Jerry Lee Lewis The Locust Years (8-CD Deluxe Box Set)
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Jerry Lee Lewis: The Locust Years (8-CD Deluxe Box Set)
In 1963 Jerry Lee Lewis signed with Smash Records, and battled the British Invasion, radio apathy and general neglect. The result was a lot of good music that fell on deaf ears. Here's everything from five frustrating years, including the complete contents of great Jerry Lee albums like 'Memphis Beat', 'Return Of Rock', 'Country Songs For City Folks', as well as wonderful forgotten singles like I'm On Fire and She Was My Baby He Was My Friend. The set covers the years from 1963 to 1969 and concludes with the country hits from 1968 and 1969, like Another Place Another Time, What's Made Milwaukee Famous, and
She Even Woke Me Up To Say Goodbye, when Jerry Lee Lewis' career was spectacularly reborn in country music. As a bonus, there's a complete interview with music conducted in 1976.
Article properties: Jerry Lee Lewis: The Locust Years (8-CD Deluxe Box Set)
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Interpret: Jerry Lee Lewis
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Album titlle: The Locust Years (8-CD Deluxe Box Set)
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Genre Rock'n'Roll
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Label Bear Family Records
- Price code HI
- Deluxe Edition
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Artikelart Box set
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EAN: 4000127157836
- weight in Kg 1.3
| Lewis, Jerry Lee - The Locust Years (8-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 1 | ||||
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| 01 | Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 02 | Crazy Arms | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 03 | Great Balls Of Fire | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 04 | High School Confidential | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 05 | I'll Make It All Up To You | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 06 | Break Up | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 07 | Down The Line | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 08 | Hit The Road Jack (version 1) | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 09 | End Of The Road | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 10 | Your Cheatin' Heart | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 11 | Wedding Bells | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 12 | Just Because | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 13 | Breathless | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 14 | He Took It Like A Man | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 15 | Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 16 | Johnny B. Goode | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 17 | Hallelujah, I Love Her So | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 18 | You Went Back On Your Word | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 19 | Pen And Paper | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 20 | The Hole He Said He'd Dig For Me (alt./ster.) | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 21 | The Hole He Said He'd Dig For Me (mono) | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 22 | You Win Again | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 23 | Fools Like Me | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 24 | Hit The Road Jack (version 2) | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 25 | I'm On Fire (alt.) | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 26 | I'm On Fire | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 27 | She Was My Baby (He Was My Friend) | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 28 | Bread And Butter Man | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 29 | I Bet You're Gonna Like It | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| Lewis, Jerry Lee - The Locust Years (8-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 2 | ||||
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| 01 | Got You On My Mind | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 02 | Mathilda | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 03 | Corrine, Corrina | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 04 | Sexy Ways | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 05 | Wild Side Of Life | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 06 | Flip, Flop And Fly | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 07 | Don't Let Go | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 08 | Maybellene | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 09 | Roll Over Beethoven | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 10 | Just In Time (mono) | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 11 | I Believe In You | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 12 | Herman The Hermit | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 13 | Baby, Hold Me Close | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 14 | Skid Row (mono) | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 15 | This Must Be The Place | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 16 | Rockin' Pneumonia And The Boogie Woogie Flu | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 17 | Seasons Of My Heart | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 18 | Big Boss Man | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 19 | Too Young | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 20 | Danny Boy | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 21 | Crazy Arms | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 22 | City Lights | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 23 | Funny How Time Slips Away | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 24 | North To Alaska (& LINDA GAIL LEWIS) | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 25 | Walk Right In | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 26 | Wolverton Mountain | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 27 | King Of The Road | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 28 | Detroit City | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| Lewis, Jerry Lee - The Locust Years (8-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 3 | ||||
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| 01 | Ring Of Fire | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 02 | Baby You've Got What It Takes(&LINDA G.LEWIS) | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 03 | Green Green Grass Of Home | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 04 | Sticks And Stones | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 05 | What A Heck Of A Mess | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 06 | Lincoln Limousine | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 07 | Rockin' Jerry Lee | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 08 | Memphis Beat | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 09 | The Urge | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 10 | Whenever You're Ready | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 11 | She Thinks I Still Care | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 12 | Memphis Beat (version 1) | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 13 | Memphis Beat (version 2) | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 14 | Twenty Four Hours A Day | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 15 | Twenty Four Hours A Day (with strings) | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 16 | Swinging Doors | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 17 | Swinging Doors (with strings) | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 18 | If I Had It All To Do Over | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 19 | If I Had It All To Do Over (with strings) | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 20 | Just Dropped In | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 21 | It's A Hang Up Baby | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 22 | Holdin' On | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 23 | Hey Baby | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 24 | Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream) | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 25 | Treat Her Right | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 26 | Turn On Your Love Light | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 27 | Shotgun Man | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| Lewis, Jerry Lee - The Locust Years (8-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 4 | ||||
