Elvis Prealey vs Carl Perkins

Birth name: Elvis Aron Presley

Born: January 8, 1935

Origin: Tupelo, Mississippi, USA

Died: August 16, 1977Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Genres: Rock/Pop/Country/Gospel/Rock'n'Roll

Occupations: Singer, Actor, American soldier
Instruments: Guitar and Piano

Years active: 1954–1977

Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977), often known simply as Elvis and also called "The King of Rock 'n' Roll" or simply "The King", was an American singer and actor. Presley started as a singer of rockabilly, borrowing many songs from rhythm and blues (R&B) numbers and country which morphed into rock & roll. He was the most commercially successful singer of rock and roll, but he also sang ballads, country music as well as gospel. In a musical career of over two decades, Presley set records for concert attendance, television ratings, and record sales, and became one of the biggest artists in music history.The young Presley became an icon of modern American pop culture, sometimes held to represent the American Dream of rising from rags to riches through talent and hard work, more often representing teen sexuality with a hint of delinquency. During the 1970s, Presley reemerged as a steady performer of old and new hit songs on tour and particularly as a performer in Las Vegas, Nevada, where he was known for his jump-suits and capes as well as massive attendance figures. Until the last years of his life, he continued to perform before sell-out audiences around the U.S. He died, presumably from a heart attack combined with abuse of prescription drugs, in Memphis, Tennessee. His popularity as a singer has survived his death at 42.

Birth name: Carl Lee Perkins

Born: April 9, 1932

Origin: Tiptonville, Tennessee, USA

Died: January 19,1998

Occupations: Singer,Actor

Genres: rockabilly music, a mix of rhythm and blues and country music

Instrument: Guitar

Carl Lee Perkins (April 9, 1932 – January 19, 1998) was an American pioneer of rockabilly music, a mix of rhythm and blues and country music that evolved at Sun Records in Memphis in the early 1950s.Born in Tiptonville, Tennessee, as a poor tenant farmer, Perkins grew up surrounded by southern gospel music sung by Black cotton field workers. By age seven, he was playing a guitar his father made from a cigar box, broomstick and baling wire. At age thirteen, he won a talent contest with a song he wrote called "Movie Magg". Ten years later, the same song convinced Sam Phillips to sign Perkins to his Sun Records label.In late 1955, a desperately poor and struggling Perkins wrote the song "Blue Suede Shoes" on an old potato sack. Produced by Sam Phillips, the record was a massive chart success. In the United States, it went to #1 on Billboard magazine's country music charts (the only #1 hit he would have), to #4 on the pop music charts, and to #3 on the rhythm & blues charts. In the United Kingdom, it became a Top 10 hit. It was the first record by a Sun label artist to sell a million copies. However, at the peak of the song's national success, Perkins was involved in a near-fatal car accident. Perkins could only watch as his friend, Elvis Presley, had a huge hit with a cover version of "Blue Suede Shoes".Invariably, Carl's contributions have received short-shrift in the numerous biographical films about the other members of the 'Million Dollar Quartet' (Presley, Cash & Lewis). His only notable film performance as an actor was in John Landis' 1985 film "Into the Night", a cameo-laden film that includes a scene where characters played by Carl and David Bowie die at each other's hand.And Carl Perkins died at the age of 65 from throat cancer after suffering several strokes. He is interred in the Ridgecrest Cemetery in Jackson, Tennessee.

Blue Suede Shoe song

(words & music by carl perkins)

Well, its one for the money,Two for the show,

Three to get ready,Now go, cat, go.

But dont you step on my blue suede shoes.

You can do anything but lay off of my blue suede shoes.

Well, you can knock me down,Step in my face,

Slander my nameAll over the place.

Do anything that you want to do,

but uh-uh,Honey, lay off of my shoes

Dont you step on my blue suede shoes.

You can do anything but lay off of my blue suede shoes.

