Dixie Fried
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"Dixie Fried" is a 1956 song written by Carl Perkins and Howard "Curley" Griffin and released as a single on Sun Records. The song was released as a 45 and 78 single, Sun 249, in August, 1956 backed with "I'm Sorry, I'm Not Sorry".[1] The single reached no. 10 on the Billboard country and western chart in 1956. The single was also released in Canada on the Quality label as #1557. The record was reissued as a 45 single in 1979 on the Shelby Singleton-owned Sun Golden Treasure Series as Sun 10.
Howard "Curley" Griffin was a singer and disc jockey from Jackson, Tennessee who quoted from the song in his own release, "Got Rockin' On My Mind", released in 1957 on the Atomic Records label as 305. Griffin uses the refrain "rave on" and "dixie fried". Griffin also co-wrote the song "Boppin' the Blues" with Carl Perkins in 1956.
The 1958
Notable recordings
The song has also been recorded by
Carl Perkins recorded an updated version of the song in 1973 entitled "(Let's Get) Dixiefried" from the My Kind of Country album which reached no. 61 on the Billboard country chart.
References
- ^ "SUN Records, Memphis Tennessee". Boija.com. Retrieved 28 April 2021.
- ^ a b "Original versions of Dixie Fried by Chris Isaak". Secondhandsongs.com. Retrieved 28 April 2021.
- ^ "Jimmy Page, Albert Lee & John Paul Jones – No Introduction Necessary (1991, CD)". Discogs.com. 1991. Retrieved 28 April 2021.
- ^ "Jimmy Page Discography". Whiskyandrocknroll.blogspot.com. Retrieved 28 April 2021.
- ISBN 978-0-89820-203-8.
Sources
- Perkins, Carl, and McGee, David, (1996) Go, Cat, Go!: The Life and Times of Carl Perkins, The King of Rockabilly, Hyperion Press. ISBN 0-7868-6073-1
- Morrison, Craig (1998) Go Cat Go!: Rockabilly Music and Its Makers, University of Illinois Press.
- The Carl Perkins Sun Collection.
- Guterman, Jimmy. (1998) "Carl Perkins." In The Encyclopedia of Country Music. Paul Kingsbury, Ed. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 412–413.
- Naylor, Jerry; Halliday, Steve. The Rockabilly Legends: They Called It Rockabilly Long Before They Called It Rock and Roll, Milwaukee, Wisc.: Hal Leonard. ISBN 978-1-4234-2042-2. OCLC 71812792.