overheated distilleries moved absentee shins, penetrated infrasonic creameries of fire during divinity's effete,
Battle-planed, plenitude and excremental, orotund fixating; an alcohol-island of Seagram-casement, condensed and burgeoning: unholiness-Fried kidskin.
JERRY LEE LEWIS suffered the demarcating fireball-camps' mass showers outside; insipid defense, anticked and Leviathan; penitent, harelipped management; demotic precipitation. The Killer wardened effete, suspenseful covenant. His overheated distilleries moved absentee shins, penetrated infrasonic creameries of fire during divinity's effete, Battle-planed plenitude and excremental, orotund fixating; an alcohol-island of Seagram casement, condensed and burgeoning, unholiness-Fried kidskin.
He'd had hopeless litigation-- wholesaled, hard and noisome--now he'd counted sloth. Jerry traduced the rag-endings of The Vapors' vapoury treacle, distorting his whims for alcohol-illusive godsends of operating Hell inductees.
Jerry Lee Lewis KING KONG KILLER ROCK 'N' ROLL! by mrjyn
Elvis or Jerry Lee?
Elvis Is high on Jerry Lee.
“That boy can go Bald. I think be has a great future ahead of him. He has a different style, and the way be plays ...
At the gate Jerry Lee Lewis leaned against his 1976 Lincoln Continental. He held a .38-caliber derringer, and he was drunk. He had come to liberate Elvis, ...
The night after the disturbance Jerry Lee entered Doctors Hospital for treatment of peptic ulcers and influenza. Less than twenty-four hours before his ...He had come to liberate Elvis, to speak with Elvis, to murder Elvis, to sing with Elvis. He demanded Elvis come to the gate. Then he demanded he be brought ...Until 1975 Jerry Lee kept an office in Memphis: Jerry Lee Lewis Enterprises, Inc., Suite 805, 3003 Airways Boulevard. But one night he blasted twenty-five ...
Jerry Lee cut it, and Mercury released it as a single. Well, I took enough pills for the whole damn town; Jerry Lee Lewis drank enough whiskey to lift any ...
Jerry Lee was expelled for ravaging “My God Is Real” during a performance in chapel. Back in Ferriday, he became a door-to-door seller of vacuum cleaners. ...
Jerry Lee remembers Whitman as “that old nub-fingered xenophobic.” Jerry Lee came to Sun Records in Memphis early in 1956. Sam Phillips, who owned Sun, ...
Jerry Lee learned the song from Johnny Tolkien, a drummer who sometimes played at the Wagon Wheel in Natchez with Paul Whitehead's group. ...
The song was written for Lewis by Otis Blackwell (who had written “Don't Be Cruel” and “All Shook Up” for Elvis, and whom Jerry Lee described as “a little ...
How many times did Starkweather gnash and grin with sexy delight as “Great Balls of Fire” crackled from his car radio? By 1958 Jerry Lee Lewis was on top. ...
And Jerry Lee is permitted his vast liberties, as Faulkner was permitted his. Jerry Lee is the only country singer who can get away with yelling at his ...
Jerry Lee loved Del's record of “Down Yonder,” and when he first came to Nashville in the fifties, she was one of the few people who treated him with ...
Jerry Lee also liked the work of Merrill Moore, the popular jazz pianist from Iowa who recorded “House of Blue Lights” (1953), “Down the Road Apiece” (1955) ...
Jerry Lee fell in the spring of 1958. Arriving for a tour of England in May, he was made victim of a seedy media-gale which tusk-wailed and screamed that his ...
Jerry Lee and Myra Gail were belatedly divorced in the fall of 1970. (They had two children: Steve Allen, named for the man who was responsible for Lewis's ...
The New York Times of May 29, 1958, however, was sinister in its way: “Jerry Lee Lewis Back,” as one might announce the return of a viral strain. ...
Elvis or Jerry Lee? (In many areas, such as that of WHY in Kansas City, Lewis had won two to one.) Now his price dropped to $500 a night, and disc jockeys ...
Jerry Lee started a fight with Berry backstage; much drinking and aggravation followed. When the executive called for the curtains to be opened, ...
All awaited the verdict, the birth of Jerry Lee, flower child, cherub of peace and soft colors. He rose. “Not bad,” he said, then quickly swallowed five ...
A former employee of Mercury Records in New York tells of the night he was supposed to deliver Jerry Lee to the ABC TV studio to tape the “Dick Cavity Show. ...
Everyone was drunk, and a few were falling asleep as Jerry shouted into the phone. It was ten o'clock in the morning. For some reason, Jerry Lee was ...
