Blue
Suede Shoes
Well, it’s one for the Money,
Two for the Show,
Three to get ready,
Now go, Cat, go.
But don’t you step on my
Blue Suede Shoes
Ah, you can do anything
But lay off of my
Blue Suede Shoes
Well, you knock me down,
Step in my Face,
Slander my Name
All over the Place.
Do anything
That you wanna do,
But uh-uh,
Honey, lay off of my Shoes
And don’t you step on my
Blue Suede Shoes
Ah, you can do anything
But lay off of my
Blue Suede Shoes
Let's Go
(
Instrumental )
You can burn my House,
Steal my Car,
Drink my Liquor
From an old Fruit-Jar.
Do anything
That you wanna do,
But uh-uh,
Honey, lay off of my Shoes
And don’t you step on my
Blue Suede Shoes
Well, you can do anything
But lay off of my
Blue Suede Shoes
Rock it
( Instrumental )
Yeah Baby
One for the Money,
Two for the Show,
Three to get ready,
Now go, go, go.
But don’t you step on my
Blue Suede Shoes
Ah, you can do anything
But lay off of my
Blue Suede Shoes
Well it's blue, blue
Blue Suede Shoes
Blue, blue
Blue Suede Shoes, Yeah
Blue, blue
Blue Suede Shoes, Baby
Blue, blue
Blue Suede Shoes
Ah you can do anything
But lay off of my
Blue Suede Shoes
( Words & Music By Carl Perkins )
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Carl Perkins
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With his smash 1956 hit classic "Blue Suede Shoes,"
Carl Perkins virtually defined and established
rockabilly music in the rock and roll cannon and
launched Sun Records into national prominence. Carl
Perkins is regarded by many as one of the founding
fathers of rock-and-roll. Although he placed only one
record in the pop top forty "Blue Suede Shoes," it
became a legendary one in the annals of rock-and-roll
and propelled Perkins, one of the original rockabilly
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Carl signed a recording
contract with Flip Records, a subsidiary of Sun in
Memphis, on January 25, 1955. His first release was
Movie Magg, written when he was fourteen, that sold
slowly. However, it allowed him to get bookings where
he opened for Elvis. Phillips felt that he could make
a rockabilly star out of Perkins with the right song.
According to Perkins, after a show in Parkin, Arkansas
when he was touring with Elvis Presley and Johnny
Cash, he wrote down the words of someone on the dance
floor warning his date to stay away from his new blue
suede shoes. "Blue Suede Shoes" was recorded December,
1955, and released January 1, 1956 on the Sun label.
At first "Blue Suede Shoes" sold
slowly. Early in 1956 Perkins began making regular
appearances on "Big D Jamboree" on radio station in
Dallas where he played the song every Saturday night.
Slowly it began to catch on - first in the country
market, then with teenagers and finally with rhythm
and blues fans.
:Blue Suede Shoes" song put 23-year old Carl Perkins
in the national spotlight. Appearances were arranged
for the Ed Sullivan and Perry Como TV shows, but while
traveling to New York for those engagements he was
involved in a terrible automobile accident. The
driver, Dave Stewart fell asleep at the wheel and the
car ran into a pick-up truck near Dover, Delaware.
Stewart was killed, Carl suffered a fractured skull
and broken arm. His brother Jay's neck was broken from
which he would never recover. Eventually Elvis
Presley, covered Blue Suede Shoes, which became Elvis'
third top forty hit. These events served to steal some
of the (his) thunder and Perkins never quite recovered
his momentum in the world of pop, although his place
in music history was assured. |
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