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Blue Suede Shoes" was the first million-selling country song to cross over to both the rhythm and blues and pop charts. [24] He became the first Sun Records performer to reach this milestone. Sam Phillips retained the rights to "Blue Suede Shoes", although it was represented by the New York house of Hill & Range as part of the agreement when ...
During 1985, Perkins re-recorded Blue Suede Shoes with Lee Rocker and Slim Jim Phantom of the Stray Cats as part of the soundtrack for the film Porky's Revenge. In October 1985, Perkins performed on stage in London for a television special, Blue Suede Shoes: A Rockabilly Session , with George Harrison , Eric Clapton , Dave Edmunds , Lee Rocker ...
Lee Rocker (born Leon Drucker, August 3, 1961) [1] is an American musician. He is a member of the rockabilly revival band Stray Cats.. He is the son of the classical clarinetists Stanley Drucker, the late former principal clarinetist of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, and Naomi Drucker. [2]
Jimmie Rodgers, the "first true country star", was known as the "Blue Yodeler", and most of his songs used blues-based chord progressions, although with very different instrumentation and sound from the recordings of his black contemporaries like Blind Lemon Jefferson and Bessie Smith. [9] During the 1930s and 1940s, two new sounds emerged.
Since 1983, they have used only "Stray Cats" as their name. The band name "Stray Cats" had appeared in the 1973 rock 'n' roll film That'll Be the Day and its 1974 sequel Stardust. They also went to many concerts and enjoyed the punk scene. They met the Clash and they used to see Siouxsie and the Banshees, Charlie Harper and the UK Subs. [5]
"Honey Don't" is a song written by Carl Perkins, originally released on January 1, 1956 [2] as the B-side of the "Blue Suede Shoes" [1] single, Sun 234. Both songs became rockabilly classics. Bill Dahl of Allmusic praised the song saying, " 'Honey Don't' actually outclasses its more celebrated platter-mate in some ways."
The King’s very own blue suede shoes have sold for the princely sum of £120,000 (around $152,000) at a British auction house. Elvis Presley’s actual blue suede shoes sell for $150,000 in ...
Brian Robert Setzer (born April 10, 1959) is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He found widespread success in the early 1980s with the 1950s-style rockabilly group Stray Cats, and returned to the music scene in the early 1990s with his swing revival band, the Brian Setzer Orchestra.