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The Classic

Carl Perkins - The Classic Audio CD

A fair review of the Carl Perkins "The Classic" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Carl Perkins reviews here, or go back to the Carl Perkins tabs.

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 - Bill Cantrell, 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 [Take 1] 16: Blue Suede Shoes [Take 2] 17: Blue Suede Shoes [Take 3] 18: Honey Don't [Take 1] 19: Honey Don't [Take 2] 20: Honey Don't [Take 3] 21: Tennessee 22: Sure to Fall 23: All Mama's Children 24: Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby 25: Boppin' the Blues 26: Put Your Cat Clothes On 27: Boppin' the Blues 28: Only You 29: You Can't Make Love to Somebody 30: Right String Baby, Wrong Yo-Yo 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 [False Start] 38: Dixie Fried 39: I'm Sorry I'm Not Sorry 40: That Don't Move Me 41: Lonely Street 42: Drink up and Go Home 43: Pink Pedal Pushers 44: Way You're Living Is Breaking My Heart 45: Take Back My Love 46: Somebody Tell Me 47: Instrumental, No. 1 48: Instrumental, No. 2 49: Red Wing 50: Down by the Riverside 51: Her Love Rubbed Off 52: Caldonia 53: You Can Do No Wrong 54: I'm Sorry I'm Not Sorry 55: That Don't Move Me 56: Lonely Street 57: Your True Love [Original Tempo] 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 64: Roll Over Beethoven 65: Try My Heart Out 66: That's Right 67: Forever Yours 68: That's Right 69: Y.O.U. [With Narration] 70: I Care 71: Y.O.U. [With Narration] 72: Pink Pedal Pushers 73: Pink Pedal Pushers 74: Lend Me Your Comb 75: Look at That Moon 76: Lend Me Your Comb 77: Look at That Moon 78: Glad All Over 79: Tutti Frutti 80: Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On 81: That's All Right 82: Where the Rio de Rosa Flows 83: Shake, Rattle & Roll 84: Long Tall Sally 85: I Got a Woman 86: Hey, Good Lookin' 87: Sitting on Top of the World 88: Good Rockin' Tonight 89: Jive After Five 90: Rockin' Record Hop 91: Pink Pedal Pushers 92: Just Thought I'd Call 93: Ready Teddy 94: Jenny, Jenny 95: You Were There 96: Because You're Mine 97: Pop, Let Me Have the Car 98: Levi Jacket (And a Long Tail Shirt) 99: When the Moon Comes over the Mountain 100: Sister Twister 101: Hambone 102: This Life I Live 103: Please Say You'll Be Mine 104: Honey 'Cause I Love You 105: Y.O.U. 106: I Don't See Me in Your Eyes Anymore 107: Highway of Love 108: Pointed Toe Shoes 109: One Ticket to Loneliness 110: Drifter 111: Too Much for a Man to Understand 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: Love I'll Never Win 118: Let My Baby Be 119: Monkey Shine 120: Mama of My Song 121: One of These Days 122: I Wouldn't Have You 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 128: Fool I Used to Be 129: Forget Me (Next Time Around) 130: Hollywood City 131: I've Just Got Back from There 132: To Much for a Man to Understand 133: Turn Around 134: Unhappy Girls 135: Someday, Somewhere Someone Waits for Me 136: Any Way the Wind Blows

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. . . .

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