@@robbo9854 Paul invited Carl to the island of Montserrat to perform with him on his album Tug of War. Carl wrote a song called "My Old Friend" especially for Paul and it reduced McCartney to tears. Carl was worried about Paul's reaction, but Linda McCartney told Carl that John's last words to Paul was "Think of me now and again, old friend."
His rockabilly comes nowhere close to the greatness of Elvis' rockabilly, but this IS a Carl Perkins video, so I won't be surprised if you wastes of life disagree.
@@CooManTunes did you know Carl wrote quite a few songs that Presley did. Did you know rock a billy is just speed up blues. Same scale , same notes same turn around you obviously don’t play music. If you did you would know that Elvis had little to no guitar skills. He played pure Rhythm guitar. He never played a lead lick in his life. He did not specialize in any blues of any sort. He did Rhythm and blues Pop music. And sometimes his band would throw a song together based off of a twelve bar blues lick. But that’s about the extent of his blues career. Which shows you absolutely don’t have a clue what your talking about. Go back to bed dunce cap
@@CooManTunes you can TCB take care of business all you want but you need to get your head off Elvis dick . You have a very distorted view of the contribution of Elvis the Melungeon.
Carl was a major talent and a huge influence on early rock & roll. It's a shame that he's been overlooked for so long but great that his talent is still available for us to see and hear.
The jazz masters were for jazz players but the jazz players didn’t want them lol It wasn’t untill much much later did they become popular with rock musicians
Of all the great tracks he laid down, this one is my favourite. I would love to have seen him live in his prime. Lovely bloke too: did a lot of work for charities working against child abuse.
I remember that song getting played on radio, seemed to be just getting started himself. Just jiving to the tune, the beat, and the silliness of it all, sometimes. LOVED THOSE TIMES!!! 🎵👍🎵
Listen and listen well. No autotune, no pitch correction, no nothing ..... just a real live performance by real musicians.. Compare that to the shit the masses lap up 65 years later.
Carl Perkins -- King of Timeless Rockabilly. A staging note: On this particular TV stage it does seem very odd that 2 older guys are just sitting there watching, tapping to the beat, behind the Band. That's literal "Upstaging." A big no-no in setting up: Audience eyes go naturally to whatever is furthest back on a stage (that's Upstage). If what's in back moves distractedly it has a way outside disrupting, distracting effect on the show, any show.
Elvis moved on from Rockabilly and changed the world - Carl made his amazing mark, but we have to concede Elvis had the goods to really blow the top off everything. Only The Beatles are bigger than Elvis.
The four ugly Beatles were not bigger than Elvis, ya ignorant twat. They were nowhere near Elvis. No single entity is bigger than Elvis. He's the 'Big Bang' of modern popular culture for many reasons. All the best call him the King for many reasons. Now, get smart.
Borella309 haha the Beatles bigger the elvis are you mad the rollin stones was the best band in England in the 60's in my opinion sure loads of people would say different but elvis was much bigger than the Beatles
this cat played all the guitars...mustang or jazz master, hollow bodies, les pauls......in his old age settled for the strat!!......singer lead guitarrist......amazing
One of Carl's best and this an absolutely perfect rock-a-billy performance. I really think this performance is better than the recording - great rockin' swing feel!
This is the first time that I seen footage of Carl at the Town Hall Party, to bad the sound wasn't clear. I wonder if he played with The Collins Kids that night. That would of been something to see.
Heaven must have one Hell of a Kick Arse Band by now. It is such a shame we have lost so many Great Rock and Rollers and Musicians like Carl Perkins.Rock in Peace Carl you done Music such a huge favour by buying a Guitar.
we met Carl in the early 80's on a gig in Gent Belgium , had afew beers with him afther the show , wonderfull memory , nice person our Carl ,,, god bles him in R.n'R heaven -- selle
The best sounding guitar Carl played was a Gibson with P90 pickups, it really seemed to capture his soul. Any guitar he has he can make magic with, but the songs with the Gibson just sounded the best.
Yeah, the asat sound was, cosidered to what he said himself, the sound he liked the most. Also, his playing was techniqually the best on the slightly smaller frets. An accident in 1964 did his part in this case, as the couldn't effectively use the pinky on the fretboard (left hand).
