Greatest Hits

Although Johnny Cash had departed Sun Records for Columbia in 1958, the tracks he had recorded for Sun continued to provide Sam Phillips with plenty of material for release. Whilst neither of his first two Sun albums had made a dent in the charts, they had performed sufficiently well enough to earn him a big money move to Columbia, who in turn had been rewarded when The Fabulous Johnny Cash lived up to its title and made the Top Twenty. In response Sam Phillips gathered together the six singles Johnny had released on the label and padded the album out with a further six tracks to produce the twelve track Greatest!