Happiness Is You

Happiness Is You
Studio album by Johnny Cash
Released	October 10, 1966
Recorded	June 7, 1962–December 1, 1965
Genre	Country folk
Length	31:07
Label	Columbia
Producer	Don Law Frank Jones
Johnny Cash chronology
Everybody Loves a Nut (1966) Happiness Is You (1966) Greatest Hits, Vol. 1 (1967)
Singles from Happiness Is You
"Happy to Be with You" Released: October 11, 1965

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]

Happiness Is You is the by twenty-fourth album by country singer Johnny Cash, released on Columbia Records in 1966 (see 1966 in music). It contains, among others, "Guess Things Happen That Way", a re-recording of one of Cash's earliest Sun songs. The record reached #10 on the Country charts. The LP was originally to be titled "That's What You Get For Lovin' Me", taking its title from the Gordon Lightfoot tune included in the album, and promo copies and some early commercial pressings show this title on the label.

The album was never released on cassette and did not finally see release on CD until 2012, as part of the box set Johnny Cash: The Complete Columbia Album Collection . ^[2]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Happiness Is You"	Cash, June Carter Cash	2:59
2.	"Guess Things Happen That Way"	Jack Clement	1:55
3.	"Ancient History"	Wayne P. Walker, Irene Stanton	2:23
4.	"You Comb Her Hair"	Harlan Howard, Hank Cochran	2:42
5.	"She Came from the Mountains"	Peter La Farge	4:59
6.	"For Lovin' Me"	Gordon Lightfoot	2:40
7.	"No One Will Ever Know"	Fred Rose, Mel Foree	2:26
8.	"Is This My Destiny?"	Helen Carter	2:31
9.	"A Wound Time Can't Erase"	Bill D. Johnson	2:37
10.	"Happy to Be with You"	Merle Kilgore, J. Carter, Cash	3:14
11.	"Wabash Cannonball"	A.P. Carter	2:41
Total length:			31:07

Personnel

• Johnny Cash - vocals, guitar
• Luther Perkins - guitar
• Norman Blake - guitar, dobro
• Bob Johnson - guitar, flute
• Marshall Grant - bass
• W.S. Holland - drums
• Bill Pursell - piano
• Maybelle Carter - autoharp
• The Carter Family, The Statler Brothers - backing vocals

Charts

Album - Billboard (United States)

Year	Chart	Position
1966	Country Albums	10

References

1. Allmusic review
2. "Discogs: Johnny Cash - Happiness Is You". Discogs . Retrieved June 5, 2011.

External links

• Luma Electronic entry on Happiness is You