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Fifty-nine years ago, on Tuesday, October 8, 1957, Jerry Lee Lewis recorded Great Balls of Fire. What a great thing to happen!
Fire is a 1957 song that was recorded by Jerry Lee Lewis on Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee and featured in the 1957 movie Jamboree a 1957 American rock and roll film directed by Roy Lockwood.
Jamboree also featured Fats" Domino, Jimmy Bowen, Buddy Knox, Carl Perkins, Count Basie, Connie Francis and many others.
Great Balls of Fire was written by Otis Blackwell and Jack Hammer (gotta just LOVE that name! Earl Solomon Burroughs), in AABA form.
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(Earl Solomon Burroughs)
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The backing personnel was Sidney Stokes on bass, session drummer, Larry Linn and Roland Janes playing guitar).
The Lewis 1957 recording was ranked as the 96th-greatest song ever by Rolling Stone. It sold one million copies in its first 10 days of release in the United States, making it one of the best-selling singles at that time.
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