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LISTEN Jerry Lee Lewis (Full Elektra Album) and WATCH (2) Rockin' My Life Away (VIDEOS)

Jerry Lee Lewis
Released	1979
Recorded	4-7 January 1979
Studio	Filmways/Heider Recording, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California
Label	Elektra
Producer	Bones Howe
Jerry Lee Lewis chronology
Jerry Lee Keeps Rockin' (1978) Jerry Lee Lewis (1979) When Two Worlds Collide (1980)

Recording

After 15 years with Mercury, Lewis made the switch to Elektra in 1978, and the move rejuvenated him.

He had grown tired of formulaic overproduction on his Mercury releases and began recording new material with producer Bones Howe in January, 1979 in Los Angeles.

Howe, who had worked on Elvis Presley's celebrated 1968 Comeback Special and had produced albums by Tom Waits and Juice Newton, assembled an all-star, stripped-down band (including Elvis's former guitarist, James Burton).

The resulting album was the best Lewis had made in years.

Jerry Lee's post-Southern Roots recordings for Mercury are uneven at best, but he still had one more great comeback left in him. By the end of 1978, Jerry Lee had found a new recording sponsor in the Nashville arm of Elektra Records. Upon signing, Elektra executives promptly told him that they would not record him in Nashville. 

They were going to change the environment. 

During a four-day blowout in the Filmway/Heider Studio in Hollywood, Jerry Lee recorded the terrific Jerry Lee Lewis, which yielded "Rockin' My Life Away."

Mack Vickery's "Rockin' My Life Away" was a wonderful autumnal rocker that immediately became Jerry Lee's statement and all-purpose theme song. The sparkling lyrics vacillated between the obscure and the bizarre, but the feel was right.

What did those words mean? 

The first line of the song, after all, was  
"14, 95, 19, 48," and the lines rolled out of Jerry Lee's mouth as if with deep meaning. 

In fact, Vickery had conceived of the song as a Specialty-era, Little Richard-style rocker, with the first line scooping up tension like a quarterback calling signals before a play. 

But in Jerry Lee's music, how something is said is far more important than what is said, which is part of why "Rockin' My Life Away" was so intense and enjoyable. 

"Watch me now," Jerry Lee shouted before his solo, and in a few seconds he erased five years of bad memories.

 Jimmy Guterman

The single "Rockin' My Life Away," would only make it to number 18 on the Country Charts, but would become an Instant Classic and live favorite for the rest of his career, as well as another in a growing list of Mack Vickery songs written specifically to celebrate Jerry Lee's uncompromising rock 'n' roll attitude.

Rockin' My Life Away

Lyrics

14, 25, 19, 48
I throwed a rock 'n' roll party on my last birthday
Feels good, rockin' my life away
I'm movin' and groovin' and I'm havin' fun night and day

Streamline, fleetline, military brat
I got the general's daughter, but the Killer's top brass
I'm rockin', rockin' my life away
I'm movin' and groovin' and gettin' both night and day

I know a gal from Texas, she's chilli-pepper hot
She knows hot to roll and I knows how to rock
I'm rockin', rockin' my life away
I'm movin' and groovin' and gettin' both night and day

You know, I like to party and I like to have fun
I'd like to kill her, I've got-a rock on
C'mon, rockin' my life away
I'm movin' and groovin' and gettin' both night and day
How about you girl?

You better get up off your rocker, boy you know just what i mean
I like the way you wiggle that ring
I'm rockin', rockin' my life away
I'm movin' and groovin' and gettin' it night and day

I gotta have it one more time girl

1492 to 1998
I threw a rock 'n' roll party on  my last birthday
I'm rockin', rockin' my life away
I'm movin' and groovin' and gettin' it both night and day

I'm rockin'
Rockin'
I'm rockin', rockin' my life away
I'm movin' and groovin', I'm gettin' it both night and day

Songwriter:  Mack Vickery
Rockin' My Life Away lyrics
© Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC

Another impressive track was "Who Will The Next Fool Be," a gin-soaked Charlie Rich tune which Lewis made his own ("Pick it, James," he oozes to Burton on the instrumental bonephone [sic - i have no idea what the original author meant here and leave it as tribute] break, before rasping, "Play your fiddle, Mr. Lovelace," to long-time band member, Kenny Lovelace).

