Audio CD review:
Carl Perkins - The Classic

Carl Perkins - The Classic

Band: Carl Perkins Title: The Classic Rating: Release Date: 1994-06-27 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Honky Tonk Babe 2: Honk Tonk Gal 3: Movie Magg 4: Movie Magg 5: Turn Around 6: Dialogue - Carl Perkins, 7: Turn Around 8: Let the Jukebox Keep on Playing 9: What You Doin' When You're Crying 10: Let the Jukebox Keep on Playing 11: You Can't Make Love to Somebody 12: Gone, Gone, Gone 13: Gone, Gone, Gone 14: Dixie Bop/Perkins Wiggle 15: Blue Suede Shoes 16: Blue Suede Shoes 17: Blue Suede Shoes 18: Honey Don't 19: Honey Don't 20: Honey Don't 21: Tennessee 22: Sure to Fall 23: All Mama's Children 24: Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby 25: Boppin' the Blues - Carl Perkins, Griffin, Howard 26: Put Your Cat Clothes On 27: Boppin' the Blues - Carl Perkins, Griffin, Howard 28: Only You - Carl Perkins, Ram, Buck 29: You Can't Make Love to Somebody 30: Right String Baby, Wrong Yo-Yo - Carl Perkins, Perryman, William 31: False Start/All Mama's Children 32: All Mama's Children 33: Dixie Fried 34: Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby 35: Put Your Cat Clothes On 36: Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby 37: Dixie Fried 38: Dixie Fried 39: I'm Sorry I'm Not Sorry - Carl Perkins, Ballman, Wanda 40: That Don't Move Me 41: Lonely Street - Carl Perkins, Belew, Carl 42: Drink up and Go Home - Carl Perkins, Hart, Freddie 43: Pink Pedal Pushers 44: The Way You're Living Is Breaking My Heart - Carl Perkins, Swan, Jimmy 45: Take Back My Love - Carl Perkins, 46: Somebody Tell Me 47: Instrumental, No. 1 48: Instrumental, No. 2 49: Red Wing - Carl Perkins, Traditional 50: Down by the Riverside - Carl Perkins, Traditional 51: Her Love Rubbed Off 52: Caldonia - Carl Perkins, Moore, Fleecie 53: You Can Do No Wrong 54: I'm Sorry I'm Not Sorry - Carl Perkins, Ballman, Wanda 55: That Don't Move Me 56: Lonely Street - Carl Perkins, Belew, Carl 57: Your True Love 58: Matchbox 59: Your True Love 60: Put Your Cat Clothes On 61: Matchbox 62: Put Your Cat Clothes On 63: Keeper of the Key - Carl Perkins, Howard, Harlan 64: Roll Over Beethoven - Carl Perkins, Berry, Chuck 65: Try My Heart Out - Carl Perkins, 66: That's Right 67: Forever Yours 68: That's Right 69: Y.O.U. - Carl Perkins, Bain, G. 70: I Care 71: Y.O.U. - Carl Perkins, Bain, G. 72: Pink Pedal Pushers 73: Pink Pedal Pushers 74: Lend Me Your Comb - Carl Perkins, Twomey, Kay 75: Look at That Moon 76: Lend Me Your Comb - Carl Perkins, Twomey, Kay 77: Look at That Moon 78: Glad All Over - Carl Perkins, Schroeder, Aaron 79: Tutti Frutti - Carl Perkins, Little Richard 80: Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On - Carl Perkins, Williams, D. 81: That's All Right - Carl Perkins, Crudup, Arthur "Big 82: Where the Rio de Rosa Flows - Carl Perkins, Logsdon, Jimmie 83: Shake, Rattle & Roll - Carl Perkins, Calhoun, Charles E. 84: Long Tall Sally - Carl Perkins, Johnson, Enotris 85: I Got a Woman - Carl Perkins, Charles, Ray [1] 86: Hey, Good Lookin' - Carl Perkins, Williams, Hank [1] 87: Sitting on Top of the World - Carl Perkins, Chatmon, Lonnie 88: Good Rockin' Tonight - Carl Perkins, Brown, Roy [1] 89: Jive After Five 90: Rockin' Record Hop 91: Pink Pedal Pushers 92: Just Thought I'd Call 93: Ready Teddy - Carl Perkins, Blackwell, Bumps 94: Jenny, Jenny - Carl Perkins, Johnson, Enotris 95: You Were There - Carl Perkins, Weinman, B. 96: Because You're Mine 97: Pop, Let Me Have the Car - Carl Perkins, Fontaine, Eddie 98: Levi Jacket (And a Long Tail Shirt) - Carl Perkins, Abram, D. 99: When the Moon Comes over the Mountain - Carl Perkins, Johnson, Howard [10 100: Sister Twister - Carl Perkins, Blackwell, Otis 101: Hambone 102: This Life I Live - Carl Perkins, Miller, J.D. 103: Please Say You'll Be Mine - Carl Perkins, 104: Honey 'Cause I Love You - Carl Perkins, Walker, Wayne 105: Y.O.U. - Carl Perkins, Bain, G. 106: I Don't See Me in Your Eyes Anymore - Carl Perkins, Benjamin, Bennie 107: Highway of Love - Carl Perkins, Gordon, H. 108: Pointed Toe Shoes 109: One Ticket to Loneliness - Carl Perkins, Wilkin, Marijohn 110: The Drifter - Carl Perkins, 111: Too Much for a Man to Understand - Carl Perkins, Wilkin, M. 112: L-O-V-E-V-I-L-L-E 113: Blue Suede Shoes 114: Big Bad Blues 115: Say When 116: Lonely Heart 117: A Love I'll Never Win 118: Let My Baby Be 119: Monkey Shine 120: Mama of My Song - Carl Perkins, Self, Ronnie 121: One of These Days 122: I Wouldn't Have You - Carl Perkins, Redd, Ramona 123: Help Me Find My Baby 124: After Sundown 125: For a Little While 126: Just for You 127: When the Right Time Comes Along - Carl Perkins, Killenm, B. 128: The Fool I Used to Be - Carl Perkins, Westbury, K. 129: Forget Me (Next Time Around) - Carl Perkins, Stanton, J. 130: Hollywood City - Carl Perkins, Blackwell, Otis 131: I've Just Got Back from There - Carl Perkins, Walker, Wayne 132: To Much for a Man to Understand - Carl Perkins, Wilkin, M. 133: Turn Around 134: The Unhappy Girls - Carl Perkins, Wilkin, Marijohn 135: Someday, Somewhere Someone Waits for Me 136: Any Way the Wind Blows - Carl Perkins, Walker, Wayne

