Greatest!

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Greatest!
Studio album by Johnny Cash
Released	Original: January 1959 Re-issued: May 6, 2003
Recorded	July 30, 1955 - July 17, 1958
Genre	Country
Length	25:46
Label	Sun
Producer(s)	Sam Phillips, Jack Clement
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link
Johnny Cash chronology
The Fabulous Johnny Cash (1958)	Greatest! (1959)	Hymns by Johnny Cash (1959)

Greatest! is an album by country singer Johnny Cash, released on Sun Records in 1959 (see 1959 in music). It was Cash's third record on the label, which he had left the previous year to join Columbia Records. By the time the album was released, Cash had already recorded The Fabulous Johnny Cash, his first album with Columbia. The tracks on Greatest! were recorded between July 1955 and July 1958. Six out of the twelve songs became singles, with "Get Rhythm" topping the Country charts and becoming the most successful one. The album was rereleased on Varese Sarabande on May 6, 2003 (see 2003 in music) with four additional tracks, two of them being alternate versions of songs already on the record.

Contents 1 Track listing 1.1 Bonus tracks 2 Charts 3 See also 4 External links

[edit] Track listing

1. "Goodbye Little Darlin' Goodbye" (Gene Autry, Johnny Marvin) – 2:14
2. "I Just Thought You'd Like to Know" (Charlie Rich) – 2:23
3. "You Tell Me" (Sam Phillips) – 1:48
4. "Just About Time" (Cash) – 2:07
5. "I Forgot to Remember to Forget" (Stan Kesler, Charlie Feathers) – 2:09
6. "Katy Too" (Cash, Jack Clement) – 1:57
7. "Thanks a Lot" (Rich) – 2:38
8. "Luther Played the Boogie" (Cash) – 2:03
9. "You Win Again" (Hank Williams) – 2:18
10. "Hey, Good Lookin'" (Williams) – 1:41
11. "I Could Never Be Ashamed of You" (Williams) – 2:14
12. "Get Rhythm" (Cash) – 2:14

[edit] Bonus tracks

1. "Fool's Hall of Fame" (Jerry Freeman, Danny Wolfe)
2. "I Forgot to Remember to Forget" (Kesler, Feathers)
3. "Hey Good Lookin'" (Williams)
4. "Rock and Roll Ruby" (Cash)

[edit] Charts

Singles - Billboard (North America)

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1958	"Just About Time"	Country Singles	30
1959	"Thanks a Lot"	Country Singles	12
1959	"Luther Played the Boogie"	Country Singles	8
1959	"Katy Too"	Country Singles	11
1959	"Cry Cry Cry"	Pop Singles	66
1959	"Goodbye Little Darlin' Goodbye"	Country Singles	22
1959	"Get Rhythm"	Country Singles	1

[edit] See also

• Johnny Cash Sun discography
• Johnny Cash discography

[edit] External links

• Luma Electronic entry on Greatest!

Johnny Cash
Discography
Studio albums : With His Hot and Blue Guitar | Sings the Songs That Made Him Famous | The Fabulous Johnny Cash | Greatest! | Hymns by Johnny Cash | Songs of Our Soil | Sings Hank Williams | Ride This Train | Now, There Was a Song! | Now Here's Johnny Cash | The Lure of the Grand Canyon | Hymns from the Heart | The Sound of Johnny Cash | All Aboard the Blue Train | Blood, Sweat and Tears | Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash | The Christmas Spirit | I Walk the Line | Bitter Tears: Ballads of the American Indian | Orange Blossom Special | Sings the Ballads of the True West | Everybody Loves a Nut | Happiness is You | Carryin' On with Johnny Cash and June Carter | From Sea to Shining Sea | Old Golden Throat | Heart of Cash | The Holy Land | More of Old Golden Throat | Hello, I'm Johnny Cash | Man in Black | A Thing Called Love | America: A 200-Year Salute in Story and Song | The Johnny Cash Family Christmas | Any Old Wind That Blows | Johnny Cash and His Woman | Ragged Old Flag | Junkie and the Juicehead Minus Me | The Johnny Cash Children's Album | Sings Precious Memories | John R. Cash | Look at Them Beans | One Piece at a Time | The Last Gunfighter Ballad | The Rambler | I Would Like to See You Again | Gone Girl | Silver | A Believer Sings the Truth | Rockabilly Blues | Classic Christmas | The Baron | The Adventures of Johnny Cash | Johnny 99 | Rainbow | Believe in Him | Heroes | Johnny Cash is Coming to Town | Classic Cash: Hall of Fame Series | Water from the Wells of Home | Boom Chicka Boom | The Mystery of Life | American Recordings | Unchained | American III: Solitary Man | American IV: The Man Comes Around | American V: A Hundred Highways | American VI
Live albums: At Folsom Prison | At San Quentin | The Johnny Cash Show | På Österåker | Strawberry Cake | The Survivors Live | VH1 Storytellers | At Madison Square Garden
Soundtrack albums: I Walk the Line | Little Fauss and Big Halsy | The Gospel Road | Return to the Promised Land
Compilation albums: Greatest Hits, Vol. 1 | The World of Johnny Cash | Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 | International Superstar | Greatest Hits, Vol. 3 | The Unissued Johnny Cash | Johnny & June | Tall Man | Encore | Love, God and Murder | The Essential Johnny Cash| Unearthed | The Legend | The Legend of Johnny Cash | Personal File| The Legend of Johnny Cash Vol. II
Songs
"25 Minutes to Go" | "A Boy Named Sue" | "Cocaine Blues" | "Cry Cry Cry" | "Dark as a Dungeon" | "Engine 143" | "Folsom Prison Blues" | "Get Rhythm" | "Goodnight, Irene" | "Green Green Grass of Home" | "Greystone Chapel" | "Hey Porter" | "Home of the Blues" | "Hurt" | "I Walk the Line" | "In My Life" | "It Ain't Me Babe" | "Jackson" | "Like the 309" | "The Man Comes Around" | "One Piece at a Time" | "The One on the Right is on the Left" | "Remember the Alamo" | "(Ghost) Riders in the Sky" | "Ring of Fire" | "What'd I Say"
Family
June Carter Cash | John Carter Cash | Rosanne Cash | Carlene Carter | Vivian Liberto | Tommy Cash | Carter Family
Related articles
Sun Records | Columbia Records | Mercury Records | American Recordings | Legacy Recordings | Lost Highway Records | Sam Phillips | Jack Clement | Rick Rubin | Carl Perkins | Jerry Lee Lewis | The Highwaymen | Waylon Jennings | Kris Kristofferson | Willie Nelson | Folsom Prison | San Quentin State Prison | Outlaw country | Tennessee Three | Shel Silverstein | Walk the Line | Man in Black | Cash: The Autobiography
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