Australian singles chart:
Ring of Fire entered the Kent charts on 29 June 1963 and peaked at #12. It was #73 on the Top 100 of 1963.
Album:
The song is on the 1963 album Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash.
Songwriters:
June Carter, Merle Kilgore
Producer:
Don Law
Record label of Australian release:
CBS
Wikipedia:
Ring of Fire was made popular by Johnny Cash when it appeared on his 1963 album Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash. Written by Cash’s eventual second wife, June Carter Cash, and Merle Kilgore, it was originally recorded as (Love’s) Ring of Fire by June’s sister, Anita Carter, on her 1963 album Folk Songs Old and New.
Some sources claim that Carter had seen the phrase “Love is like a burning ring of fire” underlined in an Elizabethan poetry book owned by her uncle AP Carter. She worked with Kilgore on writing a song inspired by this phrase as she had seen her uncle do in the past. She had written: “There is no way to be in that kind of hell, no way to extinguish a flame that burns, burns, burns”.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_of_Fire_(song)
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