The Ring of Fire  is a song written by June Carter Cash and Merle Kilgore and popularized by Johnny Cash. The single appears on Cash's 1963 album, Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash. 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. Mercury released Anita's version as a single and it was a featured pick hit in Billboard magazine.