"public performance by George Harrison in more than ten years An edited version of the program is available for viewing on YouTube. All songs by Carl Perkins, except where noted: 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"
"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"
"Carl Perkins Carl Lee Perkins (April 9, 1932 – January 19, 1998) was an American singer-songwriter who recorded most notably at the Sun Studio, in Memphis, beginning in 1954. His best-known song is ""Blue Suede Shoes"". According to Charlie Daniels, ""Carl Perkins' songs personified the rockabilly era, and Carl Perkins' sound personifies the rockabilly sound more so than anybody involved in it, because he never changed."" Perkins's songs were recorded by artists (and friends) as influential as Elvis Presley, the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Cash and Eric Clapton which further established his place in the history of popular music. Paul"
"moved to Los Angeles, California in the early 1950s, he continued to perfect his musical skills, playing both the acoustic guitar and the steel guitar. He also began to do home recordings of himself playing rhythm guitar to a song. Buddy Merrill joined ""The Lawrence Welk Show"" in 1955, the same year it first went national on ABC. On the Welk Show, he performed his guitar version of ""Blue Suede Shoes,"" a popular hit by Elvis Presley in 1956. (Retrieved from ""The Lawrence Show."" PBS TV. May 12, 2018) He briefly left the show from 1959 to 1962 when he"
"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"
"biopic ""Walk the Line"". The following recording by Carl Perkins was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, which is a special Grammy award established in 1973 to honor recordings that are at least 25 years old and that have ""qualitative or historical significance"". Carl Perkins Carl Lee Perkins (April 9, 1932 – January 19, 1998) was an American singer-songwriter who recorded most notably at the Sun Studio, in Memphis, beginning in 1954. His best-known song is ""Blue Suede Shoes"". According to Charlie Daniels, ""Carl Perkins' songs personified the rockabilly era, and Carl Perkins' sound personifies the rockabilly sound more"
"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"
"song in the fall of 1955, while Perkins, Cash, Elvis Presley and other ""Louisiana Hayride"" acts toured throughout the South. Cash told Perkins of a black airman, C. V. White, whom he had met when serving in the military in Germany, who had referred to his military regulation airmen's shoes as ""blue suede shoes"". Cash suggested that Perkins write a song about the shoes. Perkins replied, ""I don't know anything about shoes. How can I write a song about shoes?"" When Perkins played a dance on December 4, 1955, he noticed a couple dancing near the stage. Between songs, he"
"Blue Suede Shoes (film) Blue Suede Shoes is a 1980 music documentary film by Curtis Clark that combines archival film of early American rock 'n' roll pioneers of the 1950s (with footage of Bill Haley's 1957 British tour, a Eddie Cochran television appearance and late 1960s concert footage of Gene Vincent) and British singers Cliff Richard and Tommy Steele with material recorded at a 1979 rock 'n' roll revival weekender featuring bands and people following the scene (including Teddy Boys, motorcycle greasers and rockabilly adherents. The documentary includes archive material from the 1950s plus later concert footage from Gene Vincent"
"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"
"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"
"than 500,000 copies by March 22. Now, while Perkins recuperated from his injuries, ""Blue Suede Shoes"" reached number 1 on regional pop, R&B, and country charts. It also reached number 2 on the Billboard pop and country charts. Elvis Presley's ""Heartbreak Hotel"" was number one on the pop and country charts at that time, but ""Blue Suede Shoes"" did better than ""Heartbreak"" on the R&B charts. By mid-April, more than one million copies of ""Blue Suede Shoes"" had been sold. On April 3, while still recuperating in Jackson, Perkins watched Presley perform ""Blue Suede Shoes"" on his first appearance on"
"""Honey Don't"". The group included Perkins (lead guitar and vocalist), Jay Perkins (rhythm guitar), Clayton Perkins (bass guitar) and W.S. Holland (drums). Coincidentally, Elvis Presley performed the song that same Saturday night on CBS-TV's ""Stage Show"", which overlapped the ""Jubilee"" from 8–8:30 p.m. ET (Presley first performed the song February 11 on ""Stage Show""). An automobile accident en route to New York prevented the group from next appearing on ""The Perry Como Show"" on March 24. Perkins returned to the ""Jubilee"" on February 2, 1957 to again sing ""Blue Suede Shoes"" and his then-current hit, ""Matchbox"". Both Perkins and Presley"
