JERRY LEE LEWIS & HIS PUMPING PIANO 78 END OF THE ROAD / CRAZY ARMS SUN 259 E+
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AN ORIGINAL US SUN PRESSING OF THIS GREAT ROCKING PIANO 78 FROM JERRY LEE LEWIS ON THE SUN LABEL IN EXCELLENT CONDITION
END OF THE ROAD
b/w CRAZY ARMS
Jerry Lee Lewis is the wild man of rock and roll, embodying its most reckless and high-spirited impulses. On such piano-pounding rockers from the late Fifties as “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On” and “Great Balls of Fire,” Lewis combined a ferocious, boogie-style instrumental style with rowdy, uninhibited vocals.
He migrated to Memphis from Ferriday, Louisiana, where he’d grown up learning how to play piano by ear based on the music around him: Western swing, boogie-woogie, uptempo R&B and Delta blues. Lewis’ first influence was the country-blues sound of Jimmie Rodgers, although he also absorbed the gospel and R&B of the local black community. His amalgamation of these indigenous styles, abetted by his brash temperament, made him a natural-born rock and roller - maybe the ultimate rock and roll rebel. Lewis found a home at Sam Philip's’ Sun Records label, whose stable of talent also included Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash and Roy Orbison. After a country-flavored audition for Philips in 1956, Lewis was told that if he could come up with some rock and roll, “we could probably do something.” Lewis didn’t write much himself, but he transformed other people’s songs into unbridled rock and roll that even he called “the Devil’s music.”
Lewis’ debut single was a rocking recasting of Ray Price’s country hit “Crazy Arms.” He followed it with “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On,” which sold 6 million copies and went to #3, and “Great Balls of Fire,” a 5 million seller that reached #2. Both songs were from 1957, a watershed year for Lewis. The next year yielded more hits - “Breathless” and “High School Confidential” - and a role in a movie titled after the latter song.
However, his career as a rock and roller took a precipitous tumble when the press discovered that he’d married his 13-year-old cousin in December 1957. Lewis managed to weather the controversy, enduring a ten-year drought on the charts to eventually realize a successful career as a country-music artist.
THIS WAS JERRY LEE'S FIRST RECORD - NEVER RELEASED IN THE UK ON 78
DISC DETAILS:
US SUN 259 10" 78rpm SHELLAC
SIDE 1:- END OF THE ROAD
SIDE 2:- CRAZY ARMS
CONDITION - EXCELLENT / E+
TWO SUPERB SIDES
on an original US SUN 78
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THIS 78 COMES FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE LATE PETER FEAST
A GREAT COLLECTIOR OF ROCK-A-BILLY, COUNTRY, RHYTHM & BLUES, AND ROCK & ROLL RECORDS
10" 78 RPM RECORDS NEED CAREFULLY PACKING, AND WE CLAIM TO HAVE THE BEST PACKAGING IN THE WORLD FOR DISPATCHING THEM!
THE GREG'S GREAT'S SYSTEM CONSISTS OF A SPECIALLY DESIGNED INNER BOX MADE OUT OF 1" THICK POLYSTYRENE, WHICH THEN GOES INSIDE A CORRUGATED STIFF OUTER CARDBOARD CARTON. THE BOXES CAN TAKE UP TO 21 RECORDS,
WE SEND OUT ON AVERAGE ABOUT 30 PARCELS A WEEK AND DISPATCH IS NORMALLY DONE ONCE A WEEK.
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