Carl's sure putting that Fender Jazzmaster through its paces. It's kind of funny but I seriously doubt that Leo Fender had any idea that his Jazzmaster guitar would wind up around the neck of the likes of country artist Carl Perkins playing Rockabilly. But that's the greatness of Leo Fender and his guitar designs, they get played for music they weren't intended for. Like the 'short scale student guitars': the Fender Jaguar & Mustang being used in the Surf Music of the 60s. (I have a Fender Jaguar (Blacktop HH) in my arsenal of guitars, it Rocks :-)
The majority of Leo Fender's early endorsers were hillbilly and western swing artists. He made steel guitars as well don't forget. He knew full well where those guitars would end up.
@@madzzzporsche Don't be silly - being a generationist is like being a racist. Being born between 1946 and 1964 doesn't make you "OK". As far as what he says, I say: I have never seen a jazz guitarist with a Jazzmaster!
Carl was invited to Ed Sullivan in NY but a car crash with the band on the way had his brother killed and he stayed in bed for long time, Sullivan never called him back because Elvis was already on top. At the beginning Carl and Elvis had 2 shows together singing Blue suede shoes, everybody shouted out very loud, WE WANT CARL !!!! Elvis did not get close as far as talent is concern. We never know what life will bring us.
I' m 66 years old too and I'm dancing r'nd roll on this record, but very far from USA ; in France in Chateauroux where I could listen to this music when this town was the main us airport in Europe from 1951 TO 1967
Gold! Carl seems to have started off looking old & got younger as the decades past by. The electric guitar hasn't changed really at all since the 50s. All our high techy equipment everywhere everything & it hasn't made an iota to electric guitars, just plug in, tune & play.
George ain't the only one. Carl was So much more talented than Elvis. yet Elvis was more marketable. So purdy... Carl was the first great singer and lead player. Invented many of the riffs so standard today. I love watching Eric play with Carl and play his patented riffs right back at his hero. Carl is a like a god in rock n roll...
Carl Perkins was a hillbilly till Elvis came along. Elvis was infinitely more talented as a singer and obviously about a thousand times better looking. Carl Perkins is, maybe, in the second tier of artists like Jerry Lee, Orbison and Cash. You could even make an argument that Eddie Cochran, Gene Vincent and Buddy Holly were above Perkins.
Carl was great but the rockabilly king was Elvis and Carl would tell you that himself, Elvis’s Sun era with songs like Mystery Train, Good rockin tonight, Baby Let’s play house, that’s all right, blue moon of Kentucky, trying to get to you, milkcow blues boogie, just because, I’m left you’re right she’s gone, I forgot to remember to forget just to name a few of Elvis’s groundbreaking early Sun singles from 1954-55 not forgetting that fantastic eerie version of Blue Moon Carl was a great rockabilly artist great songwriter and lead guitarist but let’s face it after blue suede shoes and maybe matchbox you struggle to name songs never mind hits
It became apparent very quickly that he was neither a country artist or a rock and roll Artist, he got lucky with " Blue suede shoes" as it had the early rockabilly kind of sound fused with country music, this gave him a huge hit, Follow up singles were fairly weak and aimed too much at an audience he didn't really have, if it weren't for Elvis covering his big hit and turning it into his own and thus ensuring many others would copy it, plus his connection to the king, Help from Cash and others, he'd have been long forgotten. Even he admits this, and admitted that Elvis kept his name alive, same as the Beatles did when they recorded 3 of his song's. The royalties earned him a lot of money, He did very well out of having a few of his songs being covered by huge Artists. Today Elvis and Beatles fans know his name because of their covers
NoobinJR True!! He could sing, write and played the hell out of the Guitar! True genius of his time. I consider him( along with Chuck Berry) to be one of the fathers of rock guitar. He is surely my biggest inspiration!
Makes me sick to hear people say things like "Things sure were better back in the 50s and 60s". They must be pretty white to be able to say that. We have problems today but when you mention 'institutionalized', at least we have gone beyond that.........at least for the time being.
