Jerry Lee Lewis or Fats Domino

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Jerry Lee Lewis (born September 29, 1935) is an American rock and roll and country music singer-songwriter and pianist. He is known by the nickname "The Killer" and is often viewed as "rock & roll's first great wild man."

An early pioneer of rock and roll music, in 1956 Lewis made his first recordings at Sun Records. "Crazy Arms" sold 300,000 copies in the South, but it was his 1957 hit "Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On" that shot Lewis to fame worldwide. Lewis followed this when he recorded songs such as "Great Balls of Fire", "Breathless" and "High School Confidential". However, Lewis's rock and roll career faltered in the wake of his marriage to his 13-year-old cousin when he was 22.

Antoine "Fats" Domino Jr. (born February 26, 1928) is an American rhythm and blues and rock and roll pianist and singer-songwriter. Domino released five gold (million-copy-selling) records before 1955. He also had 35 Top 40 American hits and has a music style based on traditional rhythm and blues ensembles of bass, piano, electric guitar, drums, and saxophone.

Domino first attracted national attention with "The Fat Man" in 1950 on Imperial Records. This song is an early rock and roll record, featuring a rolling piano and Domino doing "wah-wah" vocalizing over a strong back beat. "The Fat Man" sold one million copies by 1953.[4] Fats Domino released a series of hit songs with producer and co-writer Dave Bartholomew, saxophonists Herbert Hardesty and Alvin "Red" Tyler and drummers Earl Palmer and Smokey Johnson. Other notable and long-standing musicians in Domino's band were saxophonists Reggie Houston, Lee Allen, and Fred Kemp, Domino's trusted bandleader. Domino finally crossed into the pop mainstream with "Ain't That A Shame" (1955), which hit the Top Ten, though Pat Boone characteristically hit No. 1 with a milder cover of the song[5] that received wider radio airplay in a racially-segregated era. Domino eventually had 37 Top 40 singles.

Jerry Lee Lewis - Great Balls of Fire


Fats Domino - Blueberry Hill

 

[Airwings]

37 top 40 songs sounds amazing. But haven't others have scored more than that? I guess Cliff Richard has (atleast in UK) but due to his mild-mannered image he's being over-looked in the history of pop and seen more as a joke.

To actually compare Fats Domino and Jerry Lee Lewis and get the real winner, one shouldn't just count the number of singles they released but the major hits songs in top 10 or top 20.
One can also get some insight by asking the icons of the same era (Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Tommy Steele) and the ones that came later (Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger, Bob Dylan, John Fogerty, Bruce Springsteen, Elton John etc - people who more or less grew up with 50s rock). Which one do these people rank as the biggest - Fats or Jerry Lee?
In today's world, "The Killer" seems to have the advantage over "Fat Man" when looking back. But why?

 

[Duke]

I can't decide because I like both of them equally.

 

[THUNDERSTRIKE]

Without a doubt, 'the Killer', Jerry Lee...

 

[desi900]

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