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Genre
  
Country rockabilly

Label
  
Sun

Length
  
25:46

Released
  
Original: January 12, 1959 Re-issued: May 6, 2003

Recorded
  
July 30, 1955 - July 17, 1958

Producer
  
Sam Phillips Jack Clement

Greatest! is the fourth album by American singer-songwriter Johnny Cash, released on Sun Records on 12 January 1959 (see 1959 in music). It was Cash's third record on the label, which he had left the previous year to join Columbia Records. By the time the album was released, Cash had already recorded The Fabulous Johnny Cash, his first album with Columbia. This overlap would continue until 1964 with Sun releasing additional albums and singles of previously unreleased material in parallel with Cash's Columbia releases.

The tracks on Greatest! were recorded between July 1955 and July 1958. Six out of the twelve songs became singles, with "Get Rhythm" topping the Country charts and becoming the most successful one. The album was rereleased on Varèse Sarabande on May 6, 2003 with four additional tracks, two of them being alternate versions of songs already on the record.

Charts

Singles - Billboard (North America)

References

Greatest! Wikipedia