I would add Luther Perkins and Scotty Moore in as well. They might not have been the front men, but they helped create that sound of rockabilly along with your four and Johnny Cash and Elvis wouldn't have been the same without them.
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Sang lead.....played lead guitar......and wrote the songs.....what a talent.
And on top of all that, he was very entertaining performer on stage!
And he was nice to fans.
Not all of the songs and anyway they’re all white people playing black american music
Not really. why miserable? why useless?
@@max_ilan Dude - you're standing in the light but you have your hand over your eyes
the undisputed King of Rockabilly.....GO CAT GO!
The Beatles loved Carl Perkins.This clip shows why.
Steven Garcia
Carl Perkins is bopping the blue. Out-of-Site Carl.
Out-of-Site.
George and ringo loved him John and Paul not so much
The beatles are a pimp on his ass
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@@robbo9854 Paul invited Carl to the island of Montserrat to perform with him on his album Tug of War. Carl wrote a song called "My Old Friend" especially for Paul and it reduced McCartney to tears. Carl was worried about Paul's reaction, but Linda McCartney told Carl that John's last words to Paul was "Think of me now and again, old friend."
It is always a pleasure seeing him performing. His energy, geniality, originality, have always been fantastic. Thanks for the golden times.
The Holy Grail of Rockabilly.
And also a pure gentleman and humble as hell . Definitely a hero of mine 😊
The real thing, folks. Nobody else like Carl. The greatest rockabilly of them all!
His rockabilly comes nowhere close to the greatness of Elvis' rockabilly, but this IS a Carl Perkins video, so I won't be surprised if you wastes of life disagree.
@@CooManTunes did you know Carl wrote quite a few songs that Presley did. Did you know rock a billy is just speed up blues. Same scale , same notes same turn around
you obviously don’t play music. If you did you would know that Elvis had little to no guitar skills. He played pure Rhythm guitar. He never played a lead lick in his life. He did not specialize in any blues of any sort. He did Rhythm and blues Pop music. And sometimes his band would throw a song together based off of a twelve bar blues lick. But that’s about the extent of his blues career. Which shows you absolutely don’t have a clue what your talking about. Go back to bed dunce cap
@@CooManTunes you can TCB take care of business all you want but you need to get your head off Elvis dick . You have a very distorted view of the contribution of Elvis the Melungeon.
Mr. Rockabilly
Look how the drummer is singing along, so cool.
Carl Perkins songs went through generations of musicians and still performed today ….. real talented guy
Not many you can honestly say had pure talent, but Carl had more then that ! 👍👍👍👌
great rocker , great guitarist , great man !!!! mister PERKINS
High calibre rock, noone surpassed Carl, he defined rock’n roll
The real king of Rock!
Carl was a major talent and a huge influence on early rock & roll. It's a shame that he's been overlooked for so long but great that his talent is still available for us to see and hear.
Getting in a car crash in 1956 on the way to NYC for a Sullivan appearance? Bad luck...a shame.
The Best Rockabilly Artist, Ever! He had a feel for that style of music like nobody else.
@@marnel7787 Carl? Elvis' inspiration??? You should off yourself, for the benefit of humanity.
More Rockabilly is simply not possible!!!!
Thanks Carl, you changed my life...
That's got to be one of the earliest Jazzmasters produced. They only came out in summer of 58 and definitely weren't flying off shelves.
The jazz masters were for jazz players but the jazz players didn’t want them lol
It wasn’t untill much much later did they become popular with rock musicians
@@ChrisJohnsonChannel Yes, and Much later. I hadn't seen one for quite a while till Elvis C turned up with one in 77.
Looks like a shorter scale too. Maybe 3/4?
Oh to of been there, the live atmosphere must of been electric, yes, that was music indeed. 🙂👍🇬🇧
I love the way this guy loves what hes doing!
Of all the great tracks he laid down, this one is my favourite. I would love to have seen him live in his prime. Lovely bloke too: did a lot of work for charities working against child abuse.
I remember that song getting played on radio, seemed to be just getting started himself. Just jiving to the tune, the beat, and the silliness of it all, sometimes. LOVED THOSE TIMES!!! 🎵👍🎵
The Beatles got Carl, years before their fame.
im thirteen so i haven’t experienced anything like this LOL but god this time of music will always be amazing.
