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Train of Love

song by Johnny Cash

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 12, 2025
Entity authorityQ60637519 ↗
Source-derived summary

"Train of Love" is a song written and originally recorded by Johnny Cash.

The song was recorded by Cash in April 1956 and released as a single on Sun Records (Sun 258) in late 1956, with "There You Go" on the opposite side.

Editorial summary

“Train of Love” enters the record as song by Johnny Cash. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Train, Love and song can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1956—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1956. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Train, Love and song.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Train of Love” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Train, Love and song provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 12, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q60637519. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1956.

Critical limits

Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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  • Identifying works and editions
  • Tracing reception history
  • Finding collection records
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The original object or edition, catalogue raisonné, performance record, rights file and holding institution.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Train of Love”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Train of Love primary sources, Train of Love archive and Train research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Train of Love”?
  2. Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
  3. How did later circulation or interpretation alter the work’s reception?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Train of Love” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.