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| 01 | All The Good Is Gone | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 02 | Another Place Another Time | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 03 | Walking The Floor Over You | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 04 | I'm A Lonesome Fugitive | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 05 | Break My Mind | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 06 | Play Me A Song I Can Cry To | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 07 | Before The Next Teardrop Falls | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 08 | All Night Long | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 09 | We Live In Two Different Worlds (& L.G.LEWIS) | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 10 | What's Made Milwaukee Famous | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 11 | On The Back Row | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 12 | Slipping Around | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 13 | She Still Comes Around | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 14 | Today I Started Loving You Again | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 15 | Louisiana Man | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 16 | There Stands The Glass | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 17 | I Can't Have A Merry Christmas, Mary | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 18 | Out Of My Mind | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 19 | I Can't Get Over You | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 20 | Listen, They're Playing My Song | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 21 | Echoes | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 22 | Release Me | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 23 | Let's Talk About Us | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 24 | To Make Love Sweeter For You | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| Lewis, Jerry Lee - The Locust Years (8-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 5 | ||||
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| 01 | Don't Let Me Cross Over (& LINDA GAIL LEWIS) | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 02 | Born To Lose | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 03 | You Belong To Me | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 04 | Oh Lonesome Me | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 05 | Sweet Dreams | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 06 | Cold Cold Heart | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 07 | Fraulein | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 08 | Why Don't You Love Me (Like You Used To Do) | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 09 | Four Walls | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 10 | It Makes No Difference Now | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 11 | I Love You Because | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 12 | I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 13 | Jambalaya | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 14 | More And More | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 15 | One Has My Name (The Other Has My Heart) | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 16 | Burning Memories | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 17 | Mom And Dad's Last Waltz | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 18 | Pick Me Up On Your Way Down | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 19 | Heartaches By The Number | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 20 | I Can't Stop Loving You | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 21 | My Blue Heaven | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 22 | I Wonder Where You Are Tonight | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| Lewis, Jerry Lee - The Locust Years (8-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 6 | ||||
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| 01 | Jackson (& LINDA GAIL LEWIS) | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 02 | Sweet Thang (& LINDA GAIL LEWIS) | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 03 | He'll Have To Go | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 04 | You've Still Got A Place In My Heart | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 05 | I Get The Blues When It Rains | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 06 | Gotta Travel On (& LINDA GAIL LEWIS) | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 07 | Milwaukee Here I Come (& LINDA GAIL LEWIS) | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 08 | Cryin' Time (& LINDA GAIL LEWIS) | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 09 | Roll Over Beethoven (& LINDA GAIL LEWIS) | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 10 | Secret Places (& LINDA GAIL LEWIS) | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 11 | Don't Take It Out On Me (& LINDA GAIL LEWIS) | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 12 | Earth Up Above (& LINDA GAIL LEWIS) | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 13 | Waitin' For A Train | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 14 | Love For All Seasons | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 15 | She Even Woke Me Up To Say Goodbye | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 16 | When The Grass Grows Over Me | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 17 | Wine Me Up | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 18 | Since I Met You Baby | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 19 | Workin' Man Blues | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 20 | Once More With Feeling (version 1) | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 21 | In Loving Memories (version 1) | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 22 | You Went Out Of Your Way (To Walk On Me) | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 23 | My Only Claim To Fame | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 24 | Brown Eyed Handsome Man | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 25 | In Loving Memories (version 2) | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 26 | Once More With Feeling (version 2) | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| Lewis, Jerry Lee - The Locust Years (8-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 7 | ||||
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| 01 | Intro | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 02 | Little Queenie | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 03 | Blue Suede Shoes | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 04 | How's My Ex Treating You | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 05 | Johnny B. Goode | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 06 | Crazy Arms | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 07 | Green Green Grass Of Home | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 08 | Lovin' Up A Storm | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 09 | Mean Woman Blues | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 10 | What'd I Say, parts 1 & 2 | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| Lewis, Jerry Lee - The Locust Years (8-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 8 | ||||
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| 01 | 'Daddy Cool' BOOTH at the Beverly Hills Hotel | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
| 02 | in January 19, 1976 | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
Jerry Lee Lewis rocks.
Well, of course he does. "I come out feet first and been jumpin' ever since," he has told interviewers for many years. He has been rocking for as long as most of us can remember, and now his face is a personal geography that speaks of the toll that rock 'n' roll can exact.
Rock 'n' roll music and the rock 'n' roll lifestyle; Jerry Lee has done as much as anyone to define both. The miles, the wives, the hits, the pills. He has lived and sung without compromise. Surely no one has damned the torpedoes more often, and lived to tell. He saw his career rise meteorically, plummet meteorically, and rise again.
True talent cannot be denied. "Other people," says Jerry, "they practice and they practice. These fingers of mine, they got brains in 'em. You don't TELL them what to do - THEY do it." There are but four stylists in music, he'll tell you: Jimmie Rodgers, Al Jolson, Hank Williams, and himself. It was a foregone conclusion that Jerry Lee Lewis would be a charter inductee to the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame.
