"I Walk the Line" is a song that was written and recorded by Johnny Cash in 1956. It was the first number one single Cash got. It sold over 2 million copies. Cash said that the song is about his promise to love and care for his wife.
Chart positions
| Chart (1957)
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Peak
position
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| U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles
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1
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| U.S. Billboard Hot 100
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17
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- Albums
- Singles
- Sun Records
- Songs
- Awards
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| Studio albums | | 1950s |
- Johnny Cash with His Hot and Blue Guitar!
- The Fabulous Johnny Cash
- Hymns by Johnny Cash
- Songs of Our Soil
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| 1960s |
- Ride This Train
- Now, There Was a Song!
- Hymns from the Heart
- The Sound of Johnny Cash
- Blood, Sweat and Tears
- The Christmas Spirit
- Keep on the Sunny Side
- I Walk the Line
- Bitter Tears: Ballads of the American Indian
- Orange Blossom Special
- Johnny Cash Sings the Ballads of the True West
- Everybody Loves a Nut
- Happiness Is You
- Carryin' On with Johnny Cash & June Carter
- From Sea to Shining Sea
- The Holy Land
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| 1970s |
- Hello, I'm Johnny Cash
- Man in Black
- A Thing Called Love
- America: A 200-Year Salute in Story and Song
- The Johnny Cash Family Christmas
- Any Old Wind That Blows
- Johnny Cash and His Woman
- Ragged Old Flag
- The Junkie and the Juicehead Minus Me
- The Johnny Cash Children's Album
- Johnny Cash Sings Precious Memories
- John R. Cash
- Look at Them Beans
- One Piece at a Time
- The Last Gunfighter Ballad
- The Rambler
- I Would Like to See You Again
- Gone Girl
- Silver
- A Believer Sings the Truth
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| 1980s |
- Rockabilly Blues
- Classic Christmas
- The Baron
- The Adventures of Johnny Cash
- Johnny 99
- Highwayman
- Rainbow
- Class of '55: Memphis Rock & Roll Homecoming
- Heroes
- Believe in Him
- Johnny Cash Is Coming to Town
- Classic Cash
- Water from the Wells of Home
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| 1990s |
- Highwayman 2
- Boom Chicka Boom
- The Mystery of Life
- American Recordings
- The Road Goes on Forever
- American II: Unchained
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| 2000–2010s |
- American III: Solitary Man
- American IV: The Man Comes Around
- American V: A Hundred Highways
- American VI: Ain't No Grave
- Out Among the Stars
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| Live albums |
- At Folsom Prison
- At San Quentin
- The Johnny Cash Show
- På Österåker
- Strawberry Cake
- Koncert v Praze (In Prague – Live)
- At Madison Square Garden
- A Concert Behind Prison Walls
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| Soundtracks |
- I Walk the Line
- Little Fauss and Big Halsy
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| Compilations |
- Johnny Cash Sings the Songs That Made Him Famous
- Greatest!
- Johnny Cash Sings Hank Williams
- Now Here's Johnny Cash
- All Aboard the Blue Train with Johnny Cash
- Original Sun Sound of Johnny Cash
- Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash
- Greatest Hits, Vol. 1
- Heart of Cash
- Greatest Hits, Vol. 2
- Sunday Morning Coming Down
- International Superstar
- Five Feet High and Rising
- Destination Victoria Station
- Greatest Hits, Vol. 3
- The Unissued Johnny Cash
- Johnny & June
- Tall Man
- Encore
- Biggest Hits
- The Man in Black 1954–1958
- The Man in Black 1959–1962
- Come Along and Ride This Train
- The Essential Johnny Cash (1992)
- Wanted Man
- The Man in Black 1963–1969
- The Man in Black – His Greatest Hits
- 16 Biggest Hits
- Love, God, Murder
- The Essential Johnny Cash (2002)
- Unearthed
- The Legend
- The Legend of Johnny Cash
- Johnny Cash: Patriot
- 16 Biggest Hits: Johnny Cash & June Carter Cash
- The Legend of Johnny Cash Vol. II
- The Complete Columbia Album Collection
- Johnny Cash and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
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| Songs |
- "25 Minutes to Go"
- "Seasons of My Heart"
- "Any Old Wind That Blows"
- "A Wonderful Time Up There"
- "The Ballad of Boot Hill"
- "The Ballad of Ira Hayes"
- "Ballad of a Teenage Queen"
- "Big River"
- "Blistered"
- "A Boy Named Sue"
- "Busted"
- "Cat's in the Cradle"
- "Cocaine Blues"
- "Cry! Cry! Cry!"
