RARE 1950'S ERA PRIVATE ROCKABILLY LP REV. JIMMY LEE SWAGGART, JERRY LEE LEWIS
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Item Description: What I am offering here is a true rarity, not to be confused with a common release from the mass producing Jimmy Swaggart Ministries of the 1970's. NO! This is an actual authentic self produced lp from the period when Swaggart was starting out as a poor country preacher. This was from the days when Swaggart was earning poverty wages while his cousin Jerry Lee Lewis made up to 80,000 a month, a true fortune especially in the 1950's!
This lp is his first album SOME GOLDEN DAYBREAK, not to be confused with the later release of the same name. I have heard the title song of that version on youtube and it is very schlocky, which this is not. He must have rerecorded it in the late 60's or 70's.
I read that Jerry Lee Lewis said in his autobiography that he helped each of the 2 cousins who he grew up with, Swaggart and Gilley, record and release their first albums. You can definitely hear Jerry Lee's pure rockabilly influence all over this record. You can understand why his producer Sam Phillips wanted to sign the young Swaggart to record on Sun, and though that never happened, it is a distinct possibility that this lp was indeed recorded there. Note that the name on the cover and the label is JIMMY LEE SWAGGART, not true of any other of his releases that I am aware of. I don't think it was an accident that he used his middle name considering that his cousin was currently a Superstar, with a sound, that although secular, was not too different from what you hear on this album, and then he probably felt he could only gain from the association.
I have searched the internet and I can't find any examples of anybody having this rare lp, but I did find statements that it was never offered for sale, but rather given away at revival meetings, no doubt in very small quantities, as Swaggart was in those days very much struggling and not the huge success with large audiences that we are accustomed to thinking of him as having.
Because there is no clear info to be had on this release, I can not date it exactly, but the whole approach is certainly pure 1950's Rockabilly, just a Gospel version, so I do feel confident that this dates back from the late 50's, or possibly the very early 60's. It may have never been offered for sale on ebay by anybody else, it is not shown on popsike.
