1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:00:32,815 --> 00:00:34,860 From Ferriday, Louisiana, 4 00:00:34,947 --> 00:00:36,775 Jerry Lee Lewis. 5 00:00:41,432 --> 00:00:43,043 ♪ Mornings come ♪ 6 00:00:44,653 --> 00:00:48,918 ♪ And lord my mind is achin' ♪ 7 00:00:49,005 --> 00:00:50,050 Yes, it is. 8 00:00:53,357 --> 00:00:58,275 ♪ Sunshine standing quietly ♪ 9 00:00:58,362 --> 00:01:01,365 ♪ At my door ♪ 10 00:01:03,802 --> 00:01:05,065 ♪ Just like the dawn ♪ 11 00:01:07,328 --> 00:01:12,028 ♪ My heart is silently breaking ♪ 12 00:01:15,684 --> 00:01:18,121 ♪ And with my tears ♪ 13 00:01:18,208 --> 00:01:20,254 ♪ Lord, it goes tumblin' ♪ 14 00:01:21,516 --> 00:01:27,261 ♪ To the floor ♪ 15 00:01:27,348 --> 00:01:29,741 ♪ Once again ♪ 16 00:01:29,828 --> 00:01:34,746 ♪ The whole town will be talking ♪ 17 00:01:34,833 --> 00:01:35,747 ♪ Yes, they will ♪ 18 00:01:38,663 --> 00:01:43,581 ♪ Lord, I've seen the pity ♪ 19 00:01:43,668 --> 00:01:48,108 ♪ That's in their eyes ♪ 20 00:01:49,283 --> 00:01:54,549 ♪ Oh, they could never understand ♪ 21 00:01:54,636 --> 00:01:58,770 ♪ It's her sorrow it's not a man ♪ 22 00:02:00,685 --> 00:02:04,428 ♪ And no matter what they say ♪ 23 00:02:06,126 --> 00:02:09,216 ♪ We know she tried ♪ 24 00:02:11,305 --> 00:02:17,093 ♪ Baby's packed her soft things ♪ 25 00:02:17,180 --> 00:02:18,877 ♪ And she's left me ♪ 26 00:02:18,964 --> 00:02:20,096 ♪ She's left me ♪ 27 00:02:20,705 --> 00:02:21,750 ♪ She's left me ♪ 28 00:02:24,361 --> 00:02:27,799 ♪ Lord knows that I didn't mean ♪ 29 00:02:27,886 --> 00:02:30,193 ♪ To make her cry ♪ 30 00:02:34,110 --> 00:02:35,938 ♪ It's not her heart, Lord ♪ 31 00:02:37,157 --> 00:02:39,768 ♪ It's her mind ♪ 32 00:02:39,855 --> 00:02:44,076 ♪ She didn't mean to be unkind ♪ 33 00:02:45,339 --> 00:02:48,907 ♪ Why, she even woke me up ♪ 34 00:02:49,778 --> 00:02:55,479 ♪ To say goodbye ♪ 35 00:03:02,617 --> 00:03:04,836 Back on Music Center tonight, visiting with the killer, 36 00:03:04,923 --> 00:03:05,968 Jerry Lee Lewis. 37 00:03:06,055 --> 00:03:07,535 You had all these big rock hits, 38 00:03:07,622 --> 00:03:08,927 and all of a sudden in the late '60s, 39 00:03:09,014 --> 00:03:11,016 you've had these big country music hits. 40 00:03:11,103 --> 00:03:15,238 Do you think your fans expected the natural transition into country music? 41 00:03:15,325 --> 00:03:16,979 I'm country. 42 00:03:17,066 --> 00:03:18,763 Mmm-hmm. - I was born country. 43 00:03:18,850 --> 00:03:20,852 Yeah. - But I was raised on rock and roll. 44 00:03:23,638 --> 00:03:26,380 Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, Fats Domino. 45 00:03:26,467 --> 00:03:29,600 Especially Little Richard. Now, they rate right along there with Elvis. 46 00:03:29,687 --> 00:03:32,864 The first time I ever heard Elvis on radio, me and my daddy was driving along. 47 00:03:32,951 --> 00:03:35,476 I heard him doing a song called Blue Moon of Kentucky. 48 00:03:35,563 --> 00:03:38,000 I said, "I don't know who that is," I said, 49 00:03:38,087 --> 00:03:39,958 "but the door has finally been opened." 50 00:03:40,045 --> 00:03:42,091 And me and my daddy was out in a field. 51 00:03:42,178 --> 00:03:44,006 We were were pulling corn, you know. 52 00:03:44,093 --> 00:03:46,269 And I said, "Dad, I think I'm going to Memphis." 53 00:03:46,356 --> 00:03:48,358 I was 20 years old then. 54 00:03:48,445 --> 00:03:50,099 I said, I read about this boy 55 00:03:50,186 --> 00:03:53,058 called Elvis Presley, who's really something else. 56 00:03:53,145 --> 00:03:54,756 And Sam Phillips got him started. 