Sonny Throckmorton, who had written Lewis's last big hit, "Middle Age Crazy," mines similar territory on "I Wish I was Eighteen Again". 

Lewis also gave spirited performances on Arthur Alexander's "Every Day I Have To Cry" and "Rita Mae," marking the first time he'd ever recorded a song written by Bob Dylan.

Bob Dylan – Rita Mae

Lyrics

Rita May, Rita May, You got your body in the way. You're so damn nonchalant But it's your mind that I want. You got me huffin' and a-puffin', Next to you I feel like nothin', Rita May. Rita May, Rita May, How'd you ever get that way? When do you ever see the light? Don't you ever feel a fright? You got me burnin' and I'm turnin' But I know I must be learnin', Rita May. All my friends have told me If I hang around with you That I'll go blind But I know that when you hold me That there really must be somethin' On your mind. Rita May, Rita May, Laying in a stack of hay, Do you remember where you been? What's that crazy place you're in? I'm gonna have to go to college 'Cause you are the book of knowledge, Rita May.

This was a ruthless time for Lewis, whose father, Elmo was ailing and would die later that year.

Lewis himself had been hospitalized several times for stomach ailments brought about by his carousing lifestyle, and in the spring of 1979 he was sued for divorce by his wife, Jaren Pate, who accused him of cruelty and drunkenness. 

The IRS was also after him for unpaid taxes.

Reception

Jerry Lee Lewis (album) was acclaimed critically but was not a commercial success, peaking at number 23 on the Billboard Country Albums Chart, and limping to number 186 on the Top 200.

Writing in the liner notes for his 2006 career retrospective, A Half Century of Hits, Country Music historian, Colin Escott calls the album "an astonishing return to form," likening Lewis's performance on "Who Will The Next Fool Be" to "a poisoned dart hurled at every woman who had done him wrong."

In his authorized biography, Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story, Rick Bragg also praises the album:

"While his voice was showing its scars and the words were frequently obscure, Jerry Lee delivered them with commitment, and the beat was pure Louisiana boogie-woogie."

Track listing

1. "Don't Let Go" (Jesse Stone)
2. "Rita May" (Bob Dylan, Jacques Levy)
3. "Every Day I Have to Cry" (Arthur Alexander)
4. "I Like It Like That" (Allen Toussaint, Chris Kenner)
5. "Number One Lovin' Man" (Jim Cottengim)
6. "Rockin' My Life Away" (Mack Vickery)
7. "Who Will the Next Fool Be" (Charlie Rich)
8. "(You've Got) Personality" (Harold Logan, Lloyd Price)
9. "I Wish I Was Eighteen Again" (Sonny Throckmorton)
10. "Rocking Little Angel" (Jimmie Rogers)

Personnel

• Jerry Lee Lewis - vocals, piano
• James Burton - electric guitar, dobro
• Kenny Lovelace - acoustic & electric guitar, violin
• Tim May - acoustic & electric guitar
• Dave Parlato - bass
• Hal Blaine - drums, percussion
• Ron Hicklin Singers - backing vocals
• Bob Alcivar - string arrangements, conductor

Jerry Lee Lewis vs. IRS

Jerry Lee Lewis vs. IRS

http://whatgetsmehot.blogspot.com/2012/06/jerry-lee-lewis-vs-irs-best-of-worst-9.html

Oct. 19, 1984

MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- A federal court jury has acquitted rock 'n' roll star Jerry Lee Lewis of income tax evasion, but the Internal Revenue Service says it still wants the $653,000 it claims he owes in back taxes.

'Just because there is a not guilty verdict doesn't mean he's relieved of his duty to pay. We'll endeavor to pursue the tax,' U.S. Attorney Hickman Ewing said Thursday after a federal court jury announced its innocent verdict.

Lewis, who rocketed to fame in the 1950s with 'Great Balls of Fire' and 'Whole Lotta Shakiness,' was jubilant when he left the U.S. District Court.

