Lend Me Your Comb

1957 Sun 45, 287.

"Lend Me Your Comb" is a song written by Kay Twomey, Fred Wise and Ben Weisman and published by Alamo Music, ASCAP. It was originally the B-Side of Carl Perkins' "Glad All Over" single, released December 1957 on Sun Records as Sun 287 by "The Rockin' Guitar Man".^[1]

"Lend Me Your Comb" was Carl Perkins' last single on Sun Records.^[2] The vocals were by Carl Perkins and Jay Perkins. Today it is best known for a cover by The Beatles, recorded 2 July 1963 at the BBC Maida Vale Studios in London. The Beatles cover has helped the song gain some notability. Musically, it is best known as a Rock'n'Roll song, and is usually performed as such. The Beatles version was released on their Anthology 1 album in 1995 and again in 2013 on their On Air – Live at the BBC Volume 2 collection.^[3] Paul McCartney has also performed the song with Carl Perkins in a filmed performance on the 1993 "Old Friends" video. John Lennon recorded the song in a home recording for the 1971 film short Clock.

The song also appeared in the 1983 film The Outsiders in the re-released version.

It also appeared on the Beatles' Live! at the Star-Club in Hamburg, Germany; 1962 album.

Other versions

Other artists have performed the song, including:

• Paul McCartney in a duet with Carl Perkins
• John Lennon
• Vince Eager
• Carol Hughes with Hugo Peretti and His Orchestra, 1957, Roulette 4041
• Git Gone Boys
• Bernie Nee
• Rory Storm and the Hurricanes
• Hoodoo Gurus
• Roddy Jackson
• The Vargas Brothers
• The Reason
• The Aspreys
• Mojo Filter
• The Blue Jays

See also

• 1963 in music
• Rock'n'Roll
• Lend Me Your Comb. The Beatles Bible.

References

Sources

• Perkins, Carl, and David McGee. Go, Cat, Go!: The Life and Times of Carl Perkins, The King of Rockabilly. Hyperion Press, 1996. ISBN 0-7868-6073-1
• Morrison, Craig. Go Cat Go!: Rockabilly Music and Its Makers. University of Illinois Press, 1998.