Definitive Carl Perkins collection...well, almost If you can get excited about hearing three different versions of "Honey, don't" (and it's great to hear how Carl progressed towards the final cut), this is the collection for you. This a quite exhaustive collection of early Carl Perkins recordings made on Sun, Columbia and Decca during 1954-1964, including numerous alternative versions of well known hits. On the other hand, I personally was disappointed not to find my favorite version of "Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby" that I enjoyed listening to long time ago on an ancient bootleg LP. This collection offers three versions of this song: the master off the "Teen Beat" LP, and two alternative cuts, but NOT the one I was looking for: "I ain't good looking, I ain't smart, I guess they're after this poor boy's heart. . " - hilarious lyrics, and nearly perfect guitar work. Oh, well, can't have everything, I guess. Otherwise, nice artwork, great sound and 5 CD's with 20+ tracks of early Carl Perkins!!. Carl Freakin' Perkins! The only way to get them all in one purchase is to shell out for this set. What is there to say, really? Either you're hip to Carl or you ain't, and if you ain't, then this AIN'T the collection to start with, what with all of its alternate takes and somewhat lesser material, but if you ARE hip to Carl, then this is IT, children, and make no mistake! There is NO single-disc collection currently available that captures all of the essential Carl tracks. Then you can compile your own single-disc after reviewing the whole shebang. And it IS a sheBANG! Carl Perkins and his extremely able band made by far the best, most versatile, jumpinest, lightest-touch, swinginest, most joyous noise of the rockabilly era. No other white feller (Carl's notorious SUN-label-mates included) captured the pure exuberance and punch, the natural celebration of all the things that make life worth living (booze, chicks, dancing & parties, etc. ) as well as Carl. Carl Perkins LOVED his girl bein' "round and fat" and CELEBRATED it; Carl Perkins knew that it was OK to work all day as a soda jerk as long as you could JIVE AFTER FIVE; Carl Perkins knew that as long as you PUT YOUR "CAT CLOTHES" ON and get hip to that BEBOPPIN RHYTHM, you can forget your worries and PICK THE TOENAILS UP TOMORROW, because they'll be on the floor after a session with him! Carl Perkins was the greatest white artist of the Rockabilly era, bar none, and along with the Everly Brothers, represents the truest, most genuine expression of what happened when country (the only true white blues music) got JUMPED-UP! The Beatles venerated this cat for a reason, and it can be found on all five discs in this collection! NOTE--Since this is an import, I don't believe that Carl's family gets any moolah from sales. . . maybe you oughtta condiser donating to the charity Carl started, the Carl Perkins Center for the Prevention of Child Abuse. . . . You can see a complete list of all Carl Perkins discography, or go back to the Carl Perkins tabs