Boppin' the Blues

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"Boppin' the Blues"
Single by Carl Perkins
B-side	"All Mama's Children"
Released	May 1956
Recorded	1956
Studio	Sun Studio (Memphis)
Genre	Rockabilly
Label	Sun
Songwriter(s)	Carl Perkins
Producer(s)	Sam Phillips
Carl Perkins singles chronology
"Blue Suede Shoes" b/w "Honey Don't" (1956) "Boppin' the Blues" (1956) "Dixie Fried" (1956)

"Boppin' the Blues" is a 1956 song written by Carl Perkins and Howard "Curley" Griffin and released as a single on Sun Records in May 1956. The single was released as a 45 and 78, Sun 243, backed with "All Mama's Children", a song co-written by Perkins with Sun labelmate Johnny Cash.^[1]

The song was featured on the 1970 album Carl Perkins' Greatest Hits, Columbia LP CS 9833 and the 1986 Rhino Records collection Carl Perkins: Original Sun Greatest Hits, RNCD 75890. Perkins also performed the song on the Town Hall Party syndicated TV series in 1959 and with Dave Edmunds and The Stray Cats on the 1985 HBO/Cinemax special Blue Suede Shoes: A Rockabilly Session. The record was reissued in 1984 on the Collectables label on the Back to Back Hit Series featuring Sun Records as 3090 and on the Sun Golden Treasure Series in 1979 as Sun 9.