Gravest Hits

Infobox Album
Name = Gravest Hits
Type = EP
Artist = The Cramps


Released = July 1979
Recorded = Ardent Studios, Memphis
October 1977
Genre = Psychobilly Punk rock
Length =
Label = Illegal Records / I.R.S. Records
Producer = Alex Chilton
Reviews = * Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:jifixqe5ldse~T0 link]
Last album =
This album = "Gravest Hits"EP
(1979)
Next album = "Songs The Lord Taught Us"
(1979)

Gravest Hits is the debut 12" EP from The Cramps, released in July 1979. It was produced by Alex Chilton and recorded at Ardent Studios in Memphis in 1977. It featured liner notes by "Dr. J.H. Sasfy, Professor of Rockology, American Rock'n'Roll Institute, Washington D.C.U.S.A." It is one of first documents of the rockabilly revival genre, and the psychobilly genre. The photograph on the back of the original sleeve of the band in performance was taken at New York's Palladium theatre.

Track listing

ide one

# "Human Fly" (Lux Interior, Ivy Rorschach) - 2:15
# "The Way I Walk" (Jack Scott) - 2:43
# "Domino" (Sam Phillips) - 3:08

ide two

# "Surfin' Bird" (Al Frazier, Sonny Harris, Carl White, Turner Wilson) (credited to "Wahrer") - 5:08
# "Lonesome Town" (Thomas Baker-Knight) (credited to "B.Knight") - 3:15

Personnel

*Lux Interior - vocals
*Poison Ivy Rorschach - guitar
*Bryan Gregory - guitar
*Nick Knox - drums