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Soul My Way

Studio album by

Jerry Lee Lewis

Released

1967

Recorded

May and August, 1967

Genre

Length

26:56

Jerry Lee Lewis chronology

By Request: More of the Greatest Live Show on Earth
(1966)

Soul My Way
(1967)

Another Place, Another Time
(1968)

Soul My Way is the seventh album by Jerry Lee Lewis released on the Smash label in 1967.

Background

Jerry Lee Lewis signed with Smash in 1963 and, after four years, Mercury executives did not seem to know what do with him. Although he remained very popular in Europe, and a riveting live performer, he enjoyed little chart success. Mercury had tried an album of Sun Records remakes (Golden Hits of Jerry Lee Lewis in 1964) and a country-themed album (Country Songs for City Folks in 1965) but they did not come close to recapturing the triumphs Lewis had enjoyed with Sam Phillips. Rock and pop music had also changed enormously by 1967, making it more difficult for Mercury to figure out how to market Lewis. As Colin Escott notes in the sleeve to the 1995 Mercury compilation Killer Country, by the late '60s "Jerry's idea of rock music was almost ten years out of date. In private conversation, he would offer the opinion that the Beatles should go back across the Atlantic at a slow walk, but no amount of posturing could turn back the clock."^{[citation needed]}

Recording

By 1967, producer Shelby Singleton left Mercury to form his own label and Jerry Kennedy would take complete charge of Lewis's recordings. Kennedy eventually produced Jerry Lee's comeback single "Another Place, Another Time" the following year, which ushered in a string of country hits for Lewis well into the next decade but, as biographer Joe Bonomo writes in Jerry Lee Lewis: Lost and Found, by 1967 Kennedy was "scratching his head over what the heck to do. Jerry Lee's lone album in 1967, the curious (and among Killer fans somewhat infamous) Soul My Way, was a hodgepodge of old tracks and new that Kennedy attempted to unify with variety show pizzazz."^{[citation needed]} The album is noteworthy for its cover of Bobby "Blue" Bland's "Turn On Your Love Light" and its take on Texas songwriter Mickey Newbury's psychedelic "Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)", which features Lewis playing harpsichord.^{[citation needed]} Three tracks, "Wedding Bells", the Lewis original "He Took It Like a Man", and "Betcha Gonna Like It" had been recorded during sessions dating back to 1963 and 1964.^{[citation needed]}

Reception

Soul My Way was released November 1, 1967 to commercial and public indifference, failing to crack the Billboard chart.

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Turn on Your Love Light"	Deadric Malone Joseph Scott	2:33
2.	"It's a Hang Up, Baby"	Eddie Reeves	2:17
3.	"Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream)"	Cindy Walker	2:28
4.	"Just Dropped In"	Mickey Newbury	2:27
5.	"Wedding Bells"	Claude Boone	2:33
6.	"He Took It Like a Man"	Jerry Lee Lewis	1:53
7.	"Hey! Baby"	Bruce Channel Margaret Cobb	2:11
8.	"Treat Her Right"	Roy Head	2:01
9.	"Holdin' On"	Majorie Barton Bobby Dyson	3:06
10.	"Shotgun Man"	Cecil Harrelson	2:45
11.	"I Betcha Gonna Like It"	Buddy Killen Robert Riley	2:42
Total length:			26:56

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Koch, Bob (March 7, 2009). "Vinyl Cave -- "Soul My Way" by Jerry Lee Lewis". Isthmus. Retrieved October 29, 2020.

v t e Jerry Lee Lewis
Studio albums	Jerry Lee Lewis Jerry Lee's Greatest! Golden Hits of Jerry Lee Lewis The Return of Rock Country Songs for City Folks Memphis Beat Soul My Way Another Place, Another Time She Still Comes Around Sings the Country Music Hall of Fame Hits, Vol. 1 Sings the Country Music Hall of Fame Hits, Vol. 2 The Golden Cream of the Country She Even Woke Me Up to Say Goodbye In Loving Memories: The Jerry Lee Lewis Gospel Album There Must Be More to Love Than This Touching Home Would You Take Another Chance on Me? The Killer Rocks On Who's Gonna Play This Old Piano? The Session...Recorded in London with Great Artists Sometimes a Memory Ain't Enough Southern Roots: Back Home to Memphis I-40 Country Boogie Woogie Country Man Odd Man In Country Class Country Memories Jerry Lee Keeps Rockin' Jerry Lee Lewis When Two Worlds Collide Killer Country My Fingers Do the Talkin' I Am What I Am Young Blood Last Man Standing Mean Old Man Rock & Roll Time
Collaborations	Together (with Linda Gail Lewis) Million Dollar Quartet (with Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins and Elvis Presley) The Survivors Live (with Johnny Cash and Carl Perkins) Class of '55 (with Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins and Roy Orbison)
Live albums	Live at the Star Club, Hamburg The Greatest Live Show on Earth By Request: More of the Greatest Live Show on Earth Live at the International, Las Vegas Last Man Standing Live
Soundtrack albums	Jamboree (1957) American Hot Wax (1978) Great Balls of Fire! (1989) Dick Tracy (1990)
Compilation albums	Original Golden Hits, Vol. 1 Original Golden Hits, Vol. 2 Rockin' Rhythm and Blues A Taste of Country Best of Jerry Lee Lewis All Killer, No Filler: The Anthology A Whole Lotta...Jerry Lee Lewis: The Definitive Retrospective
Songs	"Another Place, Another Time" "Baby Baby Bye Bye" "Baby, Hold Me Close" "Break-Up" "Breathless" "Chantilly Lace" "Cold, Cold Heart" "Come as You Were" "Crown Victoria Custom '51" "Crazy Arms" "Don't Let Me Cross Over" (with Linda Gail Lewis) "Down the Line" "End of the Road" "Fools like Me" "Great Balls of Fire" "Hi-Heel Sneakers" "High School Confidential" "How's My Ex Treating You" "I Can't Seem to Say Goodbye" "I'll Make It All Up to You" "I'm on Fire" "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" "In the Mood" "Invitation to Your Party" "It'll Be Me" "Jackson" (with Linda Gail Lewis) "Lewis Boogie" "Me and Bobby McGee" "Meat Man" "Money (That's What I Want)" "Old Black Joe" "Once More with Feeling" "One Has My Name (The Other Has My Heart)" "One Minute Past Eternity" "Pen and Paper" "She Even Woke Me Up to Say Goodbye" "She Still Comes Around (To Love What's Left of Me)" "She Was My Baby (He Was My Friend)" "Sixteen Candles" "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" "Seasons of My Heart" "Sweet Little Sixteen" "Teenage Letter" "There Must Be More to Love Than This" "To Make Love Sweeter for You" "Touching Home" "Turn On Your Love Light" "What's Made Milwaukee Famous (Has Made a Loser Out of Me)" "What'd I Say" "When He Walks on You (Like You Have Walked On Me)" "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" "Who's Gonna Play This Old Piano?" "Wild One" "Would You Take Another Chance on Me" "You Win Again"
Filmography	Jamboree (1957) High School Confidential (1958) Be My Guest (1965) 33⅓ Revolutions per Monkee (1969) American Hot Wax (1978)
Family	Myra Gale Brown (cousin/wife) Linda Gail Lewis (sister) Mickey Gilley (cousin) Carl McVoy (cousin) Jimmy Swaggart (double first cousin)
Related articles	Discography Great Balls of Fire! Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble in Mind Walk the Line Jerry Kennedy Kenny Lovelace Mack Vickery

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