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Johnny Cash

Sam Hall

1965 · via Mondo Generator

Johnny Cash’s 1965 recording of “Sam Hall” is the earliest on file. traditional is credited as its writer. Also recorded by Tex Ritter (1991), Glengarry Bhoys (1999) and Richard Thompson (2003), among 21 recordings on MusicBrainz.

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Nobody owns "Sam Hall," but Johnny Cash got it on tape first, and Tex Ritter and Richard Thompson picked it up after him. Play Cash's version next to Mondo Generator's and you can hear the same song survive two very different bands.

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Credited writer: traditional.

Earliest recording on file: this one, 1965.

Other recordings on file

21 recordings of “Sam Hall” on MusicBrainz in all.

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Mondo Generator cut the old song "Sam Hall" with no credited writer. Who made the first recording of it, decades before them?Johnny Cash
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