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Carl Lee Perkins (April 9, 1932 – January 19, 1998) [1] [2] was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter. A rockabilly great and pioneer of rock and roll, he began his recording career at the Sun Studio, in Memphis in 1954.
W. S. "Fluke" Holland (April 22, 1935 – September 23, 2020) was an American drummer who played with Carl Perkins, and later for Johnny Cash in the bands the Tennessee Three, the Great Eighties Eight, and the Johnny Cash Show Band.
The National Exchange Club – a service organization with 700 clubs and more than 21,000 members throughout the United States and Puerto Rico – celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2011. Founded in 1911 in Detroit, Michigan , by businessmen who wanted to “exchange” ideas on making their community better, the Exchange Club moved its ...
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Carl Perkins Roy Orbison " Million Dollar Quartet " is a recording of an impromptu jam session involving Elvis Presley , Jerry Lee Lewis , Carl Perkins , and Johnny Cash made on December 4, 1956, at the Sun Record Studios in Memphis, Tennessee .
Howard "Curley" Griffin was a singer and disc jockey from Jackson, Tennessee who quoted from the song in his own release, "Got Rockin' On My Mind", released in 1957 on the Atomic Records label as 305. Griffin uses the refrain "rave on" and "dixie fried". Griffin also co-wrote the song "Boppin' the Blues" with Carl Perkins in 1956.
Denny Otte, a Fremont City Council member and a longtime Exchange Club member, said the Fremont chapter used to have 40 to 50 active members. dacarson@gannett.com 419-334-1046
In Memphis and Jackson, where Perkins lived, the song's B-side, "Honey Don't", was initially more popular on the radio, but was eventually overtaken by "Blue Suede Shoes". [11] On February 11, "Blue Suede Shoes" was the number two single on Memphis charts; by the following week it was number one, a position it held for the next three months. [ 12 ]