226 Carl Perkins (1932-1998) “Blue Suede Shoes” 1956

“Johnny Cash…suggested that Perkins ‘write … a song about blue suede shoes.’ Some time later, while playing a show at a supper club, he heard a young man admonish his date not to ‘step on my suedes!’ Later that evening, in the small apartment he shared with Valda [Crider] in the Jackson housing project, Perkins scrawled on a potato sack the lyrics that would secure his place in rock-and-roll history.…’Blue Suede Shoes’ became Sun Records' first million-selling record” (American National Biography). Listed on the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress. 

Carl Perkins “Blue Suede Shoes”