Has one of the most interesting backstories in all of country music. Released in 1963 and first recorded by June Carter’s sister, credit for writing the song was “given” (alleged by Johnny’s first wife, Vivian Liberto) to June Carter and Merle Kilgore, but Liberto says in her autobiography, Johnny actually wrote the song about a certain femaile body part while pilled up and drunk. ” However, the accepted story is that June “pained” over the lyrics about how love is like a burning ring of fire and it really is hard to extinguish a flame that “…. ” Johnny was said to have noted that he saw the line “Love is like a burning ring of fire in one of June’s Uncle A. Carter’s old Elizabethan-era books of poetry. Everybody’s gone now, so all we can do is listen to one of the greatest country music songs ever written and recorded, regardless of WHO DONE IT! But talk about a song in the “Musical History Books, ” here are a few statistics. “Ring of Fire” was ranked No. S 100 Greatest Songs of Country Music. In 2003 and #87 on. The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. In June 2014, Rolling Stone ranked the song #27 on its list of the 100 greatest country songs of all time. A COUPLE OF THE PHOTOS WERE TAKEN WITH THE GLASS OUT OF THE AWARD DUE TO THE EXTREME REFLECTIONS. My father was the premier GOLD & PLATINUM awards maker on Music Row for 50 years. His passing brought condolences from half the Grand Ole Opry and he knew just about every Opry star over those 5 decades and they knew him well. He was a legendary he was written about in Billboard and Music Row Magazine publications when we lost him. He knew Johnny and June. I’m a retired CNN Anchor and was the NBC White HOuse Reporter during the Carter-Reagan years among other network broadcast journalism assignments. I’m retired at 71 and can only handle about 100 of my dads approximate 5,000 items in his estate legacy at a time. A Certificate of Authenticity comes with all awards with a photograph of my dad and a celebrity (of which there are hundreds). Message me please with the exact spelling of what name you would like on the COA. I also send an identical COA with no name so you may gift, sell or leave behind one that is clean in the future. Thanks for your business. The item “JOHNNY CASH Ring of Fire GOLD Record Award 1964 Original Authentic COA” is in sale since Sunday, October 21, 2018. This item is in the category “Entertainment Memorabilia\Autographs-Original\Music\Country”. The seller is “davestraub47″ and is located in Woodstock, Georgia. This item can be shipped to United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Denmark, Romania, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Czech republic, Finland, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Estonia, Australia, Greece, Portugal, Cyprus, Slovenia, Japan, China, Sweden, South Korea, Indonesia, Taiwan, South africa, Thailand, Belgium, France, Hong Kong, Ireland, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Italy, Germany, Austria, Israel, Mexico, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Switzerland, Norway, Saudi arabia, United arab emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Croatia, Malaysia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa rica, Dominican republic, Panama, Trinidad and tobago, Guatemala, El salvador, Honduras, Jamaica.