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Jerry Lee Lewis - Great Balls Of Fire - 1957
LYRICS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMwq_D-DWsU
" Great Balls of Fire " is a 1957 popular song recorded by American rock and roll musician Jerry Lee Lewis on Sun Records and featured in the 1957 movie Jamboree . It was written by Otis Blackwell , a prolific songwriter who wrote many hits for Elvis Presley, and Jack Hammer who at one point was a member of The Platters. Blackwell died in 2002, aged 70. The Jerry Lee Lewis 1957 recording was ranked as the 96th greatest song ever by Rolling Stone . The song is in AABA form . The song sold one million copies in its first 10 days of release in the United States making it one of the best-selling singles in the United States at that time.
It reached #1 in US Billboard Hot Country Singles, #1 in UK Singles Chart, #2 in US Billboard Hot 100, and #8 in New Zealand Charts.
The song became Lewis' signature tune, a perfect fit for his incendiary style. "A person tells at least a little bit about himself in any song he cuts," Lewis said years later. Lewis grew up in a religious household and was conflicted over whether or not he should record this. He and Sun Records owner Sam Phillips argued as Phillips tried to convince him to sing it.
This was released in England the same month that Lewis married 13-year-old Myra Gale Brown, who was the daughter of his cousin (and bass player) J.W. Brown. At the time, Lewis was headlining shows with Buddy Holly and Chuck Berry, but when the UK press found out, public outrage forced Lewis to leave the country. Back in the States, his career faltered as radio stations refused to play his records and stores refused to sell them.
One of the many rock stars this influenced was Eric Clapton, who said: "I remember the first Rock & Roll I ever saw on TV was Jerry Lee Lewis doing 'Great Balls of Fire'. That threw me - it was like seeing someone from outer space."
#music #tangled #trl #charttoppers
LYRICS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMwq_D-DWsU
" Great Balls of Fire " is a 1957 popular song recorded by American rock and roll musician Jerry Lee Lewis on Sun Records and featured in the 1957 movie Jamboree . It was written by Otis Blackwell , a prolific songwriter who wrote many hits for Elvis Presley, and Jack Hammer who at one point was a member of The Platters. Blackwell died in 2002, aged 70. The Jerry Lee Lewis 1957 recording was ranked as the 96th greatest song ever by Rolling Stone . The song is in AABA form . The song sold one million copies in its first 10 days of release in the United States making it one of the best-selling singles in the United States at that time.
It reached #1 in US Billboard Hot Country Singles, #1 in UK Singles Chart, #2 in US Billboard Hot 100, and #8 in New Zealand Charts.
The song became Lewis' signature tune, a perfect fit for his incendiary style. "A person tells at least a little bit about himself in any song he cuts," Lewis said years later. Lewis grew up in a religious household and was conflicted over whether or not he should record this. He and Sun Records owner Sam Phillips argued as Phillips tried to convince him to sing it.
This was released in England the same month that Lewis married 13-year-old Myra Gale Brown, who was the daughter of his cousin (and bass player) J.W. Brown. At the time, Lewis was headlining shows with Buddy Holly and Chuck Berry, but when the UK press found out, public outrage forced Lewis to leave the country. Back in the States, his career faltered as radio stations refused to play his records and stores refused to sell them.
One of the many rock stars this influenced was Eric Clapton, who said: "I remember the first Rock & Roll I ever saw on TV was Jerry Lee Lewis doing 'Great Balls of Fire'. That threw me - it was like seeing someone from outer space."
#music #tangled #trl #charttoppers
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