After all those days in the cotton fields, the dreams came true on a gold record on a piece of wood. It's in my den where I can look at it every day. I wear it out lookin' at it.

Drummer Holland rolled Perkins over saving him from drowning. " Perkins' songs were recorded by artists (and friends) as influential as Elvis Presley The Beatles Jimi Hendrix and Johnny Cash which further cemented his place in the history of popular music. Another Perkins's tune "Gone Gone Gone" released in October 1955 by Sun was also a regional success.

His best known song is "Blue Suede Shoes". According to Charlie Daniels "Carl Perkins' songs personified the rockabilly era and Carl Perkins' sound personifies the rockabilly sound more so than anybody involved in it because he never changed.