The Classic Carl Perkins

Compilation by Carl Perkins

Released February 1990

country instrumental rock

Tracklist

CD 1
1
Honky Tonk Babe (Gal) (1)
1:53
2
Movie Magg (2)
2:06
3
Honky Tonk Gal (1A)
1:57
4
Movie Magg (2A)
2:10
5
Turn Around (3)
3:02
6
Dialogue
Carl Perkins & Bill Cantrell
0:47
7
Turn Around (3A)
3:00
8
Let the Jukebox Keep on Playing (4)
2:52
9
What You Doin’ When You’re Crying (5)
2:52
10
Let the Jukebox Keep on Playing (4A)
2:53
4.0 ★
11
You Can’t Make Love to Somebody (6)
2:36
12
Gone, Gone, Gone (7)
2:57
13
Gone, Gone, Gone (7A)
2:40
3.0 ★
14
Dixie Bop / Perkins Wiggle (8)
2:38
15
Blue Suede Shoes (take 1) (9)
2:02
16
Blue Suede Shoes (take 2) (9A)
2:16
4.0 ★
17
Blue Suede Shoes (take 3) (9B)
2:17
18
Honey Don’t (take 1) (10)
2:09
19
Honey Don’t (take 2) (10A)
2:26
20
Honey Don’t (take 3) (10B)
2:51
4.0 ★
21
Tennessee (12)
3:05
22
Sure to Fall (11)
2:33
3.0 ★
23
All Mama’s Children (13)
2:10
24
Everybody’s Trying to Be My Baby (14)
2:14
25
Boppin’ the Blues (15)
2:33
26
Put Your Cat Clothes On (16)
2:48
27
Boppin’ the Blues (15A)
2:50
28
Only You (17)
3:21
29
You Can’t Make Love to Somebody (18)
2:24
30
Right String, Wrong Yo‐Yo (19)
2:34
CD 2
1
All Mama’s Children (with false start) (20)
2:50
2
All Mama’s Children (20A)
2:08
3
Dixie Fried (21)
2:42
4
Everybody’s Trying to Be My Baby (22)
1:57
5
Put Your Cat Clothes On (23)
2:42
6
Everybody’s Trying to Be My Baby (22A)
2:14
7
Dixie Fried (false starts)
1:04
8
Dixie Fried (24)
2:27
9
I’m Sorry I’m Not Sorry (25)
2:28
10
That Don’t Move Me (26)
2:08
11
Lonely Street (27)
2:45
12
Drink Up and Go Home (28)
3:37
13
Pink Pedal Pushers (29)
2:16
14
The Way You’re Living Is Breaking My Heart (30)
3:05
15
Take Back My Love (31)
3:37
16
Somebody Tell Me (32)
4:21
17
Instrumental, No. 1 (33)
1:28
18
Instrumental, No. 2 (34)
1:33
19
Red Wing (35)
2:20
20
Down by the Riverside (36)
1:27
21
Her Love Rubbed Off (38)
2:21
22
Caldonia (37)
2:05
23
You Can Do No Wrong (39)
2:24
24
Sweethearts or Strangers (40)
2:43
25
Be Honest With Me (41)
2:28
26
Sweethearts or Strangers (40A)
2:20
27
Your True Love (original tempo) (42)
3:03
28
Matchbox (43)
2:29
29
Your True Love (42A)
2:45
30
Put Your Cat Clothes On (44)
2:45
CD 3
1
Matchbox (43A)
2:10
2
Put Your Cat Clothes On (44A)
2:51
3
Keeper of the Key (45)
3:24
4
Roll Over Beethoven (46)
2:53
5
Try My Heart Out (47)
2:52
6
That’s Right (48)
2:48
7
Forever Yours (49)
2:38
8
That’s Right (48A)
2:51
9
Y.O.U. (50)
2:40
10
I Care (51)
2:18
11
Y.O.U. (with narration) (50A)
3:20
12
Pink Pedal Pushers (52)
2:38
13
Pink Pedal Pushers (52A)
2:28
14
Lend Me Your Comb (53)
1:56
15
Look at That Moon (54)
1:58
16
Lend Me Your Comb (53A)
1:58
17
