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Discography
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JERRY LEE LEWIS
Discography 1956 - 1963This disco
graphy is a chronological listing of his recording sessions from 1956 to 1963. Accom-panying e
ach date is a listing of personnel for that session. The exact format of the discographyis as follo
ws: 1. date; 2. location; 3. producer | 4. personnel | 5. discography opus number; 6. title; 7. original 45 RPM release; 8. LP/CD release* | 9. composer/writer * incl. information about the specific place on the release concerned, and a reference if the initial release was in stereo (s) or electronically created stereo (es). Abbreviations:fs = false st
art | ext. = extended | s = stereo | es = electronically created stereo | d = dubbed | ds = dubbed/stereo Note on versions and takes numberingAs 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 identi-fying the
contents of each tape box as 'take one' et seq; nor, in most instances, has any otherformal ide
ntification, be it written or otherwise, been found of all the many recordings discoveredin the vaul
ts. What compounds the difficulty in the case of Lewis’s work, when compared to thoseof his cont
emporaries at S UN R ECORDS , is that Jerry Lee would return to the same material on dif-ferent occ
asions across the weeks, months and years, in so doing blurring the distinction betweenwhat are t
raditionally thought of as 'takes' and /or 'versions' of particular titles.Conseque
ntly, in order that a coherent presentation of all of Lewis’s work that has survived inS
UN
tape b
oxes can be achieved, a unique system of identifying specific performances has beendevised. It
will be understood that the individual 'tags' ascribed to specific tapes will not neces-sarily coin
cide with the identities given in previously published discographies to the same record-ings; this i
s inevitable in cases such as Little Green Valley , where the previous ledger of three takesproved 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 isavaila
ble is one tape of a unique performance of a specific song, then no 'take' number isindica
ted after the title concerned, e.g. 003 Born To LoseIf
a particular song was recorded at two or more distinct sessions, but there is only oneknow
n take from an individual session, then the version number is indicated without indi-cating
a specific take, e.g. 001 Crazy Arms (1) and 240 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 ofrecor
ding, using a 'take sequential number'. However, these numbers are not necessarilythe ac
tual 'take number' representative of all that was performed during the session con-cerne
d, because some takes have been lost or erased. Conversely, in some instances, severaltakes
that amount to no more than false starts have been presented together as one CD trackand, t
hus, have been ascribed a single 'take sequential number', e.g. 004 Deep Elem Blues(1)
,
0
05 Deep Elem Blues (2) .If
a song was recorded on different occasions and there were several takes at a particularsessio
n, then the individual session is identified by the version number, followed by the ‘takeseque
ntial number’, e.g. 018 It’ll Be Me (1.1) , 019 It’ll Be Me (1.2) , 034 It’ll Be Me (2.2) [3false s
tarts] .In the few
cases when the actual take number, as assigned by the engineers at a session, is actu-ally know
n, then this is clearly stated in the description of the track, e.g. 380 As Long As I Live(6) [slate
and take 5] .1956
November 14, 1956 • SUN Studio, 706 Union, Memphis, TN. • Producer: Jack Clement and/or Sam
Phillips Jerry Lee Lewis: vocal, piano; Roland Janes: guitar; Jimmy Van Eaton: drums 001 Crazy Arms (1) [master] Sun 259 BCD15420-1/1
(Chuck Seals - Ralph E. Mooney) BCD17254-1/1
Note: No guitar except Billy Riley hitting one note at the end. 002 End Of The Road [master] Sun 259 BCD15420-1/2
(Jerry Lee Lewis) BCD17254-1/2
003 Born To Lose 6467 029
(Frankie Brown aka Ted Daffan) BCD15420-1/4
BCD17254-1/3
004 You're The Only Star (In My Blue Heaven) (1.1) SunBox 4-10/17
(Gene Autry) BCD17254-1/4
005 You're The Only Star (In My Blue Heaven) (1.2) SunBox 102-1/A3
BCD15420-1/3
BCD17254-1/5
Probably November/December 1956 • SUN Studio, 706 Union, Memphis, TN. • Producer: Jack Clement
and/or Sam Phillips Jerry Lee Lewis: vocal (except 016, 017), piano; Roland Janes: guitar; Jimmy Van Eaton: drums
006 Deep Elem Blues (1) CD Charly 70
(Bob & Joe Attlesey) BCD17254-1/6
007 Deep Elem Blues (2) Sun121 (es)
BCD15420-1/8
BCD17254-1/7
008 Silver Threads Among The Gold Sun119
(Eben E. Rexford - Hart Pease Danks) BCD15420-1/5
BCD17254-1/8
009 Crawdad Song Sun121 (es)
(trad. arr. Jerry Lee Lewis) BCD15420-1/12
BCD17254-1/9
010 Singing The Blues Sun124 (es)
(Melvin Endsley) BCD15420-2/18
BCD17254-1/10
011 Honey Hush Sun124 (es)
(Big Joe Turner) BCD15420-1/11
BCD17254-1/11
012 Goodnight Irene (1) UNISSUED BCD17254-1/12
(Huddie 'Lead Belly' Ledbetter - John A. Lomax) 013 Goodnight Irene (2) SunBox 102-1/B5
BCD17254-1/13
014 Goodnight Irene (3) [undubbed master] BFX15211
BCD15420-1/10
BCD17254-1/14
N OTE : vocal chorus (Ed Bruce, Vernon Drane, Charlie Rich, Lee Holt, Bobby Thompson, Ben Strong
and Alice Rumple) added at an overdub session on April 4 or 8, 1958 (see 597)
015 Goodnight Irene (4) SunBox 102-1/B6
BCD15420-1/9
BCD17254-1/15
016 The Marines' Hymn CR 300007
(Jacques Offenbach, arr. Jerry Lee Lewis) BCD15420-1/14
BCD17254-1/16
017 Dixie CR 300002
(Daniel D. Emmett) BCD15420-1/13
BCD17254-1/17