"a RCA in November, and on December 19, 1955, Phillips, who had begun recording Perkins in late 1954, told Perkins, ""Carl Perkins, you're my rockabilly cat now."" Released on January 1, 1956, ""Blue Suede Shoes"" was a massive chart success. In the United States, it reached number 1 on ""Billboard"" magazine's country music chart (the only number 1 success he would have) and number 2 on the ""Billboard"" Best Sellers popular music chart. On March 17, Perkins became the first country artist to reach number 3 on the rhythm and blues charts. That night, Perkins performed the song on ABC-TV's"
"Jonathan Rhys Meyers) performs the song at the Chicago International Auditorium in his famous gold lamé suit. ""Blue Suede Shoes"" is the opening number of the Broadway musical ""Million Dollar Quartet"", which opened in New York in April 2010. A similar version of the song, with different lyrics, is performed by Susan Cabot twice in the movie ""Carnival Rock"" (1957) (at approx. 0:30 and 1:03) under the name ""Ou-Shoo-Bla-D"". ""This Morning"" presenter Matt Johnson performed the song as part of a medley, performed as Elvis Presley on week 3 of the ITV show ""Your Face Sounds Familiar"". A recording of"
"The Blue Moon Boys The Blue Moon Boys were a band formed by Elvis Presley, guitarist Scotty Moore and bassist Bill Black. The group members were introduced by Sun Studio owner Sam Phillips in 1954, except for D.J. Fontana, who joined the group during a Louisiana Hayride tour in 1955. On July 18, 1953, Elvis Presley recorded a single in the studio as a gift for his mother's birthday, the Ink Spots' ""My Happiness"", with ""That's When Your Heartaches Begin"" on the flipside. Presley's recording was managed by Phillips' secretary, Marion Keisker, who also kept a demo recording for the"
"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"
"record was a two-sided hit, as the flip side, ""Again"", also charted. ""Blue Moons first crossover recording to rock and roll came from Elvis Presley in 1954, produced by Sam Phillips. His cover version of the song was included on his 1956 debut album ""Elvis Presley"", issued on RCA Records. Presley's remake of ""Blue Moon"" was coupled with ""Just Because"" as a single in August 1956. ""Blue Moon"" spent seventeen weeks on the ""Billboard"" Top 100, although it reached only . In Jim Jarmusch's 1989 film ""Mystery Train"", the three distinct stories that make up the narrative are linked by"
"Blue Christmas (song) ""Blue Christmas"" is a Christmas song written by Billy Hayes and Jay W. Johnson and most famously performed by Elvis Presley. It is a tale of unrequited love during the holidays and is a longstanding staple of Christmas music, especially in the country genre. The song was first recorded by Doye O'Dell in 1948, and was popularized the following year in three separate recordings: one by country artist Ernest Tubb, one by musical conductor and arranger Hugo Winterhalter and his orchestra and chorus, and one by bandleader Russ Morgan and his orchestra (the latter featuring lead vocals"
"(RCA Victor EPB 1254). RCA Victor released the Presley version as a single on September 8, one of a number of singles RCA issued simultaneously, all culled from the album ""Elvis Presley"". This single reached number 20, whereas Perkins' version had topped the chart. In 1960, Presley re-recorded ""Blue Suede Shoes"" for the soundtrack of the film ""G.I. Blues"". While Presley's character and his band, the ""Three Blazes"", play a ballad at a Frankfurt nightclub (""Doin' the Best I Can"", by Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman), a bored GI plays Presley's version of ""Blue Suede Shoes"" on the jukebox, remarking"
"Moody Blue (song) ""Moody Blue"" is a song made famous by Elvis Presley. The song was written by Mark James who recorded the original version of the song, which reached #15 in South Africa during the summer of 1976. James also penned Elvis' ""Suspicious Minds"". ""Moody Blue"" was Presley's last No. 1 hit in his lifetime, topping the ""Billboard magazine"" Hot Country Singles chart in February 1977. ""Moody Blue"" also peaked at number thirty-one on the Hot 100. RCA Records also issued an extremely limited quantity of the ""Moody Blue"" single in an experimental translucent blue vinyl pressing, with ""She"
"George Klein (DJ) George ""GK"" Klein (born October 8, 1935, in Memphis, Tennessee, United States) is an American disc jockey and television host. He met Elvis Presley in the eighth grade at Humes High School in North Memphis, where they became lifelong friends until Presley's death in 1977. He has an unpublished recording of Elvis Presley and Carl Perkins singing ""Blue Suede Shoes"". Klein can be heard weekly on SiriusXM channel 19 Elvis Radio, and on the ""George Klein Original Elvis Hour"" on WLFP FM. He has also written two books. The first, ""Elvis Presley: A Family Album"", was published"
"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"
