BIG BLUE DIAMONDS

Created on 22/11/2005
Latest update on 27/06/2023

Artist: Red Perkins
Author: Earl Kit Carson
Label: King
Year: 1950

White honky tonk turned rhythm 'n blues from Earl King on.

Covers:

1950:

Tex Ritter

1953:

Jimmy Dean & his Texas Wildcats [for Mercury]

1956:

Earl King [for King]

1962:

Little Willie John [idem]

1964:

Gene Summers [produced by Huey Meaux]

1965:

Clint West [swamp pop variation]

1966:

Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs

1967:

Little Johnny Taylor

1972:

Jacky Ward [his initial C&W chart success]

1972:

Ernest Tubb

1974:

Jerry Lee Lewis

1990:

Willy DeVille

1996:

Don Walser

2004:

Percy Sledge [with Paul Jones]

2006:

Van Morrison

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