Jerry Lee Lewis - Definitive Collection
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Free Music Review: What Can You Say About Jerry?
Hit: 4 Stars
It is enjoyable to watch him in his heyday. I grew up with his music and loved every bit of it.Free Music Review: Great low key Jerry
Hit: 4 Stars
I like this collection as it includes only a few wild Jerry. The sound is very good also.Free Music Review: A genuine 'Best Of' ... almost
Hit: 3 Stars
The Music? Five stars without a doubt...marvellous, fantastic, prime-Killer cuts, the absolute top man....
But...Universal (zero stars, hence the average rating) have been at it again.... following on from the consistent (and unwelcome) party trick played by UK Spectrum in featuring 'wrong tracks' on their JLL collections, most recently in respect of the '1963-77' Mercury set "Many Sides Of JLL", which includes a 1989 (movie-soundtrack) recording of 'Crazy Arms', their US colleagues have shown that they are equally adept at screwing things up...
Hard on the heels of "Many Sides" comes, on Universal's US imprint Hip-O Records, a fine looking collection called "The Defintive Jerry Lee Lewis", featuring, as a sticky label proclaims, "His 24 Greatest Hits 1957-81", taking us through from 'Whole Lotta Shakin' (plus five other Sun tracks) and concluding with a couple of Elektra masters, sandwiching sixteen of Jerry Lee's biggest Mercury hits.
A good looking, 16 page booklet, fronted, mercifully, by a highly suitable circa 1970 photo, with extensive, well-written (if predictable, in terms of content), liner notes. So far so good, although strange that the chronological order of the recordings is compromised by 'inverting' "What's Made Milwaukee Famous" and "Another Place Another Time" - be that as it may, a minor blemish on what appears to be, indeed, a 'Definitive' collection; the sort of thing you'd happily pass on to a friend as an 'introduction' to JLL, to convey something of the scope and depth of his career to those who haven't got beyond 1958...
And then, just when you thought they'd cracked it..
You get to 1973 and, sandwiched between "Sometimes A Memory Ain't Enough" and "He Can't Fill My Shoes", is a 'boisterous' "Drinkin' Wine Spo-dee o'dee" (okay, again messing slightly with the chronology, but perhaps forgivable), originally released, as the booklet tells us, on
Mercury single 73374 and a #20 country, #41 pop hit. Well, sort of. What you actually get is a 1963 recording originally outed on the 1966 album 'Memphis Beat'.
Fantastic music; Jerry Lee in his prime, marred only by the serial-spoilers at Universal. One is always left with the impression that the attitude is 'just get it out; make a buck; why should we care?'
Free Music Review: Unsatisfied performance
Hit: 1 Stars
I have ordered two of these CDS in order to get one that performed satisfactory. The first one had a lot of static and geberish when I tried to play it. I first thought that there was something wrong with my stereo system, but I tried several other CDS and they played just fine.
The second CD plays just fine.
The only complaint other than that is that we can't return a defected CD once it is opened leaving you with a defective product that doesn't operate properly.