"playing that music before Elvis came out on record ... I wanted to see whether this was someone who could revolutionize the country end of the business."" Also in the autumn of 1955, Perkins wrote ""Blue Suede Shoes"" after seeing a dancer get angry with his date for scuffing up his shoes. Several weeks later, on December 19, 1955, Perkins and his band recorded the song during a session at Sun Studio in Memphis. Phillips suggested changes to the lyrics (""Go, cat, go""), and the band changed the end of the song to a ""boogie vamp"". Presley left Sun for"
"to paper. Carl was already sending demos to New York record companies, who kept rejecting him, sometimes explaining that this strange new style of country with a pronounced rhythm fit no current commercial trend. That would change in 1955 after recording the song ""Blue Suede Shoes"" (recorded 19 December 1955) on Sam Phillips' Memphis-based Sun Records. Later made more famous by Elvis Presley, Perkins' original version was an early rock 'n' roll standard. In the early 1950s there was heavy competition among Memphis area bands playing an audience-savvy mix of covers, original songs, and hillbilly flavored blues. One source mentions"
"Elvis Presley's ""Heartbreak Hotel"" and ""Don't Be Cruel"" would top the Billboard Charts as well. In January 1956 three new classic songs by Cash, Perkins, and Presley were released: ""Folsom Prison Blues"" by Cash, and ""Blue Suede Shoes"" by Perkins, both on Sun; and ""Heartbreak Hotel"" by Presley on RCA. Other rockabilly tunes released this month included ""See You Later, Alligator"" by Roy Hall and ""Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On"" by the Commodores """". Perkins's ""Blue Suede Shoes"" sold 20,000 records a day at one point, and it was the first million-selling country song to cross over to both rhythm"
"in the United States. In 1985, RCA issued a music video of Presley's original version of ""Blue Suede Shoes"". The video featured a contemporary setting and actors (and Carl Perkins in a cameo appearance), with Presley shown in archival footage. In 1999, Presley's version was certified as a gold record by the RIAA. ""Blue Suede Shoes"" was recorded and released many times in 1956. February releases were by Delbert Barker and the Gateway All Stars on the Gateway and Big Hits labels, Thumper Jones (George Jones), Hank Smith, and Buzz Williams. RCA Victor released a version by Pee Wee King"
"to New York City, resulting in the death of a truck driver and the hospitalization of both Perkins and his brother. While Perkins recuperated from his injuries, ""Blue Suede Shoes"" rose to number one on most pop, R&B and country regional charts. ""I was a poor farm boy, and with 'Shoes' I felt I had a chance but suddenly there I was in the hospital,"" Perkins recalled bitterly. It also held the number two position on the Billboard Hot 100 and country charts. Presley's ""Heartbreak Hotel"" held the number one position on the pop and country charts, while ""Shoes"" did"
"Saddle shoe The saddle shoe, also known as ""saddle oxford"", is a low-heeled casual shoe, characterized by a plain toe and saddle-shaped decorative panel placed mid foot. Saddle shoes are typically constructed of leather and are most frequently white with a black or dark blue saddle, although any color combination is possible. Saddle shoes are worn by both men and women in a variety of styles ranging from golf cleats to school uniform shoes. They have a reputation as the typical shoes of school-girls, especially in the 1940s. In 1957 Elvis Presley wore saddle shoes in ""Jailhouse Rock"". Bert from"
"gold record. ""Blue Suede Shoes"" was the first million-selling country song to cross over to both the rhythm and blues and the pop charts. Sam Phillips retained the rights to ""Blue Suede Shoes"", although it was represented by the New York house of Hill & Range as part of the agreement when Phillips sold Presley's contract. Perkins acquired the rights to the song, along with all of his other songs recorded for Sun Records, in 1977. Recording cover versions of songs was a common practice during the 1940s and 1950s, and ""Blue Suede Shoes"" was one of the first songs"
"RCA Victor wanted its newly contracted artist, Elvis Presley, to record. ""Heartbreak Hotel"" and ""Shoes"" rose on the charts at roughly the same time. RCA Victor, with its superior distribution and radio contacts, knew it could probably steal a hit record from Phillips and Perkins. Presley, who knew both Perkins and Phillips from his days at Sun Records, gave in to pressure from RCA, but he requested that the company hold back his version from release as a single. Presley's version features two guitar solos by Scotty Moore, with Bill Black on bass and D.J. Fontana on drums. According to"
