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Jerry Lee Lewis: Jerry Lee Lewis - Jerry Rocks (CD)

1-CD Digipak (6-plated) with 40-page booklet, 33 tracks. Playing time approx. 80 mns.

Inevitably, our top-selling ROCKS! series now turns to the man who literally epitomizes ROCK: Jerry Lee Lewis! There have been plenty of Jerry Lee compilations through the years (hey! we've even produced a few of them ourselves), but this is the first to feature an incredible 80 minutes (well, 79 minutes and 50 seconds) of wall-to-wall piano pounding rock 'n' roll. It's also the first to include songs from Jerry Lee's Sun and Mercury recordings. ,


Twenty-one years in the life of Jerry Lee Lewis...and all the big rock hits you'd expect, like Whole Lotta Shakin', Great Balls Of Fire, High School Confidential, I'm On Fire, Chantilly Lace, and Me And Bobbie McGee, as well as rarities and obscurities like Real Wild Child, House Of Blue Lights, and Don't Boogie Woogie When You Say Your Prayers Tonight. This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of ,Jerry Lee Lewis's first record...and there'll be celebrations, but what better way to mark that anniversary than with 80 minutes (well, 79 minutes 50 seconds) of his very best rockers! ,

Bear Family's much-acclaimed ROCKS! series wouldn't have been complete without Jerry Lee Lewis. Here are 33 songs from Sun and Mercury. Some are well known ('Whole Lotta Shakin'', 'Great Balls Of Fire', etc.), some are less well known ('Boogie Woogie Country Man', 'I'm On Fire', etc.) but one thing they all have in common is that they ROCK!

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  • Genre Rock'n'Roll

  • Label Bear Family Records

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  • Edition 2 Deluxe Edition
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  • EAN: 4000127163967

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Lewis, Jerry Lee - Jerry Lee Lewis - Jerry Rocks (CD) CD 1
01 Real Wild Child (Wild One) Jerry Lee Lewis
02 Lewis Boogie Jerry Lee Lewis
03 Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On Jerry Lee Lewis
04 Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee Jerry Lee Lewis
05 End Of The Road Jerry Lee Lewis
06 Great Balls Of Fire Jerry Lee Lewis
07 Milkshake Mademoiselle Jerry Lee Lewis
08 Mean Woman Blues Jerry Lee Lewis
09 Put Me Down Jerry Lee Lewis
10 Jailhouse Rock Jerry Lee Lewis
11 Pink Pedal Pushers Jerry Lee Lewis
12 Good Rockin' Tonight Jerry Lee Lewis
13 Breathless Jerry Lee Lewis
14 Ubangi Stomp Jerry Lee Lewis
15 High School Confidential Jerry Lee Lewis
16 Lovin' Up A Storm Jerry Lee Lewis
17 Little Queenie Jerry Lee Lewis
18 Keep Your Hands Off Of It/Birthday Cake Jerry Lee Lewis
19 Old Black Joe Jerry Lee Lewis
20 What'd I Say Jerry Lee Lewis
21 I'm On Fire Jerry Lee Lewis
22 Maybellene Jerry Lee Lewis
23 I Believe In You Jerry Lee Lewis
24 Roll Over Beethoven Jerry Lee Lewis
25 Workin' Man Blues Jerry Lee Lewis
26 Sweet Georgia Brown Jerry Lee Lewis
27 Chantilly Lace Jerry Lee Lewis
28 Me And Bobby McGee Jerry Lee Lewis
29 Down The Line Jerry Lee Lewis
30 Boogie Woogie Country Man Jerry Lee Lewis
31 The House Of Blue Lights Jerry Lee Lewis
32 Don't Boogie Woogie (When You Say Your...) Jerry Lee Lewis
33 Tennessee Saturday Night Jerry Lee Lewis
Jerry Lee Lewis Jerry Lee Lewis - Obituary  The Pumping Piano Man will rock the... more
"Jerry Lee Lewis"

Jerry Lee Lewis

Jerry Lee Lewis - Obituary 

The Pumping Piano Man will rock the house no more.

Jerry Lee Lewis, whose youthful wildhair ways defined rock and roll as indelibly as his leering, lascivious vocals and thundering skills on the 88s, died October 28, 2022 at the age of 87. Against all odds, he was one of the last legends standing from the days when Sam Phillips built an astonishing talent roster for his Sun Records. When Lewis appeared on his doorstep in 1956, determined to show the folks in charge precisely what he could do to a defenseless piano, the Memphis label had already bid adieu to Elvis and was riding high thanks to Carl Perkins, Roy Orbison, Johnny Cash, and a posse of other raucous rockabillies. 

Still, Jerry Lee would captivate Sam—and the world--like no other, despite suffering monumental damage from a 1958 scandal involving his precocious child bride (who also happened to be his cousin) that would have ended any other performer’s career permanently. Jerry Lee, like Old Man River, just kept on rolling along, regenerating his popularity first with the rock and roll crowd and then veering into the country field with tremendous success. Long after he achieved senior citizen status (who would have ever foreseen that happening to the hard-living Lewis?), the Killer insisted on rocking as hard as his health would allow.

