silver
At San Quentin
"Blistered"
/ "See Ruby Fall"
4501Hello, I'm Johnny Cash
7541
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

1970s

YearSinglePeak chart positionsAlbum
US Country
US
US ACCAN CountryCANCAN ACAUUK
1970"What Is Truth"
 b/w "Sing a Traveling Song"
3194191421
"Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down" (live)
 b/w "I'm Gonna Try to Be That Way"
14613024The Johnny Cash Show
"Flesh and Blood"
 b/w "This Side of the Law"
1541412394I Walk the Line (soundtrack)
1971"Man in Black"
 b/w "Little Bit of Yesterday"
35823843Man in Black
"Singing in Viet Nam Talking Blues"
 b/w "You've Got a New Light Shining"
18124
"Papa Was a Good Man"
 b/w "I Promise You"
1610417A Thing Called Love
"A Thing Called Love"
 b/w "Daddy"
21033714
1972"Kate"
 b/w "Miracle Man"
275189
"If I Had a Hammer"29Any Old Wind That Blows
"Oney"
 b/w "Country Trash"
2101143
"Any Old Wind That Blows"
 b/w "Kentucky Straight"
31
1973"Children"
 b/w "Last Supper"
3015The Gospel Road
"Praise the Lord and Pass the Soup"
(with The Carter Family and The Oak Ridge Boys)
5765rowspan="2"
"Pick the Wildwood Flower" (with Maybelle Carter)34
1974"Orleans Parish Prison" (live)
 b/w "Jacob Green" (live)
52På Österåker
"Ragged Old Flag"31Ragged Old Flag
"The Junkie and the Juicehead, Minus Me"32The Junkie and the Juicehead Minus Me
"Father and Daughter (Father and Son)"
(with Rosey Nix)
"The Lady Came from Baltimore"
 b/w "Lonesome to the Bone"
1411John R. Cash
1975"My Old Kentucky Home
(Turpentine and Dandelion Wine)
"
42
"Look at Them Beans"
 b/w "All Around Cowboy"
1717Look at Them Beans
"Texas 1947"
 b/w "I Hardly Ever Sing Beer Drinking Songs"
3529
1976"Strawberry Cake" (live)
 b/w "I Got Stripes" (live)
5449Strawberry Cake
"One Piece at a Time"
 b/w "Go On Blues"
129614018232One Piece at a Time
"Sold Out of Flagpoles"
 b/w "Mountain Lady"
2926
"It's All Over"
 b/w "Ridin' on the Cotton Belt"
41Greatest Hits, Vol. 3
1977"The Last Gunfighter Ballad"
 b/w "City Jail"
3838The Last Gunfighter Ballad
"Lady"
 b/w "Lately"
4634The Rambler
"After the Ball"
 b/w "Calilou"
3242
1978"I Would Like to See You Again"
 b/w "Lately"
1223I Would Like to See You Again
"Gone Girl"
 b/w "I'm Alright Now"
4453Gone Girl
"It'll Be Her"
 b/w "It Comes and Goes"
89
"I Will Rock and Roll with You"
 b/w "A Song for the Life" (with Rosanne Cash)
2136
1979"(Ghost) Riders in the Sky"21Silver
"I'll Say It's True"
 b/w "Cocaine Blues"
4263
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

1980s

YearSinglePeak chart positionsAlbum
US Country
CAN CountryAU
1980"Wings in the Morning"A Believer Sings the Truth
"Bull Rider"
 b/w "Lonesome to the Bone"
66Silver
"Song of the Patriot"
 b/w "She's a Go-er"
54Encore
"Cold Lonesome Morning"5374Rockabilly Blues
"The Last Time"
 b/w "Rockabilly Blues (Texas 1955)"
85
1981"Without Love"
 b/w "It Ain't Nothing New Babe"
7868
"The Baron"
 b/w "I Will Dance with You"
10677The Baron
"Mobile Bay"
 b/w "The Hard Way"
60
1982"The Reverend Mr. Black"
 / "Chattanooga City Limit Sign"
71
"The General Lee"
 b/w "Duelin' Dukes"
2623The Dukes of Hazzard (soundtrack)
"Georgia on a Fast Train"
 b/w "Sing a Song"
5541The Adventures of Johnny Cash
"Fair Weather Friends"
1983"We Must Believe in Magic"
 b/w "I'll Cross over Jordan Someday"
84
"I'm Ragged but I'm Right"75Johnny 99
"Johnny 99"
1984"That's the Truth"
 b/w "Joshua Gone Barbados"
8443
"The Chicken in Black"
 b/w "Battle of Nashville"
45rowspan="2"
"They Killed Him"
1985"I'm Leaving Now"Rainbow