'I think the jury was very fair,' he said. 'They knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that Jerry Lee Lewis does not steal.'

Jury forewoman Alma Henderson said the government 'got to third base, but didn't make it home' by failing to prove its charge that Lewis deliberately hid his assets from the IRS by purchasing luxury cars, jewels and furs for friends.

'That's what convinced us to turn in the verdict of not guilty,' she said after the jury had deliberated for nearly four hours over a two-day period.

The IRS has collected -- partly through seizure of property and concert fees -- $501,315 of the $1,155,111 it claims Lewis owes in taxes, interest and penalties on his income from 1975 through 1980.

The 49-year-old piano-pounding singer said he been 'a little concerned,' but not really nervous about the outcome of the four-day trial because 'I knew I wasn't guilty.'

When asked if he planned to pay his back taxes, Lewis quipped: 'If I can get a good G.I. loan I've got it made.'

Although Lewis was delighted with the verdict, he had no kind words for prosecutor Devon Gosnell. He called her 'demon-possessed' and said 'she told more lies than Carter's got liver pills.'

Gosnell said the jury apparently decided Lewis 'was too important a person to be convicted. He's been in trouble before and always gotten out of it because of who he is. I think that happened today. Apparently he can continue to flaunt the entire system without consequences.'

The defense claimed Lewis' tax problems resulted from a change in managers and the fact that 'he has no business sense whatsoever.'

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Crazy Horse Dust

Parisian cabarets, daring shows, and gallant parties; a spirit that the Crazy Horse dust has endured for 65 years. 

With the designer Chantal Thomass as mistress of ceremonies and costumes from this October 5th, until New Year's Eve. 

But the cabarets of the great era, still standing, there is little left. 

Many were destroyed after the war, in the 60s. Including this one, Tabarin.

High place Montmartre, Tabarin was created in 1904. The success was immediate. When the Moulin Rouge burns in 1915, it is he who hosts the French Cancan.

In the 30s, the cabaret is renovated, the stage becomes retractable, two wooden horses welcome naked amazons, the Sandrini boss does not look at the expense, the shows are Hollywood.

We see Louis Jouvet, Marlene Dietrich, Django Reinhardt, Jacques Tati debuted there, very Chaplinesque show.

The room closes in 1953, deserted.

But will enjoy a burial 1st class in 1962, before its demolition.

Zizi Jammaire buries the famous Tabarin ball, a last show of music hall given to the Parisian cream.

Today, a supermarket has replaced the wooden horses.

Double First Cousins (Jerry Lee Lewis & Jimmy Swaggart), Removes, and Other Stuff

Cousins, Removes and Other Such Stuff

 

Among genealogists and wannabe genealogists there appears to be great confusion over relationships between relatives. Published authors frequently get this wrong in their texts.

We are speaking here of "cousins" and "removes" as in "4th cousin twice removed."

Everyone seems to know, even instinctively, that parents of a parent are their grandparents and the sibling of a parent is an uncle or aunt.

(Henceforth, and without loss of generality, we will stick to male terms as God and the English Language ordained before the PC people mucked with it).

Also recognized is that an uncle's child is your cousin, or first cousin (more formally, cousin-german).

But that's as far as many are able to go without error. The child of your cousin is NOT your second cousin, an error some people compound even farther by declaring that the grandchild of one's cousin is therefore a third cousin. No, no and no! The child of your cousin is your child's second cousin. So who exactly are all these folks? We'll now begin to delve into cousins and removes, saving the more esoteric for later.

One thing to note in all of these examples is that one never goes back farther than the latest common ancestor. You don't go back to a great grandfather to show that first cousins are also second cousins through him.

 

The children of first cousins are, to each other, second cousins. Their children are third cousins, etc. Working backwards it would be logical to call brothers "zero cousins." Every society has special names for certain close relationships and resorts to numbers only for the rarer or less important relationships. For some reason our society abhors the term "zero cousin" and, accordingly, goes to great lengths to avoid it; hence "great aunts", "great grand uncles," etc. Let us now draw a chart of several generations and label some of the "special" relationships.

