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... can touch Presley's first micro- phone and more. "Experience the stories that put legends like Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis and more on the map, and see why artists like U2, Tom Petty and Maroon Five continue to flock here today," its ... Comment?
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Nelson brothers keep dad's musical legacy alive
... 1950s, Nelson turned his attention to the rock 'n' roll scene. He aligned himself with the rockabilly music of Carl Perkins and Elvis Presley. He worked with guitarists James Burton and Joe Maphis, and he sang songs written by Johnny and Dorsey ... Comment?
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While we were passing we thought we'd drop in on Elvis
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... was worth the price of the flights. Sam Phillips' famous Sun Record studio, where Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and Roy Orbison recorded, was a fascinating visit, redolent with the 1950's, yet still functioning as a studio. The balcony ... Comment?
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Million Dollar Quartet -- extended through March
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... of the play: On December 4, 1956, an auspicious twist of fate brought together Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and Elvis Presley. The place was Sun Records' storefront studio in Memphis. The man who made it happen was the "Father of ... Comment?
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Ticket sales begin for 'Million Dollar Quartet' to open on Broadway in April
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Tickets went on sale today for Broadway's " Million Dollar Quartet ", an original musical about the December 4, 1956 jam session of Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Carl Perkins, the producers* announced. Comment?
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... to the Bamboo, a pub on First Street S.W. where he spins records (the old fashioned kind) by the likes of Carl Perkins and Bill Haley. For people like him, it's a weekly refuge away from the driving beats of club music and soulless radio rock. It's ... Comment?
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Blue Suede Shoes - Carl Perkins
While some ill-informed revisionist writers of rock history would like to dismiss Carl Perkins as a rockabilly artist who became a one-hit wonder at the dawn of rock & roll's early years, a deeper look at his music and career reveals much more. Comment?
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Music preview: A blast from the past: Brenda Lee plays Gold Country Casino in Oroville
... year, Elvis Presley made his breakthrough onto the national stage, Johnny Cash recorded "I Walk the Line," and Carl Perkins recorded his hit song, "Blue Suede Shoes," which Elvis would later cover. George W. Bush, the 43rd president of the United ... Comment?
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The Onion AV Club: 50 best records of the decade, Part 1
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... best storytelling this side of a Ghostface Killah record, and nearly as many dead bodies. Some are famous, like Carl Perkins, John Wayne, and Sheriff Buford Pusser, who gets a memorably underhanded tribute (from a hard-working mob guy) on Patterson ... Comment?
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'Million Dollar Quartet' one year old -- and still rock solid
Who knows what really happened on that legendary December afternoon in 1956 when Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins and Elvis Presley all happened to show up at producer Sam Phillips' Sun Studios in Memphis, Tennessee? Sure, we have the iconic photo that shows the four guys grouped around a piano. Comment?
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Million Dollar Quartet Will Be New Tenant of Broadway's Nederlander Theatre
Million Dollar Quartet , the new musical about a momentous Sun Records recording session with Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and Elvis Presley, will begin previews on Broadway at the Nederlander Theatre on March 13, 2010. Comment?
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New musical about Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins opens on Broadway in April
Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash in their famed 1956 jam session. Comment?
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Where can you hear Johnny Burnette, Carl Perkins and Gene Vincent all on one nightclub bill? Why, in music heaven of course! Well, you don't actually want to go there until you hear your final exit music. Comment?
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Hold on to that dream' says Cumbrian man who landed 800,000 book deal
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... me. I always enjoyed creative subjects like English and art. When I was nine I heard Blue Suede Shoes by Carl Perkins and it struck a chord with me. I got totally engrossed in rock 'n' roll and when I was about 13 started dressing like a rockabilly. ... Comment?
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Feel a Whole Lot Better: For His Birthday, Five Great Non-Petty Tom Petty Songs
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... City as a junkie's paradise with a "copper-colored sky" could have come straight out of Houston. It's Worth It. Carl Perkins, "Give Me Back My Job" ( Go Cat Go , 1996): Recorded for the late "Blue Suede Shoes" rockabilly maestro's comeback album, ... Comment?
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... Everything is completely done by the Excel Club, and the money raised from winter formal is donated to the Carl Perkins Center. In 2008, the Excel Club donated $1500 to the center. Excel Club has done charity work for unfortunate children. The ... Comment?
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Key music figure resurrected Sun Records
... of the label and its legacy, including the early rockabilly hits of Elvis Presley ( That's All Right ), Carl Perkins ( Blue Suede Shoes ) and Johnny Cash (I'll Walk the Line ). Singleton was born in Waskom, near the Texas-Louisiana border, and after ... Comment?
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Elizabeth Hurley, Mariah Carey, Chace Crawford, Elvis Presley memorabilia
... A copy of Sixteen Magazine with a photo of "The Million Dollar Quartet" showing performers Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash, and signed by Perkins and Cash, is part of The Gary Pepper Collection of Elvis Presley ... Comment?
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A tune on the spoons? George is your man
... Shoes! Within seconds I'm lost and struggling to keep harmony with George's frankly idiosyncratic take on the Carl Perkins classic. Who cares though, when you get to share the stage with such a maestro? With blurry speed he caresses the spoons ... Comment?
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Jackson's Pat Alford makes Top 10 in Ms. Senior America Pageant
... a five-minute personal interview. One judge asked her what artist in Tennessee was her favorite. "I said it was Carl Perkins who lived in Jackson and wrote 'Blue Suede Shoes,' that Elvis Presley made famous." A second judge asked: "What advice would ... Comment?
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