- "Daddy Sang Bass"
- "Dark as a Dungeon"
- "Don't Take Your Guns to Town"
- "Engine 143"
- "Flesh and Blood"
- "The Folk Singer"
- "Folsom Prison Blues"
- "Forty Shades of Green"
- "Get Rhythm"
- "Give My Love to Rose"
- "Goodnight, Irene"
- "Green, Green Grass of Home"
- "Greystone Chapel"
- "Guess Things Happen That Way"
- "Hey, Porter"
- "Home of the Blues"
- "Hurt"
- "I Couldn't Keep from Crying"
- "I Love You Because"
- "I Still Miss Someone"
- "I Walk the Line"
- "If I Had a Hammer"
- "If I Were a Carpenter"
- "In My Life"
- "In the Jailhouse Now"
- "It Ain't Me Babe"
- "Jackson"
- "Kate"
- "Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream"
- "The Man Comes Around"
- "Man in Black"
- "The Matador"
- "Oh Lonesome Me"
- "One Piece at a Time"
- "Oney"
- "Orange Blossom Special"
- "The One on the Right Is on the Left"
- "Remember the Alamo"
- "(Ghost) Riders in the Sky"
- "Ring of Fire"
- "Rock Island Line"
- "So Doggone Lonesome"
- "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down"
- "Tennessee Flat Top Box"
- "There Ain't No Good Chain Gang"
- "A Thing Called Love"
- "Understand Your Man"
- "What Is Truth"
- "What'd I Say"
- "You Are My Sunshine"
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| Television | |
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| Biographies |
- Man in Black: His Own Story in His Own Words
- Cash: The Autobiography
- Johnny Cash! The Man, His World, His Music
- My Father and the Man in Black
- Walk the Line
- Ring of Fire (musical)
- Ring of Fire (2013 film)
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| Tribute albums |
- The Sound Behind Johnny Cash
- Kindred Spirits: A Tribute to the Songs of Johnny Cash
- Dressed in Black: A Tribute to Johnny Cash
- Johnny's Blues: A Tribute to Johnny Cash
- Walk the Line: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
- Fade to Black: Memories of Johnny
- All Aboard: A Tribute to Johnny Cash
- Johnny Cash Remixed
- We Walk the Line: A Celebration of the Music of Johnny Cash
- Forever Words
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| Associated acts |
- The Highwaymen
- The Tennessee Three
- Bob Wootton
- Carl Perkins
- W. S. Holland
- Marshall Grant
- Luther Perkins
- Million Dollar Quartet
- The Great Eighties Eight
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| Family | |
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| Historical sites |
- Dyess, Arkansas
- Johnny Cash Boyhood Home
- Johnny Cash Museum
- House of Cash
- Carter Family Fold
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Category |
Rodney Crowell |
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| Studio albums |
- Ain't Living Long Like This
- But What Will the Neighbors Think
- Rodney Crowell
- Street Language
- Diamonds & Dirt
- Keys to the Highway
- Life Is Messy
- Let the Picture Paint Itself
- Jewel of the South
- The Houston Kid
- Fate's Right Hand
- The Outsider
- Sex & Gasoline
- Old Yellow Moon
- Tarpaper Sky
- The Traveling Kind
- Close Ties
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| Compilation albums |
- The Rodney Crowell Collection
- Greatest Hits
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| Singles |
- "Elvira"
- "Song for the Life"
- "(Now and Then There's) A Fool Such as I"
- "Ashes by Now"
- "Ain't No Money"
- "It's Such a Small World"
- "I Couldn't Leave You If I Tried"
- "She's Crazy for Leavin'"
- "After All This Time"
- "Above and Beyond"
- "Many a Long & Lonesome Highway"
- "If Looks Could Kill"
- "My Past Is Present"
- "Now That We're Alone"
- "Lovin' All Night"
- "What Kind of Love"
- "Please Remember Me"
- "I Walk the Line Revisited"
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| Other songs |
- "The Answer Is Yes"
- "Heartbroke"
- "I Ain't Living Long Like This"
- "Leaving Louisiana in the Broad Daylight"
- "Making Memories of Us"
- "Queen of Hearts"
- "Voilá, An American Dream"
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