Jerry Lee Lewis & Sam Phillips
Fifty years ago as of this writing, Jerry Lee Lewis and his father, Elmo, drove up from Ferriday, Louisiana to see Mister Sam Phillips at Sun Records. Jerry Lee was sure that Phillips would understand him. He'd been turned away in Nashville, yet Phillips would see his potential. They were destined to come together: Lewis the former divinity student tortured by an unfathomable religion, and Phillips the former mortician's assistant who had persuaded unlettered country folk to give up their dead. Jerry Lee's indomitable mother, Mamie, had stopped him from listening to records because she didn't want him to sound like anyone else. Every day, Jerry Lee would pound the old Starck upright, slowly discovering something that was truly his.
A little boogie woogie, a little gospel, a little Hank Williams, and a little beerjoint blues. The Lewises lived in Ferriday, Louisiana, and Jerry Lee was born there on September 29, 1935. Six months after his cousin, Jimmy Swaggart. He was twenty-one when he arrived in Memphis. Telling the people at Sun Records that he played piano like Chet Atkins. Sam Phillips encouraged him to write songs, but the only tangible result was the B-side of his first record, End Of The Road.
Phillips copyrighted it without realizing that it had been loosely adapted from Ballard McDonald and James Handley's 1922 song At The End Of The Road. The only other song from Jerry Lee's pen on this collection is the monumentally egotistical Lewis Boogie. For Jerry, about Jerry, and by Jerry.
SUN Records
Very quickly, Sam Phillips saw that, unlike Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis would interpret rather than write. He would reveal himself to us through the words of others. Phillips also understood that he must let Lewis plunder the musical reliquary in his head before encouraging him to return to the one song out of ten or twenty that held promise.
That's how Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On came to be recorded. Jerry Lee had probably heard Roy Hall play it at an after-hours club in Nashville (Hall claimed to be the mysterious co-writer 'Sunny David' although that seems very unlikely).
In the opening four bars, Jerry Lee Lewis and Sam Phillips made the piano into a percussion instrument. In feeding the signal back upon itself at just the right increment of tape delay. Phillips fattened the sound to the point that the record throbs with its own hypnotic life by the time J. M. Van Eaton's drums come in.
Jerry Lee's first hit
Van Eaton is exactly where he needs to be: it's textbook stuff, and Van Eaton wrote the textbook. In the two or so years that Jerry Lee had been fooling with Shakin', he had refashioned it in his image. Stripping away the opening couplet and inserting a half-spoken segment before storming back to close with a triumphant glissando. Wondrous and imperishable. It became Jerry Lee's second record and first hit. The record was pegging out half-way up the charts when Jerry made his first networked television appearance on 'The Steve Allen Show'. It was a landmark date in the history of rock 'n' roll; Sunday July 28, 1957.
He hammered the piano, eyes fixed above with messianic intensity. He glared at the camera with wild-eyed fury. "Whose barn? MAH barn!" Shakin' resumed its upward movement, eventually peaking at #3. The entertainment business realized that Jerry Lee was an up-and-coming act and he was offered a cameo movie appearance. It's a testament to his genius that he took a slight song manufactured for an equally slight movie, 'Jamboree,'and transformed it into one of the era's classics.
That song, of course, was Great Balls Of Fire. Carl Perkins and the movie's other stars had already turned it down, but it became Jerry Lee's defining moment. His biggest pop hit. Some claim to hear a rhythm guitar, but it's essentially Jerry Lee Lewis and drummer J. M. Van Eaton. If there's a third instrument, it's Sam Phillips' reverberation, adding depth and presence.
Great Balls Of Fire
Two New York-b
ased R&B songwriters, Otis Blackwell and Jack Hammer, had written Great Balls Of Fire and were offered a chance at the follow-up. Blackwell came up with Breathless while Hammer presented Milkshake Mademoiselle. Blackwell got the nod, and Milkshake Mademoiselle was left for wideeyed European researchers to find some fifteen years later. Blackwell's submission was yet another 'exclamation' song, and Sam Phillips engineered a promotional tie-in between television.
Host Dick Clark and Beechnut chewing gum in which kids could send in 50 cents and five Beechnut wrappers to receive a 'free' autographed copy of Breathless. Everyone at Sun's tiny operation, including lesser artists, were put to work autographing and mailing Jerry Lee's records. The television appearances jump-started the single, and it eventually rose to #7. Jerry Lee's last Top 20 hit was the title song for another quickie exploitation movie, 'High School Confidential'. Starring Mamie Van Doren (whose website has to be visited to be believed).
It was supposed to be an exposé of the high school drug problem. (yes there was a high school drug problem in 1958) The song was written by Ron Hargrave, a struggling MGM recording artist and protégé of Lou Costello (Hargrave can be seen in Abbott & Costello's last movie, 'Dance With Me Henry'). Try as he might, Hargrave couldn't quite work the title into the song, and had to surrender half of his writer's share to Jerry Lee. In the movie, Jerry performed the song on the back of a flatbed truck. It was released just as he left for a tour of England in May 1958.
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