Old Golden Throat

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Old Golden Throat
Old Golden Throat cover
Studio album by Johnny Cash
Released June 1968
Recorded August 8, 1958 - January 12, 1967
Genre Country
Length 34:12
Label Columbia
Producer Don Law, Frank Jones
Professional reviews
Johnny Cash chronology
At Folsom Prison
(1968)		 Old Golden Throat
(1968)		 Heart of Cash
(1968)

Old Golden Throat is a compilation album by country singer Johnny Cash, released in 1968 (see 1968 in music) on Columbia Records. The record is a collection of single sides that, with two exceptions, had not yet appeared on an album (the exceptions being "Still in Town" and "Tennessee Flat-Top Box"). The mix spans recordings made almost a decade before its release and songs completed up to several months prior to it. Nine of the fourteen tracks had appeared on Billboard's country singles chart (see below).

Two of the songs on the album - "I Got Stripes" and "Dark as a Dungeon" - had been performed by Cash at Folsom Prison and subsequently appeared on his famous At Folsom Prison live album in May 1968. However, the versions included here were originally recorded and released in 1959 and 1963, respectively.

Because the tracks were taken from singles, the album was released only in monaural.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

  1. "I Got Stripes" (Cash, Charlie Williams) – 2:05
  2. "A Certain Kinda Hurtin'" (Cash) – 2:03
  3. "Little at a Time" (Cash, Gordon Terry) – 1:57
  4. "All Over Again" (Cash) – 2:12
  5. "Still in Town" (Harlan Howard, Hank Cochran) – 2:36
  6. "Smiling Bill McCall" (Cash) – 2:07
  7. "The Wind Changes" (Cash) – 2:49
  8. "The Sons of Katie Elder" (Ernie Sheldon, Elmer Bernstein) – 2:35
  9. "Dark as a Dungeon" (Merle Travis) – 2:29
  10. "Tennessee Flat Top Box" (Cash) – 3:01
  11. "The Matador" (Cash, June Carter) – 2:48
  12. "Send a Picture of Mother" (Cash) – 2:53
  13. "You Dreamer You" (Cash) – 1:49
  14. "Red Velvet" (Ian Tyson) – 2:48

[edit] Personnel

[edit] Charts

Singles - Billboard (North America)

Year Single Chart Position
1967 "The Wind Changes" Country Singles 60
1965 "The Sons of Katie Elder" Country Singles 10
1964 "Dark as a Dungeon" Country Singles 49
1963 "The Matador" Country Singles 2
1961 "Tennessee Flat-Top Box" Country Singles 11
1960 "Smiling Bill McCall" Country Singles 13
1959 "You Dreamer You" Country Singles 13
1959 "I Got Stripes" Country Singles 4
1958 "All Over Again" Country Singles 4

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