- Audio CD (1 Jan 2010)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Format: Box set, Collector's Edition, Original recording remastered, Import
- Label: Bear Family-Rollercoaster
- ASIN: B0000282ZV
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 193,144 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings
| 1. Crazy Arms 2. End Of The Road 3. You're The Only Star In My Blue Heaven 4. Born To Lose 5. Silver Threads Among The Gold 6. I'm Throwing Rice 7. I Love You So Much It Hurts 8. Deep Elem Blues 9. Goodnight Irene 10. Goodnight Irene (Undubbed Master) 11. Honey Hush 12. Crawdad Song 13. Dixie 14. The Marines' Hymn 15. That Lucky Old Sun 16. Hand Me Down My Walking Cane 17. You're The Only Star In My Blue Heaven 18. Lewis Boogie 19. I Love You Because 20. I Can't Help It 21. Cold, Cold Heart 22. Shame On You 23. I'll Keep On Loving You 24. You Are My Sunshine 25. Tomorrow Night 26. Sixty Minute Man 27. It All Depends (Who Will Buy The Wine) 28. I Don't Love Nobody 29. Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On 30. It'll Be Me (alt.) 31. It'll Be Me (alt. 2) (unissued) 32. Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On (master) 33. false starts & It'll Be Me 34. It'll Be Me (single master) 35. Ole Pal Of Yesterday 36. You Win Again 37. Love Letters In The Sand 38. Little Green Valley (unissued) 39. Lewis Boogie (master) 40. Pumpin' Piano Rock 41. It'll Be Me (LP master) 42. All Night Long 43. Old Time Religion 44. When The Saints Go Marchin' In (undub.master) 45. My Carolina Sunshine Girl 46. Long Gone Lonesome Blues 47. Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee 48. Singing The Blues 49. snatch of Keep Your Hands Off Of It & 50. Rockin' With Red 51. Matchbox (undubbed master) / Matchbox 52. Ubangi Stomp 53. Rock & Roll Ruby 54. So Long I'm Gone 55. Ooby Dooby 56. I Forgot To Remember To Forget (unissued) 57. You Win Again (undubbed master) 58. I'm Feeling Sorry 59. I'm Feeling Sorry 60. I'm Feeling Sorry 61. I'm Feeling Sorry 62. Mean Woman Blues 63. Turn Around 64. Great Balls Of Fire (movie cut) 65. chatter & Great Balls Of Fire 66. Why Should I Cry Over You 67. Religious Discussion 68. Great Balls Of Fire (master) 69. You Win Again (overdubbed master) 70. Down The Line (unissued) 71. false starts & Down The Line 72. I'm Sorry I'm Not Sorry 73. Down The Line (master) 74. Sexy Ways (false start) 75. Cool, Cool Ways (Sexy Ways) 76. Milkshake Mademoiselle 77. Breathless (unissued) 78. Milkshake Mademoiselle 79. 2 false starts & Milkshake Madem. (unissued) 80. Breathless (master) 81. false start & High School Confidential 82. High School Confidential (unissued) 83. High School Confidential 84. High School Confidential 85. Put Me Down (unissued) 86. Good Rockin' Tonight 87. Pink Pedal Pushers 88. Jailhouse Rock 89. Hound Dog 90. Don't Be Cruel 91. Someday 92. Jambalaya 93. Friday Nights 94. Big Legged Woman 95. Hello, Hello Baby 96. Frankie And Johnny 97. Your Cheatin' Heart 98. Lovesick Blues 99. Goodnight Irene (overdubbed master) 100. When The Saints Go Marchin' In (overd.master) 101. Matchbox (overdubbed master) 102. It All Depends (overdubbed master) 103. Put Me Down 104. Fools Like Me (undubbed master) 105. Carrying On (Sexy Ways) (unissued) 106. false start & Crazy Heart 107. Put Me Down 108. Put Me Down 109. false start to High School Confidential 110. High School Confidential (master) 111. Slippin' Around 112. I'll See You In My Dreams 113. Real Wild Child 114. Let The Good Times Roll 115. Fools Like Me (overdubbed master) 116. Settin' The Woods On Fire (unissued) 117. Memory Of You 118. Come What May 119. Break Up 120. Crazy Heart 121. Live And Let Live 122. false start & I'll Make It All Up To You 123. Crazy Arms 124. Johnny B. Goode 125. false start Settin' The Woods... & Break Up 126. Return Of Jerry Lee 127. Break Up (unissued) 128. I'll Make It All Up To You (unissued) 129. Break Up (unissued) 130. Johnny B. Goode 131. Break Up (master) 132. I'll Make It All Up To You 133. Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee 134. I'll Sail My Ship Alone 135. chatter & It Hurt Me So 136. You're The Only Star In My Blue Heaven 137. It Hurt Me So 138. - Jerry Lee Lewis |