"American release of ""Tonight's All Right for Love"" did not occur until it appeared on the compilation album """" in 1974. The version of ""Blue Suede Shoes"" used on the soundtrack is a new recording of the song Presley first recorded in 1956, and is one of only a few songs that Presley would re-record in a studio setting during his career, others being ""Love Letters"", ""It Hurts Me"" and ""A Little Less Conversation"". The ""G.I. Blues"" soundtrack album was nominated for two Grammy Awards in 1960 in the categories Best Sound Track Album Or Recording Of Original Cast From"
"""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"
"song. Instead, it was diverted into being the opening track on the album. On August 31, 1956, RCA Victor took the unusual step of releasing the entire album as singles, which undoubtedly kept the new single released simultaneously, ""Shake, Rattle and Roll"" backed with ""Lawdy Miss Clawdy,"" from reaching the charts. However, ""Blue Suede Shoes"", released in single form as a part of this experiment by RCA Victor, kept the promise to Phillips and Perkins by waiting over eight months since the song's release on Sun, and made it to number 20 on the singles chart. The cover is ranked"
"and 1947 soon became classics of the genre, including ""Toy Heart"", ""Blue Grass Breakdown"", ""Molly and Tenbrooks"", ""Wicked Path of Sin"", ""My Rose of Old Kentucky"", ""Little Cabin Home on the Hill"", and Monroe's most famous song ""Blue Moon of Kentucky"". The last-named was recorded by Elvis Presley in 1954, appearing as the B-side of his first single for Sun Records. Monroe gave his blessing to Presley's rock-and-roll cover of the song, originally a slow ballad in waltz time, and in fact re-recorded it himself with a faster arrangement after Presley's version became a hit. Several gospel-themed numbers are credited"
"version of ""Blue Suede Shoes"". In 1959, Bennett left King Records and commenced a subsequent brief recording career with Mercury. Noting that he was drifting away from a teenage audience, he left the music industry and built up his business interests, which included owning nightclubs and an air-conditioning parts manufacturer. In the 1970s and 1980s, Bennett had health issues with both lymphoma and pulmonary fibrosis. He retired in Dallas, although he made infrequent concert appearances, often with Ray Price. He also recorded for Dallas-based Christian record label Rainbow, including the 1980s album ""Step Into The Sunshine"". Bennett died of a"
"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"
"Blue Eyes Blue ""Blue Eyes Blue"" is a pop song written by American songwriter Diane Warren. The tune was written for the 1999 soundtrack of ""Runaway Bride"". The British rock musician Eric Clapton recorded the song for the soundtrack and released his performance of the song as a single on July 20, 1999 for Reprise Records. The pop track was written by Diane Warren, especially for the 1999 romantic comedy film ""Runaway Bride"", starring Julia Roberts and Richard Gere. The song was published under Realsongs, a division of American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers organization. Clapton recorded the song"
"1997 RCA reissue added six tracks, with ""Blue Suede Shoes"" an unusual release in that it was issued simultaneously in conjunction with every track from Elvis' debut LP ""Elvis Presley"" in singles form, more than five months after the release of the album on March 23. Two more charting B-sides, ""I Was the One"" and ""My Baby Left Me"", and three Sun Records tracks rounded out the compact disc. RCA Victor had purchased the rights to reissue Sun material when buying Elvis' contract from Sam Phillips in 1955, using Sun recordings to fill out album tracks throughout the decade. ""Chart"
"in his career and appears on his 1977 album ""Moody Blue"", the last album released before Presley's death in 1977. David Allan Coe also recorded a cover of the song. In 1983, Emmylou Harris released a version of this song on her album ""White Shoes"", released as a single, it reached #9 on the country charts. In 1986, Aaron Neville released a version of this song on his Orchids In The Storm EP. In 1993, Solomon Burke released a version of this song on his album, ""Soul Of the Blues"". In 1994, blues singer Little Milton covered this song on"
"estimated $60,000 in back royalties, but never materialized. Crudup had used lines in his song that had been present in earlier blues recordings, including Blind Lemon Jefferson's 1926 song ""That Black Snake Moan"". A country music version by Marty Robbins peaked at number seven on the ""Billboard"" Hot Country Singles chart in 1955. During an uneventful recording session at Sun Studios on the evening of July 5, 1954, Presley (acoustic rhythm guitar), Scotty Moore (lead guitar) and Bill Black (string bass) were taking a break between recordings when Presley started fooling around with an up-tempo version of Arthur Crudup's song"