Blue Suede Shoes - Legacy

Legacy

"Blue Suede Shoes" is often referred to in other songs including Chuck Berry's "Roll Over Beethoven" with "I'm giving you the warning, don't you step on my blue suede shoes."

"Blue Suede Shoes" was chosen as one of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. In 1986 Perkins' version was inducted in the Grammy Hall of Fame, and was included by the National Recording Preservation Board in the Library of Congress National Recording Registry in 2006. The board selects songs on an annual basis that are "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."

In 2004, Perkins' version was ranked No. 95 on Rolling Stone's list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time." It is his only song on that list. Presley's recording of the song was also on the list at No. 423.

In 1999, National Public Radio included "Blue Suede Shoes" in the "NPR 100," in which NPR's music editors sought to compile the 100 most important American musical works of the 20th century.

The Grateful Dead's hit "U.S. Blues" features the line "Red and white, blue suede shoes, I'm Uncle Sam, how do you do?"

The song is referenced in the Beastie Boys song "Johnny Ryall" from their album Paul's Boutique. The title character, a homeless man, "claims that he wrote the Blue Suede Shoes".

It is also referenced with "maybe some blue suede shoes" in The Lowest of the Low's 1991 song "Henry Needs a New Pair of Shoes" about a homeless man trying to survive "these cold gray days."

Additionally, the song is referenced in Marc Cohn's signature track, "Walking in Memphis," which begins, "Put on my blue suede shoes, and I boarded the plane."

The song appears in the TV miniseries Elvis, where Jonathan Rhys Meyers, portraying Presley, performs the song on stage at the Chicago International Auditorium, in his famous gold lamé suit.

"Blue Suede Shoes" is the opening number of the Broadway musical Million Dollar Quartet, which opened in New York in April 2010.

A similar version of the song, with different lyrics, is performed by Susan Cabot twice in the movie Carnival Rock (1957) (at approx. 0:30 and 1:03) under the name Ou-Shoo-Bla-D.