57 00:03:54,843 --> 00:03:56,714 I think he could get me started. 58 00:03:56,801 --> 00:03:58,412 And we drove down from from Ferriday, Louisiana, 59 00:03:58,499 --> 00:03:59,891 into Memphis here 60 00:03:59,978 --> 00:04:01,850 and pulled up in front of Sun Records here. 61 00:04:01,937 --> 00:04:04,766 I said, "Well, you're going to have to cut a little demo for me, 62 00:04:04,853 --> 00:04:06,811 for Mr. Phillips to listen to." 63 00:04:06,898 --> 00:04:09,161 So he put it down and I said, I'm going to do 64 00:04:09,249 --> 00:04:11,903 "Crazy Arm," kind of a rhythm and blues style, the way I do it. 65 00:04:11,990 --> 00:04:15,255 And I just kicked it off, and here's the way I did it. 66 00:04:23,350 --> 00:04:24,655 ♪ Now, blue ♪ 67 00:04:24,742 --> 00:04:26,178 ♪ Ain't the word ♪ 68 00:04:26,266 --> 00:04:29,269 ♪ For the way that I feel ♪ 69 00:04:29,921 --> 00:04:31,662 That's all. That's it. 70 00:04:31,749 --> 00:04:33,055 You said that when Sam 71 00:04:33,142 --> 00:04:36,058 first heard the tape of, um, "Crazy Arms," 72 00:04:36,145 --> 00:04:38,887 by the time you got through the intro, he was sold on it. 73 00:04:38,974 --> 00:04:41,585 He was. Sam... Sam Phillips' a genius on that. 74 00:04:41,672 --> 00:04:43,674 He... a remarkable man. 75 00:04:43,761 --> 00:04:46,329 He... he knew... he knew what was happening. 76 00:04:46,416 --> 00:04:49,506 He knew just... just like that when nobody else did. 77 00:04:49,593 --> 00:04:52,422 Jud Phillips, Sam's brother, took me up to New York City. 78 00:04:52,509 --> 00:04:55,077 Auditioned me for Steve Allen, and, uh... 79 00:04:55,164 --> 00:04:57,514 He heard me do the audition for him in his office. 80 00:04:57,601 --> 00:04:59,951 He said, "You've got three minutes." 81 00:05:00,038 --> 00:05:01,605 I said, "That's all I need." 82 00:05:05,957 --> 00:05:07,350 ♪ Come on over, baby ♪ 83 00:05:07,437 --> 00:05:09,657 ♪ Whole lotta shakin' goin' on ♪ 84 00:05:10,440 --> 00:05:12,790 ♪ Hey, come on, baby ♪ 85 00:05:12,877 --> 00:05:14,966 ♪ Baby, you can't go wrong ♪ 86 00:05:15,663 --> 00:05:17,752 ♪ Oh, been thinkin' ♪ 87 00:05:17,839 --> 00:05:20,711 ♪ Whole lot of shakin goin' on ♪ 88 00:05:20,798 --> 00:05:23,105 ♪ Yeah, come on over, baby ♪ 89 00:05:23,192 --> 00:05:25,194 ♪ We got chicken in the barn ♪ 90 00:05:25,281 --> 00:05:27,239 ♪ Oh, honey ♪ 91 00:05:27,327 --> 00:05:30,417 ♪ Come on over we got the bull by the horn ♪ 92 00:05:31,069 --> 00:05:35,509 ♪ Oh, we ain't fakin' Whole lot of shakin' goin' on ♪ 93 00:05:36,336 --> 00:05:39,513 ♪ Well, shake, baby, shake ♪ 94 00:05:39,600 --> 00:05:42,254 ♪ Shake, baby, shake ♪ 95 00:05:42,342 --> 00:05:44,474 ♪ Shake, honey, shake ♪ 96 00:05:45,040 --> 00:05:47,259 ♪ Shake, baby, shake ♪ 97 00:05:47,347 --> 00:05:48,826 ♪ Come on over ♪ 98 00:05:48,913 --> 00:05:51,525 ♪ Whole lot of shakin goin' on ♪ 99 00:05:51,612 --> 00:05:52,874 ♪ Oh! ♪ 100 00:06:05,669 --> 00:06:09,107 ♪ Yeah, come on over, baby ♪ 101 00:06:09,194 --> 00:06:10,761 ♪ We got chicken in the barn ♪ 102 00:06:10,848 --> 00:06:12,937 ♪ Whose barn, what barn, my barn ♪ 103 00:06:13,024 --> 00:06:14,330 ♪ Come on, honey ♪ 104 00:06:14,417 --> 00:06:16,593 ♪ We got a bull by the horn ♪ 105 00:06:16,680 --> 00:06:18,856 ♪ Oh! We ain't fakin' ♪ 106 00:06:18,943 --> 00:06:21,076 ♪ A whole lot of shakin' goin' on ♪ 107 00:06:21,990 --> 00:06:24,122 ♪ Easy now, shake ♪ 108 00:06:25,994 --> 00:06:28,518 ♪ Oh, shake, baby ♪ 109 00:06:28,605 --> 00:06:31,260 ♪ You can shake one time for me ♪ 110 00:06:32,348 --> 00:06:34,785 ♪ Well, I said come on over, baby ♪ 111 00:06:34,872 --> 00:06:36,961 ♪ A whole lot of shakin' goin' on ♪ 112 00:06:37,048 --> 00:06:39,616 Now let's get real low, shake. 