1.Ragtime doodle 2.Meat man 3.Lovin' up a storm 4.Ubangi stomp 5.Rock'n'roll Ruby 6.Piano doodle 7.House of blue lights 8.My life would make a damn good country song 9.Beautiful dreamer 10.Autumn leaves 11.Pilot baby 12.Room full of roses 13.Keep a-knockin' 14.Silver threads among the gold 15.Alabama jubilee 16.Lazy river 17.Mama, this song's for you 18.Breathless 19.Whole lotta shakin' goin' on
Jerry Lee Lewis - That breathless cat
A wonderful release for fans of Jerry Lee Lewis. This informal recording captures just Jerry Lee Lewis and his piano in the studio. He runs through a number of songs, with some joking and studio chat between numbers. These recordings date from 1983. The collection is rounded off with two previously unissued live recordings dating from 1958 (Philip Morris Show) and 1959 (Cal's Corral).
Jerry Lee Lewis
Born in Ferriday, Louisiana, Jerry Lee Lewis showed an early natural talent for the piano. His parents were poor but took out a loan to buy a third-hand upright piano for him. Sharing piano lessons with his cousins Mickey Gilley and Jimmy Lee Swaggart, ten-year old Jerry Lee Lewis is said to have shown remarkable aptitude for the instrument. A visit from piano-playing older cousin Carl McVoy revealed the methods for the boogie-woogie styles Jerry Lee was hearing on the radio and across the tracks at Haney's Big House, which was owned by his uncle Lee Calhoun and catered exclusively to blacks. Lewis mixed boogie-woogie with gospel and country and developed his own style. He combined genres in the way he syncopated his rhythms on the piano: His left hand generally played boogie while his right played the high keys with flamboyant elaboration and show. By all family accounts, by the time Lewis was fourteen he was 'as good as he was ever going to get'.
Obscure recordings from Jerry Lee Lewis.