"and blues and pop charts. On February 11, Presley appeared on the Dorsey Brothers' ""Stage Show"" for the third time, singing ""Blue Suede Shoes"" and ""Heartbreak Hotel."" He performed ""Blue Suede Shoes"" two more times on national television, and ""Heartbreak Hotel"" three times throughout 1956. Both songs topped the ""Billboard"" charts. Perkins first performed ""Blue Suede Shoes"" on television March 17 on ""Ozark Jubilee"", a weekly ABC-TV program. From 1955 to 1960, the live national radio and TV show from Springfield, Missouri featured Brenda Lee and Wanda Jackson and guests included Gene Vincent and other rockabilly artists. Sun and RCA"
"""Levi Jacket (And a Long Tail Shirt)"", ""Pop, Let Me Have the Car"", ""Pink Pedal Pushers"", ""Any Way the Wind Blows"", ""Hambone"", ""Pointed Toe Shoes"", ""Sister Twister"", ""L-O-V-E-V-I-L-L-E"" and other songs. In 1959, he wrote the country-and-western song ""The Ballad of Boot Hill"" for Johnny Cash, who recorded it on an EP for Columbia Records. In the same year, Perkins was cast in a Filipino movie produced by People's Pictures, ""Hawaiian Boy"", in which he sang ""Blue Suede Shoes"". He performed often at the Golden Nugget Casino in Las Vegas in 1962 and 1963. During this time he toured nine"
"introduced Presley on ""The Steve Allen Show"", and Presley, dressed in formal evening wear, said, ""I think that I have on something tonight that's not quite right for evening wear."" Allen asked, ""What's that, Elvis?"" ""Blue suede shoes"" was the answer, as he lifted his left foot to show the audience. Presley mentioned blue suede shoes a second time on this show: in a song during the ""Range Roundup"" comedy skit with Allen, Andy Griffith, and Imogene Coca, he delivered the line, ""I'm a-warnin' you galoots, don't step on my blue suede shoes."" Moore has said that Presley recorded the"
"Go Cat Go! Go Cat Go! is a 1996 album by American rockabilly musician Carl Perkins. For most of the songs, Perkins performs with other artists. The album includes recordings from all four ex-Beatles, with Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr recording new material, while John Lennon's version of ""Blue Suede Shoes"" comes from his album ""Live Peace in Toronto 1969"". Jimi Hendrix's version of the same song is also an archive recording. The album was produced by Bob Johnston. Also performing with Perkins on the album are Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Bono, Paul"
"Blue Suede Shoes: A Rockabilly Session Blue Suede Shoes: A Rockabilly Session was a televised concert that was taped live at Limehouse Studios in London, England on 21 October 1985. The show featured rock n' roll pioneer Carl Perkins along with friends as guest stars, including Eric Clapton, former Beatles George Harrison and Ringo Starr, as well as Dave Edmunds who acted as musical director for the show. Most of the repertoire performed in the concert consisted of Perkins' classic rockabilly songs from the 1950s. It was directed by Tom Gutteridge. The concert special was originally broadcast in 1985 on"
"Simon and John Fogerty. Go Cat Go! Go Cat Go! is a 1996 album by American rockabilly musician Carl Perkins. For most of the songs, Perkins performs with other artists. The album includes recordings from all four ex-Beatles, with Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr recording new material, while John Lennon's version of ""Blue Suede Shoes"" comes from his album ""Live Peace in Toronto 1969"". Jimi Hendrix's version of the same song is also an archive recording. The album was produced by Bob Johnston. Also performing with Perkins on the album are Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Johnny Cash,"
"session seems to have happened by pure chance. Perkins, who by this time had already met success with ""Blue Suede Shoes"", had come into the studio that day, accompanied by his brothers Clayton and Jay and by drummer W.S. Holland, their aim being to cut some new material, including a revamped version of an old blues song, ""Matchbox"". Phillips, who wished to try to fatten this sparse rockabilly instrumentation, had brought in his latest acquisition, singer and piano man extraordinaire Jerry Lee Lewis, still unknown outside Memphis, to play piano on the Perkins session. Sometime in the early afternoon, Presley"
"featured in a Converse commercial set in Bird's hometown of French Lick, Indiana in 1985. They were also worn by Axl Rose in the Guns N' Roses music video ""Estranged"". Several special editions of Converse shoes have been made, including DC Comics, Pink Floyd, The Ramones, AC/DC, Sailor Jerry, Metallica, The Clash, Dr. Seuss, Grateful Dead, Ozzy Osbourne, Jimi Hendrix, Miley Cyrus (who helped advertise rainbow designed converse for Pride Month in 2017 and designed the 2018 collection also for pride month in conjunction with her charity Happy Hippie Foundation ), Drew Brophy, Nirvana, Bad Meets Evil, Green Day, Gorillaz,"
