Johnny Cash Sings Precious Memories

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Johnny Cash Sings Precious Memories
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Studio album by
ReleasedJanuary 1975
StudioHouse of Cash Recording Studios, Hendersonville, Tennessee
Genre Gospel
Length30:36
Label Columbia
Producer Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash chronology
The Johnny Cash Children's Album
(1975)
Johnny Cash Sings Precious Memories
(1975)
John R. Cash
(1975)

Johnny Cash Sings Precious Memories is the fifth gospel and 50th overall album by country singer Johnny Cash, released in 1975 on Columbia Records. It is one of several spiritual albums that he recorded. Other examples include Hymns by Johnny Cash , Hymns from the Heart , The Holy Land and Believe in Him . The song selection includes several of Cash's personal favorites, as some would later be recorded again for My Mother's Hymn Book . Precious Memories may have been a replacement for an untitled Gospel album that Cash recorded during 1975 but never released; those recordings would be released in 2012 on the album Bootleg Vol. IV: The Soul of Truth. The albums was dedicated to Cash's late brother, Jack D. Cash, [1] who died in May 1944.

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Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Precious Memories" J.R. Baxter, W.B. Stevens2:55
2."Rock of Ages"Brantley C. George, Billy Walker2:22
3."The Old Rugged Cross" George Bennard 2:52
4."Softly and Tenderly" Will L. Thompson 2:50
5."In the Sweet By and By"Sanford Fillmore Bennett, Joseph Philbrick Webster 2:51
6."Just as I Am" William Batchelder Bradbury, Charlotte Elliott 3:13
7."Farther Along"J.R. Baxter, John Starling3:09
8."When the Roll Is Called Up Yonder" James Milton Black 2:08
9."Amazing Grace" John Newton, William Walker; arranged by Clyde Williams2:30
10."At the Cross"Ralph C. Hudson, Isaac Watts 2:54
11."Have Thine Own Way, Lord"Adelaide A. Pollard, George C. Stebbins, Walker2:52

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References

  1. "Johnny Cash - Johnny Cash Sings Precious Memories". Discogs.com. Retrieved July 15, 2022.