Jerry Lee Lewis - Jerry Lee Lewis - 18 Original Sun Greatest Hits
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Artist: Jerry Lee LewisEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1989-06-19
Music Label: Rhino / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On
- Great Balls Of Fire
- Breathless
- High School Confidential
- What'd I Say
- Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee
- Matchbox
- Jambalaya
- When The Saints Go Marchin' In
- Lewis Boogie
- It'll Be Me (Single Version)
- All Night Long
- Big Blon' Baby
- Crazy Arms
- Ubangi Stomp
- Big Legged Woman
- Put Me Down
- Wild One
Free Music Notes for Jerry Lee Lewis - 18 Original Sun Greatest Hits
Free Music Review: The Killer Kills It
Hit: 4 Stars
The last time we heard the name Jerry Lee Lewis in this space was in connection with a rave review of his star-studded concert on DVD and in a CD in New York City in 2006 entitled The Last Man Standing. A couple of paragraphs below are taken from the concert and CD review because they certainly apply to this album which also gets a rave review from these quarters. The last paragraph details some of the highlights of this CD. If you need to go back to the Fifties there are plenty of his compilations to choice from but this one is a good primer. Here goes.
"...Elvis, Chuck Berry, Carl Perkins, Bo Diddley. Yes those are the men who created rock and roll, as we know it. However in that list do not forget one Jerry Lee Lewis. Fate dealt him an uneven hand due to the foibles of his personal life (the subject of a movie, Great Balls of Fire, with Dennis Quaid) but his form of rockabilly/boogie woogie piano-driven music and madman presentation must be placed in the mix of influences that drove the best of early rock.
If for no other reason that that he is one of the few `still standing' from that generation it is nice to see what the Killer can do in his 71st year in concert in New York City in 2006 with a host of guests some old, some young. Clearly off these performances he has lost a couple of steps. Hell the kind of energy that Jerry Lee produced in the 1950's definitely had a short shelf life. There are some nice clips from that period intertwined with the concert, by the way."
Of the 18 original hits from the Fifties that are included here are about 16 are must haves in any Jerry Lee compilation. When the Saints Go Marching In and Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee one can pass on (although rapper Kid Rock did an incredible cover version on PBS's American Masters- Sun Records Legacy tribute). Starting with Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On to the salacious Big Legged Woman you get Jerry Lee when he could pound it out all day and all night. Get it.
Jerry Lee Lewis - 18 Original Sun Greatest Hits Poster
While Lewis's Sun sessions between 1956 and 1963 are legendarily eclectic (everything from Stephen Foster to Hank Williams to a rewrite of the Midnighters' "Sexy Ways"), this single-disc distillation sticks mainly to rock and country veins. The records that made the Killer a short-lived yet serious challenger to Elvis--"Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On," "Great Balls of Fire"--are here, in addition to lesser known but equally hot sides such as "It'll Be Me" and the blindingly dirty-minded "Big Legged Woman." A key collection from one of America's greatest recorded talents. --Rickey WrightCountry Music CDs
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