Customer Reviews
Good CD, good value 
2008-06-18
This is a good CD for the money. The first six songs are the classics (Jackson, If I Were A Carpenter, etc.) and are the best on the CD. This is especially good as a companion CD to the Walk The Line soundtrack.
June and Johnny 
2007-12-29
I AM A BIG FAN OF JOHNNY CASH AND JUNE CARTER CASH. RECENTLY ON PBS I SAW A BIO OF THE CARTER FAMILY. IT MADE ME ENJOY THIS CD EVEN MORE THAN EVER. I THINK THIS IS A GREAT SELECTION OF MUSIC! I RATE IT 5 STARS
awesome CD 2007-12-25
Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash are awesome on this CD. They were such a lovely couple to watch growing up. If you have memories of their Christmas specials and following their love story, you will love this CD.
JOHNNY CASH 16 BIGGEST HITS 2007-08-24
Since I was a child I have heard Johnny and June on the radio, had albums, etc. but had forgotten about them for awhile. Then I watched Walk the Line and was interested in learning more about them. Of course I went to Amazon to see what they had as I had bought from them in the past and was always pleased with the variety to choose from, the price and the quickness of receiving once I had purchased.
I am very satisfied with what Amazon had to offer and bought several items. To know of the great love the couple had for one another and to be able to find a recoding of these great hits was very pleasing.
I am very happy with all parts of my Amazon experience and rate not only it but the product as well with 5 stars.
Wonderful CD 2007-07-30
I have searched at length for the song "On the Far Side Banks of Jordan", and it's included in this CD. Their voices are young and when they were in their prime and it's an excellent CD.I enjoy all the selections on this CD.
Super collection of Johnny Cash/June Carter duets 2007-05-07
There have been many highly successful duet partnerships in the history of country music. But no other coupling as lasting or has made the same impact as Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash. Having met in the mid 1950's on various package tours, Johnny and June had a tumultuous courtships that yielded the greatest of all country marriages. Partners in life and in song, Johnny and June had some of the best duets like "Jackson" and "It Ain't Me Babe," collected here for the first time.
The Best of the Best of Johnny and June 2007-02-28
This CD is awesome! I already had 2 Johnny Cash Cds, but this one which features only duets that he and June did together is actually my favorite. All the songs are awesome! No music collection is complete without it!
Some GREAT Tunes, Some So-So, Bare Bones Packaging but Still a Good Duets Collection of Johnny and June 2006-05-09
JOHNNY CASH & JUNE CARTER CASH: 16 BIGGEST HITS is a decent collection of songs, some are excellent, some are just okay. If the song list looks interesting to you, then you will probably enjoy this CD. This record company has a whole line of 16 BIGGEST HITS that they do for many of their artists, so this is the one for Johnny and June.
"Jackson" and "If I Were a Carpenter" are probably the biggest hits. "Long-Legged Guitar Picking Man" is similar to "Jackson" in how the lyrics have the two singers teasing each other for laughs. "Long-Legged..." is also the only time that the real Johnny and June are heard in the movie WALK THE LINE, as the final credits roll at the end of the film. "Far Side Banks of Jordan" is a nice, spiritual tune, not really Gospel, but it was quoted by Rosanne Cash at the funeral for June Carter Cash, and has very touching lyrical content about being reunited with loved ones after death. "The Pine Tree" and "Brand New Dance" are great songs which I never heard before getting this CD. "It Ain't Me, Babe" is also another famous song, but I kind of think the version from the film, sung by Joachin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon, gives this song some stiff competition as to which sounds better.
There are a few songs that don't measure up to the rest, but the good ones can keep me listening for at least half of this CD, and then I might as well just let the whole thing play.
This CD is 45 minutes long, and the songs range in length from 2:15 to 3:35 minutes. The songs were recorded between 1964 and 1983.
