The Johnny Cash Children's Album

The Johnny Cash Children's Album
The Johnny Cash Children's Album
Studio album by Johnny Cash
Released	January 1975
Recorded	January 1972–October 1973
Genre	Country; children's;
Length	35:33
Label	Columbia
Producer	Johnny Cash; Charlie Bragg; Larry Butler;
Johnny Cash chronology

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]

The Johnny Cash Children's Album is the 49th album by country singer Johnny Cash, released on Columbia Records in 1975, featuring recordings made between January 1972 and October 1973. As the title implies, it contains songs written for children. Among others, this includes "Tiger Whitehead", a song later released in an acoustic version on Cash's posthumous Personal File album in 2006. Most of the songs on the album had not been performed by Cash before. "Old Shep" had been performed by Elvis Presley, among others. One track recorded in 1972 was previously released on LP: "I Got a Boy (And His Name is John)" was first made available on the 1972 album International Superstar. It is a tongue-in-cheek duet between Cash and his wife, June Carter Cash, about their son, John Carter Cash.

The Johnny Cash Children's Album was reissued in 2006 on Legacy Recordings, with four bonus tracks, including Henry Clay Work's "My Grandfather's Clock". An early version of "My Grandfather's Clock" was recorded in 1958 and is available on Songs of Our Soil. The song "Old Shep" was also re-released on the 2005 boxed set The Legend.

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Nasty Dan"	Jeff Moss	2:07
2.	"One and One Makes Two"	Jeff Moss	2:24
3.	"I Got a Boy (and His Name is John)" (with June Carter Cash)	Johnny Cash	2:55
4.	"Little Magic Glasses"	Johnny Cash	2:22
5.	"Miss Tara"	Johnny Cash	2:08
6.	"Dinosaur Song"	Johnny Cash June Carter Cash	1:28
7.	"Tiger Whitehead"	Johnny Cash Nat Winston	3:13
8.	"There's a Bear in the Woods" (re-issue bonus track)	Johnny Cash	2:23
9.	"Call of the Wild"	J. D. Carter	2:54
10.	"Little Green Fountain" (with June Carter Cash)	Johnny Cash June Carter Cash	1:50
11.	"Old Shep"	Red Foley	2:25
12.	"The Timber Man"	Johnny Cash	2:49
13.	"My Grandfather's Clock" (re-issue bonus track)	Henry Clay Work	3:40
14.	"Ah Bos Cee Dah" (re-issue bonus track)	Johnny Cash	2:35
15.	"Why Is a Fire Engine Red" (re-issue bonus track)	Johnny Cash	1:20

Note: Johnny Cash first recorded a version of "My Grandfather's Clock" on March 12, 1959, for Songs of Our Soil

Personnel

Johnny Cash - vocals, acoustic guitar
Ray Edenton, Larry Gatlin, David Jones, Red Lane, Jerry Shook - guitar
Carl Perkins, Bob Wootton - electric guitar
Larry Butler, Larry McCoy, Bill Pursell, Bill Walker, Jerry Whitehurst - piano
Marshall Grant - bass
W.S. "Fluke" Holland, William Don Favorite - drums
June Carter Cash, Rosie Nix - backing vocals

Additional personnel

Produced by Johnny Cash and Charlie Bragg
Tracks 4, 5, 8, 9, 12, 13, and 15 Produced by Larry Butler
Reissue Produced by Gregg Geller
Reissue mastered by Vic Anesini at Sony Music Studios, New York
Legacy A&R: Steve Berkowitz
Project Designer: John Jackson
A&R Coordination: Jeremy Holiday and Stacey Boyle
Art Direction: Howard Fritzson
Design: Ron Kellum/Kellum McClain Inc.
Project Manager: Triana D'Orazio
Photography: Al Clayton (original LP), J.P. Philips (two black-and-white photos)

References

^ Allmusic review

External links

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