Artist	Song
Bill Haley & His Comets	Rock Around the Clock
from Rock Around the Clock (2004)
Carl Perkins	Put Your Cat Clothes On
from Essential Sun Rockabillies, Vol. 1 (2006)
Johnny Cash	Cry, Cry, Cry
from With His Hot and Blue Guitar (1957)
Jerry Lee Lewis	Great Balls of Fire
from Jerry Lee's Greatest (1961)
Gene Vincent	Be-Bop-A-Lula
from Gene Vincent - Capitol Collectors Series (1990)
Rick Nelson	Lonesome Town
from Greatest Hits (2002)
The Crickets	Not Fade Away
from The Definitive Collection (2006)
Chuck Berry	Maybellene
from After School Session (2004)
Little Richard	Tutti Frutti
from The Georgia Peach (2006)
Wanda Jackson	Let's Have a Party
from Wanda Jackson (2002)
Brenda Lee	Bigelow 6-200
from Brenda Lee: Anthology, Vols. 1 & 2 (1956-1980) (1991)
Billy Lee Riley	Red Hot
from Red Hot (2006)
Dale Hawkins	Suzie Q
from The Chess Blues-Rock Songbook (1997)
Roy Orbison	Mean Woman Blues
from 16 Biggest Hits: Roy Orbison (1999)
Conway Twitty	Lonely Blue Boy
from Gold: Conway Twitty (2006)
Charlie Rich	Lonely Weekends
from The Essential Charlie Rich (1997)
Tom Jones	Green, Green Grass of Home
from 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Tom Jones (2000)
Engelbert Humperdinck	Release Me
from 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection - Engelbert Humperdinck (2007)
Neil Diamond	Sweet Caroline
from The Neil Diamond Collection (1999)
Johnny Rivers	The Poor Side of Town
from Johnny Rivers: Greatest Hits (1990)
Roy Head & The Traits	Treat Her Right
from The Best of Roy Head (2009)
Bobbie Gentry	Mississippi Delta
from The Best of Bobbie Gentry - The Capitol Years (2007)
Tony Joe White	Polk Salad Annie
from Rhino Hi-Five: Tony Joe White - EP (2005)
B.J. Thomas	Hooked On a Feeling
from Brady Days - Music Inspired By the Brady Bunch (Re-recorded Version) (2007)
Mac Davis	Whoever Finds This, I Love You
from The Best of Mac Davis (2007)

Comment:

From rockabilly’s creation to nationwide sensation, Elvis’ world teemed with artists tapping parallel musical wellsprings, dreaming of a Presley-sized payoff. As the snare snaps a couple of rapid-fire rim-shots like a track judge’s starting gun, Bill Haley counts off the last seconds of adult culture’s reign in “Rock Around the Clock,” a bass-thumpin’ wedge of jumpin’ jive that [i]defies[/i] you to stay off the dance floor. After Elvis topped the charts with his “Blue Suede Shoes,” Carl Perkins revisited the wardrobe for “Put Your Cat Clothes On,” a breakneck-paced, piano-pounding boogie-woogie jam. And Tony Joe White’s swampy bayou baritone on “Polk Salad Annie” wrapped so much gator-chompin’ mojo around its core that Presley adopted the 1969 hit for himself. As you’ll discover with the rest of our Similar Sounds, you don’t [i]have[/i] to be a hell-fired son of the South to channel Elvis — but it sure helps.

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