"Carl Perkins Wrote This Song." — The Night Elvis Put The Weight Down.

Carl Perkins wrote "Blue Suede Shoes" in twenty minutes on New Year's Day, 1956. He recorded it first. He charted with it first. Then, while he was recovering from a car accident in a Delaware hospital, Elvis Presley performed it on national television for thirty million people — and it became, in the public imagination, an Elvis song. Carl didn't speak about it for years. Then, in 1961, Elvis walked across a room toward him with a quality his road manager described as urgency. What Elvis said — and what he did for the next sixteen years — is the part of the story nobody tells. 🎵 Chapters: 00:00 – New Year's Day, 1956: 20 Minutes, One Song 02:30 – The Hospital Bed and The Newspaper 05:30 – "He's Going To Make It The Biggest Song In The World" 08:30 – 1961: The Room In Nashville 11:00 – "I Owe You That Song. I Knew It Was Yours." 13:30 – 17 Years Of Crediting Carl 16:00 – "Ladies and Gentlemen, The Man Who Wrote It" Subscribe for more untold stories from music history every week.