"Ring of Fire", or "The Ring of Fire", is a song written by June Carter Cash and Merle Kilgore and recorded by Johnny Cash. This single appeared on the 1963 Cash album, Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash . The song was originally recorded by June's sister Anita Carter, on the album's Mercury Records
The song was recorded on March 25, 1963, and became one of the greatest hits of Cash's career, being 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.
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Conception
Although the "Ring of Fire" sounds unpleasant, this term refers to the falling in love that June Carter experienced with Johnny Cash at the time. Some sources state that Carter has seen the phrase "Love is like a burning fire ring," underlined in one of his uncles, A. P. Carter, Elizabeth's poetry book. He worked with Kilgore to write a song inspired by this phrase as he had seen his uncle do in the past. He has written: "There is no way to be in that kind of hell, there is no way to extinguish a fire that burns, burns, burns".
Cash's first wife, Vivian Liberto, offers a different concept of "Ring of Fire" in his book I Walked the Line. He argues that June Carter Cash is not a co-writer of the song: "To this day, it puzzles me to hear the intricate details that June said about writing that song for Johnny.He did not write that song more than I did. is, Johnny wrote the song, when he was drunk and drunk, about certain private body parts of the body.For years he stated that he wrote it himself, and he probably never knew the song actually. "Liberto claims that Cash decided to give Carter's co-writer status because "He needs money".
The song was originally recorded by June's sister, Anita Carter, on her Mercury Records album "Folk Songs Old and New" (1963) as "Ring of Fire". Mercury released Anita's version as a single and it is a "hit hit" feature on Billboard's magazine.
After hearing Anita's version, Cash claimed he had a dream where he heard the song accompanied by the "Mexican horn". Cash stated, "I'll give you about five or six months, and if you do not hit it, I'll record it as I feel." Cash notes that adding trumpets is a change to the sound of the base.
When the song failed to be a big hit for Anita, Cash taped it in her own way, adding the mariachi horns of her dreams. This sound is then used in the song "It Is not Me Babe", which is recorded around the same time. Maybelle's mother and Carter's brothers are clearly featured in the Kas recording singing harmony. Cash played around with some original phrases in the Anita Carter version of the song.
Princess Cash, Rosanne, has stated, "This song is about the transformative power of love and that's what always means to me and that's what will always mean for the Cash kids."
In 2004, Merle Kilgore, who shared a writing credit for a song with June Carter Cash, proposed a song license for a hemorrhoid cream ad. While performing the song live, Kilgore often "mocks" the song for "Preparation Maker H ". However, June's heirs do not have the same thoughts, and they refuse to allow the song to be licensed for the ad.
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Performance chart
Johnny Cash Version
Alan Jackson Version
Legacy
Many cover versions of "Ring of Fire" have been produced, the most commercially successful version by Eric Burdon & amp; animals. Their version was recorded at the end of 1968, and entered the top 40 in four different countries. In late 1974, Eric Burdon Band released a hard rock version. Wall of Voodoo debuted with cover songs on their own 1980 EP and featuring a pulsing synthesizer. Dwight Yoakam covered it on his debut album Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc. The punk rock band Social Distortion covered it on their self-titled 1990 LP. In 1991, Frank Zappa released a live reggae version on The Best Band album You Never Heard In Your Life, after claiming to have met Johnny Cash in the elevator before the show and invited him to perform the song with his band that night.. The cash did not follow through the invitation, but the band played the song. A cover song by Alan Jackson with guest vocals from Lee Ann Womack was released as a single on December 6, 2010. It serves as the sole lead-off for the 34 Number Ones compilation album, and peaked at # 45 on Hot Country Songs, becoming the first single to miss the top 40 since "Just Put a Ribbon in Your Hair" peaked at # 51 in 2004. This is the last single released by Arista Records.
The Cash version of "Ring Of Fire" was never released as a single in the UK. However, in 1993/1994, the song received significant radio broadcasts in the UK after being used in popular television commercials for Levi Jeans (titled 'Campfire').
In 2014, the British band DragonForce released a power metal version of the song on their sixth album Maximum Overload .
Madonna sang a cover version of Cash song on Nashville from Rebel Heart Tour on January 8, 2016.
References
External links
- Lyrics of this song in MetroLyrics
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