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September 16, 2009

Jerry Lee Lewis X-Rated 'WLSGO'

Jerry Lee Lewis sings his most famous song, "Whole Lotta Shaking Goin' On" (would peter checksfield please let me know the statistics for how that is written?) in a rare private outtake recording during the Dick Tracy Soundtrack Session. This track finds the Killer expansive and improvising throughout most of the lyrical passages. And while this may not be unusual for this particular trademark song of Lewis--and Rock 'n' Roll for that matter (John Lennon called WLSGO the perfect song), the subject matter gets about as personal and nasty as Jerry Lee gets (that YOU can hear anyway). There are other outtakes and private stashes; live performances by the hundreds, where he waxes profane while feeling no pain, but this one has a particular theme which you'll just have to take thirty seconds out of your life to discover.

And when you do, you'll want to hear it over and over again-- specially now that I've included as dressing, so to speak, the enchanting seductive Maria Lopez and portions of this Italian TV presenter's equally spontaneous and downright dirty-sexy dancing (you get to see everything except the malfunction...sorry, not my rule).

Yes, this is a concept made in Heaven, celebrating the Hellfire of a great song, a great artist, and the reason we all get out of bed in the morning, hopefully to fall back in later that night with something like Maria--a problem that I hope is never solved.