Jerry Lee Lewis (album)

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1958 studio album by Jerry Lee Lewis

Jerry Lee Lewis

Studio album by

Jerry Lee Lewis

Released| 1958
Recorded| 1958
Genre| Rock and roll, rockabilly
Length| 27:30
Label| Sun LP-1230
Producer| Sam Phillips, Jack Clement
Jerry Lee Lewis chronology
|  | Jerry Lee Lewis
(1958)  | Jerry Lee's Greatest!
(1961)

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Singles from  Jerry Lee Lewis

1. "Crazy Arms"
Released: December 1956
2. "High School Confidential/Fools like Me"
Released: May 1958

Jerry Lee Lewis is the debut album by American musician and rock and roll pioneer Jerry Lee Lewis, released in 1958 on Sun Records.

## Background and content

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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]

## Track listing

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Side ANo.| Title| Writer(s)| Length

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1.| "Don't Be Cruel"|

* Otis Blackwell

| 2:00
2.| "Goodnight Irene"|

* Huddie Ledbetter

| 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"|

* Ralph Mooney
* Chuck Seals

| 2:41
Total length:| 14:20

Side BNo.| Title| Writer(s)| Length

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7.| "Jambalaya"| Hank Williams| 1:57
8.| "Fools like Me"|

* Jack Clement
* Murphy Maddux

| 2:48
9.| "High School Confidential"|

* Jerry Lee Lewis
* Ron Hargrave

| 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

## References

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1. ^ Phillips, Sam C. (May 1958). Original liner notes to "High School Confidential" LP. Memphis, TN: Sun Records.
2. ^ Jerry Lee Lewis at AllMusic

## External links

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* Jerry Lee Lewis at Discogs (list of releases)
* Jerry Lee Lewis at Rate Your Music

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Jerry Lee Lewis

Studio albums|

* Jerry Lee Lewis
* Jerry Lee's Greatest!
* Golden Hits of Jerry Lee Lewis
* The Return of Rock
* Country Songs for City Folks
* Memphis Beat
* Soul My Way
* Another Place, Another Time
* She Still Comes Around
* Sings the Country Music Hall of Fame Hits, Vol. 1
* Sings the Country Music Hall of Fame Hits, Vol. 2
* The Golden Cream of the Country
* She Even Woke Me Up to Say Goodbye
* In Loving Memories: The Jerry Lee Lewis Gospel Album
* There Must Be More to Love Than This
* Touching Home
* Would You Take Another Chance on Me?
* The Killer Rocks On
* Who's Gonna Play This Old Piano?
* The Session...Recorded in London with Great Artists
* Sometimes a Memory Ain't Enough
* Southern Roots: Back Home to Memphis
* I-40 Country
* Boogie Woogie Country Man
* Odd Man In
* Country Class
* Country Memories
* Jerry Lee Keeps Rockin'
* Jerry Lee Lewis
* When Two Worlds Collide
* Killer Country
* My Fingers Do the Talkin'
* I Am What I Am
* Young Blood
* Last Man Standing
* Mean Old Man
* Rock & Roll Time

Collaborations|

* Together (with Linda Gail Lewis)
* Million Dollar Quartet (with Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins and Elvis Presley)
* The Survivors Live (with Johnny Cash and Carl Perkins)
* Class of '55 (with Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins and Roy Orbison)

Live albums|

* Live at the Star Club, Hamburg
* The Greatest Live Show on Earth
* By Request: More of the Greatest Live Show on Earth
* Live at the International, Las Vegas
* Last Man Standing Live

Soundtrack albums|

* Jamboree (1957)
* American Hot Wax (1978)
* Great Balls of Fire! (1989)
* Dick Tracy (1990)

Compilation albums|

* Original Golden Hits, Vol. 1
* Original Golden Hits, Vol. 2
* Rockin' Rhythm and Blues
* A Taste of Country
* Best of Jerry Lee Lewis
* All Killer, No Filler: The Anthology
* A Whole Lotta...Jerry Lee Lewis: The Definitive Retrospective

Songs|

* "Another Place, Another Time"
* "Baby Baby Bye Bye"
* "Baby, Hold Me Close"
* "Break-Up"
* "Breathless"
* "Chantilly Lace"
* "Cold, Cold Heart"
* "Come as You Were"
* "Crown Victoria Custom '51"
* "Crazy Arms"
* "Don't Let Me Cross Over" (with Linda Gail Lewis)
* "Down the Line"
* "End of the Road"
* "Fools like Me"
* "Great Balls of Fire"
* "Hi-Heel Sneakers"
* "High School Confidential"
* "How's My Ex Treating You"
* "I Can't Seem to Say Goodbye"
* "I'll Make It All Up to You"
* "I'm on Fire"
* "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry"
* "In the Mood"
* "Invitation to Your Party"
* "It'll Be Me"
* "Jackson" (with Linda Gail Lewis)
* "Lewis Boogie"
* "Me and Bobby McGee"
* "Meat Man"
* "Money (That's What I Want)"
* "Old Black Joe"
* "Once More with Feeling"
* "One Has My Name (The Other Has My Heart)"
* "One Minute Past Eternity"
* "Pen and Paper"
* "She Even Woke Me Up to Say Goodbye"
* "She Still Comes Around (To Love What's Left of Me)"
* "She Was My Baby (He Was My Friend)"
* "Sixteen Candles"
* "Somewhere Over the Rainbow"
* "Seasons of My Heart"
* "Sweet Little Sixteen"
* "Teenage Letter"
* "There Must Be More to Love Than This"
* "To Make Love Sweeter for You"
* "Touching Home"
* "Turn On Your Love Light"
* "What's Made Milwaukee Famous (Has Made a Loser Out of Me)"
* "What'd I Say"
* "When He Walks on You (Like You Have Walked On Me)"
* "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On"
* "Who's Gonna Play This Old Piano?"
* "Wild One"
* "Would You Take Another Chance on Me"
* "You Win Again"

Filmography|

* Jamboree (1957)
* High School Confidential (1958)
* Be My Guest (1965)
* 33⅓ Revolutions per Monkee (1969)
* American Hot Wax (1978)

Family|

* Myra Gale Brown (cousin/wife)
* Linda Gail Lewis (sister)
* Mickey Gilley (cousin)
* Carl McVoy (cousin)
* Jimmy Swaggart (double first cousin)

Related articles|

* Discography
* Great Balls of Fire!
* Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble in Mind
* Walk the Line
* Jerry Kennedy
* Kenny Lovelace
* Mack Vickery

Authority control databases |

* MusicBrainz release group
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