You can burn my house,Steal my car,Drink my liquor

From an old fruitjar.Do anything that you want to do,

but uh-uh,Honey, lay off of my shoes

Dont you step on my blue suede shoes.You can do anything

but lay off of my blue suede shoes.

"Blue Suede Shoes" is a rock and roll standard written and first recorded by Carl Perkins in 1955. It is considered one of the first rock and roll records and incorporated elements of blues, country and pop music of the time. It was the first song to top the U.S. country, rhythm and blues and pop music charts. And Elvis Presley also borrowed this song, recorded his version of this song in 1956, waiting until his friend Perkins' version had left the charts.

When I was listening to both of their songs and compared how their unique style.Even both of them sang quit same kind of music, Rock & Roll, But Carl songs or his sing had sense of country sound more than Elvis.

The Civil Rights Era (1950 - Present)

Dorothy Dandridge

This is a movie that made reference from biography of Dorothy Dandridge follows her career through early days on the club circuit with her sister to her turn in movies, including becoming the first black actress to win a Best Actress Nomination in 1954 for "Carmen Jones", to her final demise to prescription drugs, which was debated whether it was suicide or accidental. Brent Spiner plays her faithful manager who stood beside her through all of the roller coaster of her career. The film also examines her love affair with director Otto Preminger, which is shown to have probably initially helped her career, but later probably led her to some wrong decisions. The film also examines 50's racism as the black star is not permitted to use white bathrooms or the Vegas pool. In the first situation, she was given a bathroom cup to pee in. In the second situation, the hotel drained the pool and scrubbed it after she dared put her foot in the water. Obba Babtunde appears as her first husband, dancer Harold Nicholas, with whom she has her only child, Lynn, a mentally retarded girl. Acting by Halle Berry, a holliwood superstar in 1991 passed on film.

First, I have to say " The cause from the past were the reason of today." As I saw on the American women charecteristics today maybe because they ever passed hard time like in World War II period that they had to do men duties. So it effects their charector in the present such as independent, working women,confidence, dare to do or speak, think men and women are equal etc. Yeah!! On the film, you could see many women smoking and drinking. And I saw that woman fashion in that time like to wear gloves. When I was watching this movie, I feel like I follow the story of a woman that want to be a star but a long the way she had to struggle or face with many obstacles. Espespacially, discriminate color skin cause in that time human right still not equal. Maybe because the origin of black people were African people that the past were savage of European people, so that maybe a reason why they were treat not equal. But today it's not like that everybody are threat as equal, have equal right cause we are human like each others.

This is a movie that shown the situation of the wartime, the film story were the part of history that would help you could learn/know more about the wartime and it's the real story that really happened in that time. The story about, Major Caton takes command of the small Marine garrison on Wake Island in November 1941. His tendency toward spit and polish upsets the men's tropical lassitude, but Pearl Harbor changes everything. Soon the island is attacked and the Marines pull together day by day. With no hope of relief or re-supply, a small band of United States Marines try to keep the Japanese Navy from capturing their island base. As an island is the result of a pre-World War II.

The truth of the part of the war

On December 8, 1941 the same day as the attack on Pearl Harbor (Wake being on the opposite side of the International Date Line), sixteen Japanese medium bombers flown from bases on the Marshall Islands attacked Wake Island, destroying eight of the twelve F4F Wildcat fighter aircraft belonging to Marine Corps fighter squadron VMF-211 on the ground. All of the Marine garrison's defensive emplacements were left intact by the raid, which primarily targeted the naval aircraft.

wake Island

Raising the U.S. Flag at Wake Island, 4 September 1945,following the Japanese surrender of the island aboard USS LEVY DE 162

World War II (1940-1945)

The Americanization of Emily

The Americanization of Emiy is a great world war II film projected in 1964, it takes place in London during the month before D-Day in the spring of 1944. It's a romantic story during the war period of lieutenant Commander Charlie Madison is a charismatic "Dog Robber" for Navy Admiral William Jessup. A "Dog Robber" is a sort of personal assistant whose chief duty is that of procurement officer, charged with keeping his admiral or general well-clothed, well-fed and well-loved during the battle with considerable emphasis on the latter and Emily Barham is a war widow working the motor pool who is assigned to drive Charlie to the supply station to pick up steaks, eggs, fruit and plenty of booze for a swank officers’ party.

