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Songs Written by Carl Perkins: Blue Suede Shoes, Matchbox, Honey Don't, Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby, So Wrong, Movie Magg, Sure to Fall

Songs Written by Carl Perkins: Blue Suede Shoes, Matchbox, Honey Don't, Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby, So Wrong, Movie Magg, Sure to Fall


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Commentary (music and lyrics not included). Chapters: Blue Suede Shoes, Matchbox, Honey Don't, Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby, So Wrong, Movie Magg, Sure to Fall, Let the Jukebox Keep on Playing. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 40. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: "Blue Suede Shoes" is a rock and roll standard written and first recorded by Carl Perkins in 1955. The 12-bar blues is considered one of the first rockabilly (rock and roll) records and incorporated elements of blues, country and pop music of the time. Blue suede shoes similar to those that inspired the songJohnny Cash planted the seed for the 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 whom he had met when serving in the military in Germany. He had referred to his military regulation air shoes as "blue suede shoes." Cash suggested that Carl write a song about the shoes. Carl 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. The girl was gorgeous, he thought, and the boy wore blue suede shoes. As they danced the boy cautioned his date "don't step on my suedes." Perkins was bewildered that a guy would value shoes over a beautiful girl. Perkins began working on a song based on that incident. His first thought was to frame it with a nursery rhyme. He considered, and quickly discarded "Little Jack Horner..." and "See a spider going up the wall...." Then settled on "One for the money..." Leaving 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, ...http: //booksllc.net/?id=89841


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  • ISBN-13: 9781156322888
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 152 mm
  • Sub Title: Blue Suede Shoes, Matchbox, Honey Don't, Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby, So Wrong, Movie Magg, Sure to Fall
  • Width: 229 mm
  • ISBN-10: 115632288X
  • Publisher Date: 25 Oct 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Weight: 77 gr


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