“JENNY, Jenny, Jenny, won’t you come along with me?” Bill Culp crooned down the phone from his Melbourne hotel by way of an introduction to our interview.
I do believe it was the Little Richard version, by a man at home performing in the style of a variety of legendary artists, including Carl Perkins, whose part he takes in the Sun Records All Stars tour at the Astor Theatre.
The recording company discovered the likes of Elvis Presley, Perkins, Roy Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis and Johnny Cash–changing the face of music with the birth to rock ‘n’ roll in the 1950s.
“It’s amazing really, you got to wonder 50 years from now will anyone be doing this for artists of today,” Canadian-born Culp says.
“The Sun Records artists were iconic.
“They had authenticity and they weren’t contrived–they were real artists.”
Culp will be joined by a talented cast of Roy LeBlanc as Johnny Cash and Roy Orbison, Gino Monopoli as Elvis, and Joe Passion as Jerry Lee Lewis in a high energy romp through the history of some of the biggest stars of the 20th century.
Sun Records All Stars, Astor Theatre, Wednesday March 2.
by JENNY D’ANGER
Perth Voice Interactive 
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