In the film, showed the characteristics of American people in the war time. Seem everyone had their own duty cause it's the responsibility that they had to do for the country or they had to adapt themselves with wartime. As in the World War II, few men served their counties more ably than a small group of unheralded heros known as "The Dog Robber". A Dog Robber is the personal attendant of a general or admiral and his job is to keep his general or admiral well clothed, well fed, well loved during the battle. Many soldiers had hard stress during wartime so before they go to the army, they would try to fetch happiness things such as go to the club, catch the girl, do what they want to do, etc. maybe because they don't know that they would have the chance to go back home/alive from the war or not. And women had the big changing role, they had to do men works or men duties cause most of the man went to the army and most of them had to be the widow. The foods were lack, many families lost their love some almost insane.

Further more knowledge about World War II

The war started in Europe on September 1, 1939 when Germany led by Adolf Hitler invaded Poland. The immediate Causes of World War II are generally held to be the German invasion of Poland, and the Japanese attacks on China, the United States, and British and Dutch colonies. Commonly held underlying causes for World War II are the rise of nationalism, the rise of militarism, and the presence of unresolved territorial issues.

P.S I just know from the film that HERSHEYS chocolate that I like to eat, had reputation for long time since World War II period or may be before that : )

It Happened One Night

It happened one night is a 1934 romantic comedy. This is considered to be the first of the great screwball comedies.

The theme of the film is an appropriate during the Depression Era (droping financial/increasing number of unemploy), is the story of the unlikely romantic pairing of a mis-matched couple - a gruff and indifferent, recently-fired newspaper man, Peter Warne and a snobbish, superior-acting heiress, Ellie Andrews. She was runaway on the lam from her father, a wealthy man because he didn't want her to marriage King Westley that made she met Peter on a bus that she tried to travel from Miami heading to New York. Peter recognized her face that she was a daughter of Andrews, a wealthy man so he made an agreement with her that he would help her go back to her lover, King Westley by exchanging with her story for his article on the newspaper. But with their many adventures coming to an end so every seem unplan or reverse, they find that they are reluctantly in love and afraid to admit it to each other. It is a reversal of the Cinderella story (the heroine rejects her wealthy lifestyle), a modern tale with light-hearted sex appeal in which courtship and love triumph over class conflicts, socio-economic differences, and verbal battles of wit.

The film, composed mostly of a road trip (by bus, car, foot, and by thumb in locales such as bus depots or interiors of buses, and the open road) by the social-class-unmatched couple, contains some of the most classic scenes ever made: the "Walls of Jericho" scene in an auto-camp bungalow so that they can sleep in the same room out of wedlock, the doughnuts-dunking lesson, the hitchhiking scene, the night-time scene on a haystack in a deserted barn, and the dramatic wedding scene. With his good-natured, street-smart, and breezy performance, Gable influenced the un-sale of undershirts by taking off his shirt and exposing his bare chest, and bus travel by women substantially increased as a result of the film.

At first, I thought this movie it must be boring movie for sure because it is a black and white movie, and be an old movie but when I started watching its for a while I even could not leave its to go to anywhere cause I didn't want to miss any shot and really want to know how end of the story. The story is very fun, should follow and I'm the person that like romantic comedy movie so it's not hard that I'm going to love this movie. And it seem that I in love with Peter Warne charecter, he was a chaming, clever man even he looks stiff outside but inside he very soft. How he treated Ellie or took care her, it looks so sweet.