"showers at the Los Angeles Tennis Club. He was strongly influenced by the music of Carl Perkins and once said he tried to emulate the sound and the tone of the guitar break in Perkins's March 1956 Top Ten hit ""Blue Suede Shoes."" At age sixteen, he wanted to impress his girlfriend of two years, Diana Osborn(e), who was an Elvis Presley fan and, although he had no record contract at the time, told her that he, too, was going to make a record. With his father's help, he secured a one-record deal with Verve Records, an important jazz label"
"Johnny Cash songs ""Wide Open Road"" and ""Hey Porter"". This guitar can also be heard on all records before ""I Walk The Line"", for which Perkins played an Esquire. Throughout his career Perkins used various Esquires. With this guitar, Perkins created the legendary ""Boom Chicka Boom Sound"" that identified Johnny Cash's music. Bruce Springsteen has used a 1952 Fender Esquire as his main touring and recording guitar throughout his career. He can be seen holding the guitar on the cover of his 1975 album ""Born To Run"". In 1966, Paul McCartney purchased a 1964 Fender Esquire model with a sunburst"
"The melody, later used in Rock Around the Clock, was also borrowed by Hank Williams for Move It On Over and Mind Your Own Business. The Carl Perkins song is more blues-based and closer to ""Blue Suede Shoes"" in style. The recording was re-released on the 1961 Sun Records album ""Teen Beat: The Best of Carl Perkins"", ""Carl Perkins' Original Golden Hits"" by Sun International in 1969, ""Original Sun Greatest Hits"" by Rhino Records in 1986, ""Blues Suede Shoes: A Rockabilly Session"", and on a Rhino Records CD EP ""Lil' Bit of Gold"" in 1988. After 1964, the Carl Perkins"
"mornin', I'm-a givin' you the warnin', don't you step on my blue suede shoes""). ""Blue Suede Shoes"" was chosen by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as one of the ""500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll"". In 1986 Perkins' version was inducted in the Grammy Hall of Fame, and was included by the National Recording Preservation Board in the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress in 2006. The board annually selects songs that are ""culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."" In 2004, Perkins's version was ranked number 95 on ""Rolling Stone""s list of ""The 500 Greatest Songs"
"A recent performance shows Wackel Elvis doing an off hand rendition of ""Blue Suede Shoes"". Wackel-Elvis Wackel-Elvis (, ""Wobbly Elvis"") is a tall, hanging dashboard figure designed to resemble musician and actor Elvis Presley. A prototype of the figure was first introduced by the German automobile manufacturer Audi in a series of television commercials which were broadcast in several European countries. The commercials were produced by the advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi in 2001 to promote Audi's new continuously variable """"multitronic"""" transmission. Due to a high demand by Elvis fans after publication of the commercials, 15,000 Wackel-Elvis figures were produced"
"of songs they were known for - including Cash's ""Get Rhythm"" and Perkins' ""Blue Suede Shoes"" - as well as slightly more obscure compositions. Perkins, Cash and Lewis had previously collaborated with each other, and with Elvis Presley (who had died in 1977), during the Million Dollar Quartet session, and would later collaborate for the album ""Class of '55"" with Roy Orbison in 1985. For the last song on the album, ""I Saw the Light"", Cash, Perkins and Lewis were joined by Cash's son John Carter and his daughter Cindy Cash. The Survivors Live The Survivors Live is a live"
"flip side of the record, ""Honey Don't."" In Cleveland, Ohio, however, disc jockey Bill Randle was featuring ""Blue Suede Shoes"" prominently on his nightly show, and before January was over the Cleveland distributor of the record asked Phillips for an additional 25,000 copies. ""Shoes"" became the side of choice throughout the South and Southwest. On February 11 it was the number two single on Memphis charts; it was number one the next week and remained there for the next three months. Perkins made four appearances on the radio program ""Big D Jamboree"" on station KRLD (AM) in Dallas, where he"
"""claims that he wrote the Blue Suede Shoes"". It is also referred to (""maybe some blue suede shoes"") in The Lowest of the Low's 1991 song ""Henry Needs a New Pair of Shoes"", about a homeless man. The song is referred to by Marc Cohn in ""Walking in Memphis,"" which begins, ""Put on my blue suede shoes, and I boarded the plane."" In 1971 Kevin Ayers recorded ""Stranger in Blue Suede Shoes"" which included the line (from the bartender) ""we don't serve strangers in blue suede shoes"". The song appears in the TV miniseries ""Elvis"", in which Presley (played by"
"the disk has a measure of appeal for pop and r.&b. customers."" On March 17, Perkins became the first country artist to reach the number three spot on the rhythm and blues charts. That night, Perkins and his band first performed ""Blue Suede Shoes"" on television, on ABC-TV's ""Ozark Jubilee"" (coincidentally, Presley was on ""Stage Show"" on CBS-TV that same night, for which he also performed the song). Perkins was booked to appear on ""The Perry Como Show"" on NBC-TV on March 24, but on March 22 he and his band were in a serious automobile crash on the way"
