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AN ORIGINAL US SUN PRESSING OF THIS GREAT ROCKING PIANO 78 FROM JERRY LEE LEWIS ON THE SUN LABEL IN EXCELLENT CONDITION

HIGH SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL

b/w     FOOLS LIKE ME

Jerry Lee Lewis is the wild man of rock and roll, embodying its most reckless and high-spirited impulses. On such piano-pounding rockers from the late Fifties as “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On” and “Great Balls of Fire,” Lewis combined a ferocious, boogie-style instrumental style with rowdy, uninhibited vocals. 

He migrated to Memphis from Ferriday, Louisiana, where he’d grown up learning how to play piano by ear based on the music around him: Western swing, boogie-woogie, uptempo R&B and Delta blues. Lewis’ first influence was the country-blues sound of Jimmie Rodgers, although he also absorbed the gospel and R&B of the local black community. His amalgamation of these indigenous styles, abetted by his brash temperament, made him a natural-born rock and roller - maybe the ultimate rock and roll rebel. Lewis found a home at Sam Philip's’ Sun Records label, whose stable of talent also included Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash and Roy Orbison. After a country-flavored audition for Philips in 1956, Lewis was told that if he could come up with some rock and roll, “we could probably do something.” Lewis didn’t write much himself, but he transformed other people’s songs into unbridled rock and roll that even he called “the Devil’s music.” 

Lewis’ debut single was a rocking recasting of Ray Price’s country hit “Crazy Arms.” He followed it with “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On,” which sold 6 million copies and went to #3, and “Great Balls of Fire,” a 5 million seller that reached #2. Both songs were from 1957, a watershed year for Lewis. The next year yielded more hits - “Breathless” and “High School Confidential” - and a role in a movie titled after the latter song. 

However, his career as a rock and roller took a precipitous tumble when the press discovered that he’d married his 13-year-old cousin in December 1957. Lewis managed to weather the controversy, enduring a ten-year drought on the charts to eventually realize a successful career as a country-music artist. 

FROM THE FILM OF THE SAME NAME THIS WAS ONE OF JERRY LEE'S GREATEST ROCKERS  !

You better open up honey its your lover boy me that's a knockin'
You better listen to me sugar all the cats are at the High School rockin'

Honey get your boppin' shoes

Before the juke box blows a fuse

Got everbody hoppin'
everybody boppin'
Boppin' at the High School Hop
Boppin' at the High School Hop
Shakin' at the High School Hop
I've rollin' at the High School Hop
I've been movin' at the High School Hop
Everybodys hoppin'     Everybody's boppin'
Boppin' at the High School Hop

Come on little baby gonna rock a little bit tonight
Woooh I got get with you sugar gonna shake things up tonight
Check out the heart beatin' rhythm cause my feet are moving smooth & light
Boppin' at the High School Hop
Shakin' at the High School Hop
Rollin' at the High School Hop
Movin' at the High School Hop
Everybodys hoppin'  just a boppin' just a boppin'

Piano Solo!

Come on little baby let me give a piece good news good news good news
Jerry Lee is going to rock away all his blues
My hearts beatin' rhythm and my soul is singin' the blues

Oooooh Boppin' at the High School Hop
Shakin' at the High School Hop
Rollin' at the High School Hop
Gettin' it at the High School Hop
Everybodys hoppin'    Everybody's boppin'
Boppin' at the High School Hop

Solo Time! 

Boppin' at the High School Hop
Shakin' at the High School Hop
Rollin' at the High School Hop
Movin' at the High School Hop
Well Everybodys hoppin'      Everybody's boppin'
Boppin' at the High School Hop

DISC DETAILS: 

US  SUN 296  10" 78rpm   SHELLAC

CONDITION - EXCELLENT  / E+ 

TWO SUPERB SIDES 

on an original US SUN 78

THIS 78 COMES FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE LATE PETER FEAST  

A GREAT COLLECTIOR OF ROCK-A-BILLY, COUNTRY, RHYTHM & BLUES, AND ROCK & ROLL RECORDS

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