I Walk the Line

"I Walk the Line"
Single by Johnny Cash
from the album Johnny Cash with His Hot and Blue Guitar!
B-side	"Get Rhythm"
Released	May 1, 1956
Recorded	April 2, 1956, Sun Studio, Memphis, Tennessee
Genre	Country[1] rockabilly[2]
Length	2:45
Label	Sun
Songwriter(s)	Johnny Cash
Producer(s)	Sam Phillips
Johnny Cash singles chronology
"Folsom Prison Blues" (1955) "I Walk the Line" (1956) "There You Go" (1956)

"I Walk the Line" excerpt

From the album With His Hot and Blue Guitar (1957)

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"I Walk the Line" is a song written and recorded in 1956 by Johnny Cash. After three attempts with moderate chart ratings, it became Cash's first #1 hit on the Billboard country chart, eventually reaching #17 on the Billboard Hot 100.

The song remained on the record charts for over 43 weeks, and sold over two million copies.^[3] It has also been used on many LPs released from Sun Records, such as With His Hot and Blue Guitar, Sings the Songs That Made Him Famous, and Sings Hank Williams. It was the title song for a 1970 film starring Gregory Peck and a 2005 biopic of Cash starring Joaquin Phoenix. The song captures Johnny Cash's "boom-chicka-boom" sound by Johnny putting a dollar bill in the neck of his guitar.