Embrace the rockabilly big, kiddo
Mr. Perkins be rockin' the house!
Sooooo good it makes me want to dance my 66-years-old ass off!
Listen and listen well. No autotune, no pitch correction, no nothing ..... just a real live performance by real musicians.. Compare that to the shit the masses lap up 65 years later.
Love his true rockabilly music!
I flipped first time I heard this back in '56...still do.
OMG... This guy ROCKS
Yes.... Yes he did.
Carl Perkins -- King of Timeless Rockabilly. A staging note: On this particular TV stage it does seem very odd that 2 older guys are just sitting there watching, tapping to the beat, behind the Band. That's literal "Upstaging." A big no-no in setting up: Audience eyes go naturally to whatever is furthest back on a stage (that's Upstage). If what's in back moves distractedly it has a way outside disrupting, distracting effect on the show, any show.
🎵〜matchbox もカッコいい！
Carl, you will forever be the king of rockabilly!
One of the grand daddies of rock and roll.. amazing talent and presenceShould have been bigger than Elvis
Elvis moved on from Rockabilly and changed the world - Carl made his amazing mark, but we have to concede Elvis had the goods to really blow the top off everything. Only The Beatles are bigger than Elvis.
The four ugly Beatles were not bigger than Elvis, ya ignorant twat. They were nowhere near Elvis. No single entity is bigger than Elvis. He's the 'Big Bang' of modern popular culture for many reasons. All the best call him the King for many reasons. Now, get smart.
Borella309 haha the Beatles bigger the elvis are you mad the rollin stones was the best band in England in the 60's in my opinion sure loads of people would say different but elvis was much bigger than the Beatles
@@CooManTunes you need to chill the hell out
A fantastic rockabilly of Carl Perkins! From 1958
Late '56 in the USA
Elvis Stole Carl Perkins Soul god rest their souls 💪
PISSED ALL OVER ELVIS.... THIS GUY HAD IT ALL
He was kind of like a pre-Jimi Hendrix: Singing, playing rhythm guitar, playing lead, dancing. Holy cow, what a talent!
A rocker; before there was rollin’ !!! You go, Carl!!
I'm really digging Mr Perkins ❤❤❤
this cat played all the guitars...mustang or jazz master, hollow bodies, les pauls......in his old age settled for the strat!!......singer lead guitarrist......amazing
Dam he was good. Pure talent
One of Carl's best and this an absolutely perfect rock-a-billy performance. I really think this performance is better than the recording - great rockin' swing feel!
Mighty fine rock and roll, thank you!!
Mr Rockabilly the great Carl Perkins
Early Fender Jazzmaster with anodized pick guard.
Great performance....WOW!
This is the first time that I seen footage of Carl at the Town Hall Party, to bad the sound wasn't clear. I wonder if he played with The Collins Kids that night. That would of been something to see.
Heaven must have one Hell of a Kick Arse Band by now. It is such a shame we have lost so many Great Rock and Rollers and Musicians like Carl Perkins.Rock in Peace Carl you done Music such a huge favour by buying a Guitar.
The king of rockabilly! Long live Carl Lee Perkins!
we met Carl in the early 80's on a gig in Gent Belgium , had afew beers with him afther the show , wonderfull memory , nice person our Carl ,,, god bles him in R.n'R heaven -- selle
The best sounding guitar Carl played was a Gibson with P90 pickups, it really seemed to capture his soul. Any guitar he has he can make magic with, but the songs with the Gibson just sounded the best.
The sound is mind blowing. It sounds like a beast.
The Microfrets was odd.
P90 plus fender amp equals thick tone. Modern amps and pedals are why people don't really need p90s anymore. I really like them thon
There are some vids of Carl in the late 80's/early 90's where he's playing a black G&L ASAT with P-90's. That guitar sounds terrific!!
Yeah, the asat sound was, cosidered to what he said himself, the sound he liked the most. Also, his playing was techniqually the best on the slightly smaller frets. An accident in 1964 did his part in this case, as the couldn't effectively use the pinky on the fretboard (left hand).
I just discovered Carl. He's Da Man.
