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Carl Perkins
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.
Born in Tiptonville, Tennessee, the son of a poor tenant farmer, Carl Perkins grew up surrounded by southern gospel music sung by blacks working in the cotton fields. By age seven, he was playing a guitar his father made from a cigar box, broomstick and baling wire.
In 1956, a desperately poor and struggling Carl Perkins wrote the song "Blue Suede Shoes" on an old potato sack. Recorded by Sam Phillips, the record sold several million copies. At the peak of the song's national success he was involved in a near-fatal car accident. While recovering, rising star Elvis Presley released his own version of "Blue Suede Shoes." Presley's success helped keep Carl Perkins from achieving the kind of stardom he appeared to be headed for and he never fully regained his momentum in the world of pop music.
During a long career, Carl Perkins recorded numerous singles and albums plus wrote some of the top hit records in both rock 'n' roll and country music. His songs were covered by the Beatles, he collaborated on vocals with Paul McCartney, and played rhythm guitar on the McCartney-Stevie Wonder hit, "Ebony and Ivory".
During the "rock" revival of the 1980s, George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and Ringo Starr appeared with him in a television special in London, England called Carl Perkins and Friends: A Rockabilly Session.
At the Sun Studios in Memphis in 1986, he joined Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Roy Orbison on the album Class of '55. It was a tribute to their early years at Sun and in part a reprise of an informal jam session he, Presley, Cash, and Lewis had done on December 4, 1956.
In 1987, recognition of Perkins' contribution to music came when he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Carl Perkins is interred in the Ridgecrest Cemetery, Jackson, Tennessee.
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Embracing Judaism by Simcha Kling
Go, Cat, Go!: The Life and Times of Carl Perkins, the King of Rockabilly by Carl Perkins
Disciple in Blue Suede Shoes by Carl Perkins
Go, Cat, Go!: The Life and Times of Carl Perkins, the King of Rockabilly by Carl Perkins
Women and Economics a Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women As a Factor in Social Evolution by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Ava Guide to the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Act of 1990 by Carl D. Perkins
California State Plan for Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act Funds, 1994-1996 by California Dept of Education
Dynamics of Secondary Programs Assisted Under the Carl D. Perkins Act by James M. Weber
Best Of Carl Perkins by Hal Leonard Corporation
A Guide to Implementing the Carl Perkins Vocational Education Act by American Vocational Association
The implementation of the Carl D. Perkins Act (SuDoc ED 1.310/2:317660) by Lana D. Muraskin
Tech-prep programs issues in implementing the Carl Perkins Amendments of 1990 (SuDoc ED 1.310/2:328764) by W. Norton Grubb
Ava Guide to the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Act of 1990 by American Vocational Association
Profiles of success serving secondary special education students through the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act : 10 creative approaches (SuDoc ED 1 by John J. Gugerty
Carl D. Perkins Vocational-Technical Education Act Amendments : conference report to (accompany H.R. 1853) (S by U.S. Congressional Budget Office
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