Look at That Moon (54A)
2:21
18
Glad All Over (55)
1:42
19
Tutti Frutti (61)
2:07
20
Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On (62)
3:01
21
That’s All Right (63)
3:35
22
Where the Rio de Rosa Flows (64)
3:05
23
Shake, Rattle and Roll (65)
3:29
24
Long Tall Sally (66)
3:00
25
I Got a Woman (70)
3:13
26
Hey Good Lookin’ (71)
2:42
27
Sittin’ on Top of the World (72)
2:11
28
Good Rockin’ Tonight (73)
2:19
CD 4
1
Jive After Five (56)
2:21
2
Rockin’ Record Hop (57)
2:21
3
Pink Pedal Pushers (58)
2:37
4
Just Thought I’d Call (59)
2:15
5
Ready Teddy (71)
2:05
6
Jenny, Jenny (75)
2:10
7
You Were There (69)
2:35
8
Because You’re Mine (60)
3:07
9
Pop Let Me Have the Car (67)
2:45
10
Levi Jacket (And a long Tail Shirt) (68)
2:13
11
When the Moon Comes Over the Mountain (86)
2:12
12
Sister Twister (98)
2:51
13
Hambone (99)
2:24
14
This Life I Live (76)
2:25
15
Please Say You’ll Be Mine (77)
2:17
16
Honey, ’Cause I Love You (78)
2:18
17
Y.O.U. (79)
2:38
18
I Don’t See Me in Your Eyes Anymore (80A)
2:44
19
Highway of Love (81)
3:05
20
Pointed Toe Shoes (82)
2:01
21
One Ticket to Loneliness (83)
2:51
22
The Drifter (84)
2:50
23
Too Much for a Man to Understand (85)
2:34
24
L‐O‐V‐E‐V‐I‐L‐L‐E (88)
2:17
CD 5
1
Blue Suede Shoes (108)
2:15
2
Big Bad Blues (106)
2:42
3
Say When (107)
2:29
4
Lonely Heart (109)
1:57
5
A Love I’ll Never Win (110)
2:52
6
Let My Baby Be (111)
2:29
7
Monkey Shine (112)
3:02
8
Mama of My Song (113)
2:23
9
One of These Days (114)
2:26
10
I Wouldn’t Have You (103)
2:12
11
Help Me Find My Baby (104)
1:56
12
After Sundown (101)
2:40
13
For a Little While (102)
2:29
14
Just for You (89)
2:40
15
When the Right One Comes Along (94)
2:28
16
The Fool I Used to Be (95)
2:24
17
Forget Me (Next Time Around) (96)
2:39
18
Hollywood (97)
2:09
19
I’ve Just Got Back From There (100)
2:14
20
Too Much for a Man to Understand (87)
2:46
21
Turn Around (90)
2:42
22
Unhappy Girls (91)
2:41
23
Someday, Somewhere Someone Waits for Me (92)
2:28
24
Anyway the Wind Blows (93)
2:18

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Release credits

Bill Cantrell
fiddle [10], spoken vocals [6]
Carl Perkins
arranger [6], guitar [3.1, 1.10, 1.16, 1.20, 2.6, 2.8], spoken vocals [6], vocal [3.1, 2.6, 2.8, 1.10, 1.16, 1.20]
Clayton Perkins
bass [1], double bass [1.10, 1.16, 1.20, 2.6, 2.8]
Eddie Starr
guitar [6, 8]
Jay Perkins
guitar [1.10, 1.16, 1.20, 3.1]
Jerry Lee Lewis
piano [1]
Quinton Claunch
electric guitar [10]
Sam Phillips
producer [1]
Stan Kesler
steel guitar [10]
W.S. Holland
drums (drum set) [3.1, 1.10, 1.16, 1.20, 2.6, 2.8]

Issues

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The Classic Carl Perkins
5x CD
February 1990