113 00:06:41,618 --> 00:06:43,098 All you gotta do, honey 114 00:06:44,099 --> 00:06:45,840 is kinda stand in one spot, 115 00:06:47,363 --> 00:06:49,321 jump around just a little bit. 116 00:06:49,887 --> 00:06:52,368 That's when you heard that I got something, you know. 117 00:06:52,455 --> 00:06:53,369 Now, let's go. 118 00:06:54,109 --> 00:06:55,719 ♪ Shake it, oh ♪ 119 00:06:56,285 --> 00:06:58,505 ♪ Shake it, honey, shake ♪ 120 00:06:59,723 --> 00:07:02,596 ♪ Shake, baby shake, baby, shake ♪ 121 00:07:04,075 --> 00:07:05,642 ♪ We ain't fakin'♪ 122 00:07:05,729 --> 00:07:10,168 ♪ A whole lotta shakin' goin' on ♪ 123 00:07:15,173 --> 00:07:17,349 Busted wide open and... 124 00:07:17,437 --> 00:07:19,134 They had to build two new plants 125 00:07:19,221 --> 00:07:21,049 to keep up with shipping that record. 126 00:07:21,136 --> 00:07:24,879 The record was selling over 300,000 records a day. 127 00:07:24,966 --> 00:07:26,968 Anybody that wouldn't have liked "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" 128 00:07:27,055 --> 00:07:29,797 would have had to have a problem. No. 129 00:07:29,884 --> 00:07:31,233 That was music. 130 00:07:31,320 --> 00:07:32,974 John Lennon said it was the most perfect 131 00:07:33,061 --> 00:07:35,367 rock and roll record that's ever been cut. 132 00:07:35,455 --> 00:07:37,718 Right now, it's Red Hot & Blue, 133 00:07:37,805 --> 00:07:41,243 coming through on WHBQ... on the magazine floor. 134 00:07:41,330 --> 00:07:44,202 Good cotton pickin' jacket. Where'd you get that at, Don Lasko's? 135 00:07:44,289 --> 00:07:46,466 That's a good plug. We all get free Coke tomorrow. 136 00:07:46,553 --> 00:07:48,250 I bought this jacket in New York City. 137 00:07:48,337 --> 00:07:49,991 In New York City. I understand 138 00:07:50,078 --> 00:07:51,601 you've been uptown about as far as you can get. 139 00:07:51,688 --> 00:07:52,950 You've been around that Cyclone? 140 00:07:53,037 --> 00:07:54,604 - End up with a stone. - I've been tryin' it. 141 00:07:54,691 --> 00:07:56,432 If you don't know what a Cyclone is, 142 00:07:56,519 --> 00:07:57,955 that thing when Jerry Lee gets to New York, 143 00:07:58,042 --> 00:08:00,131 he's gotta hit that Coney Island out there, you know? 144 00:08:00,218 --> 00:08:02,656 Gets on this cotton pickin' thing that just goes up and down, man. 145 00:08:02,743 --> 00:08:04,135 Up and down. 146 00:08:04,222 --> 00:08:05,833 I understand "Whole Lotta Shakin'" 147 00:08:05,920 --> 00:08:07,356 sold about a million, 500,000. 148 00:08:07,443 --> 00:08:08,966 - Is that right? - I believe so. 149 00:08:09,053 --> 00:08:10,577 You know what's been worrying me here 150 00:08:10,664 --> 00:08:11,882 for the last three or four weeks? What the heck 151 00:08:11,969 --> 00:08:13,797 you're going to get me for Christmas? 152 00:08:13,884 --> 00:08:15,538 Mr. Dewey Phillips played my record 153 00:08:15,625 --> 00:08:18,454 on WHBQ Red Hot & Blue. 154 00:08:19,324 --> 00:08:22,763 Uh... Red Hot & Blue was something else. 155 00:08:22,850 --> 00:08:25,896 What have you been hearing about this "Great Balls of Fire" record all over the country? 