carl perkins wrote don't step on my blue suede shoes.
carl perkins wrote don't step on my blue suede shoes.
who wrote don't step on my blue suede shoes?
carl perkins
sam philips had planned to surprise perkins with a gold record on "the perry como show". "blue suede shoes" had sold more than 500,000 copies by march 22. now, while perkins recuperated from his injuries, "blue suede shoes" reached number 1 on regional pop, r&b, and country charts. it also reached number 2 on the billboard pop and country charts. elvis presley's "heartbreak hotel" was number one on the pop and country charts at that time, but "blue suede shoes" did better than "heartbreak" on the r&b charts. by mid-april, more than one million copies of "blue suede shoes" had been sold.
carl perkins
it is also referred to ("maybe some blue suede shoes") in the lowest of the low's 1991 song "henry needs a new pair of shoes", about a homeless man.









































the song is referred to by marc cohn in "walking in memphis," which begins, "put on my blue suede shoes, and i boarded the plane."









































in 1971 kevin ayers recorded "stranger in blue suede shoes" which included the line (from the bartender) "we don't serve strangers in blue suede shoes".
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