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Classic indeed! This is it. The mother of all rock 'n' roll boxed sets. It comprises all of Jerry Lee Lewis's Sun recordings in premium sound quality with many previously unissued takes, and many songs in stereo for the first time. No other company has this set. Charly Records tried twice to emulate this box, and failed both times. It's the only one that's complete and definitive. Add to that a plethora of incredible unpublished photos in our exclusive LP-sized booklet. This set is the only one you need. Unmatched in the sheer joy of making rock 'n' roll. Essential!
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
It's difficult to convey the magnificence of these recordings. Perhaps Johnny Cash's wonderful American Recordings are the only parallel or possible comparison -- except that Jerry Lee was at the height of his youthful powers when he recorded this music and his producer was the great Sam Phillips. This isn't merely 8 CDs of sundry "stuff" all bundled together for the benefit of completists. Listening to them is like being at a live concert in which Jerry Lee Lewis gives it all he's got on just about every song he could remember, from a whole range of styles, but all of which bear his unmistakeable stamp, a bit like watching changing colours in a sunset or drifting clouds change shape as they float majestically by. The well-known "hits", as enjoyable as they are, say about as much about Jerry Lee Lewis as Laughing Gnome does about David Bowie or Yellow Submarine about the Beatles. To be filed alongside Highway 61 Revisited, Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf's Chess recordings, Kind of Blue, Mahalia Jackson's Apollo recordings, Sam Cooke and the Soul Stirrers, Otis Redding, Elvis's Sun recordings and other American greats.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
If I was asked to demonstrate what rock 'n roll was, these are the discs I would play. The energy, the noise, the sheer joie de vive, its all here in these marvellous recordings.
Not that they are new. Jerry Lee Lewis recorded for Sun through the late 1950's to the early 1960's, and his Sun Material has been subject to reissue thousands of times. Now it is out of copyright it will probably be hundreds of thousands. So why invest in an 8 CD Box Set of material that can be picked up as a supermarket cheapie?
The answer of course is that not all of the Sun material is available in a convenient package. Mostly it takes the form of the dreaded Greatest Hits compilation, and with the multiple re-recordings Jerry Lee made at Sun, it is not always the original master that finds itself on a cheapie. Jerry Lee also recorded many tracks that were not hits, many indeed that were forgotten. Sun didn't really do albums, only a couple of Jerry Lee's were ever released, and the 1961 issue was mostly later material, not the early rockers.
But 8 CDs is still a lot of recorded material to wade through, say the non believers. Indeed it can be, and anybody proposing to start at CD 1 and play straight through to the end of CD 8 is going to need remarkable application. Of course few people do that. In fact, the sequencing of the tracks by Bear Family, deflects from that approach by a running order that follows recording progress. Thus you get masters, alternate takes, false starts etc. in sequence. What you do is dip in and out, listening to the progress as Jerry Lee nails the master recording. You hear the creative approach towards a song. This can be fascinating, but you have to pay the price of giving attention. The repayment comes in the appreciation of a talent that knows no creative repression. The mans ego is enormous, and he gives everything to his music.
