Complete Sun Singles

Carl Perkins | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 13, 2000)
• Original Release Date: June 13, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Varese Sarabande
• ASIN: B00004TGT5
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #324,900 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Movie Mag

2. Turn Around

3. Let The Jukebox Keep Playing

4. Gone, Gone, Gone

5. Blue Suede Shoes

6. Honey Don't

7. Sure To Fall

8. Tennessee

9. Boppin' The Blues

10. All Mama's Children

11. Dixie Fried

12. I'm Sorry, I'm Not Sorry

13. Your True Love

14. Matchbox

15. That's Right

16. Forever Yours

17. Lend Me Your Comb

18. Glad All Over

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars New view of Perkins' early years with Sun, August 15, 2000

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hyperbolium (Earth, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Complete Sun Singles (Audio CD)

By collecting the A and B sides of Perkins' nine Sun singles, this release provides a slightly different view of his early years than other single-disc collections, such as "Original Sun Greatest Hits."

Many of his incendiary rockabilly numbers are here ("Gone, Gone, Gone", "Blue Suede Shoes", "Honey Don't", "Boppin' the Blues", "All Mama's Children", "Matchbox", "Glad All Over"), but they're preface with Perkins' early country sides. The whining fiddle and mournful vocals of "Turn Around" (the B-side of his debut, "Movie Mag") and "Let the Jukebox Keep on Playing" (his second A-side) suggest an early affinity for Hank Williams.

Noticeably missing (because they weren't singles, assumedly) are "Everybody's Trying to be My Baby" and "Put Your Cat Clothes On." In their place are the rockabilly-meets-talking-blues A-side "That's Right" (co-written with Johnny Cash) and its ballad flip, "Forever Yours," along with Perkins' ode to his home state, "Tennessee."

Newly penned liner notes and period photos and ephemera (posters, ads and such) complete a very sweet introduction to Perkins' seminal sides.

5.0 out of 5 stars Carl Perkins Complete Sun Singles, January 4, 2007

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Stephen I. Gunlock - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Complete Sun Singles (Audio CD)

As a musician, my "oldies" rock band was asked to submit a few tunes for an up coming CD, to be produced for the Iowa Rock n Roll Music Association. We did two of Carl's tunes..... "Blue Suede Shoes" and "Honey Don't". Carl was one of the true rockabilly pioneers and a legend of early rock music. I thouroughly enjoyed this CD.

5.0 out of 5 stars Re-awakening, August 21, 2000

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Sandy Ballard (Woodland HIlls, Ca.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Complete Sun Singles (Audio CD)

IT has been a while since I had sat down to listen to a Rockabilly artist....I grew up listening to the Sun label artists and loved them all. I heard a clip of a song from this album while watching a biography show on Sam Phillips. I then recalled this song "Turn Around" and just how much I liked it. I had to find the album and your store came to mind. If anyone had such a great album it had to be you!....I love this album and I thank you people from the bottom of my heart for me being able to find it with your huge selection......It was truly a Re-awakening to find this classic country great!! Carl Perkins' music will live forever.