Carl perkins!!!!!still one of a kind fellows!!!!!!!
thanks toRUclips, we can see this real rock n' roll man, I never saw this before !
Carl's sure putting that Fender Jazzmaster through its paces. It's kind of funny but I seriously doubt that Leo Fender had any idea that his Jazzmaster guitar would wind up around the neck of the likes of country artist Carl Perkins playing Rockabilly. But that's the greatness of Leo Fender and his guitar designs, they get played for music they weren't intended for. Like the 'short scale student guitars': the Fender Jaguar & Mustang being used in the Surf Music of the 60s. (I have a Fender Jaguar (Blacktop HH) in my arsenal of guitars, it Rocks :-)
good spotting.. miss my jazzmaster !
Luther Perkins recieved a prototype Jazzmaster in early 1959, possibly January or February. He was also given a protype Jaguar in mid 1961.
The majority of Leo Fender's early endorsers were hillbilly and western swing artists. He made steel guitars as well don't forget. He knew full well where those guitars would end up.
ok boomer
@@madzzzporsche Don't be silly - being a generationist is like being a racist. Being born between 1946 and 1964 doesn't make you "OK". As far as what he says, I say: I have never seen a jazz guitarist with a Jazzmaster!
Easy to see why George worshipped him...
Carl was invited to Ed Sullivan in NY but a car crash with the band on the way had his brother killed and he stayed in bed for long time, Sullivan never called him back because Elvis was already on top. At the beginning Carl and Elvis had 2 shows together singing Blue suede shoes, everybody shouted out very loud,
WE WANT CARL !!!! Elvis did not get close as far as talent is concern. We never know what life will bring us.
Elogie Carl. Não há necessidade de menosprezar Elvis, a história mostra o seu valor.
I' m 66 years old too and I'm dancing r'nd roll on this record, but very far from USA ; in France in Chateauroux where I could listen to this music when this town was the main us airport in Europe from 1951 TO 1967
Carl's playin' is sharp as a blade yet gentle as a kiss
love that guy.
The old guys new how to really groove and rock and roll
His Blue suede shoes version was the best
Carl and Luther Perkins inspired me to play...that twangy hollow Fender sound bugged me and made me want to bob like them cats too!
Sam and sun records! Carl rocks!
A master guitarist and one of the founding fathers of Rockabilly.
Along with BillFlagg and the rockabillys, Go Cat Go, Guitar Rock,Doing my Time!
Gold! Carl seems to have started off looking old & got younger as the decades past by. The electric guitar hasn't changed really at all since the 50s. All our high techy equipment everywhere everything & it hasn't made an iota to electric guitars, just plug in, tune & play.
Артист с большой буквы Браво!
Carl Perkins = the 5th Beatle ❤❤❤❤
Fantastisch Muziek ! Onvergetelijk ! Carl Perkins ! Muziek wat nooit verloren gaat ! Geniet er nog altijd van ! ❤
What an awesome Jazzmaster!
Carl, Fogerty, and the guy from Grand Funk Railroad. All beasts! 😮
I did not know that he ever played a Jazz Master....
Carl wurde von allen Großen der RockSzene respektiert und geliebt. Er war ein großer Könner als Song Writer, sowie ein sehr guter Gitarrist.
Still rockin in 2024
George ain't the only one. Carl was So much more talented than Elvis. yet Elvis was more marketable. So purdy... Carl was the first great singer and lead player. Invented many of the riffs so standard today. I love watching Eric play with Carl and play his patented riffs right back at his hero. Carl is a like a god in rock n roll...
Better natured than Elvis too. And nicer to fans.
Carl Perkins was a hillbilly till Elvis came along. Elvis was infinitely more talented as a singer and obviously about a thousand times better looking. Carl Perkins is, maybe, in the second tier of artists like Jerry Lee, Orbison and Cash.
You could even make an argument that Eddie Cochran, Gene Vincent and Buddy Holly were above Perkins.
Writing the Bible of R&R!
Потрясающе! Отличный блюз!💃
Real music rip to everyone
Maravillosa interpretación de Carl Perkins,
uno de los más grandes pioneros del Rock and Roll!!!!!
