The Johnny Cash Children's Album

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  • With His Hot and Blue Guitar
  • Sings the Songs That Made Him Famous
  • The Fabulous Johnny Cash
  • Songs of Our Soil
  • Hymns by Johnny Cash
  • Ride This Train
  • Now, There Was a Song!
  • Now Here's Johnny Cash
  • The Lure of the Grand Canyon
  • The Sound of Johnny Cash
  • Hymns from the Heart
  • All Aboard the Blue Train
  • Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash
  • The Christmas Spirit
  • Blood, Sweat and Tears
  • I Walk the Line
  • Bitter Tears (Ballads of the American Indian)
  • Sings the Ballads of the True West
  • Orange Blossom Special
  • Mean as Hell!
  • Happiness Is You
  • Everybody Loves a Nut
  • Carryin' On
  • Old Golden Throat
  • From Sea to Shining Sea
  • At Folsom Prison
  • More of Old Golden Throat
  • Johnny Cash at San Quentin
  • Hello, I'm Johnny Cash
  • Little Fauss and Big Halsy [Original Soundtrack]
  • The Johnny Cash Show
  • The Man, The World, His Music
  • A Man in Black
  • A Thing Called Love
  • Johnny Cash Family Christmas
  • America: A 200-Year Salute in Story and Song
  • På Österåker
  • Johnny Cash and His Woman
  • The Gospel Road
  • Any Old Wind That Blows
  • Ragged Old Flag
  • John R. Cash
  • I Walk the Line [Original Soundtrack]
  • Sings Precious Memories
  • Look at Them Beans
  • The Johnny Cash Children's Album
  • One Piece at a Time
  • The Rambler
  • Last Gunfighter Ballad
  • I Would Like to See You Again
  • Gone Girl
  • Silver
  • Rockabilly Blues
  • Classic Christmas
  • The Survivors Live
  • Inside a Swedish Prison
  • Koncert V Praze: In Prague Live
  • Johnny 99
  • Heroes
  • Class of '55: Memphis Rock & Roll Homecoming
  • Johnny Cash Is Coming to Town
  • We the People
  • Water From the Wells of Home
  • Classic Cash: Hall of Fame Series
  • Boom Chicka Boom
  • The Mystery of Life
  • Christmas
  • American Recordings
  • Unchained
  • VH1 Storytellers
  • American III: Solitary Man
  • American IV: The Man Comes Around
  • A Concert Behind Prison Walls
  • My Mother's Hymn Book
  • American V: A Hundred Highways
  • Music That Inspired Walk the Line
  • American VI: Ain't No Grave
  • Look Again to the Wind: Johnny Cash's Bitter Tears Revisited

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Release Date

1975

Duration

36:33

Genre

Styles

Recording Date

August 18, 1971 - October 1, 1973

Recording Location

  • Hendersonville, TN
  • Nashville, TN
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The Johnny Cash Children's Album

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Anybody that's only familiar with Johnny Cash the outlaw or the brooding mythic figure of his latter-day albums will find the very idea of a Johnny Cash children's album improbable, or at the very least amusing. Truth is, Cash always showed a fondness for novelty tunes and silly songs, dating all the way back to his Sun sides (and this is not even counting the unintentional silliness of his corny Americana records), so it was not a stretch for Cash to do a children's album -- particularly in 1975, when he was coming off a stretch of hosting a TV variety show and about to enter a mid-career decline. It was an opportune time to kick out a good children's album, which Children's Album is, a sweet, good-natured collection of novelties, ditties, and the occasional standard. Musically, this isn't miles away from Cash's usual territory, but it's much lighter and mellower than even his poppiest work of the '60s and '70s, which only makes sense: he is singing for kids, after all. But what makes this Children's Album click is that Cash is never singing down to his audience, he's singing straight to them, just like he sings to any other audience. This lack of condescension makes up for the occasionally spotty material, as it gives the album heart and makes it an album that feels like a Johnny Cash album in addition to a kids album. In that sense, it's a good "my first Johnny Cash LP" -- it provides a good introduction to the Man in Black for little ones.

Track Listing

Title/Composer Performer Time
1
Johnny Cash
2:07
2
Johnny Cash
2:24
3
Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash
feat: June Carter Cash
2:55
4
Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash
2:22
5
Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash
2:08
6
Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash
1:28
7
Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash
3:13
8
Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash
2:23
9
Johnny Cash
2:54
10
Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash
1:50
11
Johnny Cash
2:25
12
Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash
2:49
13
B.J. Reed
Johnny Cash
3:40
14
Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash
2:35
15
Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash
1:20
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