You will also hear everything from the recording. Not since Sam Phillips, his Sun Producer sat in the booth twiddling the knobs, has Sun sound been so faithfully reproduced. We take this for granted, but the depth and clarity of these recordings is superb. The best sound I have ever heard on these recordings. And the Sun sound was an elusive thing. As you can hear on the subsequent Box Set of his Smash material, The Locust Years, even Jerry Lee couldn't recapture that sound, despite re-recording most of his old hits in the self same Studio.
So, if you want to hear Great Balls of Fire, Matchbox, High School Confidential et al. in great sound and understand how Jerry Lee created them, then this is for you. Bear Family provide a lovely booklet and authoritive discography. A Box Set to treasure.
Not that they are new. Jerry Lee Lewis recorded for Sun through the late 1950's to the early 1960's, and his Sun Material has been subject to reissue thousands of times. Now it is out of copyright it will probably be hundreds of thousands. So why invest in an 8 CD Box Set of material that can be picked up as a supermarket cheapie?
The answer of course is that not all of the Sun material is available in a convenient package. Mostly it takes the form of the dreaded Greatest Hits compilation, and with the multiple re-recordings Jerry Lee made at Sun, it is not always the original master that finds itself on a cheapie. Jerry Lee also recorded many tracks that were not hits, many indeed that were forgotten. Sun didn't really do albums, only a couple of Jerry Lee's were ever released, and the 1961 issue was mostly later material, not the early rockers.
But 8 CDs is still a lot of recorded material to wade through, say the non believers. Indeed it can be, and anybody proposing to start at CD 1 and play straight through to the end of CD 8 is going to need remarkable application. Of course few people do that. In fact, the sequencing of the tracks by Bear Family, deflects from that approach by a running order that follows recording progress. Thus you get masters, alternate takes, false starts etc. in sequence. What you do is dip in and out, listening to the progress as Jerry Lee nails the master recording. You hear the creative approach towards a song. This can be fascinating, but you have to pay the price of giving attention. The repayment comes in the appreciation of a talent that knows no creative repression. The mans ego is enormous, and he gives everything to his music.
You will also hear everything from the recording. Not since Sam Phillips, his Sun Producer sat in the booth twiddling the knobs, has Sun sound been so faithfully reproduced. We take this for granted, but the depth and clarity of these recordings is superb. The best sound I have ever heard on these recordings. And the Sun sound was an elusive thing. As you can hear on the subsequent Box Set of his Smash material, The Locust Years, even Jerry Lee couldn't recapture that sound, despite re-recording most of his old hits in the self same Studio.
So, if you want to hear Great Balls of Fire, Matchbox, High School Confidential et al. in great sound and understand how Jerry Lee created them, then this is for you. Bear Family provide a lovely booklet and authoritive discography. A Box Set to treasure.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Spectacular!
6 Sep 2006
Format:Audio CD
This de-luxe box set covers Jerry's Sun studio years from 1956-63, and include EVERY song that 'Killer' recorded in that period: all in all 246 songs with 30 unissued performances in perfect sound quality- all tracks are mastered from the original tapes.
If your tired of countless 'best of' compilations with always the same songs in not so good sound quality, this is the nice solution. And trust me, it's a great music (Jerry is really the wildest and most rockin' star of late 50's and early 60's) in a great package, and after i've heard all 8 cd's, i was just breathless. Yes it was that good!
If your tired of countless 'best of' compilations with always the same songs in not so good sound quality, this is the nice solution. And trust me, it's a great music (Jerry is really the wildest and most rockin' star of late 50's and early 60's) in a great package, and after i've heard all 8 cd's, i was just breathless. Yes it was that good!
Title says it all!
13 Jan 2010
Format:Audio CD
To me this is one of the "Holy Grail" items in all popular music. The breadth of musical styles encompassed here is amazing, and Jerry Lee is able to master them all. This weekend I listened to whole set again, on random shuffle, and never hit skip once. Out of 246 tracks, that is amazing, there are very few 10-12 song albums that are this consistently good. You might as well get the big box, because once you start sampling individual cds you are likely to end up here anyway!
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