The Golden Cream of the Country
The Golden Cream of the Country | ||||
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Compilation album by Jerry Lee Lewis | ||||
Released | 1969 | |||
Recorded | Memphis, Tennessee | |||
Genre | Country | |||
Length | 26:56 | |||
Label | Sun | |||
Producer | Shelby Singleton | |||
Jerry Lee Lewis chronology | ||||
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The Golden Cream of the Country is the 12th album by Jerry Lee Lewis. It was released by the Sun Record Company in 1969.
Background
In June 1969, Sun Records founder Sam Phillips sold the entire Sun catalog to Shelby Singleton which included a treasure trove of unreleased Lewis recordings. With Jerry Lee's rebirth as a country star for Smash Records, Singleton began releasing these older songs and packaged them in such a way that many buyers assumed they were recent recordings. Under the terms of the deal between Singleton and Phillips, the Sun International Corporation was formed with Phillips as a minority share holder, ensuring that Phillips would continue to get a piece of the pie and that the Sun name would remain relevant. As Colin Escott observes in his essay for the 1986 retrospective The Killer: The Smash/Mercury Years, "After only seeing two Sun albums by Jerry Lee Lewis between 1957 and 1969, the market was suddenly flooded with three or four a year and even more recycled into budget compilations on Pickwick Records." Consequently, Lewis found himself competing with his own past. Much like Johnny Cash, his masters had also been a part of the Singleton/Phillips deal. Singleton would milk these unreleased recordings for years following The Golden Cream of the Country with A Taste of Country later in 1970.
"The Killer" was so hot in 1970 that Singleton issued one of Lewis's latter unreleased Sun recordings, "One Minute Past Eternity", as a single and it climbed to number two on the country chart, following on the heels of Lewis's recent Mercury smash "She Even Woke Me Up to Say Goodbye". The album also includes two songs by Hank Williams, one of Lewis's biggest influences, as well as the George Jones-penned "Seasons of My Heart," which Jerry Lee performs as a duet with his sister Linda Gail Lewis.
Track listing
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Invitation to Your Party" | Bill Taylor | 1:54 |
2. | "Jambalaya (On the Bayou)" | Hank Williams | 1:58 |
3. | "Ramblin' Rose" | 3:17 | |
4. | "Cold, Cold Heart" | Williams | 3:05 |
5. | "As Long as I Live" | Dorsey Burnette | 2:25 |
6. | "Seasons of My Heart" (with Linda Gail Lewis) |
| 2:59 |
7. | "One Minute Past Eternity" |
| 2:02 |
8. | "I Can't Trust Me in Your Arms Anymore" |
| 2:11 |
9. | "Frankie and Johnny" | Traditional (Arranged by Jerry Lee Lewis) | 2:32 |
10. | "Home" | Roger Miller | 1:57 |
11. | "How's My Ex Treating You" | McAplin | 2:36 |
Total length: | 26:56 |
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- "High School Confidential"
- "How's My Ex Treating You"
- "I Can't Seem to Say Goodbye"
- "I'll Make It All Up to You"
- "I'm on Fire"
- "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry"
- "In the Mood"
- "Invitation to Your Party"
- "It'll Be Me"
- "Jackson" (with Linda Gail Lewis)
- "Lewis Boogie"
- "Me and Bobby McGee"
- "Meat Man"
- "Money (That's What I Want)"
- "Old Black Joe"
- "Once More with Feeling"
- "One Has My Name (The Other Has My Heart)"
- "One Minute Past Eternity"
- "Pen and Paper"
- "She Even Woke Me Up to Say Goodbye"
- "She Still Comes Around (To Love What's Left of Me)"
- "She Was My Baby (He Was My Friend)"
- "Sixteen Candles"
- "Somewhere Over the Rainbow"
- "Seasons of My Heart"
- "Sweet Little Sixteen"
- "Teenage Letter"
- "There Must Be More to Love Than This"
- "To Make Love Sweeter for You"
- "Touching Home"
- "Turn On Your Love Light"
- "What's Made Milwaukee Famous (Has Made a Loser Out of Me)"
- "What'd I Say"
- "When He Walks on You (Like You Have Walked On Me)"
- "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On"
- "Who's Gonna Play This Old Piano?"
- "Wild One"
- "Would You Take Another Chance on Me"
- "You Win Again"
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- Be My Guest (1965)
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- American Hot Wax (1978)
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- Linda Gail Lewis (sister)
- Mickey Gilley (cousin)
- Carl McVoy (cousin)
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