Jerry Lee Lewis (album)

Jerry Lee Lewis

Studio album by Jerry Lee Lewis

Released

1958

Recorded

1958

Genre

Rock and roll, rockabilly, country^[1]

Label

Sun LP-1230

Producer

Sam Phillips

Jerry Lee Lewis chronology

Jerry Lee Lewis
(1958)

Jerry Lee's Greatest
(1961)

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" ^[2] 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"^[3]

Track listing

Side 1

"Don't Be Cruel" (Otis Blackwell, Elvis Presley) - 2:00
"Goodnight Irene" (Huddie Ledbetter, John Lomax) - 2:52
"Put Me Down" (Roland James) - 2:06
"It All Depends" (Billy Mize) - 2:57
"Ubangi Stomp" (Charles Underwood) - 1:44
"Crazy Arms" (Ralph Mooney, Chuck Seals) - 2:41

Side 2

"Jambalaya" (Hank Williams) - 1:57
"Fools Like Me" (Jack Clement, Murphy Maddux) - 2:48
"High School Confidential" (Ron Hargrave, Jerry Lee Lewis) - 2:27
"When the Saints Go Marching In" - 2:06
"Matchbox" (Carl Perkins) - 1:40
"It'll Be Me" (Jack Clement) - 2:12

References

↑ Jerry Lee Lewis (1957) - AllMusic
↑ Phillips, Sam C. (May 1958). Original liner notes to "High School Confidential" LP. 706 Union Ave., Memphis, TN: Sun Records.
↑ Jerry Lee Lewis at AllMusic

External links

Jerry Lee Lewis

Studio albums	Jerry Lee Lewis Jerry Lee's Greatest Last Man Standing Mean Old Man Soul My Way Southern Roots: Back Home to Memphis The Golden Cream of the Country Who's Gonna Play This Old Piano?

Collaborations	Class of '55 (with Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins and Roy Orbison) Million Dollar Quartet (with Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins and Elvis Presley)

Live albums	Live at the Star Club, Hamburg The Survivors Live Last Man Standing Live

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

Compilation albums	All Killer, No Filler: The Anthology

Songs	"Baby Baby Bye Bye" "Baby, Hold Me Close" "Breathless" "Chantilly Lace" "Cold, Cold Heart" "Come as You Were" "Crazy Arms" "Don't Let Me Cross Over" (with Linda Gail Lewis) "End of the Road" "Down the Line" "Great Balls of Fire" "Hi Heel Sneakers" "High School Confidential" "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" "One Has My Name (The Other Has My Heart)" "One Minute Past Eternity" "She Even Woke Me Up to Say Goodbye" "She Still Comes Around (to Love What's Left of Me)" "Sixteen Candles" "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" "Sweet Little Sixteen" "There Must Be More to Love Than This" "To Make Love Sweeter For You" "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" "Would You Take Another Chance on Me" "You Win Again"

Filmography	Jamboree (1957) High School Confidential (1958) American Hot Wax (1978)

Family	Mickey Gilley Linda Gail Lewis Carl McVoy Jimmy Swaggart

Related articles	Discography Great Balls of Fire! Walk the Line Kenny Lovelace Mack Vickery

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