Producers: Sam Phillips, Jack Clement, Bill Justis, Billy Sherrill.
Compilation producer: Cary E. Mansfield.
Includes liner notes by Allen J. Wiener.
Digitally remastered by Dan Hersch (Digiprep, Hollywood, California).
Liner Note Author: Allen J. Wiener.
Recording information: 1957-1978.
25 ALL-TIME GREATEST HITS is an extremely well chosen anthology of Jerry Lee Lewis' early work. This music is as extreme as '50s rock gets. After all, as Allan J. Weiner puts it in his excellent liner notes, if rock & roll had a voice, attitude, and performing style, it would very closely resemble Lewis'.
Among these epochal, reverb-drenched blasts, one finds all of Lewis' hits-"Great Balls of Fire," "Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On," and "Breathless." Many of the less familiar tracks are just as potent. Lewis' leering, rockabilly version of Ray Charles' "What'd I Say" and his country boogie take on Hank Williams' "Cold, Cold Heart" are especially good. As one-CD Lewis best-of selections go, this disc is pretty hard to beat.
Professional Reviews
Q (9/00, p.126) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...With their romping, stomping primitivism, [these Sun recordings] are as lascivious, unhinged and dangerous as any white singer got during the '50s..."
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