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Deep Purple - Smoke On The Water
Johnny Cash - Ring Of Fire

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"Smoke on the Water" is a song by the British hard rock band Deep Purple.
It was first released on their 1972 album Machine Head.
In 2004, the song was ranked number 426 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, and in March 2005, Q magazine placed "Smoke on the Water" at number 12 in its list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks.

Cover versions

There is a remake of this song featuring Ian Gillan, Ritchie Blackmore, Brian May, David Gilmour, Bruce Dickinson, Tony Iommi, Keith Emerson, Chris Squire, Roger Taylor, Paul Rodgers, Bryan Adams and Alex Lifeson, done for the Rock Aid Armenia charity.

Black Sabbath
Soulfly
Metalium
Metallica
Acid Drinkers
Crash
Nash the Slash ('Dopes on the Water')
Angra
Rock Aid Armenia
Iron Maiden
It was performed by rock act G3 and featured on the release G3: Live in Tokyo.

Pat Boone in his 1997 album In a Metal Mood: No More Mr. Nice Guy, with Blackmore doing a guest appearance as lead guitarist.
Uwe Schmidt in Latino lounge style under the alias of Señor Coconut on the 2003 album Fiesta Songs.

CJ Crew and The Firelighters Showgroup covered the song in the 2005 Dancemania compilation Covers 01.

Carlos Santana on his 2010 solo album Guitar Heaven: The Greatest Guitar Classics of All Time.
The song features Jacoby Shaddix of Papa Roach on lead vocals.

Vains Of Jenna covered the song on their 2011 covers album Reverse Tripped.

Notable performances and uses

In 1994, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 1,322 guitarists gathered to play the world-famous riff all at the same time for a place in the Guinness Book of World Records.
On Sunday June 3, 2007, in Kansas City this record was topped with 1,721 guitarists and just 20 days later in the German city of Leinfelden-Echterdingen by the group 'Party Blues In Bb' with over 1,800 other people involved.
The record was again topped on May 1, 2009, in Wrocław, Poland, when 6,346 guitar players, joined by current Deep Purple guitarist Steve Morse, performed the song during the Thanks Jimi Festival, they also played "Hey Joe" which was made famous by Jimi Hendrix.

The iconic nature of the song has led to its inclusion in several music-related video games.
A cover version of "Smoke on the Water" is one of the playable songs for the PlayStation 2 game Guitar Hero, and the same cover version is a downloadable track in Guitar Hero II for the Xbox 360.
It is also featured in Guitar Hero: Smash Hits and Rock Band 3 as a master track. It is a playable song in the PlayStation 2 game SingStar Rocks! and in the Japan-only Nintendo DS rhythm game Daigasso! Band Brothers.
It is also available on Wii's Rayman Raving Rabbids 2 as a minigame, without Verse 3. The song also appears in Konami Guitar Freaks 4th Mix.
The song is playable in the online game Stick Dudes Gone Wild: Rock Band. It is on the set list of Rock Band 3.

In March 2011, "Smoke on the Water" was selected by departing German Defence Minister, Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, for performance as part of his official military farewell ceremony.

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"Ring of Fire" or "The Ring of Fire" is a country music song popularized by Johnny Cash and co-written by June Carter and Merle Kilgore.
The single appears on Cash's 1963 compilation 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".

The song was recorded on March 25, 1963, and became the biggest hit of Johnny Cash's career, staying at number one on the charts for seven weeks.

Numerous cover versions of "Ring of Fire" have been produced, the most commercially successful version being by Social Distortion, who released their punk rock version on the album Social Distortion (1990). The single reached #25 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks, 27 years after the song was first recorded by Cash. Pop punk band Bowling for Soup would later cover the song on their live album Bowling for Soup: Live and Very Attractive.

The Eric Burdon & the Animals version, recorded at the end of 1968.

Alan Jackson on December 6, 2010.

Dwight Yoakam also recorded a version of the song.

The song was covered by Frank Zappa in the late 1980s.
In the early 1980's "Wall of Voodoo" (Mexican Radio) recorded a version of "Ring of Fire" that can also be heard as background music in the adult film "Night Dreams."
In the "Flint" movies, ("In Like Flint", "Our Man Flint,") starring James Coburn.

The song is currently sung at the Molineux which is the Stadium of English Premier League club Wolverhampton wanderers