Various Artists – The Blue Suede Shoes Story

• “Well, It’s 25 For The Money…”
• Jasmine’s occasional series of CDs devoted to multi-artist versions of the same song reaches the Rock ‘n’ Roll era for the first time with this collection of more than two dozen variations on a theme called “Blue Suede Shoes” – one of the true rockin’ classics of its time, and all time, in the original recording by its writer Carl Perkins.
• Since Carl entered the Sun Studios in Memphis in December 1955 to record his own version there have been more than 300 subsequent vocal and 30 instrumental takes on BSS, making it arguably the most versioned song of its type.
• This Jasmine collection brings together pretty much every variant we could gather from the 1950s and early 1960s, from not just the US but also the UK, Germany and Australia – almost 20 of them from 1956 alone, a measure of just how popular a song it was at its chart peak.
• Some of these you will know, some you may not know, and even possibly one or two that you will feel you were better off not knowing – but the spirit of the original is alive in the majority of these 25 pairs of ‘Shoes’, whoever is wearing them!

Track Listing

1. BLUE SUEDE SHOES - CARL PERKINS
2. BLUE SUEDE SHOES - BOB ROUBIAN WITH CLIFFIE STONE AND HIS ORCHESTRA
3. BLUE SUEDE SHOES - PEE WEE KING AND HIS BAND (Vocal: Walter Haynes)
4. BLUE SUEDE SHOES - DELBERT BARKER AND THE GATEWAY ALL STARS
5. BLUE SUEDE SHOES - ELVIS PRESLEY
6. BLUE SUEDE SHOES - THE CANADIANS
7. DIE BLAUEN WILDLEDERSCHUHE (Blue Suede Shoes) - PAULCHEN AM KLAVIER UND SEINE MUSIK-MIXER
8. BLUE SUEDE SHOES - BOYD BENNETT AND HIS ROCKETS
9. BLUE SUEDE SHOES - JIM LOWE
10. BLUE SUEDE SHOES - SID KING AND HIS FIVE STRINGS
11. BLUE SUEDE SHOES - ROY HALL
12. BLUE SUEDE SHOES - RED PERSKEY AND HIS ORCHESTRA
13. BLUE SUEDE SHOES - LOREN BECKER WITH THE LIGHT BRIGADE
14. BLUE SUEDE SHOES - HANK SMITH (Leon Payne)
15. BLUE SUEDE SHOES - JERRY MERCER AND HIS ORCHESTRA
16. BLUE SUEDE SHOES - NARVEL FELTS
17. TWO TONE SHOES - HOMER AND JETHRO
18. BLUE SUEDE SHOES - SAM ‘THE MAN’ TAYLOR AND HIS ORCHESTRA
19. BLUE SUEDE SHOES - THE TEEN KINGS
20. BLUE SUEDE SHOES - CLIFF RICHARD AND THE DRIFTERS
21. BLUE SUEDE SHOES - BILL HALEY AND HIS COMETS
22. BLUE SUEDE SHOES - FREDDY CANNON
23. BLUE SUEDE SHOES - CONWAY TWITTY
24. BLUE SUEDE SHOES - EDDIE COCHRAN
25. BLUE SUEDE SHOES - JERRY KENNEDY AND HIS DANCING GUITARS