1987–1991: Mercury years

1980s

YearSinglePeak chart positionsAlbum
US Country
CAN CountryAU
1987"The Night Hank Williams Came to Town" (with Waylon Jennings)
 b/w "I'd Rather Have You"
43Johnny Cash Is Coming to Town
"Sixteen Tons"
"Let Him Roll"
"W. Lee O'Daniel (and the Light Crust Doughboys)"
 b/w "Letters from Home"
72
1988"Get Rhythm" (re-recording)
"That Old Wheel" (with Hank Williams Jr.)
 b/w "Tennessee Flat Top Box" (re-recording)
2130Water from the Wells of Home
1989"Ballad of a Teenage Queen"
(re-recording; with Rosanne Cash and The Everly Brothers)
45Water from the Wells of Home
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

1990s

YearSinglePeak positionsAlbum
US Country
1990"Farmer's Almanac"ABoom Chicka Boom
"Cat's in the Cradle"[6]
"Goin' by the Book"
 b/w "Beans for Breakfast"
69The Mystery of Life
1991"The Mystery of Life"[7]
"Wanted Man"[8]
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Since 1991: American Recordings years and posthumous releases

1990s

YearSinglePeak positionsAlbum
US Country
1994"Delia's Gone"American Recordings
"Drive On"
1996"Rusty Cage"American II: Unchained
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

2000s and 2010s

YearSinglePeak chart positionsCertificationsAlbum
US Country
US
CANUK
[10]
2002"Personal Jesus"[11]
2003"Hurt"5639
  • RIAA: Gold
  • BPI: Platinum
2006"God's Gonna Cut You Down"77
  • BPI: Silver
2010"Ain't No Grave"11295170
2014"She Used to Love Me a Lot"136Out Among the Stars
"I'm Movin' On"
"Baby, Ride Easy"
"Out Among the Stars"
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Other singles

Promotional singles

YearSinglePeak chart positionsAlbum
US Country
US
US ACCAN CountryCANAU
1969"Get Rhythm" (re-release)2360159rowspan="2"
1970"Rock Island Line"359322
"Big River"4118Greatest Hits, Vol. 2
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Singles with June Carter Cash

YearSinglePeak chart positionsCertificationsAlbum
US Country
US
CAN CountryCANCAN ACAUUK
1964"It Ain't Me Babe"4588528Orange Blossom Special
1967"Jackson"2
  • BPI: Silver
Johnny Cash's Greatest Hits Volume 1
"Long-Legged Guitar Pickin' Man"6Carryin' On with Johnny Cash and June Carter
1969"If I Were a Carpenter"2361131152Hello, I'm Johnny Cash
1971"No Need to Worry"157International Superstar
1972"The Loving Gift"2722Any Old Wind That Blows
1973"Allegheny"6935Johnny Cash and His Woman
1976"Old Time Feeling"2624Greatest Hits, Vol. 3
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Singles with Waylon Jennings

YearSinglePeak chart
positions
Album
US Country
CAN Country
1978"There Ain't No Good Chain Gang"
 / "I Wish I Was Crazy Again"
25I Would Like to See You Again
2225
1986"Even the Cowgirls Get the Blues"3540Heroes
"The Ballad of Forty Dollars"50
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Singles with Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson

The Highwaymen's first two albums and singles released from them were credited to "Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson".

