[hedgetrimmer]

I think he did Ring of Fire way before he met June Carter. That was a very popular song.

[hedgetrimmer]

reading some of the previous posts, June wrote ring of fire. Didn't know that.

[airedale]

I don't know about that since she and Merle Kilgore wrote the song and Johnny Cash recorded it in 1963. She met him in 1961.

Ring of Fire was his first number one hit. Her sister recorded and performed it first. Her sisters act was a little short and she asked June for something and she and Merle dashed the song off in something like a half hour. She wrote the song about her dread of falling in love with Johnny Cash.

The Carter family were major stars in the country scene. June I know for a while opened for Elvis. I took a class a long time ago from Maybell Carter in the Carter Family songs which was a real honor.