The Sun label was yellow with brown printing. "SUN" above the center hole with alternating yellow
and light brown rays coming from the center hole and fanning out to the top 1/3 of the label behind it.
Around the perimeter of label are music notes. At the bottom of the label is a yellow "MEMPHIS,
TENNESSEE" in a brown oval. Below this is "A PRODUCT OF SUN RECORD CO., INC. - MEMPHIS,
TENN.".
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SUN ALBUM DISCOGRAPHY
Number - Title - Artist [Release Date] Contents
LP-1220 - Johnny Cash with His Hot and Blue Guitar - Johnny Cash [1956] The original
cover for this album has a light blue background. Half of the guitar and "CASH" are orange, and the
other half of his guitar is blue. "HOT" in the title is orange and "BLUE" is in blue. The second cover has
the light blue background replaced with white. Original covers are shiny laminated, later covers are dull.
Rock Island Line/I Heard That Lonesome Whistle/Country Boy/If The Good Lord's Willing/Cry! Cry!
Cry!/Remember Me//So Doggone Lonesome/I Was There When It Happened/I Walk The Line/Wreck Of
The Old ‘97/Folsom Prison Blues/Doing My Time
LP-1225 - Dance with Carl Perkins - Carl Perkins [1957] Cover is red, white and blue
with a picture of Carl Perkins and a drawing of two blue shoes. Released in Great Britain as The
Dance Album/Blue Suede Shoes on London HA-S 2202, an album which by a glance at the titles,
was probably owned by one of the Beatles. Blue Suede Shoes/Movie Magg/Sure To Fall/Gone Gone
Gone/Honey Don't/Only You//Tennessee/Wrong Yo Yo/Everybody's Trying To Be My
Baby/Matchbox/Your True Love/Boppin' The Blues
LP-1225 - Teen Beat: The Best of Carl Perkins - Carl Perkins [1961] This album is a
reissue of Dance Album of Carl Perkins with a new cover and title. Photos of teenagers dancing
in the letters of "TEEN BEAT". Blue Suede Shoes/Movie Magg/Sure To Fall/Gone Gone Gone/Honey
Don't/Only You//Tennessee/Wrong Yo Yo/Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby/Matchbox/Your True
Love/Boppin' The Blues
SLP-1230 - Jerry Lee Lewis - Jerry Lee Lewis [1958] Don't Be Cruel/Goodnight Irene/Put
Me Down/It All Depends/Ubangi Stomp/Crazy Arms//Jambalaya/Fools Like Me/High School
Confidential/When The Saints Go Marching In/Matchbox/It'll Be Me
SLP-1235 - Johnny Cash Sings the Songs That Made Him Famous - Johnny Cash
[12/58] Ballad Of A Teenage Queen/There You Go/I Walk The Line/Don't Make Me Go/Guess Things
Happen That Way/Train Of Love//The Ways Of A Woman In Love/Next In Line/You're The Nearest
Thing To Heaven/I Can't Help It
SLP-1240 - Greatest - Johnny Cash [11/59] Good-Bye Little Darlin'/I Just Thought You'd
Like To Know/You Tell Me/Just About Time/I Forgot To Remember To Forget/Katy Too//Thanks A
Lot/Luther's Boogie/You Win Again/Hey Good Lookin'/I Could Never Be Ashamed Of You/Get Rhythm
SLP-1245 - Johnny Cash Sings Hank Williams - Johnny Cash [1960] I Can't Help It/You
Win Again/Hey Good Lookin'/I Could Never Be Ashamed Of You/Next In Line/Straight A's In
Love//Folsom Prison Blues/Give My Love To Rose/I Walk The Line/I Love You Because/Come In
Stranger/Mean Eyed Cat
SLP-1250 - Sun's Gold Hits Volume 1 - Various Artists [1960] Whole Lotta Shakin' Going
On - Jerry Lee Lewis/I Walk The Line - Johnny Cash/Blue Suede Shoes - Carl Perkins/You Win Again -
Jerry Lee Lewis/Mona Lisa - Carl Mann/Lonely Weekends - Charlie Rich//Raunchy - Bill Justis/Guess
Things Happen That Way - Johnny Cash/Breathless - Jerry Lee Lewis/Stay - Charlie Rich/I'm Coming
Home - Carl Mann/Bopping' The Blues - Carl Perkins
SLP-1255 - Now Here's Johnny Cash - Johnny Cash [1961] Also released as T-90678
by Capitol Record Club. Later issues have a "stereo" designation on the top of the jacket, but the record
is mono. Sugartime/Down The Street To 301/Life Goes On/Port Of Lonely Hearts/Cry Cry Cry/My
Treasure//Oh Lonesome Me/So Doggone Lonesome/You're The Nearest Thing To Heaven/Story Of A
Broken Heart/Hey Porter/Home Of The Blues
SLP-1260 - Roy Orbison at the Rockhouse - Roy Orbison [1961] This Kind Of Love/Devil
Doll/You're My Baby/Tryin' To Get To You/It's Too Late/Rock House//You're Gonna Cry/I Never
Knew/Sweet And Easy To Love/Mean Little Mama/Ooby Dooby/Problem Child
SLP-1265 - Jerry Lee's Greatest - Jerry Lee Lewis [1961] Money/As Long As I
Live/Country Music/Frankie And Johnny/Home/Hello Hello Baby//Let's Talk About Us/What'd I
Say/Breakup/Great Balls Of Fire/Cold Cold Heart/Hello Josephine
SLP-1270 - All Aboard The Blue Train - Johnny Cash [1963] Also issued as Capitol
Record Club edition DT-91458 in electronic stereo. Blue Train/There You Go/Train Of Love/Good-Bye
Little Darling/I Heard That Lonesome Whistle/Come In Stranger//Rock Island Line/Give My Love To
Rose/Hey Porter/Folsom Prison Blues/The Wreck Of The Old ‘97/So Doggone Lonesome
SLP-1275 - Original Sun Sound - Johnny Cash [1965] Released in Great Britian as
London HA-S 8220. Always Alone/Country Boy/Goodnight Irene/Wide Open Road/Thanks A Lot/Big
River//Belshazzar/Born To Lose/New Mexico/I Forgot To Remember To Forget/Two Timin' Woman/Story
Of A Broken Heart
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