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Carl Lee Perkins (April 9, 1932 – January 19, 1998) was an American rockabilly musician who recorded most notably at Sun Records Studio in Memphis, Tennessee, beginning during 1954. His best known song is "Blue Suede Shoes".
According to Charlie Daniels, "Carl Perkins' songs personified the rockabilly era, and Carl Perkins' sound personifies the rockabilly sound more so than anybody involved in it, because he never changed." Perkins' songs were recorded by artists (and friends) as influential as Elvis Presley, The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, and Johnny Cash, which further cemented his place in the history of popular music.
Called "the King of Rockabilly", he was inducted into the Rock and Roll, the Rockabilly, and the Nashville Songwriters Halls of Fame; and was a Grammy Hall of Fame Award recipient.
Perkins was the son of poor sharecroppers, Buck and Louise Perkins (misspelled on his birth certificate as "Perkings") near Tiptonville, Tennessee. He grew up hearing Southern gospel music sung by whites in church, and by black field workers when he started working in the cotton fields at age six. During spring and autumn, the school day would be followed by several hours of work in fields. During the summer, workdays were 12–14 hours, "from can to can't." Carl and his brother Jay together would earn 50 cents a day. With all family members working and not having any credit, there was enough money for beans and potatoes, some tobacco for Carl's father Buck, and occasionally the luxury of a five-cent bag of hard candy.
George Harrison,MBE (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001) was an English musician and singer-songwriter who achieved international fame as lead guitarist of The Beatles. Often referred to as "the quiet Beatle", Harrison became over time an admirer of Indian culture and mysticism, and introduced it to the other Beatles, as well as their Western audience. Following the band's break-up he was a successful solo artist, and later a founding member of the Traveling Wilburys. Harrison was also a session musician and a film and record producer. He is listed at number 11 in Rolling Stone magazine's list of "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time".
Although most of The Beatles' songs were written by Lennon and McCartney, Beatle albums generally included one or two of Harrison's own songs, from With The Beatles onwards. His later compositions with The Beatles include "Here Comes the Sun", "Something" and "While My Guitar Gently Weeps". By the time of the band's break-up, Harrison had accumulated a backlog of material, which he then released as the triple album All Things Must Pass in 1970, from which two hit singles originated: a double A-side single, "My Sweet Lord" backed with "Isn't It a Pity", and "What Is Life". In addition to his solo work, Harrison co-wrote two hits for former Beatle Ringo Starr, as well as songs for the Traveling Wilburys—the supergroup he formed in 1988 with Jeff Lynne, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, and Roy Orbison.
Richard Starkey, MBE (born 7 July 1940), better known by his stage name Ringo Starr, is an English musician and actor who gained worldwide fame as the drummer for the Beatles. When the band formed in 1960, Starr was a member of another Liverpool band, Rory Storm and the Hurricanes. He joined the Beatles in August 1962, taking the place of Pete Best. In addition to his drumming, Starr is featured on lead vocals on a number of successful Beatles songs (in particular, "With a Little Help from My Friends", "Yellow Submarine", and the Beatles version of "Act Naturally"). He is credited as a co-writer of the songs "What Goes On" and "Flying", and as the writer of "Don't Pass Me By" and "Octopus's Garden".
As drummer for the Beatles, Starr was musically creative, and his contribution to the band's music has received high praise from notable drummers in more recent times. Starr described himself as "your basic offbeat drummer with funny fills". Drummer Steve Smith said that Starr's popularity "brought forth a new paradigm" where "we started to see the drummer as an equal participant in the compositional aspect" and that Starr "composed unique, stylistic drum parts for The Beatles songs". In 2011, Starr was picked as the fifth-best drummer of all-time by Rolling Stone readers.
