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(Sun Records) 14 tracks, with liner notes. Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. Celebrate the career... more

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Jerry Lee Lewis: The Killer Keys Of Jerry Lee Lewis - Sun Records 70th Anniversary (LP, 180g Vinyl, Ltd.)

(Sun Records) 14 tracks, with liner notes.
Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. Celebrate the career of the original wild man of rock n' roll with this remastered retrospective of his greatest hits on his original home, Sun Records. Jerry Lee Lewis revolutionized rock piano with hits like Great Balls of Fire and Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On, and brought country sensibilities to tracks like Born to Lose and Turn Around. Discover the best of The Killer with this collection of favorite songs, alternate versions, and deep cuts.

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Interpret: Jerry Lee Lewis
Album titlle: The Killer Keys Of Jerry Lee Lewis - Sun Records 70th Anniversary (LP, 180g Vinyl, Ltd.)
Genre Rock'n'Roll
Label SUN
Geschwindigkeit 33 U/min
Vinyl record size LP (12 Inch)
Record Grading Mint (M)
Sleeve Grading Mint (M)
Vinyl weight 180g Vinyl
Artikelart LP
EAN: 0015047805167
weight in Kg 0.31

Lewis, Jerry Lee - The Killer Keys Of Jerry Lee Lewis - Sun Records 70th Anniversary (LP, 180g Vinyl, Ltd.) LP 1
01	You Win Again	Jerry Lee Lewis
02	Friday Nights	Jerry Lee Lewis
03	Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On	Jerry Lee Lewis
04	Born to Lose	Jerry Lee Lewis
05	Long Gone Lonesome Blues	Jerry Lee Lewis
06	I'm Feeling Sorry	Jerry Lee Lewis
07	I Could Never Be Ashamed of You	Jerry Lee Lewis
08	Mexicali Rose	Jerry Lee Lewis
09	Sail Away	Jerry Lee Lewis
10	I'm Sorry I'm Not Sorry	Jerry Lee Lewis
11	Turn Around	Jerry Lee Lewis
12	I Forgot to Remember to Forget	Jerry Lee Lewis
13	Great Balls of Fire	Jerry Lee Lewis
14	Tomorrow Night	Jerry Lee Lewis

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"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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