Some "special" relationships:

• 0c0r brothers and sisters
• 0c1r aunts/uncles nieces/nephews
• 0c2r great aunts/uncles; great nieces/nephews
• 0c3r great grand aunts/uncles; great grand nieces/nephews
• 1c0r cousins (common usage of term)

Now we might ask, "What is my (first) cousin's child to me?" Many people mistakenly say "second cousin" but that is an error. He is your first cousin once removed. To find relationships between two people in different generations, we need to count the "extra" number of generations of one path vs. the other. Each of these "excess generations" is a "removed." Using the same chart, we now insert a few additional nomenclatures as examples.

Brothers have the same parents. If they have but one parent in common then they are Half Brothers -- but still 0c0r from the common ancestor (parent).
"In-Law" and "step" simply refer to a relationship created via (someone's) marriage. Your spouse's brother is your brother-in-law but (in this context) not a blood relative. Your spouse's father is your father-in-law, but again not blood related. Your grandfather's second wife is your step-grandmother.
If two people with previous children marry, their collective children are not biologically brothers (think Brady Bunch here, as in TV show). However, within the family they may certainly be thought of, loved as, and referred to in those terms. Each set of children is the other spouse's step-children. And the kids are, properly speaking, step-brothers.
If siblings marry siblings and each pair has children then those children share all four grandparents in common and not just two as do most first cousins. In this case they are referred to as "double first cousins."
There are other types of "double" relationships which can get complicated very rapidly. These fall into two basic types: The first occurs when two people share the same common ancestor in more than one way. This, in itself can become more complex because it usually happens when the common ancestor is four, five or more generations ago. If one path, for example, follows the eldest child of the eldest child of that ancestor and another path the youngest of the youngest, It is easy to come up with a case of two people being 4th cousins one way and 3rd cousins once removed the other. And, of course there is nothing which limits reaching the common ancestor only two ways. Your author descends from Johannes Hottle at least three ways.
Secondly, two people may share multiple ancestors; as in "we are third cousins on my father's side and fifth cousins on my mother's." Again, there is nothing restricting this to only two common ancestors, it may be many.

 

Blends of the first (multiple ways to a common ancestor) and the second (multiple ancestors involved) types also occur making each case almost unique. These are best handled by graphing the family tree. There is no system I am aware of that can produce a simplified relationship. (One would never say, for example, that because two individuals are third cousins in two ways, that is equivalent to being second cousins.) Of course one can calculate the closeness of relationships and come up with, say, "3/16 of my blood is the same as 9/32 of yours." But the only practical way I can think of to handle it is simply to list each of the multiple relationships individually.
What about the case of a husband and wife whose fathers are half-brothers (yes, there is such a case in COS)? This would be a marriage between two half first cousins and their children would have only seven unique great grandparents unlike "normal" kids with eight, or six for children of first cousins, or four for children of double first cousins. Don't know whether there is a term for it. I suspect not.

There is an interesting dichotomy in play regarding how we address the spouses of those "zero cousins" and most others which has been hinted at in the previous graphics but not explicitly stated. One introduces his uncle's wife as his "aunt;" similarly, the husband of his aunt as his "uncle." This deliberately confuses the situation.

For if you introduce me to your "Aunt Emma and Uncle Gene," I have no way of knowing which is the blood relative. On the other hand, "numbered" cousins are rarely, if ever, subjected to such confusion. We say, "This is my second cousin, Patricia, and her husband, Daniel," not, "These are my second cousins, Patricia and Daniel."

One is tempted to assume the first named is the blood relative, but can never be sure unless the explicit query is made. There are a multitude of reasons to reverse the blood first order, such as gender (ladies first), favoritism (he always brings me presents), age (he's much older than his trophy wife and is named first in deference to his longevity [or my jealousy]), ignorance or "I don't care" attitude of the younger generation, etc.

In any case, ain't English the most wonderfulness of languages? No matter how badly you massacre it, it's still generally possible to get your point across.

There are, of course, many other relationships which could be cited, but I'm getting exhausted. I would be interested in hearing should you encounter a really interesing relationship in your research.
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