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| Johnny Cash Sings the Songs That Made Him Famous | ||||
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| Released | December 1, 1958 | |||
| Recorded | April 2, 1956 – July 10, 1958 | |||
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| Length | Original: 28:57 Re-issue: 38:08 | |||
| Label | Sun | |||
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| Singles from Johnny Cash Sings the Songs That Made Him Famous | ||||
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| The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [1] |
Johnny Cash Sings the Songs That Made Him Famous is an album by American singer-songwriter Johnny Cash, originally released on December 1, 1958 by Sun Records. It was the first LP album to include the songs. However, since the album includes previously issued as singles, it has been classified as a compilation album. The album is made up of songs Cash recorded for Sun prior to leaving the label for Columbia Records.
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The album was re-issued in 2003, under the label Varèse Sarabande, with four different versions of songs already available on the original LP as bonus tracks. The complete contents of the album are also incorporated into an extended version of the previous collection With His Hot and Blue Guitar included in the 2012 box set Johnny Cash: The Complete Columbia Album Collection . In 2017 and again in 2023, Sun released a remastered version of the album.