"At present, the permanent collection contains artifacts from virtually every culture in the world. One of the most important aspects of the museum's holdings is an extensive collection from Native American and circumpolar cultures. The museum's assortment of celebrity footwear is a popular attraction; it includes ballroom slippers worn by Queen Victoria, the monogrammed silver platform boots of Elton John, a Terry Fox running shoe, white and blue patent loafers of Elvis Presley and John Lennon's Beatle boot. The museum usually houses four exhibitions, one semi-permanent and three time-limited and changing. The semi-permanent exhibition,"" All About Shoes: Footwear Through the"
"Lee Riley's ""Flyin' Saucers Rock'n'Roll"". Formerly, rockabilly had rarely featured piano, but it proved an influential addition, and rockabilly artists on other labels also started working with pianists. On December 4, 1956, Elvis Presley dropped in on Phillips to pay a social visit while Perkins was in the studio cutting new tracks with Lewis backing him on piano. Johnny Cash was also there watching Perkins. The four then started an impromptu jam session, and Phillips left the tape running. These recordings, almost half of which were gospel songs, have been released on CD as ""Million Dollar Quartet"". Tracks also include"
"his bed and working with his Les Paul guitar, he started with an A chord. After playing five chords while singing ""Well, it's one for the money... Two for the show... Three to get ready... Now go, man, go!"" he broke into a boogie rhythm. He quickly grabbed a brown paper potato sack and wrote the song down, writing the title out as ""Blue Swade""; ""S-W-A-D-E – I couldn't even spell it right"", he later said. According to Perkins, ""On December 17, 1955, I wrote 'Blue Suede Shoes'. I recorded it on December 19"", for Sun Records, which released the"
"Jerry Lee Lewis, still unknown outside Memphis, to play piano (at the time, a Wurlitzer Spinet) on the Perkins session. Lewis' first Sun single would be released a few days later. Sometime in the early afternoon, 21-year-old Elvis Presley, a former Sun artist now with RCA Victor, arrived to pay a casual visit accompanied by a girlfriend, Marilyn Evans. After chatting with Phillips in the control room, Presley listened to the playback of Perkins’ session, which he pronounced to be good. Then he went into the studio and some time later, the jam session began. At some point during the"
"Run-DMC with Perry and Tyler, and ""Blue Suede Shoes"" by both Carl Perkins and Elvis Presley. The Byrds' version was honored with a Grammy Hall of Fame Award in 1998, and Dylan's version was honored with the same award in 2002. In 1989 ""Rolling Stone"" ranked the Byrds' version of ""Mr. Tambourine Man"" as the number 86 single of the prior 25 years. That same year, music critic Dave Marsh listed it as number 207 in his list of the top 1001 singles ever made. In 1999, National Public Radio in the United States listed this version as one of"
"Shoes (Kelly song) ""Shoes"" is the debut single by comedian Liam Kyle Sullivan, under his female Kelly character. It was released for digital download on August 29, 2006. The song has become popular in pop culture, and has been performed live many times. It also made Sullivan an icon in pop culture. Kelly appears in VH1's ""I Hate My 30's"", as well as being in Weezer's video for ""Pork and Beans"". The song also won the 2008 People's Choice Award for ""Best User Generated Video"". It is also Kelly's biggest hit to date. A radio edit of the song was"
"what was inside of it.""<br>— Darryl McDaniels My Adidas ""My Adidas"" is the first single from Run–D.M.C.'s third album ""Raising Hell"". It is about Adidas footwear. Released in 1986, the song was written by two of the members, Joseph ""DJ Run"" Simmons and Darryl ""DMC"" McDaniels and was produced by Rick Rubin and Russell Simmons. It led to the first endorsement deal between a musical act and an athletic company, after the band's co-manager, Lyor Cohen, invited Adidas executive Angelo Anastasio to the band's concert at Madison Square Garden on July 19, 1986, where the band instructed the audience to"
"known as ghillies or pumps) and hard shoes. Hard shoes are similar to tap shoes, except that the tips and heels are made of fiberglass, instead of metal, and are significantly bulkier. The first hard shoes had wooden or leather taps with metal nails. Later the taps and heels were made of resin or fiberglass to reduce the weight and to make the sounds louder. The soft shoes, which are called ""ghillies"", are black lace-up shoes. Ghillies are only worn by girls, while boys wear black leather shoes called ""reel shoes"", which resemble black jazz shoes with a hard heel."