October 8, 1957, Jerry Lee Lewis recorded “Great Balls of Fire,” working with Sam Phillips at Sun Studios in Memphis, Tennessee. This became Lewis’s second big hit, following “Whole Lot of Shakin’ Goin’ On.” Lewis was raised in the Assemblies of God church, and he had qualms about rock and roll and the behavior the songs encouraged. Nonetheless, Jerry Lee Lewis’s music and his performance style mad him a major rock and roll star.
