One Piece at a Time is the 54th album by
American country singer
Johnny Cash, released in 1976 on
Columbia Records. "
One Piece at a Time," which was a #1 hit, is a humorous tale of an auto worker on the
Detroit assembly line who puts together a car out of parts he swipes from the plant. "Sold Out of Flag Poles" also charted as a single, reaching #29 on the country singles charts. "Committed to Parkview", a Cash original, would be re-recorded in 1985 by Cash,
Waylon Jennings,
Kris Kristofferson and
Willie Nelson, collectively known as
The Highwaymen, on their first album,
Highwayman; it is one of the few country songs sung from the perspective of a patient at a
mental hospital.