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Jerry Lee Lewis

The Killer Live! 1964-1970

Disc One
1. Mean Woman Blues
2. High School Confidential
3. Money
4. Matchbox
5. What'd I Say
6. Great Balls of Fire
7. Good Golly Miss Molly
8. Lewis Boogie
9. Your Cheatin' Heart
10. Hound Dog
11. Long Tall Sally
12. Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin On
13. Down The Line (Bonus Track)
14. Jenny Jenny
15. Who Will The Next Fool Be
16. Memphis
17. Hound Dog
18. Mean Woman Blues
19. High Heel Sneakers
20. No Particular Place To Go
21. Together Again
22. Long Tall Sally
23. Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On
Disc Two
1. Introduction
2. Little Queenie
3. How's My Ex Treating You
4. Johnny B. Goode
5. Green Green Grass of Home
6. What'd I Say Part 2
7. You Win Again
8. I'll Sail My Ship Alone
9. Cryin' Time
10. Money
11. Roll Over Beethoven
12. She Even Woke Me Up To Say Goodbye
13. Jambalaya
14. She Still Comes Around (To Love What's Left of Me)
15. Drinkin' Champagne
16. San Antonio Rose
17. Once More With Feeling
18. Band Introductions
19. When You Wore a Tulip – vocal duet with Linda Gail Lewis
20. Take These Chains From My Heart – lead vocal: Linda Gail Lewis
21. The Ballad of Forty Dollars
22. Flip, Flop and Fly
Disc Three
1. Blue Suede Shoes
2. Crazy Arms
3. Lovin’ Up A Storm
4. Mean Woman Blues
5. What I’d Say, Parts 1 & 2
6. Down The Line/I’m Movin’ On – co-lead vocal: Linda Gail Lewis
7. Shoeshine Man
8. Invitation To Your Party
9. San Antonio Rose
10. Homecoming
10. Homecoming
11. Once More With Feeling
12. Stagger Lee
13. Got You On My Mind Again – vocal duet with Linda Gail Lewis
14. Great Balls Of Fire
15. Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On

Price: $59.92

SITE PRE-SALE DATE: 6/22/2012

SITE SHIP DATE: 7/9/2012

2,000 Limited Edition Copies

Simply put, Jerry Lee Lewis is nicknamed “The Killer” for several very good reasons: among them, he is one of the greatest rockers ever to cut a record and one of the greatest live performers of all time in any genre. Anyone who had been lucky enough to see Jerry Lee in his prime pound his piano, toss about the piano stool and those wavy locks while viciously attacking rocker after rocker and breathing pure honky-tonk into a succession of country songs will most surely agree. Whether he wrote a song or not, when Jerry Lee performed it, the song becomes his own, and fortunately, during his prime, Mercury Records (and its Smash and Philips subsidiaries) captured four albums-plus worth of The Killer live.

This new collection presents these four albums – “Live” At The Star Club, Hamburg and The Greatest Live Show On Earth, both from 1964; 1966’s By Request: More Of The Greatest Live Show On Earth; and 1970’s Live At The International, Las Vegas – plus 16 bonus tracks, including 10 previously unreleased on three CDs. And these discs only reconfirm the power and stature of Jerry Lee.

In fact, “Live” At The Star Club has often been called rock’s first great live album, as The Killer roars through a dozen classics (plus a bonus track here) with ferocity and abandon. Liner notes writer Mitchell Cohen compares Jerry Lee’s attack here to another set of Rock ’n’ Roll Hall of Famers—The Ramones — it’s that visceral. And also instructive as the piano man roars into his own hits as well as those by Elvis, Little Richard, Ray Charles, Hank Williams and others. This is precisely the same diversity and great song selection that informs each of the three albums that follows. The music gets a trifle more country as we progress in time, as Jerry Lee had two solid years of country hits under his belt by the time of The International set, but even then, the singer can’t resist pounding out a raucous “Stagger Lee,” which is here as one of the 10 previously unreleased tracks.

This 58-song, over-three-hours-of-“killer” live music set is complemented by Mitchell Cohen’s insightful liner notes, complete credits, and great period photos.

Disc 1, Tracks 1-13:

“Live” At The Star Club, Hamburg (Originally Philips UK SBL-7646/Philips Germany 842 945) ('64)

Recorded April 5, 1964

Disc 1, Tracks 14-23:

Greatest Live Show On Earth (Smash SRS-67056) ('64)

Recorded July 1, 1964, Municipal Auditorium, Birmingham, Alabama

Disc 2, Tracks 1-11:

By Request: More of the Greatest Live Show On Earth (Smash 67086)('66)

Recorded August 20, 1966, Panther Hall, Fort Worth, Texas

Disc 2, Tracks 12-22:

Live at the International, Las Vegas (Mercury SR-61278)('70)

Recorded May 22/23, 1970, The International Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada