Some claim to hear a rhythm guitar, but it's essentially Jerry Lee Lewis and drummer J. Carl Perkins and the movie's other stars had already turned it down, but it became Jerry Lee's defining moment. That song, of course, was Great Balls Of Fire. It's a testament to his genius that he took a slight song manufactured for an equally slight movie, 'Jamboree,'and transformed it into one of the era's classics.
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The entertainment business realized that Jerry Lee was an up-and-coming act and he was offered a cameo movie appearance. "Whose barn? MAH barn!" Shakin' resumed its upward movement, eventually peaking at #3. He glared at the camera with wild-eyed fury. He hammered the piano, eyes fixed above with messianic intensity. It was a landmark date in the history of rock 'n' roll Sunday July 28, 1957. The record was pegging out half-way up the charts when Jerry made his first networked television appearance on 'The Steve Allen Show'. It became Jerry Lee's second record and first hit. Stripping away the opening couplet and inserting a half-spoken segment before storming back to close with a triumphant glissando.Wondrous and imperishable. In the two or so years that Jerry Lee had been fooling with Shakin',he had refashioned it in his image. Van Eaton is exactly where he needs to be: it's textbook stuff, and Van Eaton wrote the textbook. Phillips fattened the sound to the point that the record throbs with its own hypnotic life by the time J. In feeding the signal back upon itself at just the right increment of tape delay. In the opening four bars, Jerry Lee Lewis and Sam Phillips made the piano into a percussion instrument. Jerry Lee had probably heard Roy Hall play it at an after-hours club in Nashville (Hall claimed to be the mysterious co-writer 'Sunny David' although that seems very unlikely). That's how Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On came to be recorded. Phillips also understood that he must let Lewis plunder the musical reliquary in his head before encouraging him to return to the one song out of ten or twenty that held promise. He would reveal himself to us through the words of others. Very quickly, Sam Phillips saw that, unlike Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis would interpret rather than write. Phillips copyrighted it without realizing that it had been loosely adapted from Ballard McDonald and James Handley's 1922 song At The End Of The Road.The only other song from Jerry Lee's pen on this collection is the monumentally egotistical Lewis Boogie.For Jerry, about Jerry, and by Jerry. Sam Phillips encouraged him to write songs, but the only tangible result was the B-side of his first record, End Of The Road. Telling the people at Sun Records that he played piano like Chet Atkins. He was twenty-one when he arrived in Memphis. Six months after his cousin, Jimmy Swaggart. The Lewises lived in Ferriday, Louisiana, and Jerry Lee was born there on September 29, 1935. Every day, Jerry Lee would pound the old Starck upright, slowly discovering something that was truly his.Ī little boogie woogie, a little gospel, a little Hank Williams, and a little beerjoint blues. Jerry Lee's indomitable mother, Mamie, had stopped him from listening to records because she didn't want him to sound like anyone else. They were destined to come together: Lewis the former divinity student tortured by an unfathomable religion, and Phillips the former mortician's assistant who had persuaded unlettered country folk to give up their dead. He'd been turned away in Nashville, yet Phillips would see his potential. Jerry Lee was sure that Phillips would understand him. It was a foregone conclusion that Jerry Lee Lewis would be a charter inductee to the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame.įifty years ago as of this writing, Jerry Lee Lewis and his father, Elmo, drove up from Ferriday, Louisiana to see Mister Sam Phillips at Sun Records. You don't TELL them what to do - THEY do it." There are but four stylists in music, he'll tell you: Jimmie Rodgers, Al Jolson, Hank Williams, and himself. These fingers of mine, they got brains in 'em. " Other people," says Jerry, "they practice and they practice. He saw his career rise meteorically, plummet meteorically, and rise again. Surely no one has damned the torpedoes more often, and lived to tell. He has lived and sung without compromise. The miles, the wives, the hits, the pills. Rock 'n' roll music and the rock 'n' roll lifestyle Jerry Lee has done as much as anyone to define both. He has been rocking for as long as most of us can remember, and now his face is a personal geography that speaks of the toll that rock 'n' roll can exact. "I come out feet first and been jumpin' ever since,"he has told interviewers for many years.
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