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(13 customer reviews) 50 of 53 people found the following review helpful
Should've been 4 discs - but great anyway!,
June 23, 2006 Mr. A. Mc Rae (England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Jerry Lee Lewis Box Set (Audio CD)
Fantastic looking, excellent presentation, great contents and - overall - a fine summary of JLL's career.
..although there are a few 'buts'...
The Time-Life VP's introductory remark that there has 'never been a truly definitive JLL anthology' is, of course, nonsense and, leaving aside the obvious attraction of the 1952 recordings, this collection bears some comparison with an essentially similar project called ..er... 'The Jerry Lee Lewis Anthology' (aka 'All Killer No Filler') produced by Rhino in 1993. (Albeit the actual marketing is, of course, pitched at a different level, so one can perhaps forgive this 'oversight'). Rhino have, of course, also overseen this Time-Life issue, and the 1993 set would have made a good starting point for this project in terms of track selection, i.e. the 2 discs of 'All Killer No Filler' could have been complemented effectively by much of the third in the new collection.
To some of the particulars. Another reviewer has...Read more
26 of 26 people found the following review helpful
The best concise career retrospective available,
June 18, 2006 J. Bonich (Woodbridge, VA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Jerry Lee Lewis Box Set (Audio CD)
Time-Life managed to pull off a great feat by putting together a set that will not only be pleasing to the casual fan, but will also appeal to the die-hard JLL collectors. It consists of three disks, each focusing on a particular phase in his career.
The first disk consists of recordings from his 1956-1963 stint at Sun studios, where he became the biggest rock star this side of Elvis. The inclusion of the religious discussion is a nice touch. But the ommission of his first single, "Crazy Arms" and the instumental of "in The Mood" in favor of the so-so cuts "Night Train to memphis" and "I'm Feeling Sorry" is a bit puzzling. The last three, more country-oriented singles at the end of this disk make for a nice lead in to the second disk and phase of his career, the Smash/Mercury years.
Disk two contains what is probably the best single-disk collection of his smash/mercury era recordings I've ever heard. Its a great mix of his rockers and hard-lived country...Read more
19 of 19 people found the following review helpful
Jerry Lee Lewis - The Greatest of Them All,
June 16, 2006 G. I. Knight "Graham Knight" (Aberdeen, Scotland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Jerry Lee Lewis Box Set (Audio CD)
Thanks to Amazon I received this fantasic new release here in Scotland just two days after it came out in America.
It is only right that Jerry Lee Lewis - the greatest of them all - has been chosen to inauguarate Time Life's "Legends of American Music" series.
The biggest hits of Jerry's 50 year career are here together with a some never before seen Lewis family photographs.
54 years ago a seventeen year old Jerry and his friend from schooldays - Cecil Harellson - made a trip from Ferriday Louisiana to New Orleans. While there Cecil paid two dollars to cut a "demo" record. Cecil kept this "dub" and Time Life have made these two tracks available for the first time along with some later previously unreleased material.
Jerry Lee Lewis fans worldwide never ever thought that we would be able to hear Jerry's first ever recording. This is history!
The Boogie Jerry cut in New Orleans is fantastic - I have played it more than 100 times...Read more
