Cash tinkered with a few of the original phrases in Anita Carter's version of the song. Mother Maybelle and the Carter sisters are prominently featured in the Cash recording singing harmony. This sound was later used in the song " It Ain't Me Babe", which was recorded around the same time. When the song failed to become a major hit for Anita, Cash recorded it his own way, adding the mariachi-style horns from his dream. Cash said, " I'll give you about five or six more months, and if you don't hit with it, I'm gonna record it the way I feel it." Cash noted that adding trumpets was a change to his basic sound. The Mariachi horn sound had recently been popularized on American radio with 1962 hit song " The Lonely Bull" by Herb Alpert. After hearing Anita's version, Cash claimed he had a dream where he heard the song accompanied by "Mexican horns". Mercury released Anita's version as a single and it was a featured "pick hit" in Billboard magazine. The song was originally recorded by June's sister, Anita Carter, on her Mercury Records album Folk Songs Old and New (1963) as "(Love's) Ring of Fire". She had written: "There is no way to be in that kind of hell, no way to extinguish a flame that burns, burns, burns". She worked with Kilgore on writing a song inspired by this phrase as she had seen her uncle do in the past. 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 A. Problems playing this file? See media help.
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