Lewis Boogie

1958 Sun 78 release, Sun 301, by Jerry Lee Lewis and His Pumping Piano.

"Lewis Boogie" is a song written by Jerry Lee Lewis in 1956 and released as a single in June 1958 on Sun Records, Sun 301, backed with "The Return of Jerry Lee".[1][2] The recording was reissued in 1979 as a 7" 45 single as Sun 29 as part of the Sun Golden Treasure Series.

The track appeared on the 1984 Rhino Records collection 18 Original Sun Greatest Hits which featured the most successful recordings by Jerry Lee Lewis on the Sun label.

"Lewis Boogie"[3] is featured in the 2005 Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line. It was performed by Waylon Payne in the film and its soundtrack.

Development

Robert Palmer writes that the song "was a mixture of local black influences, the hillbilly boogie and rhythm and blues that were so popular on Southern jukeboxes when he was growing up, and--the most crucial inregidient--the Killer's individual musical genius."[4]

Reception

Charlie Gillett writes that at "his best-as in..."Lewis Boogie (1958)"-Lewis epitomized the careless confidence that some people liked rock 'n' roll for."[5]

References

  1. ↑ Sun Records Discography.
  2. ↑ The Jerry Lee Lewis Sun Collection.
  3. ↑ Jake Austen, TV-a-Go-Go: Rock on TV from American Bandstand to American Idol (Chicago Review Press, 2005), 316.
  4. ↑ As quoted in John Edwards Memorial Foundation, JEMF Quarterly (John Edwards Memorial Foundation, 1983), 126.
  5. ↑ Charlie Gillett, The Sound of the City: The Rise of Rock and Roll (Da Capo Press, 1996), 92.