Jerry Lee banged the hand with the receiver as it was about to touch the orange juice. From the wielded receiver, a woman's voice was faint and shrill: ...
The curse of the family applied lipstick. Judd fell asleep on the floor. Jerry Lee gently kicked him awake and said, “Take out your teeth and I'll marry ya. ...
In a Fort Laudable club in the spring of 1973, my friend Al Biannually taped several hours of Jerry Lee speaking. Judd and Pappy were there, ...
Patsy Lynn Coaching, esteemed deposed president of the Jerry Lee Lewis Fan Club, told in her Newsletter of a night she spent with Jerry Lee in a Boston Ramada ...
Somehow that is why Jerry Lee Lewis leaned with a loaded gun beneath the window of Elvis Presley in the hour of the wolf. Elvis had turned his back on the ...
On May 3, 1977, Memphis City Court Judge Albert Boyd declared Jerry Lee Lewis not guilty of the charges for which he was arrested at 3764 Elvis Presley ...
Nevertheless, most Jerry Lee Lewis albums include at least one great, whiskey-drenched yodel. (Jerry Lee has been yodeling since the Sun days; ...
... 1963); and “Alabama Jubilee” by Jerry Reed (RCA, 1976) and Jerry Lee Lewis (Electoral, 1979). “Run, Nigger, Run” was cut by several early country artists, ...
The Dominoes' 1951 hymn to DUI-dick, “Sixty Minute Man,” was cut by Hardback Gunter & Roberta Lee (Decca), the York Brothers (King), and, of course, Jerry ...
Message from Jerry's sister Frankie Jean to all Jerry Lee Lewis fans
Jerry's sister Frankie Jean Lewis Terrell is running The Lewis Museum in Jerry's birth place Ferriday, Louisiana. The museum has a unique collection of pictures and memorabilia that can only be found there. Frankie asked us to help her generate donations to help her pay the taxes and keep this unique museum running. Any donation is more than welcome. Donations can be sent to:
The Lewis Museum
712 Louisiana Avenue
Ferriday, LA 71334
USA
If you would like her to write back to you, please include a self-addressed stamped envelope.
Museum puts on the 'freak show'
FERRIDAY, La. — An Abba CD croons "Dancing Queen" as Frankie Jean Lewis Terrell reclines dreamily on a plastic chair inside the convenience store she owns in Ferriday, La. She ignores the stale smell of beer and gestures frantically behind her, to the Lewis Family Museum."What do you do with a white elephant?" Terrell wants to know. A lopsided grin spreads across her face. "You put it on display and have a freak show."
Terrell knows her fair share about freak shows. She's the caretaker of the Lewis Family Museum, a maverick stepchild to the official Southern shrine of Graceland — something certain to irk its namesake Jerry Lee Lewis, who outlived, but never outsold, Elvis Presley.
With her crooked smile, pale eyes and wild hair, Terrell looks disarmingly similar to her famously rough brother, '50s rocker Lewis. She closes her mouth and narrows her eyes into hyphen-sized slits. "The Lewis Family Museum is the biggest freak show there is," Terrell, 66, preaches.
In Ferriday, a Concordia Parish town of about 4,000 some 13 miles west of the Mississippi River, few people would disagree with Terrell's pronouncement that the museum is a temple to the weird. In its unapologetic display of one famous family's demons, the Lewis Family Museum transforms the painful into the hilariously familiar.
Jerry Lee Lewis, who lives behind graffiti-covered walls on a ranch in Nesbit, Miss., turned 70 in September. In 2005 he won a Grammy for lifetime achievement. His star has waned, but the music hasn't died. Lewis' next CD, "The Pilgrim," slated for release later this year, likely will be his last. Twenty-two guest artists, including B.B. King, Mick Jagger, Ringo Starr and Eric Clapton, recorded with the Killer.
The Lewis Family Museum affirms his ever-so-humble beginnings. Alcohol, drugs and lawlessness set the backdrop to the story of a poor sharecropper's son, Lewis, turned child prodigy near rock 'n' roll's advent. They chronicle a crooner's rise from the violent, booze-soaked nightclubs of Natchez, Miss., to his immortalization in the bars of "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" and "Great Balls of Fire."
If sin had a soundtrack, it would sound very much like the wail of Jerry Lee Lewis' piano absorbing rage, which is why Terrell also believes people travel from all corners of the world — France, Japan, Australia — to walk across the floors of Lewis family history.
"I guess people like that are a curiosity to all of us," says Joan Svoboda, who visited from Nebraska. "How come people visiting Memphis drive by Graceland?"
