Carl Perkins- Dance Album Original 1957 Sun Label GD
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You are bidding on a great original copy of Carl Perkins' "The Dance Album of Carl Perkins" on the famous Sun label, 1957, LP1225, Mono, 12 tracks.
This is an absolute classic from Carl Perkins one of the founding artists, along with Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash among others, of Sun Records. Sun was the Memphis recording company of Sam Phillips who was a record producer who played an important role in the emergence of rock and roll as the major form of popular music in the 1950s. He is most notably attributed with the discovery of Elvis Presley, and is associated with several other noteworthy rhythm and blues and rock and roll stars of the period.
This Lp, which by a glance at the titles, was probably owned by one of the Beatles, includes: Blue Suede Shoes/Movie Magg/Sure To Fall/Gone Gone Gone/Honey Don't/Only You//Tennessee/Wrong Yo Yo/Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby/Matchbox/Your True Love/Boppin' The Blues
Carl Lee Perkins (April 9, 1932 – January 19, 1998) was an American pioneer of rockabilly music, a mix of rhythm and blues and country music that evolved at Sun Records in Memphis in the early 1950s.
In late 1955, a desperately poor and struggling Perkins wrote the song "Blue Suede Shoes" on an old potato sack. Produced by Sam Phillips, the record was a massive chart success. In the United States, it went to #1 on Billboard magazine's country music charts (the only #1 hit he would have), to #2 on Billboard's Best Sellers pop music chart, and to #3 on the rhythm & blues charts. In the United Kingdom, it became a Top 10 hit. It was the first record by a Sun label artist to sell a million copies. However, at the peak of the song's national success, Perkins was involved in a near-fatal car accident. Perkins could only watch as his friend, Elvis Presley, also had success with a cover version of "Blue Suede Shoes", which was a follow up to Elvis' first hit, "Heartbreak Hotel". Ironically, Elvis only managed to take the cover version to #20 on the Best Sellers chart.
Intentionally or not, the Elvis cover stole Perkins' thunder, and he never had another Top 40 hit, even after his move to Columbia Records in 1958. However, his songs were kept in the public eye by such groups as The Beatles, who covered "Matchbox", "Honey Don't", and "Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby". In 1968, Johnny Cash took the Perkins-written "Daddy Sang Bass" to #1 on the country music charts. "Daddy Sang Bass" was also a Country Music Association nominee for Song of the Year. Perkins would spend a decade in Cash's touring band. One of his TV appearances with Cash was on the popular country series "Hee Haw" in an episode aired February 16, 1974.
In 1982, Perkins made a guest appearance on Paul McCartney's chart-topping album Tug Of War, duetting with the former Beatle on the song "Get It". In 2004, Rolling Stone Magazine ranked him #69 on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time
Cover: Fair over all. Some ring wear, splitting with an old tape repair on the top, name in marker on back.
Record: Fair over all, visible scratches, clean label but has plastic (?) near the hole to protect it, handsome original yellow Sun label.
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