12 Giant Hits
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12 Giant Hits is a compilation album released by CBS Records in 1990.

Track listing

  1. "Don't Take Your Guns to Town
    Don't Take Your Guns to Town
    "Don't Take Your Guns to Town" is a 1958 single by Johnny Cash. The song tells the story of a young cowboy who, ignoring the titular advice from his mother, gets into a gunfight at a saloon and is killed. The single became his fifth release to reach the number one position on the country chart,...

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  2. "I Walk The Line
    I Walk the Line
    "I Walk the Line" is a song written by Johnny Cash and recorded in 1956. It was performed with the help of Marshall Grant and Luther Perkins, two mechanics that his brother introduced him to following his discharge from the Air Force. Cash and his wife, Vivian, were living in Memphis, Tennessee,...

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  3. "Ring Of Fire
    Ring of Fire (song)
    "Ring of Fire" or "The Ring of Fire" is a country music song popularized by Johnny Cash and co-written by June Carter Cash and Merle Kilgore. The single appears on Cash's 1963 compilation album, Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash...

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  4. "Orange Blossom Special
    Orange Blossom Special (song)
    The fiddle tune "Orange Blossom Special", about the passenger train of the same name, was written by Ervin T. Rouse in 1938. The original recording was created by Ervin and Gordon Rouse in 1939. It is considered the best known fiddle tune of the twentieth century and is often called simply The...

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  5. "It Ain't Me, Babe"
  6. "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
    I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
    "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" is a song written and recorded by American country music singer-songwriter Hank Williams in 1949. The song about loneliness was largely inspired by his troubled relationship with wife Audrey Sheppard...

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  7. "The City Of New Orleans
    City of New Orleans (song)
    "City of New Orleans" is a folk song written by Steve Goodman , describing a train ride from Chicago to New Orleans via the Illinois Central Railroad in bittersweet and nostalgic terms. Goodman got the idea while traveling on the eponymous train for a visit to his wife's family...

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  8. "Sunday Morning Coming Down"
  9. "Happy To Be With You"
  10. "(Ghost) Riders In The Sky"
  11. "A Boy Named Sue
    A Boy Named Sue
    "A Boy Named Sue" is a song written by Shel Silverstein and performed by Johnny Cash. Cash was at the height of his popularity when he recorded the song live at California's San Quentin State Prison at a concert on 24 February 1969. The concert was filmed by Granada Television for later...

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  12. "The Baron"
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