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The album was created during a turbulent period in Lewis' career. He struggled with the Internal Revenue Service, his fourth wife drowned in 1982 and his fifth wife died in 1983 within three months of their marriage. The latter death resulting in rumours of murder.
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revived his career in 2006. It offers a similar mix of rock ‘n roll and country songs as the albums he made for Elektra, containing material from many familiar songwriters, including
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Lewis would hit the US single charts one last time in 1996 with "Sixteen Candles", a song taken from the Class of '55 album with Roy Orbison, Johnny Cash and Carl Perkins,
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The album's liner notes refer to Bill Burnett as one of the composers, but other sources list his almost namesake Billy Burnette as the co-composer, e.g.,
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Lea Jane Berinati, Donna McElroy, Yvonne Hodges, Shri Huffman, Diane Tidwell, Lisa Silver, Karen Taylor, Judy Rodman, Donna Sheridon – backing vocals
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was Jerry Lee's last solo studio album to make its way into Billboard's Top Country Albums chart until
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After breaking up with Elektra, Lewis moved to MCA to record two albums in the early 1980s.
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Index


Studio album
Jerry Lee Lewis
Genre
Country
rock
Label
MCA
Producer
Ron Chancey
Jerry Lee Lewis
The Survivors Live
I Am What I Am
Jerry Lee Lewis
MCA
Last Man Standing
Sonny Throckmorton
Mack Vickery
Sonny Throckmorton
Mickey Newbury
Bill Rice
Joe Sample
Will Jennings
Paul Craft
Fred Koller
Mack Vickery
Larry Henley
Billy Burnette
Shane Keister
Kenny Lovelace

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