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| Johnny Cash Sings Precious Memories | ||||
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| Released | January 1975 | |||
| Studio | House of Cash Recording Studios,Hendersonville, Tennessee | |||
| Genre | Gospel | |||
| Length | 30:06 | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Producer | Johnny Cash | |||
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Johnny Cash Sings Precious Memories is the fifthgospel and 50th overall album bycountry singerJohnny Cash, released in 1975 onColumbia Records. It is one of several spiritual albums that he recorded. Other examples includeHymns by Johnny Cash,Hymns from the Heart,The Holy Land andBelieve in Him. The song selection includes several of Cash's personal favorites, as some would later be recorded again forMy Mother's Hymn Book.Precious Memories may have been a replacement for an untitled Gospel album that Cash recorded during 1975 but never released; those recordings would be released in 2012 on the albumBootleg Vol. IV: The Soul of Truth. The albums was dedicated to Cash's late brother, Jack D. Cash,[1] who died in May 1944.
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| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Precious Memories" | J.R. Baxter, W.B. Stevens | 2:53 |
| 2. | "Rock of Ages" | Brantley C. George, Billy Walker | 2:20 |
| 3. | "The Old Rugged Cross" | George Bennard | 2:48 |
| 4. | "Softly and Tenderly" | Will L. Thompson | 2:48 |
| 5. | "In the Sweet By and By" | Sanford Fillmore Bennett,Joseph Philbrick Webster | 2:47 |
| 6. | "Just as I Am" | William Batchelder Bradbury,Charlotte Elliott | 3:10 |
| 7. | "Farther Along" | J.R. Baxter, John Starling | 3:06 |
| 8. | "When the Roll Is Called Up Yonder" | James Milton Black | 2:05 |
| 9. | "Amazing Grace" | John Newton,William Walker; arranged by Clyde Williams | 2:27 |
| 10. | "At the Cross" | Ralph C. Hudson,Isaac Watts | 2:50 |
| 11. | "Have Thine Own Way, Lord" | Adelaide A. Pollard,George C. Stebbins, Walker | 2:52 |
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