YearSinglePeak chart positionsAlbum
US Country
[12]
CAN Country
[13]
CAN AC
[14]
AUS
[15]
1985"Highwayman"[16]
 b/w "The Human Condition" (with Willie Nelson)
111998Highwayman
"Desperados Waiting for a Train"[17]
 b/w "The Twentieth Century Is Almost Over" (with Willie Nelson)
1520
1990"Silver Stallion"[18]
 b/w "American Remains"
2521Highwayman 2
"Born and Raised in Black and White"
 b/w "Texas"
A
"American Remains"
 b/w "Texas"
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Guest singles

YearSingleArtistPeak chart
positions
Album
US Country
CAN Country
1971"A Song to Mama"The Carter Family3742Travelin' Minstrel Band
1972"The World Needs a Melody"3555
1984"I Will Dance with You"Karen Brooks45Hearts on Fire
1991"Man in Black"One Bad PigI Scream Sunday[20]
1993"The Devil Comes Back to Georgia"Mark O'Connor (with Charlie Daniels,
Marty Stuart and Travis Tritt)
54Heroes
1998"I Walk the Line Revisited"Rodney Crowell61The Houston Kid
2003"September When It Comes"Rosanne CashRules of Travel
2019"Redemption Day"Sheryl CrowThreads
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Music videos

YearSingleDirector
1981"The Baron"
1983"Johnny 99"
1984"The Chicken in Black"Sherman Halsey
1987"Sixteen Tons"
"Let Him Roll"
1991"Goin' by the Book"Coke Sams/Michael Salomon
1993"The Devil Comes Back to Georgia"
(with Mark O'Connor, Charlie Daniels, Marty Stuart and Travis Tritt)
Gustavo Garzon
1994"Delia's Gone"Anton Corbijn
"The Man Who Couldn't Cry"
1996"Rusty Cage"
1999"Folsom Prison Blues"Steven T. Miller/R. Brad Murano
2001"I Walk the Line Revisited" (with Rodney Crowell)
2002"Hurt"Mark Romanek
2003"September When It Comes" (with Rosanne Cash)
2006"God's Gonna Cut You Down"Tony Kaye
2007"Help Me"
2010"Ain't No Grave"Chris Milk
2014"She Used to Love Me a Lot"John Hillcoat
2019"Redemption Day" (with Sheryl Crow)Shaun Silva

References

External links

Notes and References

  1. Book: Whitburn, Joel. Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. Joel Whitburn. 2008. 84–86. 978-0-89820-177-2.
    Johnny Cash. Billboard. 2020-04-29.
  2. Book: Whitburn, Joel. Top Pop Singles 1955–2010. Record Research, Inc. 151. 2011. 978-0-89820-188-8.
  3. United Kingdom. Johnny Cash. August 22, 2023. single.
  4. Book: I've Been Everywhere: A Johnny Cash Chronicle. 9781900924221. Lewry. Peter. 2001. Helter Skelter .
  5. United States. Johnny Cash. April 19, 2022. single.
  6. Single Reviews. Billboard. June 16, 1990.
  7. Single Reviews. Billboard. March 30, 1991.
  8. Single Reviews. Billboard. July 20, 1991.
  9. Hot Country Radio Breakouts. March 24, 1990. Billboard.
  10. Web site: CHART: CLUK Update 16.04.2011 (wk13) . 2012-06-18.
  11. Web site: Going for Adds. Radio & Records. September 27, 2002.
  12. [{{BillboardURLbyName|artist=the highwaymen|chart=all}} The Highwaymen Album & Song Chart History – Country Songs]. Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. December 11, 2010.
  13. Web site: Results – RPM – Library and Archives Canada – Country Singles. RPM. December 11, 2010.
  14. Web site: Results – RPM – Library and Archives Canada – Adult Contemporary. RPM. December 11, 2010.
  15. Australian chart peaks:
    • Top 100 (Kent Music Report) peaks to 12 June 1988: Book: Kent, David. David Kent (historian). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. Illustrated. Australian Chart Book. St Ives, N.S.W.. 1993. 214. 0-646-11917-6. N.B. The Kent Report chart was licensed by ARIA between mid-1983 and 12 June 1988.
    • Top 100 (ARIA) peaks from January 1990 to December 2010: Book: Ryan, Gavin. Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010. 2011. Moonlight Publishing. Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia. pdf.
  16. Web site: Highwayman / The Human Condition. Discogs. 1985 . 2021-10-28.
  17. Web site: Desperados Waiting For A Train. Discogs. 1985 . 2021-10-28.
  18. Silver Stallion Chart History. Billboard. 2021-10-24.
  19. Hot Country Radio Breakouts. June 30, 1990. Billboard.
  20. http://www.onebadpig.com/I_Scream_Sunday.html