Ring of fire

“ Ring of Fire ” is a song written by June Carter Cash and . In the summer of 1964 it became a big hit performed by Johnny Cash ^[1] .

By the summer of 1964, when the song soared to the top of the charts, Cash had a period of relative decline in his career - he had not had a really big hit for several years, and indeed, in the spring of 1960 his songs stopped as regularly as before , get into the top ten on the country chart. So this song became a very important moment in his career. She spent seven weeks in the 1st place on the country chart, and in the pop chart (now Hot 100 ) she was in the top twenty. After that, Cash began a second wave of big hits. In addition, this song played an important role for his image - as Stephen Thomas Erlevine writes with his review of this song on AllMusic , she even more “cemented the image of Johnny Cash as“ Man in Black “- not necessarily illegal, but definitely an outsider " ^[1] .

In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine placed the song “Ring of Fire” by Johnny Cash at 87th place on its list of “ 500 Greatest Songs of All Time ” ^[2] . In the 2011 list, the song is also in 87th place ^[3] .

And in 2014, the British music magazine New Musical Express placed “Ring of Fire” performed by Johnny Cash at 318th place on its list of “ 500 Greatest Songs of All Time ” ^{[4] [5]} .

Also, in 1999, the single of Johnny Cash with this song (released in 1963 on the Columbia Records label ) was admitted to the Grammy Awards Hall of Fame ^[6] .