Carl Perkins - Full Concert - 09/09/85 - Capitol Theatre (OFFICIAL)
Carl Perkins - Blue Suede Shoes - Perry Como Show -1956
Carl Perkins, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, Dave Edmunds, Rosanna Cash & friends in co
Carl Perkins - Carl Rocks (Bear Family Records GmbH) [Full Album]
Carl Perkins, George Harrison, Eric Clapton - Medley - 9/9/1985 - Capitol Theatre (Official)
Carl Perkins - The Rockabilly Years (One Day Music) [Full Album]
Carl Perkins - Gone, Gone, Gone
Carl Perkins - On Stage 1991
Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins & Eric Clapton - Matchbox
Carl Perkins w/ Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr - Matchbox - 9/9/1985 - Capitol Theatre (Official)
Johnny Cash and Carl Perkins do Folsom Prison Blues
Carl Perkins Interview with Tom Snyder-Pt 1
1998 Carl Perkins funeral report
Carl Perkins - Guitar Boogie
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Plot: After the suicide of Johnny Cash's former manager, Saul Holiff, his estranged son, Jonathon, returns home. There, Jonathon learns from his mother that his father's personal records exist in storage. As Jonathon searches through them, he discovers much about his father's life of deferred dreams in London, Ontario until he became the manager of Johnny Cash. From there, Jonathon learns of his father's hectic life managing the erratic country star with his personal demons and moods and how the material success came with a profound cost of its own for Saul. In doing so, Jonathon gets a new perspective of a father who had his problems that he never fully conquered himself.
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Genres: Documentary, Short,Actors: Rachael Robbins (actress), Gunnar Hansen (actor), R.J. Weyant (actor), Jim Treacy (actor), Ken Foree (actor), Mick Garris (actor), David Naughton (actor), Robert V. Galluzzo (actor), Anthony Timpone (actor), Brian O'Halloran (actor), Gerry Bednob (actor), Betsy Baker (actress), Sean Tiedeman (miscellaneous crew), Sean Tiedeman (actor), Sean Tiedeman (actor),
Plot: Harry Penderecki, a once heralded horror auteur, finds himself on the outside looking in at Hollywood. He hasn't had a hit film in years, and most in the industry, including his close friends, think he's washed up. Harry is given one last chance to redeem himself with what could be his best or last picture. Brutal Massacre becomes just that, as the cast and crew find themselves battling one mishap after another as Harry struggles to keep his sanity against overwhelming resistance to finish the picture and find himself at the top once again.
Keywords: acting-audition, actor, actress, assistant-director, audition, b-movie, bad-director, bare-breasts, baseball-bat, bloodActors: Jeff Murphy (editor), David Schultz (actor), Philip Zlotorynski (producer), Philip Zlotorynski (writer), Philip Zlotorynski (director), Kelly Noonan (actress), James Piper (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Short,Actors: Ted Taylor (actor), Jewel Greenberg (actress), Leo Goodman (actor), Sandy Lisiewski (actress), Michelle Trout (actress), Anita Anthonj (actress), Bruce Ross (actor), Matthew Hencke (editor), Phil John (actor), Matthew Hencke (director), Matthew Hencke (writer), Paul Bugelski (actor), Caroline G. Pleasant (actress), Scott Michael Adams (actor), Frances Turner (actress),
Genres: Drama,Actors: James Keach (producer), Stephen Bridgewater (miscellaneous crew), Tim Ware (actor), Alan C. Blomquist (producer), Reese Witherspoon (actress), Johnny Cash (writer), Frank Hoyt Taylor (actor), Joaquin Phoenix (actor), Donald Meyers (actor), Rhoda Griffis (actress), James Keach (actor), J.D. Evermore (actor), Robert Patrick (actor), Jenny Siff (miscellaneous crew), Johnny Cash (writer),
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Keywords: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, accident, amphetamine, army, based-on-autobiography, belief-in-hellActors: Tom McBeath (actor), Roman Podhora (actor), Colin Lawrence (actor), David Kaye (actor), Kevin McNulty (actor), Campbell Lane (actor), Steve Bacic (actor), Don S. Davis (actor), Garry Chalk (actor), Fulvio Cecere (actor), Matt Clark (actor), Hrothgar Mathews (actor), Roger R. Cross (actor), Hal Holbrook (actor), Malcolm Stewart (actor),
Plot: This film tells the story of Lt. Paula Coughlin when she was assigned as an Admiral's assistant at the annual US Navy convention called Tailhook. During that convention, which often had predominately male officers partying wildly, she was subjected to "The Guantlet" in which she was sexually man-handled and harassed relentlessly by the male officers attending. Abused and humiliated by this collective affront to her, she sought to bring charges on her attackers. However, she found that she must not only confront her attackers, but more importantly, the male military mentality and profound sexism that permitted this kind of outrage in the first place.
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Plot: Pete Porter and Honey Wynn become overnight sensations as a romantic singing duo. But what will become of their budding love affair when their feuding, back-stabbing managers persuade them to go solo?
Keywords: disc-jockey