You think this guy is scary? Aw, come on, he's got nothing on...
...THE KILLER!
I wrote about Jerry Lee Lewis (1935-2022) here.
You think this guy is scary? Aw, come on, he's got nothing on...
...THE KILLER!
I wrote about Jerry Lee Lewis (1935-2022) here.
A family connection to Swaggart. In the upbringing I suppose.
ReplyDeleteAndrew, Jimmy Swaggart and Mickey Gilley and Jerry Lee Lewis were all first cousins who saw a lot of each other growing up in Louisiana.
DeleteAndrew, responding to Shady's comment reminded me that Alec Baldwin played Swaggart in the 1989 movie.
DeleteI love that second image. I have never liked seeing that Chucky.
ReplyDeleteMitchell, someone really should have reported Chucky to the Consumer Protection Agency by now.
DeleteHi, Kirk!
ReplyDeleteYes, good buddy. Just in time for H-ween, the phantom Reaper has struck again, this time taking from our midst rock & roll pioneer Jerry Lee Lewis aka "The Killer." Jerry now joins Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, Little Richard and other departed titans of the genre in "Rock & Roll Heaven"... and you know they've got a helluva band. I clicked back to your 2021 post about Jerry Lee to check what I wrote in my comment, but there were none. Then I remembered that you had experienced a crash around that time and lost a lot of content.
I like your take on "High School Confidential" starring demon doll Chucky (perhaps "boyfriend material" for my Ghost Doll Nadja). It's ironic that you posted Chucky this morning because I was just watching him last evening in a comedy horror movie that will be the focus of my new post starting tomorrow morning.
"Preschool Confidential" is an apt title because, as most of us know, The Killer married his 13 year old cousin. When asked if age 13 isn't too young for a girl to get married, Jerry stated that where he comes from, a TEN-year-old girl can get married if she can find a husband.
A few years ago, I discovered on YouTube veteran guitar player Danny B Harvey's exciting rock & roll band The Devil's Daughters featuring his wife, Anne Marie Lewis, one of the two fetching female vocalists in the act. Anne Marie, a sizzler, is Jerry Lee Lewis's niece.
Thanks for remembering one of the all-time greats, Jerry Lee Lewis, a rowdy rock & roller and tremendous showman who always gave 110%, often standing up and banging the piano keys with the heel of his shoe. Have a nice weekend, good buddy Kirk!
That's right, Shady. Due to a series of stupid blunders, I lost the comments to something like a year and a half's worth of posts, including the one you mention. If it helps any, and if I remember correctly, you brought up the 1989 movie Great Balls of Fire starring Dennis Quaid as the 1950s rocker and wonderful Wynona Ryder as his 13-year-old first cousin bride Myrna, a film which portrayed Jerry Lee's rise and fall, not without some justification, as a broad comedy. Really, I wish someone would paint Elvis Presley's story with the same comic brush (I haven't seen it yet, but I'm told the latest movie doesn't.) One of the chapters in Peter Guralnick's excellent biography of Elvis is titled "A Night at the Opera" and that's really what 1950s rock and roll was all about, a Marx Brothers assault on the Eisenhower era. But getting back to the Dennis Quaid movie, my one quibble is the actor they got to play Sam Phillips. The real Sam Phillips was a thinnish, moderately handsome man back in the 1950s, and here's some heavy-set guy who looks like Bill Barr, sans the glasses. The movie also portrayed Phillips as only being interested in making a buck, while the real Phillips seems to have been more idealistically driven, recording a number of black Mississippi delta artists during the latter years of Jim Crow, which wasn't exactly going to get him an invitation to speak before the Memphis Rotary.
DeleteI don't know about ten-year-olds, but the recently departed Loretta Lynn was only two years older than Myrna when she got hitched. I guess it's just a Dixie thing.
And finally, Shady, thanks for getting the "Confidential" reference. I wasn't sure anyone would.
Goodness Gracious, Great Balls of Fire!
ReplyDeleteToo much love drives a man insane, Debra.
DeleteThey always talk about him marrying his 13yo cousin but never about the fact that he was married seven times. The 13yo was number 3.
ReplyDeleteMike, I guess marrying your 13-year-old cousin just stands out, and not so much in this country as the United Kingdom, where Jerry Lee was touring when the scandal broke. Cousins marrying cousins, tsk, tsk. Surprised it didn't lead to an outbreak of hemophilia.
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