I Will Rock and Roll with You

"I Will Rock and Roll with You"
Single by Johnny Cash
from the album Gone Girl
A-side"I Will Rock and Roll with You"
"A Song for the Life" (w/Rosanne Cash)
Released1978 (1978)
GenreCountry, rock and roll, rockabilly[1]
LabelColumbia 3-10888
Songwriter(s)Johnny Cash[2]
Producer(s)Larry Butler[2]
Johnny Cash singles chronology
"It'll Be Her"
(1978) 		"I Will Rock and Roll with You"
(1978) 		"(Ghost) Riders in the Sky"
(1979)
Audio
"I Will Rock and Roll with You" on YouTube

"I Will Rock and Roll with You" is a song written and originally recorded by Johnny Cash for his 1978 album Gone Girl.

Cash wrote two songs for the album, one of them being "I Will Rock and Roll with You," a rockedup retelling of his Memphis origins, featuring one of the best lead-guitar breaks to appear on a Johnny Cash tune since Carl Perkins left the group in 1973.

— C. Eric Banister. Johnny Cash FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the Man in Black[3]

There are two songs written by Cash on his album, Gone Girl: "It Comes and Goes" and "I Will Rock and Roll with You." Both seem to look back at his Memphis roots while examining his life with June.

— Johnny Cash, the Songs[4]

Released in December 1978[5] as the album's third and final single[6] (Columbia 3-10888, with "A Song for the Life" on the opposite side),[7] the song reached number 21 on U.S. Billboard's country chart in March.[8]

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  2. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference I Will Rock And Roll With You / A Song For The Life was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ C. Eric Banister (1 August 2014). Johnny Cash FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the Man in Black. Backbeat. pp. 253–. ISBN 978-1-61713-609-2.
  4. ^ Johnny Cash (2004). Johnny Cash, the Songs. Thunder's Mouth Press. ISBN 9781560256298.
  5. ^ The Johnny Cash Record Catalog. Greenwood Publishing Group. 1994. p. 11. ISBN 978-0-313-29506-5.
  6. ^ C. Eric Banister (1 August 2014). Johnny Cash FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the Man in Black. Backbeat Books. pp. 224–. ISBN 978-1-61713-608-5.
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    Tim Neely (31 August 2006). Goldmine Standard Catalog of American Records: 1950-1975. Krause Publications. ISBN 9780896893078.
  8. ^ Joel Whitburn (2002). Top Country Singles, 1944 to 2001: Chart Data Compiled from Billboard's Country Singles Charts, 1944-2001. Record Research. ISBN 978-0-89820-151-2.
    Joel Whitburn (2005). Joel Whitburn's Top Country Songs: 1944-2005, Billboard. Record Research. ISBN 978-0-89820-165-9.
    "I Will Rock And Roll With You Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard. Retrieved 2020-05-28.