Greenback Dollar, Watch and Chain

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Put Your Cat Clothes On (Remastered 2022)

Listen to Put Your Cat Clothes On (Remastered 2022) by Carl Perkins #np on #SoundCloud

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Her, by Ray Herrera

12 track album

Ray Herrera
My Soul Needs Resting: Great Gospel Blues, by Brother James Anderson

15 track album

Brother James Anderson

#ThursdayFiveList
#TheShortestSongs

50's r'n'b & r'n'r in less than 2 minutes !

1/ Ruth Brown - This Little Girl's Gone Rockin' (1:50, 1958) : https://soundcloud.com/ruthbrownmusic/this-little-girls-435389642

"Well-a, well-a, well-a, well-a
I washed all the dishes and I did a lot more
I even bought the dinner at the grocery store
Now, Mom, you'll find the 🗝️ next door
Cause this little girl's gone rocking"

2/ Rosco Gordon - Decorate The Counter (1:49, 1952) : https://soundcloud.com/rosco-gordon/decorate-the-counter-3

"Decorate the counter! Put that 💵 down!"

3/ Bobby And Terry Caraway - Ballin' Keen (1:54, 1959) : https://song.link/fr/i/545186575

"He likes to rock and he likes to roll
He's got rockin′ in his soul"

4/ Ronnie Self - Petrified (1:44, 1958) : https://soundcloud.com/ronnieself69370/petrified?in=ronnieself69370/sets/my-best-self-2

"You can talk about the Yellowstone National Park
Talk about the 🌲 turning into 🪨
When my baby gives me lovin', it shakes me inside
And I'm here to tell the world that I'm petrified"

5/ The Phantom - Love Me (1:33, 1958) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zgsIdMa8qA

"You set my soul on 🔥!!"

#Rockabilly #RockNRoll #RhythmNBlues #RuthBrown
#AtlanticRecords #SunRecords
#RoscoGordon #BobbyAndTerryCaraway #RonnieSelf #ThePhantom

This Little Girl's Gone Rockin'

Listen to This Little Girl's Gone Rockin' by Ruth Brown #np on #SoundCloud

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Sam Phillips

b. January 5, 1923. He founded Sun Records, played a large part in the birth of rock n' roll and was a fierce proponent of racial equality. Legend. 04 Dec 1956, Memphis, Tennessee, USA --- The Quartet was really an impromptu jam between four famous musicians that was recorded by Sam Phillips at his Sun Studios. L-R: Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Elvis Presley, Johnnie Cash. --- Image by © Michael Ochs/Corbis #samphillips #birthday #sunrecords #rocknroll

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"Baby Let's Play House" is a song written and originally recorded by #ArthurGunter in 1954 on the #ExcelloRecords label, and covered by #ElvisPresley the following year on #SunRecords. A line from the song ("I'd rather see you dead, little girl, than to be with another man") was borrowed by #JohnLennon for his #Beatles song "#RunForYourLife", released on #RubberSoul in 1965.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTT3oAYwHw4
Elvis Presley - Baby, Let's Play House (Official Audio)

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"Matchbox" is a song written and recorded by #CarlPerkins and released in 1957. #BlindLemonJefferson wrote and recorded a song entitled "Match Box Blues" in 1927, which is musically different but which contains some lyric phrases in common. "Matchbox" was recorded as a #rockabilly song by Carl Perkins in December 1956 and by fellow #SunRecords performer, #JerryLeeLewis – who played piano on the original track – in 1958. #SamPhillips.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aM9GQDibqxw
Carl Perkins w/ Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr - Matchbox - 9/9/1985 - Capitol Theatre (Official)

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"Don't Forbid Me" is a #popular song by #CharlesSingleton. Among Singleton's huge number of compositions was "#TryinToGetToYou", which had previously been recorded by #ElvisPresley at #SunRecords. In 1957, "Don't Forbid Me" was a number 1 hit for #PatBoone, and also peaked at number 10 on the #MostPlayedRAndBInJukeBoxes chart.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk_UoYeZGt4
Don't Forbid Me

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Some Things Never Change, by Carl Perkins

10 track album

Carl Perkins