Carl Lee Perkins (April 9, 1932 – January 19, 1998) was an American pioneer of rockabilly music who recorded most notably at Sun Records Studio in Memphis, Tennessee beginning in 1954. An outstanding performer, his contribution to rock and roll music is still heard to this day, especially through his fine compositions and guitar playing. 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' songs were recorded by artists (and friends) as influential as Elvis Presley, The Beatles, and Johnny Cash, which further cemented his place in the history of popular music. Called the King of Rockabilly, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll, the Rockabilly, and the Nashville Songwriters Halls of Fame; and was a Grammy Hall of Fame Award recipient.
01- Blue Suede Shoes 02- Honey Don't 03- Boppin' the Blues 04- Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby 05- Movie Magg 06- Sure to Fall 07- All Mama's Children 08- Perkin's Wiggle 09- Put Your Cat Clothes On 10- Matchbox 11- Your True Love 12- Lend Me Your Comb 13- Dixie Fried 14- You Can Do No Wrong 15- Glad All Over 16- Gone, Gone, Gone
Elvis at Sun is a compilation of Elvis Presley's studio recordings at Sun Studio from 1953 to 1955. This set features master recordings made by Presley and his accompanists, Scotty Moore (guitar) and Bill Black (bass), occasionally augmented by other musicians (Jimmie Lott – drums on track 8; Johnny Bernero – drums on tracks 9, 18, 19), prior to his arrival on RCA Records in 1956. Unfortunately tapes for at least two songs have been lost forever, those are Sun versions of "I Got A Woman" (which would be recorded for Presley during his first RCA session) and "Satisfied". All of these studio recordings were produced by Sam Phillips, the owner of Sun Studio in Memphis, Tennessee. Memphis is a melting pot of many types of music: both black music (blues, rhythm & blues, gospel) and white music (country & western, hillbilly), the recordings reflect these influences. Phillips released Presley's recording contract to RCA in 1955 for the substantial sum of $35,000. This also gave RCA the rights to all of Presley's masters recorded at Sun. These legendary recordings include "That's All Right (Mama)," one of candidates for being "the first rock and roll record." Elvis' entire period at Sun is one of the seminal events in the birth of rock and roll, specifically also the beginning of the sub-genre known as rockabilly. Two tracks from the Presley's Sun sessions were included in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll: "Mystery Train," and "That's All Right." In 2002, given their importance in the development of American popular music, The Sun Sessions tapes were chosen, by the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress, to be kept as a bequeathal to posterity.
01- Harbor Lights 02- I Love You Because 03- That's All Right 04- Blue Moon Of Kentucky 05- Blue Moon 06- Tomorrow Night 07- I'll Never Let You Go [Little Darlin'] 08- Just Because 09- Good Rockin' Tonight 10- I Don't Care If The Sun Don't Shine 11- Milkcow Blues Boogie 12- You're A Heartbreaker 13- I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone (slow version) 14- I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone 15- Baby, Let's Play House 16- I Forgot To Remember To Forget 17- Mystery Train 18- Trying To Get To You 19- When It Rains, It Really Pours
Bonus tracks:
20- Harbor Lights (alternate version - take 3) 21- I Love You Because (alternate version) 22- Blue Moon of Kentucky (alternate take - country version) 23- Blue Moon (take 1) 24- Reconsider Baby (The Million Dollar Quartet session)
