Artist: Jerry Lee Lewis
Author: Jack Hammer/Otis Blackwell
Label: Sun
Year: 1957
In film Jamboree. N°1 UK, n°2 US. Jerry Lee was afraid of the consequences using Pentacostal apocalyptical imagery right in the middle of the Bible Belt. Don't forget Jimmy Swaggart was his full nephew. Hear the studio discussion between Jerry and Sam Phillips right before Great Balls Of Fire got cut and saved up for Lewis' Sun box set, also literally transcribed in Colin Escott & Martin Hawkins' Sun Records book (Omnibus Press): "How can the devil save souls? Man I've got the devil in me. If I didn't, I'd be a Christian."
Covers:
Georgia Gibbs [for Mercury; in England released before Jerry Lee's version]
Pirates [as Tu Mets Le Feu]
Hassles [with Billy Joel]
Dolly Parton [so what; even Mae West cut it]
Vicious Pink [mixed with 8.15 To Nowhere]
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
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B-2840 Reet (Rumst)