​“Blue Suede Shoes”

             If you try searching a playlist of Elvis Presley, it’s a guarantee that you will find “Blue Suede Shoes” up there on the list of his all-time greatest hits with no doubts. “Blue Suede Shoes” was recorded in 1956 and was used as an open song of the album “The King”, from the king of Rock ‘n Roll himself. Additionally, “Blue Suede Shoes” has influenced a fashion industry of the whole America at the time as “Blue Suede Shoes” has been classified as an elegantly stylish shoes that has been widely worn when going out at night for people in the Southern part of America.
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           However, “Blue Suede Shoes” was composed and sung by Carl Perkins in 1955 and was released publicly in 1956 and swiftly became a top hit on the chart, with various sources of influences to the lyric of the song, like, Johnny Cash, the one who told a story of a black army named CV. White whom he met while serving in a military in Germany, at that time White calls his army shoes “Blue Suede Shoes” and he wouldn’t let anyone dirty up his shoes ever and, moreover, Cash suggested Perkins to compose a song about shoes as well. In another version of this song, it tells a story about a dance where Perkins noticed that there were one couple who was dancing close to the stage and then he heard the man shouted to his lady partner “Don’t step on my suede shoes” but it was too late, when she looked down, the “Blue Suede Shoes” of that boy were already been stepped on. Perkins felts it was hilarious that the boy cared more about his shoes than his beautiful lady he was dancing with right in front of him and that, lady and gentlemen, was a beginning of this song.
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          And in the peak of his life and career, Perkins got into a car accident on the way to film a TV show, tragically, he passed away in that accident, Elvis Presley, at that time, knew Perkins well, so he took that song and re-sang in a different version and it went widely famous. In addition, “Blue Suede Shoes” were remade in numerous versions and this song was listed as top 500 most influenced songs of Rock ‘n Roll of all time.