An album followed, albeit 30 years afterwards. The stars of that session became known as “The Million Dollar Quartet”. I think Sam called Johnny to come down,” Perkins remembered.
I had this little song I called “Matchbox.” (Perkins hums a few bars.) Jerry Lee was there ‘cause I’d hired him to play piano. “Elvis dropped by Sun when I had a session going on. One highlight of pop culture’s newfound interest in rockabilly was the discovery of a rare recording session at 706 Union. In 1985, the surviving Beatles, Eric Clapton and other English artists appeared in “Blue Suede Shoes: A Rockabilly Special”, a show taped in London that continued to keep an international spotlight shining on Perkins. The rockabilly revival that began in the early 1980s fascinated Perkins: “Why would those cats want to imitate what we did back when we didn’t know what we were doing or have anything to do it with?,” he pondered, enjoying the adoration. The Perkins-penned tune “Daddy Sang Bass” was a huge hit for Cash and, as Perkins claimed, “the song I want to be remembered for.” Ready to jumpstart his career, Perkins found a musical home with the Johnny Cash Show in 1968 and stayed for a decade. While touring abroad with Chuck Berry in 1964, Perkins met the Beatles and attended a recording session where they recorded four of his Sun sides. The sessions would remain Perkins’ finest work. Phillips wasted no time getting his new writer’s songs on tape. Since the song was Sun Records’ first million-seller, Phillips presented Perkins with a new Cadillac. Unable to play, Perkins’ career lost its momentum as Presley’s record turned gold. Severely injured, Perkins watched Presley perform “Blue Suede Shoes” on The Milton Berle Show to ecstatic audiences.
But, while heading to New York City, tragedy struck: the car carrying the Perkins Brothers rammed into the back of a poultry truck.
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Major offers followed for national TV appearances. Three months after its release, the song became the first record to simultaneously top three Billboard charts: Country, Rhythm and Blues, and Pop. His second single, “Blue Suede Shoes”, was a rocker Perkins wrote in his bathroom on a brown paper bag at 3 a.m. “After that, I was booked with those Sun stars, Elvis and Johnny Cash, all through the South and Southwest,” Perkins later shared. Four months later, Phillips released “Movie Magg”, a song Perkins wrote at 13 that was well known around Jackson. Phillips gave the “boys who drove so far” an audition and found he liked Perkins’ country vocals and original material - a possible backup if the Sun sound proved to be short-lived. After learning that Presley recorded for Sam Phillips at Sun Records, the Perkins brothers headed to Memphis. When Perkins heard Elvis Presley’s version of “Blue Moon Of Kentucky” playing on the radio, he recognized the up-tempo, country-blues shuffle as a sound similar to what his band was playing.
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