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Music Nerdiness: Johnny Cash was partly responsible for the iconic Carl Perkins song "Blue Suede Shoes." In the fall of 1955, while Perkins, Cash, Elvis Presley, toured throughout the South. Cash told Perkins of a black airman whom he had met when serving in the military in Germany. He had referred to his military regulation air shoes as "blue suede shoes." Cash suggested that Carl write a song about the shoes. A year later, that song was a hit.
Posted on: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 09:56:19 +0000

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