| The Johnny Cash Children's Album | ||||
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| Released | January 1975 | |||
| Recorded | January 1972–October 1973 | |||
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| Length | 35:33 | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
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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.