Born September 29, 1935 in Ferriday, Louisiana, Lewis grew up with a pair of piano-playing cousins, Mickey Gilley (who followed in Jerry Lee’s rocking footsteps) and future evangelist Jimmy Swaggart. Lewis cited country greats Jimmie Rodgers and Hank Williams as primary influences, along with a little bit of Al Jolson and some of the sweaty blues that he snuck into hear at Haney’s Big House, Ferriday’s top black juke joint. He mostly refused to admit to any pianists as role models, although his 88s-playing cousin Carl McVoy impressed him. So did sightless piano wizard Paul Whitehead when the two played together in Natchez circa 1952. A brief stint at a Texas bible college ended when Jerry Lee transformed My God Is Real into a heathenous boogie, but gospel music always remained close to his heart. 

Lewis honed his act in clubs from Natchez to Nashville prior to the auspicious trip to Memphis that landed Lewis his audition with Sun producer Jack Clement. Jack was impressed, and before long he rolled tape when Jerry Lee launched into his hot-rodded treatment of Ray Price’s recent country hit Crazy Arms. Sun pressed it up, and Lewis was on the musical map. Phillips knew he’d found someone truly special, and let tape roll whenever Jerry Lee found his way to 706 Union Avenue to pump Phillips’ studio piano. One of the many disparate songs Lewis waxed for Sun was the rip-roaring Whole Lot Of Shakin’ Going On, already waxed elsewhere by fellow piano man Roy Hall and mountainous blues belter Big Maybelle. Jerry Lee tightened up his rafter-rattling version during a long night at the Twin Gables in Blytheville, Arkansas. Then he cut it for Sun with guitarist Roland Janes, drummer J.M. Van Eaton, and Jerry Lee’s cousin, J.W. Brown, on electric bass.  

Issued as his encore single, Whole Lot Of Shakin’ was an across-the-board juggernaut during the summer of 1957. Lewis was suddenly starring on network television, headlining star-studded package shows, and raising hell wherever he went, playing pianos with his feet, kicking their benches, standing atop them and tearing them apart with the sheer ferocity of his performances. Things escalated to a fever pitch with his next Sun single, the flammable Otis Blackwell-penned smash Great Balls Of Fire. Lewis went right back to Blackwell for Breathless, another major hit. High School Confidential, the title song to the movie of the same name (in which Lewis memorably appeared on a flatbed truck under the opening credits), was on its way to similar blockbuster status when news hit of his betrothal to his 13-year-old cousin Myra Gail, bassist Brown’s daughter. Jerry Lee was instantly toxic, his career in tatters. 

Slowly but surely, he came back. Sam never gave up on him, continuing to issue a stream of Lewis platters until Jerry exited the fading label in 1963 to sign with Mercury’s Smash subsidiary. At first, Jerry Lee continued relentlessly rocking, but in ’68 he switched to country music and proved every bit as sensational as he was a decade earlier in the rock arena, posting an avalanche of hits and completing his comeback. Lewis would alternate between rock and country in decades to come, ferociously stoking his own outsized legend with seven wives, a 1989 movie based rather loosely on his life, and enough insane antics both offstage and on to fill the pages of several highly entertaining biographies. Bear Family has compiled a series of lavish boxed sets over the years covering much of the Killer’s amazing career.

No pianist ever rocked a boogie-woogie with more single-minded panache than the Killer. He was truly one of a kind.       --Bill Dahl

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25 Jul 2020

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Die Rocks Serie ist einfach Weltklasse. Das Jerry Lee Lewis Album kann man komplett durchhören, es überträgt perfekt den Spirit des Rock N Roll.

25 Jul 2020

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Die Rocks Serie ist einfach Weltklasse. Das Jerry Lee Lewis Album kann man komplett durchhören, es überträgt perfekt den Spirit des Rock N Roll.

23 Mar 2020

Very disappointing release from The Killer

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Tracklist
Lewis, Jerry Lee - Jerry Lee Lewis - Jerry Rocks (CD) CD 1
01 Real Wild Child (Wild One)
02 Lewis Boogie
03 Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On
04 Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee
05 End Of The Road
06 Great Balls Of Fire
07 Milkshake Mademoiselle
08 Mean Woman Blues
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12 Good Rockin' Tonight
13 Breathless
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15 High School Confidential
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18 Keep Your Hands Off Of It/Birthday Cake
19 Old Black Joe
20 What'd I Say
21 I'm On Fire
22 Maybellene
23 I Believe In You
24 Roll Over Beethoven
25 Workin' Man Blues
26 Sweet Georgia Brown
27 Chantilly Lace
28 Me And Bobby McGee
29 Down The Line
30 Boogie Woogie Country Man
31 The House Of Blue Lights
32 Don't Boogie Woogie (When You Say Your...)
33 Tennessee Saturday Night