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Jerry Lee Lewis - Live in Amsterdam 1972




Sam Phillips was on vacation when he arrived, but his assistant Jack Clement put Roland Janes on guitar and J.M. Van Eaton on drums behind Lewis, whose fluid left hand made a bass player superfluous. This little unit would become the core of Lewis' recording band for almost the entire seven years he recorded at Sun. The first single, a hopped-up rendition of Ralph Mooney's "Crazy Arms," sold in respectable enough quantities that Phillips kept bringing Lewis back in for more sessions, astounded by his prodigious memory for old songs and his penchant for rocking them up. A few days after his first single was released, Jerry Lee was in the Sun studios earning some Christmas money, playing backup piano on a Carl Perkins session that yielded the classics "Matchbox" and "Your True Love." At the tail-end of the recording, Elvis Presley showed up, Clement turned on the tape machine, and the impromptu Million Dollar Quartet jam session ensued, with Perkins, Presley, and Lewis all having the time of their lives. 

With the release of his first single, the road beckoned and it was here that Lewis' lasting stage persona was developed. Discouraged because he couldn't dance around the stage strumming a guitar like Carl Perkins, he stood up in mid-song, kicked back the piano stool and, as Perkins has so saliently pointed out, "a new Jerry Lee Lewis was born." This newfound stage confidence was not lost on Sam Phillips. While he loved the music of Carl Perkins and Johnny Cash, he saw neither artist as a true contender to Elvis' throne; with Lewis he thought he had a real shot. For the first time in his very parsimonious life, Sam Phillips threw every dime of promotional capital he had into Lewis' next single, and the gamble paid off a million times over. "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" went to number one on the country and the R&B charts, and was only held out of the top spot on the pop charts by Debbie Reynolds' "Tammy." Suddenly, Lewis was the hottest, newest, most exciting rock & roller out there. His television appearances and stage shows were legendary for their manic energy, and his competitive nature to outdo anyone else on the bill led to the story about how he once set his piano on fire at set's end to make it impossible for Chuck Berry to follow his act. Nobody messed with the Killer.




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                       Tracklisting
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   1. (00:01:16) Jerry Lee Lewis LIVE - Your Cheatin' Heart
   2. (00:00:46) Jerry Lee Lewis LIVE - You Win Again
   3. (00:01:56) Jerry Lee Lewis LIVE - Waiting For a Train
   4. (00:03:18) Jerry Lee Lewis LIVE - Would You Take Another Chance
   5. (00:03:10) Jerry Lee Lewis LIVE - Amazing Grace
   6. (00:01:45) Jerry Lee Lewis LIVE - Lilly of the Valley
   7. (00:01:40) Jerry Lee Lewis LIVE - Great Balls of Fire
   8. (00:01:20) Jerry Lee Lewis LIVE - High School Confidential
   9. (00:00:51) Jerry Lee Lewis LIVE - Tutti Frutti
  10. (00:04:14) Jerry Lee Lewis LIVE - What'd I Say
  11. (00:02:55) Jerry Lee Lewis LIVE - You Can Have Her
  12. (00:03:15) Jerry Lee Lewis LIVE - Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On
  13. (00:00:41) Jerry Lee Lewis LIVE - Great Balls of Fire
  14. (00:01:15) Jerry Lee Lewis LIVE - You Can Have Her
  15. (00:02:11) Jerry Lee Lewis LIVE - Great Balls of Fire
  16. (00:00:59) Jerry Lee Lewis LIVE - You Can Have Her
  17. (00:01:49) Jerry Lee Lewis LIVE - Meat Man
  18. (00:00:40) Jerry Lee Lewis LIVE - Hound Dog
  19. (00:00:53) Jerry Lee Lewis LIVE - Don't Be Cruel
  20. (00:00:48) Jerry Lee Lewis LIVE - Good Golly Miss Molly
  21. (00:01:29) Jerry Lee Lewis LIVE - Tutti Frutti



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