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From '' May The Bird Of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose ''
Label: Arc Records – 663
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: Canada
Tracklist
A1 May The Bird Of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose
A2 She's Gone Gone Gone
A3 This Ole Heart
A4 I Haven't Got The Right To Love You
A5 I Guess It's Too Late
A6 It's All Wrong
B1 Lose Love
Written-By – Percy Mayfield
B2 Green Green Grass Of Home
B3 Another Day Another Dollar
B4 Ring Of Fire
Written-By – June Carter, Merle Kilgore
B5 Pick Me Up On Your Way Down
Written-By – Harlan Howard
B6 Kentucky
Vocals – Artie MacLaren
Lead Guitar – Mickey McGivern
Steel Guitar – Bob Lucier
Rhythm Guitar – George Pasher
Piano – Rick Lamoureux
Drums – Tony DiMaria
Bass [Base] – Bill Gibbs
Producer, A&R [Direction] – Ben Weatherby
Record Company – Arc Sound Ltd.
Notes
A product of Arc Sound Ltd., Toronto, Ont.
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"Ring of Fire" is a song written by June Carter Cash and Merle Kilgore and popularized by Johnny Cash in 1963.
The single appears on Cash's 1963 album, Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash.
The song was originally recorded by June's sister, Anita Carter, on her Mercury Records album Folk Songs Old and New (1963) as "(Love's) Ring of Fire".
"Ring of Fire" was ranked No.4 on CMT's 100 Greatest Songs of Country Music in 2003 and No.87 on Rolling Stone's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
In June 2014, Rolling Stone ranked the song No.27 on its list of the 100 greatest country songs of all time.
The song was recorded on March 25, 1963, and became one of the biggest hits of Cash's career, staying at number one on the country chart for seven weeks.
It was certified gold on January 21, 2010, by the RIAA and has also sold over 1.2 million digital downloads.
Conception
Some sources claim that Carter had seen the phrase "Love is like a burning ring of fire," underlined in an Elizabethan poetry book owned by her uncle A. P. Carter.
She worked with Kilgore on writing a song inspired by this phrase as she had seen her uncle do in the past. She had written: "There is no way to be in that kind of hell, no way to extinguish a flame that burns, burns, burns".
The song was originally recorded by June's sister, Anita Carter, on her Mercury Records album Folk Songs Old and New (1963) as "(Love's) Ring of Fire".
Mercury released Anita's version as a single and it was a featured "pick hit" in Billboard magazine. After hearing Anita's version, Cash claimed he had a dream where he heard the song accompanied by "Mexican horns". Cash said, "[...] I'll give you about five or six more months, and if you don't hit with it, I'm gonna record it the way I feel it."
Cash noted that adding trumpets was a change to his basic sound.
When the song failed to become a major hit for Anita, Cash recorded it his own way, adding the mariachi-style horns from his dream. This sound was later used in the song "It Ain't Me Babe", which was recorded around the same time. Mother Maybelle and the Carter sisters are prominently featured in the Cash recording singing harmony. Cash tinkered with a few of the original phrases in Anita Carter's version of the song. Cash's daughter Rosanne Cash said, "The song is about the transformative power of love and that's what it has always meant to me and that's what it will always mean to the Cash children."
Cash's first wife Vivian Cash (Liberto) states in her autobiography: "One day in early 1963, while gardening in the yard, Johnny told me about a song he had just written with Merle Kilgore and Curly while out fishing on Lake Casitas. 'I’m gonna give June half credit on a song I just wrote,' Johnny said. 'It’s called "Ring of Fire."' 'Why?' I asked, wiping dirt from my hands. The mere mention of her name annoyed me. I was sick of hearing about her. 'She needs the money,' he said, avoiding my stare. 'And I feel sorry for her.' Vivian Cash also states: "To this day, it confounds me to hear the elaborate details June told of writing that song for Johnny. She didn’t write that song any more than I did. The truth is, Johnny wrote that song, while pilled up and drunk, about a certain private female body part. All those years of her claiming she wrote it herself, and she probably never knew what the song was really about."
#countrymusic
From '' May The Bird Of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose ''
Label: Arc Records – 663
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: Canada
Tracklist
A1 May The Bird Of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose
A2 She's Gone Gone Gone
A3 This Ole Heart
A4 I Haven't Got The Right To Love You
A5 I Guess It's Too Late
A6 It's All Wrong
B1 Lose Love
Written-By – Percy Mayfield
B2 Green Green Grass Of Home
B3 Another Day Another Dollar
B4 Ring Of Fire
Written-By – June Carter, Merle Kilgore
B5 Pick Me Up On Your Way Down
Written-By – Harlan Howard
B6 Kentucky
Vocals – Artie MacLaren
Lead Guitar – Mickey McGivern
Steel Guitar – Bob Lucier
Rhythm Guitar – George Pasher
Piano – Rick Lamoureux
Drums – Tony DiMaria
Bass [Base] – Bill Gibbs
Producer, A&R [Direction] – Ben Weatherby
Record Company – Arc Sound Ltd.
Notes
A product of Arc Sound Ltd., Toronto, Ont.
------------------------
"Ring of Fire" is a song written by June Carter Cash and Merle Kilgore and popularized by Johnny Cash in 1963.
The single appears on Cash's 1963 album, Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash.
The song was originally recorded by June's sister, Anita Carter, on her Mercury Records album Folk Songs Old and New (1963) as "(Love's) Ring of Fire".
"Ring of Fire" was ranked No.4 on CMT's 100 Greatest Songs of Country Music in 2003 and No.87 on Rolling Stone's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
In June 2014, Rolling Stone ranked the song No.27 on its list of the 100 greatest country songs of all time.
The song was recorded on March 25, 1963, and became one of the biggest hits of Cash's career, staying at number one on the country chart for seven weeks.
It was certified gold on January 21, 2010, by the RIAA and has also sold over 1.2 million digital downloads.
Conception
Some sources claim that Carter had seen the phrase "Love is like a burning ring of fire," underlined in an Elizabethan poetry book owned by her uncle A. P. Carter.
She worked with Kilgore on writing a song inspired by this phrase as she had seen her uncle do in the past. She had written: "There is no way to be in that kind of hell, no way to extinguish a flame that burns, burns, burns".
The song was originally recorded by June's sister, Anita Carter, on her Mercury Records album Folk Songs Old and New (1963) as "(Love's) Ring of Fire".
Mercury released Anita's version as a single and it was a featured "pick hit" in Billboard magazine. After hearing Anita's version, Cash claimed he had a dream where he heard the song accompanied by "Mexican horns". Cash said, "[...] I'll give you about five or six more months, and if you don't hit with it, I'm gonna record it the way I feel it."
Cash noted that adding trumpets was a change to his basic sound.
When the song failed to become a major hit for Anita, Cash recorded it his own way, adding the mariachi-style horns from his dream. This sound was later used in the song "It Ain't Me Babe", which was recorded around the same time. Mother Maybelle and the Carter sisters are prominently featured in the Cash recording singing harmony. Cash tinkered with a few of the original phrases in Anita Carter's version of the song. Cash's daughter Rosanne Cash said, "The song is about the transformative power of love and that's what it has always meant to me and that's what it will always mean to the Cash children."
Cash's first wife Vivian Cash (Liberto) states in her autobiography: "One day in early 1963, while gardening in the yard, Johnny told me about a song he had just written with Merle Kilgore and Curly while out fishing on Lake Casitas. 'I’m gonna give June half credit on a song I just wrote,' Johnny said. 'It’s called "Ring of Fire."' 'Why?' I asked, wiping dirt from my hands. The mere mention of her name annoyed me. I was sick of hearing about her. 'She needs the money,' he said, avoiding my stare. 'And I feel sorry for her.' Vivian Cash also states: "To this day, it confounds me to hear the elaborate details June told of writing that song for Johnny. She didn’t write that song any more than I did. The truth is, Johnny wrote that song, while pilled up and drunk, about a certain private female body part. All those years of her claiming she wrote it herself, and she probably never knew what the song was really about."
#countrymusic
