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Odd Man In (1975)

Where the lyrics of Odd Man In take you, and where it was really made.

The album title is credited to Joanie Lawrence rather than to Jerry Lee Lewis.

Key places

Recording site in Nashville (1975)

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Album story

Overview

• Odd Man In: 31st studio album by American musician and pianist Jerry Lee Lewis
• Released in 1975 on the Mercury label
• Album title credited to Joanie Lawrence
• Eleven tracks in the track listing
• Covers of Goodnight Irene, Shake, Rattle & Roll and Your Cheatin' Heart are among the songs
• Cover photography credited to David Deahl

Background

• Jerry Lee Lewis: American musician and pianist
• Odd Man In is his thirty-first studio album
• Mercury Records is the label that released the album in 1975
• The French Wikipedia article gives the same label and release year

Recording

• Recorded in Nashville, Tennessee
• Engineers credited: Larry Rogers and Tom Sparkman
• Knox Phillips supervised the vocal overdubs
• Session guitarists include Billy Sanford, Chip Young and Pete Wade
• Steel guitar by Lloyd Green and Pete Drake
• Piano and organ by Hargus Pig Robbins, drums by Buddy Harman

Cover

• Cover photography by David Deahl

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · www.discogs.com · fr.wikipedia.org

Tracklist

Sources: musicbrainz.org

Artist

Career

• American country and rock and roll pianist, singer, and songwriter, nicknamed "The Killer".
• Made first recordings in 1952 at Cosimo Matassa's J&M Studio in New Orleans; early Sun Records recordings in 1956 in Memphis.
• 1957 hit "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" brought worldwide fame; followed by "Great Balls of Fire", "Breathless", and "High School Confidential".
• 1964 live album Live at the Star Club, Hamburg is widely regarded as one of the greatest live rock albums.
• Switched to country in 1968 with "Another Place, Another Time", which revived his career; 30 songs reached the Billboard country top 10 across his career.
• Last Man Standing (2006) was his best-selling release; Mean Old Man (2010) was another major seller.
• Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1986) and the Country Music Hall of Fame (2022).

Members

• Solo artist; the Million Dollar Quartet session on Sun Records included Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Reception

At release

• Released in 1975 on Mercury, the label that handled the album
• Jerry Lee Lewis performs vocals and piano
• Track 1: Don't Boogie Woogie (When You Say Your Prayers Tonight), written by Layng Martine Jr.
• Track 2: Shake, Rattle & Roll, written by Charles E. Calhoun
• Track 3: You Ought to See My Mind, written by Carl Knight
• Track 4: I Don't Want to Be Lonely Tonight, written by Baker Knight
• Track 5: That Kind of Fool, written by Mack Vickery
• Track 6: Goodnight Irene, written by Huddie Ledbetter and Alan A. Lomax
• Track 7: A Damn Good Country Song, written by Donnie Fritts
• Track 8: Jerry's Place, written by Ray Griff
• Track 9: When I Take My Vacation to Heaven, written by Herbert Buffum
• Track 10: Crawdad Song, a traditional song arranged by Jerry Lee Lewis
• Track 11: Your Cheatin' Heart, written by Hank Williams
• The Jordanaires and two other vocal groups provide vocal accompaniment

Records

• The source gives no chart, sales, certification or award figures for this album

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• The Jordanaires (Gordon Stoker, Hoyt Hawkins, Neal Matthews, Ray Walker) provided vocal accompaniment on the album.
• Crawdad Song is a traditional number credited with an arrangement by Jerry Lee Lewis himself.
• Goodnight Irene is credited to Huddie Ledbetter and Alan A. Lomax, the only track listing entry with two writers besides the Knight songs.
• Knox Phillips is credited with supervising the vocal overdubs.
• The album closes with Hank Williams' Your Cheatin' Heart.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

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