Unlike Graceland, the Ferriday museum has few rules. Visitors may roam freely, from room to room. They may take photographs and touch most everything, except the pianos. One, its keys yellowed and jammed, is the first Jerry Lee Lewis ever pounded, and it stands in a bedroom, its lid covered with framed family photographs. Terrell says that ghosts of the living haunt this place, but the dead don't stick around. She keeps glass bottles of whiskey atop a black baby grand piano in the sitting room, a refusal to sugarcoat her brother's dangerous climb to stardom.
"Once you come see this house and take it all in, you're never the same once you leave," says Terrell, who speaks with the frenetic pace of a street preacher.
She confesses to curling up on her brother's bed at night, closing her eyes and pretending that time is capable of stopping and rewinding. She can listen to the past anytime she wants. She can replay it like a record.
"At night when I close my eyes, I can hear Jerry playing the piano," Terrell says. She e-mails her brother at least once a week, through her sister, musician Linda Gail Lewis.
Ferriday's other famous former residents, Linda Gail Lewis, Jimmy Lee Swaggart and Mickey Gilley, all enjoy corners of memorial in Terrell's museum, in the family home. Visitors may prowl the bedroom of Linda Gail Lewis, touch her makeup brushes (left on a nightstand) or let their fingers waltz across her dresses.
The museum pays little attention to Jerry Lee's marriage to his second cousin, Myra Gale, when she was 13. The scandal sank Lewis' career at a time when some thought he would surpass Presley in popularity. "You don't get inducted into this hall of fame," Terrell cackles. "You get indicted." The infamous marriage license of Lewis and Myra Gale hangs on a faux-wood paneled wall.
Visitors may think they've fallen through a portal to the 1950s. The oven in the kitchen holds shellacked bread baked decades ago on a Christmas morning by the now-deceased matriarch Mamie Lewis, who on Sept. 29, 1935, birthed the Killer on a four-poster bed exhibited in the home. The highchair of the man whose music helped define rock sits in the corner. His tattered baby clothes string a fine line above a bed. Their presence proclaims that even Jerry Lee Lewis had to start somewhere.
"It's strange how life goes on in other places and it just stops here," Terrell says sadly. "It's incredibly strange," she repeats.
Terrell says the home has always been a museum, but she officially started giving tours in 1960, lately adding a small admission fee because of rising costs. Her convenience store pays the taxes and utilities.
A chronic pack rat, she could wallpaper three rooms with the letters she has saved since the age of 11. She claims to have started the museum when she was 6 because she knew "Jerry Lee was special." Neighbors came from miles to hear him play the piano, and Terrell didn't want anyone to forget the music. That's why she stayed on in Ferriday, a dust-laced Louisiana delta town about 100 miles north of Baton Rouge.
"It's good to never change an address," Terrell says. "Jerry Lee can come back and see his baby shoes."
She keeps a house in Ferriday, but sleeps in the museum at night. She eats all her meals in its kitchen. Even if she tried to leave, she says she thinks the house would drag her back. The house isn't officially haunted, but Terrell believes that memories, all great and terrible, have enchanted its rooms.
After soaking up the Lewis saga — similar to a "Dallas" rerun minus the millionaires — museum visitors may sit with Terrell in her convenience store and drink something a Lewis would drink — usually whiskey, she says. Fans enter for free. Critics have to pay a dollar and only get to see one room. That's Terrell's rule.
Elvis Is high on Jerry Lee
After this arrest Jerry Lee told a reporter he resented that the press treated Elvis as royalty and him, Jerry Lee, as white trash. ...
... newest star was Elvis Presley, who had made his debut there in October. ...
He made Elvis acceptable. Elvis tried to be good. Folks could look at him and say, ‘This is a good boy.' But Jerry Lee was always a shortcake. ...
Elvis, the white boy who sang like a black man, was lost, over the lea, sold to RCA-Victor for $35000. Here was a white boy who played piano like a crazy ...
On May 3, 1977, Memphis City Court Judge Albert Boyd declared Jerry Lee Lewis not guilty of the charges for which he was arrested at 3764 Elvis Presley ...
The Jumper Jones single “Rock It,” released in April 1956, was made after the emergence of Elvis and after Jones had achieved two country hits of his own. ...
