High School Confidential (Jerry Lee Lewis album)
High School Confidential is a 1958 song written by Jerry Lee Lewis and Ron Hargrave and released as a single on Sun Records, Sun 296, backed with "Fools Like Me". The song was also featured in the 1958 movie of the same name. The song was featured on the 1958 Sun studio album, Sun 1230.
The single was the third gold disc for piano rocker Jerry Lee Lewis, released in 1958. A different take of the song featured on the soundtrack of the MGM movie of the same title. In the movie Jerry Lee played the title song in the beginning and end of the movie, standing on the open deck of a truck. Starring in that movie are Mamie Van Doren and Russ Tamblyn. The Sun recording was one of 12 tracks featured on Jerry Lee Lewis's first Long Play (LP) album (Sun LP 1230). In keeping with an occasional record industry practice of the time (1958) the album was also released in 45rpm format, the twelve songs being divided over a series of three 7" Extended Play (EP) records, Sun EPs 108,109 and 110 (pictured). Although widely regarded as the 'headline' track, the title "High School Confidential" was not applied to the album.
The back cover of the LP feature a large picture of Sun Records President Sam Phillips admiring Lewis at the piano in the famous studio at 706 Union Avenue in Memphis, TN. Phillips, then working to promote his latest star Lewis, also wrote the liner notes for the album noting that Lewis "is regarded as the very epitome of rock and roll"
The album is currently available on CD, featuring bonus tracks from his first EP, "The Great Ball of Fire" (Sun EP 107).
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