Jerry Lee Lewis at Sun Records: The Collected Works ("What the Hell Else Do You Need?")
~ Release by Jerry Lee Lewis (see all versions of this release, 1 available)
Annotation
There is the video presentation of the release: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUtyUm2Dk3s
Notes on versions and takes numbering
As with so many things connected with Jerry Lee Lewis, when it comes to compiling a discography, the usual rules can’t readily be applied. There are, of course, few neatly annotated labels identifying the contents of each tape box as ‘take one’ et seq; nor, in most instances, has any other formal identification, be it written or otherwise, been found of all the many recordings discovered in the vaults. What compounds the difficulty in the case of Lewis’s work, when compared to those of his contemporaries at Sun Records, is that Jerry Lee would return to the same material on different occasions across the weeks, months and years, in so doing blurring the distinction between what are traditionally thought of as ‘takes’ and /or ‘versions’ of particular titles.
Consequently, in order that a coherent presentation of all of Lewis’s work that has survived in Sun tape boxes can be achieved, a unique system of identifying specific performances has been devised. It will be understood that the individual ‘tags’ ascribed to specific tapes will not necessarily coincide with the identities given in previously published discographies to the same recordings; this is inevitable in cases such as Little Green Valley, where the previous ledger of three takes proved to be only one-third of what is now being made available.
Individual tracks have thus been identified according to the following principles:
- If there is no evidence of a song having been recorded more than once, i.e. all that is available is one tape of a unique performance of a specific song, then no ‘take’ number is indicated after the title concerned, e.g. Born To Lose
- If a particular song was recorded at two or more distinct sessions, but there is only one known take from an individual session, then the version number is indicated without indicating a specific take, e.g. Crazy Arms (1) and Crazy Arms (2)
- If a song was recorded at a single session only but there are multiple surviving takes, then the individual takes have been numbered sequentially based on the chronology of recording, using a ‘take sequential number’. However, these numbers are not necessarily the actual ‘take number’ representative of all that was performed during the session concerned, because some takes have been lost or erased. Conversely, in some instances, several takes that amount to no more than ‘false starts’ have been presented together as one CD track and, thus, have been ascribed a single ‘take sequential number’, e.g. Deep Elem Blues (1), Deep Elem Blues (2).
- If a song was recorded on different occasions and there were several takes at a particular session, then the individual session is identified by the version number, followed by the ‘take sequential number’, e.g. It’ll Be Me (1.1), It’ll Be Me (1.2), It’ll Be Me (2.2) (3 false starts)
In the few cases when the actual take number, as assigned by the engineers at a session, is actually known, then this is clearly stated in the description of the track, e.g. As Long As I Live (6) (slate and take 5).
Tracklist
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1957 CD 2: |
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1957 CD 3: |
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1957-1958 CD 4: |
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1958 CD 5: |
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1958 CD 6: |
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# | Title | Rating | Length |
1 | Wild One (1)
| 1:58 | |
2 | Wild One (2)
| 1:55 | |
3 | Let the Good Times Roll
| 2:16 | |
4 | Sexy Ways (Carryin' On) (3)
| 2:02 | |
5 | High School Confidential (3.1) (false start)
| 0:30 | |
6 | High School Confidential (3.2)
| 2:46 | |
7 | High School Confidential (3.3) (2 false starts)
| 0:34 | |
8 | High School Confidential (3.4) (chat & take)
| 2:30 | |
9 | High School Confidential (3.5)
| 2:32 | |
10 | High School Confidential (3.6)
| 2:47 | |
11 | High School Confidential (3.7)
| 2:33 | |
12 | I'll See You in My Dreams (false start & take)
| 2:56 | |
13 | Break Up (1.1)
| 2:31 | |
14 | Break Up (1.2) (fragment)
| 0:55 | |
15 | Break Up (1.3) (chat & take)
| 2:58 | |
16 | Break Up (1.4)
| 2:37 | |
17 | Break Up (1.5) (chat & take)
| 2:34 | |
18 | Break Up (1.6) (false start)
| 0:30 | |
19 | Break Up (1.7)
| 2:29 | |
20 | Break Up (1.8)
| 2:28 | |
21 | Break Up (1.9) (fragment)
| 0:52 | |
22 | Break Up (1.10) (fragment)
| 0:35 | |
23 | Break Up (1.11)
| 2:32 | |
24 | Break Up (1.12)
| 2:26 | |
25 | Memory of You
| 2:11 | |
26 | Come What May
| 2:05 | |
27 | Johnny B. Goode (1)
| 1:57 | |
28 | That Lucky Old Sun
| 3:12 | |
29 | Crazy Arms (2) (chat & take)
| 2:46 | |
30 | Live and Let Live (chat & take)
| 0:41 | |
31 | Crazy Heart (2) (chat & take)
| 3:29 | |
32 | Settin' the Woods on Fire
| 2:28 | |
33 | Break Up (2.1) (false start to 'Settin' the Woods on Fire' & take)
| 2:42 | |
34 | Break Up (2.2)
| 2:25 | |
35 | Break Up (2.3) (chat & take)
| 2:30 | |
36 | Break Up (2.4) (fragment)
| 0:41 | |
37 | Break Up (2.5)
| 2:21 |
1958 CD 8: |
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1958-1959 CD 9: |
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1959-1960 CD 10: |
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1960 CD 11: |
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1960 CD 12: |
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1961-1962 CD 13: |
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1962-1963 CD 14: |
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1963 - Stereo Tracks 1960-1962 CD 15: |
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Stereo Tracks 1960-1962 CD 16: |
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Stereo Tracks 1962-1963 CD 17: |
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Re-Engineered Tracks CD 18: |
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Credits
Release
art direction: | Mychael Gerstenberger (in 2015) |
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design/illustration: | Reinhard Kleist (in 2015) |
liner notes: | Andrew McRae (from 2013 until 2015) Willem Moerdijk (from 2013 until 2015) Valeriy 'Valerik' Orlov (from 2013 until 2015) Pierre Pennone (from 2013 until 2015) |
producer: | Jack Clement (from 1956-11-14 until 1959-05-28) Sam Phillips (founder of Sun Records) (from 1956-11-14 until 1963-08-28) Scotty Moore (American guitarist and recording engineer) (from 1960-10-13 until 1963-03-11) Billy Sherrill (US songwriter/producer/arranger) (from 1961-02-09 until 1962-09-11) Andrew McRae (from 2013 until 2015) Pierre Pennone (from 2013 until 2015) Richard Weize (from 2013 until 2015) |
editor: | Willem Moerdijk (from 2013 until 2015) Valeriy 'Valerik' Orlov (from 2013 until 2015) |
mastering: | Christian Zwarg (in 2015) |