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"Great Balls of Fire" is a 1957 song written by Otis Blackwell and Jack Hammer. The song is best known for Jerry Lee Lewis's rendition, which was recorded in the Sun Studio in Memphis, Tennessee on October 8, 1957, and released as a 45rpm single on Sun 281 in November 1957. It reached #2 on the Billboard pop charts, #3 on the R&B charts, and #1 on the country charts. It also reached #1 on the UK pop charts.
The song was ranked as the 96th greatest song ever by Rolling Stone.
The song title is derived from a Southern expression, which some Christians consider blasphemous, that refers to the Pentecost's defining moment when the Holy Spirit manifested itself as "cloven tongues as of fire" and the Apostles spoke in tongues. In the Michael Crichton novel Rising Sun, the murdered prostitute, Cheryl Austin, is observed to be singing the song shortly before she is killed. Jerry Lee Lewis (born.
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