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| Released | 1958 | |||
| Recorded | 1958 | |||
| Genre | Rock and roll, rockabilly | |||
| Length | 27:30 | |||
| Label | Sun LP-1230 | |||
| Producer | Sam Phillips, Jack Clement | |||
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Jerry Lee Lewis is the debut album by American musician and rock and roll pioneer Jerry Lee Lewis, released in 1958 on Sun Records.
The album featured Lewis's hit "High School Confidential", but producer Sam Phillips did not include Lewis's bigger hits such as "Great Balls of Fire" and "Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On." The album is sometimes referred to as High School Confidential.
The back cover of the LP feature a large picture of Sun Records President Sam Phillips admiring Lewis at the piano in the famous studio at 706 Union Avenue in Memphis, Tennessee. Phillips, then working to promote his latest star Lewis, also wrote the liner notes for the album noting that Lewis "is regarded as the very epitome of rock and roll" [1] In keeping with an occasional record industry practice of the time (1958) the album was also released in 45rpm format, the twelve songs being divided over a series of three 7" Extended Play (EP) records, Sun EPs 108,109 and 110 (pictured). The album is currently available on CD, featuring bonus tracks from his first EP, "The Great Ball of Fire" (Sun EP 107).
Cub Koda described the selections found on Jerry Lee Lewis as "a curious mixture" with "a great deal of his best material [being] inexplicably left off", but the album still being a "terrific debut" [2]
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Don't Be Cruel" | 2:00 | |
| 2. | "Goodnight Irene" | 2:52 | |
| 3. | "Put Me Down" | Roland Janes | 2:06 |
| 4. | "It All Depends" | Billy Mize | 2:57 |
| 5. | "Ubangi Stomp" | Charles Underwood | 1:44 |
| 6. | "Crazy Arms" |
| 2:41 |
| Total length: | 14:20 | ||
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 7. | "Jambalaya" | Hank Williams | 1:57 |
| 8. | "Fools like Me" |
| 2:48 |
| 9. | "High School Confidential" |
| 2:27 |
| 10. | "When the Saints Go Marching In" | Traditional | 2:06 |
| 11. | "Matchbox" | Carl Perkins | 1:40 |
| 12. | "It'll Be Me" | Jack Clement | 2:12 |
| Total length: | 13:10 | ||
Samuel Cornelius Phillips was an American record producer. He was the founder of Sun Records and Sun Studio in Memphis, Tennessee, where he produced recordings by Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, and Howlin' Wolf. Phillips played a major role in the development of rock and roll during the 1950s, launching the career of Presley. In 1969, he sold Sun to Shelby Singleton.
Jerry Lee Lewis was an American singer, songwriter and pianist. Nicknamed "the Killer", he was described as "Rock and roll's first great wild man and one of the most influential pianists of the 20th century." A pioneer of rock and roll and rockabilly music, Lewis made his first recordings in 1956 at Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee. "Crazy Arms" sold 300,000 copies in the South, and his 1957 hit "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" shot Lewis to fame worldwide. He followed this with the major hits "Great Balls of Fire", "Breathless", and "High School Confidential". His rock and roll career faltered in the wake of his marriage to Myra Gale Brown, his 13-year-old cousin once removed.
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Sun Studio is a recording studio opened by rock-and-roll pioneer Sam Phillips at 706 Union Avenue in Memphis, Tennessee, on January 3, 1950. It was originally called Memphis Recording Service, sharing the same building with the Sun Records label business. Sun Studio is perhaps most famous for its role in the early years of Elvis Presley’s career.
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