It seems that the record company didn't do anything special for this CD release. The packaging is nowhere near as nice as many other Johnny Cash CDs, like his reissued, live, prison concerts, AT FOLSOM PRISON and AT SAN QUENTIN, or his earlier Columbia CDs like SONGS OF OUR SOIL and THE FABULOUS JOHNNY CASH.
The photo on the cover is the only photo, and the CD "booklet" only tells the song list with a few details of each song, like duration, writer, recording date, and when it was originally released. There are no liner notes to read like an essay about the CD, as appears in the other CDs I've already mentioned, which is a let down.
The WALK THE LINE SOUNDTRACK from the movie is pretty entertaining, if you enjoyed the music from the film, then you will pleased with that CD! But if you're like me, you will get the Soundtrack CD first, then get curious about what the original, REAL THING sounded like in the first place, which is why I have been buying Johnny Cash CDs lately.
If you are new to Johnny Cash, like I pretty much was before I saw the WALK THE LINE movie, then I would suggest that you start your Johnny Cash collection with THE LEGEND OF JOHNNY CASH, which has been incredibly remastered with super clear sound, especially for his 1950s hits, and comes with a nice CD booklet. But THE LEGEND does not focus much on the duets with June, so if its the June Carter duets that you are interested in, then this 16 BIGGEST HITS is definitely the way to go, as far as I know.
Johnny also did a lot of Gospel projects. GOSPEL GLORY is my favorite CD of Gospel tunes by Johnny, with guest appearances by June, the Carter Family, and many great, classic, traditional songs.
The DVD movie GOSPEL ROAD is great, and has Johnny narrating the story of Jesus, with Johnny appearing onscreen every ten minutes or so, and including a great cameo performance of Mary Magdalene by June Carter Cash herself--a true labor of love from the early 1970s.
My favorite project by Johnny Cash is his spoken word reading of the entire NEW TESTAMENT of the Holy Bible, which is affordably priced for a 16 CD set, check it out!
A great disc to own.....and, a word of caution 2006-04-20
This disc comes highly recommend. OR, another containing the same material......however, not both [unless you are a 'completist'].
Found elsewhere on this site is a lovely selection of duets by Johnny & June -- title is simply "Johhny Cash & June Carter Cash - DUETS".
"DUETS" appears to be a nicely done re-packaging of the "16 BIGGEST HITS" disc found here. In fact, when I ripped this disc to my 'puter it came up as....uhhuhhh, you guessed it! '16 Biggest Hits".
PRETTY GOOD IDEA . 2006-03-27
Its funny, in all the years that I have been a fan of Johnny Cash I never considered a "greatest hits" of John and June duets. Interesting. Actually, to tell you the truth I never knew there were that many to fill an album. While Junes appearances lighten up a few CASH tunes, I never really considered that she was responsible for much of his sixties chart success.. (not to be mentioned the fact that SHE wrote the song RING OF FIRE..)
Well, here it is. I guess no one else considered this idea until now.. (the hit movie inspired this collection, duh_) and this is perfect for the peeps who liked the film. The WALK THE LINE soundtrack was good, I'll give you that, with fresh renditions of the JOHN/JUNE duets by JOUQUIN/REESE. But if you wanna hear what these songs REALLY sounded like, and feel what that magic was between the REAL Johnny Cash and June Carter, this collection is pretty darned intrestin'.
JACKSON, DARLIN COMPANION, LONG LEGGED GUITAR PICKIN MAN.... June Carter adds much playfulness to Johnny Cash's style. Cash's music is mainly stuff to cry to when you're drinkin', but Cash/Carter duets are stuff to clap your hands and smile to... when you're drinkin'.
Although I'm missing the Live stuff (and really I will probably mention the FOLSOM and SAN QUENTIN albums in EVERY review I write for anything CASH related... you get June Carter sass in those too, and they rock the most) but this is the meatiest collection of the two together, spanning the years 1964-1983. Theres something good about those two, they inspire good energy, you may like...
However, that has got to be the WORST picture of the two of them on the front of the CD. Whats up with that? Oh well 5 stars.
