For other uses, see I Walk the Line (disambiguation).
"I Walk the Line"
Single by Johnny Cash
from the album Johnny Cash with His Hot and Blue Guitar!
B-side
"Get Rhythm"
Released
May 1, 1956
Recorded
April 2, 1956, Sun Studio, Memphis, Tennessee
Genre
Country[1]
rockabilly[2]
Length
2:45
Label
Sun
Songwriter(s)
Johnny Cash
Producer(s)
Sam Phillips
Johnny Cash singles chronology
"Folsom Prison Blues" (1955)
"I Walk the Line" (1956)
"There You Go" (1956)
"I Walk the Line" excerpt
From the album With His Hot and Blue Guitar (1957)
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"I Walk the Line" is a song written and recorded in 1956 by Johnny Cash. After three attempts with moderate chart ratings, it became Cash's first #1 hit on the Billboard charts, eventually reaching #17 on the US pop charts.
The song remained on the record charts for over 43 weeks, and sold over two million copies.[3] It has also been used on many LPs released from Sun Records, such as With His Hot and Blue Guitar, Sings the Songs That Made Him Famous, and Sings Hank Williams. It was the title song for a 1970 film starring Gregory Peck and a 2005 biopic of Cash starring Joaquin Phoenix. The song captures Johnny Cash's "boom-chicka-boom" sound by Johnny putting a dollar bill in the neck of his guitar.
^"I Walk the Line - Johnny Cash - Song Info - AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 4 April 2018.
^"Johnny Cash". Rockhall.com. Retrieved 4 April 2018.
^"Country Music – Music News, New Songs, Videos, Music Shows and Playlists from CMT". Archived from the original on 2004-02-15.
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