2 cameras and gobs of talent
My Favorite Rockabilly Guitarist
👍❤️🎸
He made the template that many tried to follow.
O verdadeiro rock Man.
Might seem weird to read but he reminds me of watching my grandmother( rest in peace) dancing to proud Mary when my cousin played it.
Get up and shake it, baby! It's Christmas! Party time!
we met Carl in the 1980's concert in Aalter Belgium even had a drink with him ,,, top souvenier ,,, nice guy our Carl / Rockin selle
oh my!! he's doing the show !! I find he's great !!
Tenho que retornar a essa Época 👍👍👍👍
Unique talant. Brilliant.
At the very beginning, Carl starts singing the word "All" on the blue note for maximum ear-grabbing effect. 0:10
Only a master vocalist would do so.
Qué swing! Fascinante!
Had he been as handsome as Elvis or Rick nelson. the sky would have been the limit. what a talent.always a fan.
The accident didn't help him. Put him behind others but he was one ______ of a talent.
Got me rocking cliff from the bush x
Carl was great but the rockabilly king was Elvis and Carl would tell you that himself, Elvis’s Sun era with songs like Mystery Train, Good rockin tonight, Baby Let’s play house, that’s all right, blue moon of Kentucky, trying to get to you, milkcow blues boogie, just because, I’m left you’re right she’s gone, I forgot to remember to forget just to name a few of Elvis’s groundbreaking early Sun singles from 1954-55 not forgetting that fantastic eerie version of Blue Moon
Carl was a great rockabilly artist great songwriter and lead guitarist but let’s face it after blue suede shoes and maybe matchbox you struggle to name songs never mind hits
And which of the Elvis songs you named were written by Elvis? Perkins did it ALL, and had some left over for others to use. Just ask the Beatles.
Love me some CARL PERKINS! Legend!
I enjoyed this. It has to be 50 years ago when I last watched him play. Rocker Pioneer.
Saw Carl live,a beautyfull person
Cool cat...got me up and dancing at
Age of 72
It became apparent very quickly that he was neither a country artist or a rock and roll Artist, he got lucky with " Blue suede shoes" as it had the early rockabilly kind of sound fused with country music, this gave him a huge hit, Follow up singles were fairly weak and aimed too much at an audience he didn't really have, if it weren't for Elvis covering his big hit and turning it into his own and thus ensuring many others would copy it, plus his connection to the king, Help from Cash and others, he'd have been long forgotten.
Even he admits this, and admitted that Elvis kept his name alive, same as the Beatles did when they recorded 3 of his song's.
The royalties earned him a lot of money, He did very well out of having a few of his songs being covered by huge Artists.
Today Elvis and Beatles fans know his name because of their covers
The accident he was in on the way to Ed Sullivan's didn't help him much. Read the comment by Luiz Verdecanna above.
Carl Perkins was and still is, the real King!
NoobinJR True!! He could sing, write and played the hell out of the Guitar! True genius of his time. I consider him( along with Chuck Berry) to be one of the fathers of rock guitar. He is surely my biggest inspiration!
Certainly the king of rockabilly!
chuck berry began in 1953 and carl perkins 1954 at Sun records...
Worst of Times and Best of Times in America. Institutionalised Racism AND YET Blues, Rock and Roll, Country and Jazz all crossing over🎸🎸🎸
Makes me sick to hear people say things like "Things sure were better back in the 50s and 60s". They must be pretty white to be able to say that. We have problems today but when you mention 'institutionalized', at least we have gone beyond that.........at least for the time being.
Think he wasn't feeling the music? Look at him move and listen to the way he phrases. Great!
He sure was, wasn’t he? Fun watching someone so into it.
These pioneer Rockers were so darn good!
Spuzzy Largo
Yeah, the good ole times! Carl, Jerry Lee Lewis, Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry and Eddie Cochran! These were actually real musicans!
I would add Luther Perkins and Scotty Moore in as well. They might not have been the front men, but they helped create that sound of rockabilly along with your four and Johnny Cash and Elvis wouldn't have been the same without them.
Check out Bill Flagg and Rockabillies
No words! Only jirking legs! So exiting singing and playing the gitar!