ORIGINAL CARL PERKINS ROCKABILLY 78 " MATCHBOX / YOUR TRUE LOVE " US SUN #261 E+

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AN ORIGINAL SUN ROCK-A-BILLY 78 FROM THE GREAT CARL PERKINS

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"MATCHBOX" b/w "YOUR TRUE LOVE"

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Close to half a century after he wrote the early rock classic "Blue Suede Shoes" the name Carl Perkins is hardly as world famous as that of Elvis (who made the song a hit) or other early rock pioneers. Yet his success as a songwriter has spanned generations, from hits for Johnny Cash and Patsy Cline to The Judds, and his influence as the quintessential rockabilly artist has inspired everyone from George Harrison to Brian Setzer. 

Born in Tiptonville, Tennessee, he was taught to play the guitar by a neighbor with whom he picked cotton. He began playing at the age of seven on a guitar made from a cigar box, a broomstick, and baling wire. Perkins was heavily influenced by country music and rhythm and blues and was one of the first musicians to play lead guitar and sing simultaneously. 

His parents were sharecroppers during the Depression, but poverty didn't prevent him from listening to the Grand Ole Opry on the radio, and he also listened to the blues being sung by a black sharecropper named John Westbrook across the field from where he worked. After World War II the Perkins family relocated to Bemis, Tennessee, where he and his brothers picked cotton. In 1953 Perkins, brothers Jay (rhythm guitar) and Clayton (upright bass), and drummer W.S. "Fluke" Holland formed a band that worked up a repertoire of hillbilly songs performing at local honky tonks. 

Perkins decided in 1954 to pursue a musical career, and that October the Perkins brothers travelled to Memphis to audition for Sam Phillips at Sun Records. In February 1955 Phillips issued two songs from that first Perkins session, on his new Flip label, to minimal response. That November, after Phillips sold Presley's Sun contract to RCA Records, Phillips decided to push the next Perkins single, an original called "Blue Suede Shoes". "Blue Suede Shoes" entered the US Billboard chart on 3 March 1956 (the same day Presley's first single entered the chart). Initiallly inspired by a remark Perkins overheard at a teen dance, his version of the song quickly became a huge hit and was also the first country record to appear on both the R&B chart and the pop chart. 

Perkins continued to record for Sun until mid-1958, but the label's newcomers, Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis, occupied most of  Phillips' attention. While still at Sun, Perkins recorded "Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby" and the classic "Matchbox", both of which were also covered by the Beatles.

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 singers, into his legendary status

Carl Perkins-Matchbox

Well I'm sitting here wondering, will a matchbox hold my clothes
Yeah I'm sitting here wondering, will a matchbox hold my clothes
I ain't got no matches, but I got a long way to go
I'm an ol' poor boy and a long way from home
I'm an ol' poor boy and a long way from home
Guess I'll never be happy, eveything I do is wrong, yeah

Well let me be your little dog, 'till your big dog comes
Let me be your little dog, 'till your big dog comes
When the big dog gets here, tell him what this little puppy done
Yeah I'm sitting here wondering, will a matchbox hold my clothes
Yeah I'm sitting here wondering, will a matchbox hold my clothes
I got no matches, got a long way to go
Let 'er go boy, go-go

RECORD DETAILS:- 

US SUN 261       10" 78 rpm  SHELLAC

MATCHBOX  /  YOUR TRUE LOVE

Condition =   EX+

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