In the movie, you could see American women in that period of time, had short hair, wear cloth that not show body, wear belt on top of dress, wear queer hat, shave off eyebrows and use pencil draw arched eyebrows, etc. And hot dogs, hamburger, donut and popcorn were the American long time foods.

Great Depression

Yankee Doodle Dandy

Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) is one of the greatest musicals and entertaining film, also supported the war effort. It released just after the attack on Pearl Harbor in late 1941 the earlier for World War I by based on the story of George M. Cohan and his family, father, mother and sister called The Four Cohans. They were the musician family.

George M. Cohan, he is a musician/entertainer that tried to catch his dream in the broadway.He could dance, sing and writing song.

In the movie, you would see many example of musics, tap dances, part of World War I and especially the depression time that American politic and financial had problem, most of American people were unemployed, difficult to find a job and struggle to servive. You will learn the part of American culture passing the music or the lyric that telling real the story.

Lyric of Yankee Doodle Dandy song

Verse 1
I'm the kid that's all the candy,
I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy,
I'm glad I am,
So's Uncle Sam.
I'm a real live Yankee Doodle,
Made my name and fame and boodle,
Just like Mister Doodle did, by riding on a pony.
I love to listen to the Dixie strain,
I long to see the girl I left behind me;
That ain't a josh,
She's a Yankee, by gosh.
Oh, say can you see,
Anything about a Yankee that's a phony?

Verse 2

Father's name was Hezikiah,
Mother's name was Ann Maria,
Yanks through and through.
Red, White and Blue
Father was so Yankee-hearted,
When the Spanish war was started,
He slipped on a uniform and hopped upon a pony.
My mother's mother was a Yankee true,
My father's father was a Yankee too:
That's going some,
For the Yankees, by gum.
Oh, say can you see
Anything about my pedigree that's phony?

Chorus
I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy,
A Yankee Doodle, do or die;
A real live nephew of my Uncle Sam's,
Born on the Fourth of July.
I've got a Yankee Doodle sweetheart,
She's my Yankee Doodle joy.
Yankee Doodle came to London, just to ride the ponies;
I am the Yankee Doodle Boy.

The lyric referred to America's English colonists, the colonisls who fought alongside the British troops or a British army surgeon during the French and Indian Wars.

American Country Music

Country music,also known as country & western music or country-western, is a blend of popular musical forms originally found in the Southern United States. It has roots in traditional folk music, blues, gospal music and old time music.

Kitty Wells

Kitty Wells is an American country musician in early period of country music from Nashville, Tennessee and known as the Queen of Country Music. In 1952 Wells became the first womwn that have a number one country record in the United State.

Example of her songs lyric

A Mansion on the Hill

Tonight down here in the valley I'm lonesome and oh how I feelAs I sit here alone in my cabin I can see your mansion on the hillDo you recall when we parted the story to me you revealedYou said you could live without love dear in your loveless mansion on the hill[steel-fiddle]I've waited all through the years love to give you a heart true and realCause I know you're living in sorrow in your loveless mansion on the hillThe light shines bright in your window the trees stand silent and stillI know you're alone with your pride dear in your loveless mansion on the hill

The Great Speckled Bird
What a beautiful thought I am thinking concerning a great speckled birdRemember her name is recorded on the pages of God's holy wordDesiring to lower her standards they watch every move that she makesThey long to find fault with her teaching but really they found no mistakes[guitar]I am glad I have learned of her meekness I am proud that my name is in the bookFor I want to be one never fearing on the face of my Saviour true lookWhen he comes descending from heaven on the cloud that he write in his wordI'll be joyfully carried to meet him on the wings of the great speckled bird

I think country music is a kind of music that has value in culture and should protect to go over generation to generation. The song lyric could communication the meaning very well and understand deeply. As I listened to the Kitty Wells songs, she used a guitar to make the melody. When you listen, you will know suddenly that it is the country music because of its melody that be the style of country music and the lyric could understand easily, have straight forward meaning.