The Jerry Lee Lewis collections

Bear Mountain Family has been outdoing the Time-Life collectios of music. My latest acquisition is the 8 CD set of all the Sun recordings of the frantic Mr. Lewis, even the false starts and never released. The disks look like little Sun records. Running down the list of songs on disk 1, I saw The Marine Corps Hymn on track #14. Put it on, slightly nervous. What could Mr. Great Balls of Fire do with that? Turns out it's an instrumental, a mellow boogie-woogie that you've gotta listen close to recognize the melody. I was dazzled by Jerry's early hits and I am still a fan. Many of these songs I bought starting back in 1958, even a 78rpm of Great Balls of Fire. They are moldering in a great cabinet I built for them. Some, like Big Blon' Baby, are too warped to play. Others are too scratchy, and several favorites were lost along the way. Now I've got hours of catching up. Ya'll excuse me.