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"...Georgia On My Mind..."
Beat Goes On of the UK
continue their extensive reissue campaign of the Killer’s Country albums for
Mercury Records in the sixties and Seventies – this time whomping us with
"Country Class" from 1976 and "Country Memories" from 1977
onto 1CD.
After a steady diet of
musical mediocrity, personal scandal and the occasional nasal operation –
"Country Class" and "Country Memories" at least seemed to
provide long-suffering fans with some 'very brief' moments worth cheering. But
the problem with both albums is that they contained much that was risible too -
and time hasn't been kind to either. Here are the 'one rose you left in my
heart' details...
UK released Friday 19
February 2016 – "Country Class/Country Memories" by JERRY LEE LEWIS
on Beat Goes On Records BGOCD1222 (Barcode 5017261212221) offers 2LPs Remastered onto
1CD and plays out as follows (69:08 minutes):
1. Let's Put It Back
Together Again
2. No One Will Ever Know
3. You Belong To Me
4. I Sure Miss Those Good
Old Times
5. The Old Country Church
6. After The Fool You've
Made Of Me
7. Jerry Lee's Rock &
Roll Revival Show [Side 2]
8. Wedding Bells
9. Only Love Can Get You In
My Door
10. The One Rose That's Left
In My Heart
11. The Closest Thing To You
Tracks 1 to 11 are the album
"Country Class" – released October 1976 in the USA on Mercury
SRM-1-1109
12. Middle Age Crazy
13. Let's Say Goodbye Like
We Said Hello (In A Friendly Kind Of Way)
14. Who's Sorry Now
15. Jealous Heart
16. Georgia On My Mind
17. Come On In
18. As Long As We Live
19. (You'd Think By Now) I'd
Be Over You
20. Country Memories
21. What's So Good About
Goodbye
22. Tennessee Saturday Night
Tracks 12 to 22 are the
album "Country Memories" – released November 1977 in the USA on
Mercury SRM-1-5004
There’s the usual card
slipcase and a 12-page booklet with excellent ANDREW McRAE liner notes that
tell it like it is about the musical content. ANDREW THOMPSON has done the new 2016
Remasters and they sound amazing. I wish the music warranted it...
"Country Class"
opens with some genuinely awful schlock – "Let's Put It Back Together
Again" – cheesy strings and even cheesier arrangements make it the kind of
Country crud even Country fans hate. Things improve with "No One Will Ever
Know" and his respectful cover of Jo Stafford's 1952 hit "You Belong
To Me" isn't bad. But songs like "I Sure Miss Those Good Old
Times" and "The Old Country Church" (associated with Hank
Williams) feels tired - like Presley reaching for something safe rather than
the fire of old. There's a brief moment of respite with "Jerry Lee's Rock
& Roll Revival Show" where those brass and piano rolls sound more John
Fogerty than Hank Snow – and in a good way. "Country Memories" only
offers up more of the same – songs like "Let's Say Goodbye Like We Said
Hello (In A Friendly Kind Of Way)" has a half decent melody and lyric but
its drowned in syrupy backing vocalists and the ever present Pedal Steel. His
boogied-up "Who's Sorry Now" is o.k. but far better is "(You'd
Think By Now) I'd Be Over You" – a genuinely pretty melody that Jerry Lee
sings well.
Fans will love the Audio and
the Quality presentation – but everyone else should get a listen first before
they buy...
