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Carl Perkins

It was also the first country record to be on both the R&B chart and the Pop Chart (Larkin 4169). Carl Perkins was on his way to the Ed Sullivan and Perry Como television shows in New York when he was involved in a terrible accident that hospitalized him injured his brothers. After Carl got out of the hospital he never really had a big hit ever again like "Don't Step on My Blue Suede Shoes" ("Carl Perkins"). Because of the accident Carl was unable to promote his albums so the singles he released later on did not do as well as he had hoped they would. According to The Encyclopedia of Popular Music the highest he would get on the charts would be seventy with "Boppin" The Blues" and sixty-seven with "Your True Love".
             Throughout his career Perkins would constantly be switching record labels. In 1958 Perkins would leave Sun records and sign with Colombia Records. To worsen the fact that he was not too successful there, his other brother Jay Perkins died of a brain tumor. The loss of his brother would throw Carl into an alcoholic binge that he would not be able to get out of until the late sixties. From 1963 to 1966 Carl was working for Decca Records and experiencing very little success at all. After that he signed onto Dollie Records a small country label. By 1970 Carl was back working under the Columbia Record label in a rock band by the name of NRBQ, but that did not last very long. In 1974 he signed onto Mercury Records. .
             Carl spent most of the 1970s and 1980s touring and working with younger musicians, and in 1985 he was a part of a television special to mark the thirtieth anniversary of Blue Suede Shoes. He was finally initiated into the rock and roll hall of fame in 1987. Perkins was not well during most of the 1990s and would eventually die in January of 1998 of a heart condition (Larkin 4197).
             Throughout his career he had a major influence on many people in rock and roll history.


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