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"I never said I was the king of Rock'n'Roll."
"I said simply that I'm the best! "
Jerry Lee Lewis
 
*Update:  Click for Quotes from interview with Roy Dea
included in book by L. Guterman
 

Born in the  small  Louisiana Town of Ferriday in 1935, Jerry Lee Lewis
came from an extremely religious background.
Therefore,his earliest musical influences must have come from church
music.  His life was always to be tragic, beginning with the death of his
older brother Elmo Jr., killed by a drunken driver when Jerry was
around three years old.  His parents both loved country music,especially
Jimmie Rodgers.  (My Mother also loved Jimmie Rodgers.)
Jerry Lee  soon picked up on it also.  When his parents heard him play
the piano at his aunt's house, they felt he was naturally gifted and bought
him a piano  when he was eight.

He soon was a master of many  piano styles . By the late 1940s, Jerry
discovered black blues music & saw artists like Champion Jack Dupree,
Big Maceo & B.B King live at "Haney's Big House" in Ferriday.  He
performed his first song in public with a version of Stick Mc Ghee's
'Drinkin' Wiine Spodee Odee'.

Jerry Lee Lewis was one of the few original white bluesmen & also one
of the very few post-Hank Williams country stylists.Sam Phillips saw
this when he heard Jerry sing some of  his earliest recordings.  He had
created a brand new style, combining country, blues, rockabilly, boogie,
and gospel to form  JERRY LEWIS music.  Sam Phillips had found a
white man who could sing black & much more.

Without attempting to list  hit after hit that followed a few from these
years were, Wild songs like  'Whole lotta shakin' goin' on', 'It'll be me',
' Great balls of fire', 'Mean woman blues','Breathless' & 'Highschool
confidential' entered the blues,rock 'n' roll & country charts,as well as
country ballads like 'You win again','Fools like me' & 'I'll make it all
up to you' in 1957 & 1958.He could sing & play anything.  The
world was paying attention to Jerry Lee Lewis.
Some of the finest rockers of his career were recorded at Mercury
from 1963 to 1968. These include 'I'm On Fire',' Corrine,Corrina',
'She Was My Baby', 'Whenever You're Ready'.  He also sang soul
songs like 'Just Dropped In',  'It's A Hang-up Baby' & 'Turn On
Your Lovelight' during this period.

Jerry suffered a mild heart attack in 1996 but continues rocking.
He now resides on his Mississippi Ranch just minutes away
from the well spring of his former fame at Sun Studio.
His 1997 tour covered parts of Europe and Moscow.

Jerry Lee
Live At The International, Las Vegas
Produced by Jerry Kennedy and Roy Dea
 
 
 

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