Editing Carl Perkins (section)

===Return to recording and touring===
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Perkins returned to live performances on April 21, 1956 beginning with an appearance in [[Beaumont, Texas]], with the Big D Jamboree tour.<ref>[[#gocatgo|Perkins, p. 191.]]</ref> Before he resumed touring, Sam Phillips arranged a recording session at Sun with Ed Cisco filling in for the still-recuperating Jay. By mid-April, they recorded [[Dixie Fried]], Put Your Cat Clothes On, Wrong Yo-Yo, You Can't Make Love to Somebody, [[Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby]], and That Don't Move Me.<ref>[[#gocatgo|Perkins, p. 198.]]</ref> On May 26, Perkins and his band (with Jay Perkins performing wearing a visible neck brace), finally appeared on ''The Perry Como Show'' to perform "Blue Suede Shoes".<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRNyvO4QouY Youtube: "Carl Perkins - Blue Suede Shoes - Perry Como Show -1956"]</ref>

[[File:Jamboree Carl Perkins.jpg|thumb|250 px|Perkins (front) performing "[[Glad All Over (Carl Perkins song)|Glad All Over]]" with (left to right) Clayton Perkins, W.S. "Fluke" Holland, and Jay Perkins in the 1957 movie ''[[Jamboree (1957 film)|Jamboree]]'']]

Beginning early that summer, Perkins was paid $1,000 to play two songs a night on the extended tour of Top Stars of '56. Other performers on the tour were [[Chuck Berry]] and [[Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers]]. When Perkins and the group entered the stage in [[Columbia, South Carolina]], he was shocked to see a teenager with a bleeding chin pressed against the stage by the massed crowd. During the first guitar intermission of Honey Don't, they were waved offstage and into a vacant dressing room behind a double line of police officers. Appalled by what he had seen and felt, Perkins left the tour.<ref>[[#gocatgo|Perkins, pp. 188, 210, 212.]]</ref> Appearing with [[Gene Vincent]] and [[Lillian Briggs]] in a rock 'n' roll show, he helped attract 39,872 people to the Reading Fair in Pennsylvania on a Tuesday night in late September. Soon after, a full grandstand and one thousand people stood in a heavy rain to hear Perkins and Briggs at the Brockton Fair in Massachusetts.<ref>''Billboard'', September 29, 1956. pages 73, 78.</ref>

Sun issued more Perkins songs in 1956: [[Boppin' the Blues]] / All Mama's Children (Sun 243), the B side co-written with Johnny Cash; and [[Dixie Fried]] / I'm Sorry, I'm Not Sorry (Sun 249). [[Matchbox (song)|Matchbox]] / [[Your True Love]] (Sun 261)<ref>[http://rcs.law.emory.edu/rcs/pics/d03/3238.htm] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090205180927/http://rcs.law.emory.edu/rcs/pics/d03/3238.htm|date=February 5, 2009}}</ref> came out in February, 1957.<ref name="rcs-discography1"/> [[Boppin' the Blues]] reached number 47 on the ''Cashbox'' pop singles chart, number nine on the ''Billboard'' country and western chart, and number 70 on the ''Billboard'' Top 100 chart.

Matchbox became a rockabilly classic. It was recorded with Perkins on lead guitar and vocals, and then Sun studio piano player, [[Jerry Lee Lewis]].  Later that day, there was an impromptu session with Perkins, Presley, Johnny Cash, and Jerry Lee Lewis informally referred to as the [[Million Dollar Quartet]].<ref name=pc8/> Sun released the full recordings from this jam session, a selection of gospel, country, and R&B songs in 1990.<ref name="nytimesobit"/>

On February 2, 1957, Perkins again appeared on ''Ozark Jubilee'', singing Matchbox and Blue Suede Shoes. He also made at least two appearances on ''[[Town Hall Party]]'' in [[Compton, California]], in 1957,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hillbilly-music.com/programs/story/index.php?prog=170 |title=Town Hall Party |publisher=hillbilly-music.com |access-date=2011-11-25}}</ref> singing both songs. Those performances were included in the ''Western Ranch Dance Party'' series filmed and distributed by Screen Gems.

He released [[That's Right (Carl Perkins song)|That's Right]], co-written with Johnny Cash, backed with the ballad Forever Yours, as Sun single 274 in August, 1957. Neither side made it onto the charts.

The 1957 film ''[[Jamboree (1957 film)|Jamboree]]'' included Perkins performing [[Glad All Over (Carl Perkins song)|Glad All Over]]. The song was written by [[Aaron Schroeder]], [[Sid Tepper]], and [[Roy C. Bennett]],<ref>[http://rcs-discography.com/rcs/pics/d03/3240.htm]{{dead link|date=November 2011}}</ref> Sun released it in January, 1958.<ref>[http://rcs-discography.com/rcs/artists/p/perk1000.htm#l2w] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20120717234900/http://rcs-discography.com/rcs/artists/p/perk1000.htm|date=July 17, 2012}}</ref>