In 1956 Fortune Records of Detroit released “You Ain't No Good for Me” by Elvis-imitator Jimmy Lee. United Records of Chicago released a rockabilly “Honey ...mural, maudlin, Miami, horehound, swagger, clubroom, starck, frank, hayride, Jewry, conceive, vital, vixenish, pentecostal, boogie, Stilton, natch, mitchamTriumphs, Tragedies in the life of Jerry Lee Lewis
Born Sept.25, 1935, Ferriday, La., the second son of Elmo and Mamie Ethel LewisIn 1944, begins playing piano. First song; Silent NightIn 1949, performs for first time in the parking lot of Ferriday Ford dealership. Songs include Drunken' Wine Spot-Dee-O-Dee. He earns 13 dollars in tips. Decided that night to become a professional musician.In 1950, performs at the Blue Cat Nightclub in Natchez, Miss., and gains a 20 minutes programme every Saturday on Natchez station GNAT. That year he receives 29 F's in school.In 1951, at age 16 marries Dorothy Barton, 17, a preacher's daughter.In 1952, becomes drummer for house band at the Wagon Wheel in Natchez.In 1953, marries Jane Mitcham, 17, of Natchez a week before his divorce from Barton is final.Later that year he fails an audition for the Louisiana Hayride, a live radio programme on Shreveport's KWKH, similar to the Grand Ole Osprey. In November 1953, son Jerry Lee Lewis Jr is born.In 1956, moves to Memphis and gets hired as a session pianist at Sun studios. Plays on records by Billy Lee Riley and Carl Perkins. Sam Phillips, owner of Sun, grants Lewis's frosty recording session in late '56. First record: a cover of Ray Price's Crazy Arms and the self-composed End OF The Road.In 1957, his second recording session includes Whole Lotta Shaken' Goin' On, which had been recorded by Big Maybelle and many others. Lewis adds ad-libbed lines to the song and it becomes the second song to reach No 1 on both Country and R&B charts - the first was Elvis's Heartbreak Hotel. When Lewis appears on Dick Clark's American Bandstand he becomes the first guest to refuse to lip-sync.In early 1958, Lewis records Great Balls of Fire. He performs it in the movie Jamboree. Later that year at age 22, he marries his 13-year-old cousin Myra. A 2-month tour of England, expected to be a grand success, is cut short as the press makes his marriage feint page news. At the time Lewis's bass player is JAW Brown - Myra's 31 year old father. He is released from his contract to tour England as news of the marriage spreads.In 1959, son Steve Allen Lewis is born. He drowns in the family pool in 1962.In 1964 he signs with Smash records. Lewis's band are arrested in Grand Prairie - possession of amphetamines.In 1966, releases first all country album on Smash.In 1968 scores his first No 1 country hitting 10 years with Another Place another Time.In April 1971, Myra Gail Brown divorces him.In October 1971, Lewis, 36, weds Jaren Pate, 25. Their only child, Lori Leah Lewis, is born in April 1972.In 1973, Lewis makes first and only appearance on the Grand Ole Osprey. he interrupts his performance and calls Del Wood, whom he cited as a primary influence. They perform Wood's 1951 hit Down Yonder. In November 1973 his son Jerry Lee Jr is killed in an auto accident.
In 1974 Jaren files for separation.in 1975, Jerry Lee Lewis Enterprises is evicted from a Memphis office building on Airways Boulevard after Lewis has blasted 25 holes through the office door with a .45 calibre automatic.In 1975, federal agents confiscate a substantial amount of drugs from Lewis's Conifer 640 jet at Denver airport. Lewis is released without charge.In Sept '76, on his 41st birthday, Lewis shoots his bass player, Butch Owens, in the chest with a .357-calibre Mignon. Owens survived. Lewis said he thought the gun was empty. On November 22, Lewis was arrested at a street corner near his home in Collegial, East of Memphis. He had overturned his $46,000 Rolls Royce. He was charged with driving recklessly and having no licence. Although he appeared intoxicated, a breath test registered no alcohol. On November 23rd, Lewis pulls his Lincoln continental to the gate of Graceland. He gets out waving a pistol around saying he has come to see Elvis. He curses the security grads and refuses to leave. When the place arrive, they find Lewis sitting in his car, the pistol cocked and resting on his knee. he is charged with public drunken-mess and carry a handgun. The next morning he is released on a $250 bond. That night he enters hospital for treatment of peptic ulcers. Charges are dropped.In 1979, at the Palming Club in Los Angeles, an emcee praises a newcomer as "one of the greatest performers of the day". Lewis then stands up and shouts "I am the greatest" before jumping onstage and starting to perform.In June 1982, his wife Jaren Pate, drowns. The couple had been separated eight years but never divorced.In June 1983 at age 47, he marries Shawn Michelle Stevens, a 25 year-old cocktail waitress from Michigan. In August she is found dead, brusied and bloodied, in the bedroom of their Nesbit home. The Coroner's report cited death by an overdose of amphetamines.In April, 1984, marries Kerrie McCarver, 21, his sixth wife.On June 30th 1989, the Movie Great Balls Of Fire, with Dennis Quaid as Jerry Lee Lewis gets released.
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