156 00:08:25,983 --> 00:08:28,986 - Did you hear a lot about it? - Well, it seems to be moving along, uh, pretty good. 157 00:08:29,073 --> 00:08:30,771 I understand it's breaking all over the country. 158 00:08:30,858 --> 00:08:32,120 Yes sir, on the Dewey Phillips Show... 159 00:08:32,207 --> 00:08:33,991 Right now, it's going to be one of the hottest 160 00:08:34,078 --> 00:08:35,602 cotton pickin' numbers in the country in about three weeks 161 00:08:35,689 --> 00:08:37,168 what it says already in Memphis. 162 00:08:37,255 --> 00:08:38,866 Great... What was that girl said? No. 163 00:08:38,953 --> 00:08:40,824 -"Great Balls of Fire." Hit it. - Yeah. 164 00:08:40,911 --> 00:08:43,958 ♪ You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain ♪ 165 00:08:44,045 --> 00:08:46,308 ♪ Too much love drives a man insane ♪ 166 00:08:47,178 --> 00:08:49,964 ♪ You broke my will But what a thrill ♪ 167 00:08:50,051 --> 00:08:52,662 ♪ Goodness gracious great balls of fire! ♪ 168 00:08:53,358 --> 00:08:55,447 ♪ I laughed at love 'cause I thought it was funny ♪ 169 00:08:56,231 --> 00:08:59,103 ♪ You came along and you moved me, honey ♪ 170 00:08:59,190 --> 00:09:02,150 ♪ I've changed my mind This love is fine ♪ 171 00:09:02,237 --> 00:09:05,066 ♪ Goodness gracious great balls of fire ♪ 172 00:09:05,153 --> 00:09:06,415 ♪ Kiss me, baby ♪ 173 00:09:07,155 --> 00:09:10,375 ♪ Ooh, feels good ♪ 174 00:09:10,462 --> 00:09:12,639 "Great Balls of Fire" was written by Otis Blackwell. 175 00:09:13,378 --> 00:09:16,425 ♪ Well, I'll still love you like a lover should ♪ 176 00:09:16,512 --> 00:09:18,427 Well, I went and recorded it in one day. 177 00:09:18,514 --> 00:09:20,734 Sidney Stokes would play guitar on it. 178 00:09:20,821 --> 00:09:23,388 ♪ Got to tell this world that you're mine, mine, mine, mine ♪ 179 00:09:23,475 --> 00:09:25,695 I said, "Sidney, can you play electric bass, though?" 180 00:09:26,435 --> 00:09:28,872 He said, "Yeah, I can play one a little bit." 181 00:09:29,873 --> 00:09:32,528 And we have a spinning piano just like this one here. 182 00:09:32,615 --> 00:09:33,616 This might be it. 183 00:09:33,703 --> 00:09:35,270 ♪ Great balls of fire ♪ 184 00:09:48,326 --> 00:09:50,764 I don't remember who was playing drums on it. 185 00:09:50,851 --> 00:09:53,462 I said, "What do you do?" He said, "I play drums." 186 00:09:53,549 --> 00:09:55,986 I said, "Well, can you pull those drums over here and play?" 187 00:09:56,073 --> 00:09:59,120 ♪ Well ♪ 188 00:09:59,207 --> 00:10:04,212 ♪ Kiss me, baby, mmm, feels good ♪ 189 00:10:04,299 --> 00:10:07,650 I pulled him over and we took one take on "Great Balls of Fire." 190 00:10:07,737 --> 00:10:10,566 ♪ Well, I'll still love you like a lover should ♪ 191 00:10:10,653 --> 00:10:13,569 ♪ You're fine, so kind ♪ 192 00:10:13,656 --> 00:10:16,964 ♪ Got to tell this world that you're mine, mine, mine, mine ♪ 193 00:10:17,051 --> 00:10:19,357 ♪ I chew my nails and I twiddle my thumbs ♪ 194 00:10:20,228 --> 00:10:22,796 ♪ Real nervous but it sure is fun ♪ 195 00:10:22,883 --> 00:10:26,016 ♪ Come on, baby, drive me crazy ♪ 196 00:10:26,103 --> 00:10:29,280 ♪ Goodness gracious great balls of fire ♪ 197 00:10:29,367 --> 00:10:31,935 How did you feel about "Great Balls of Fire?" 198 00:10:32,022 --> 00:10:33,894 It was number one on the R&B charts, 199 00:10:33,981 --> 00:10:35,983 the pop charts, the country and western charts. 200 00:10:36,070 --> 00:10:38,072 Well, I thought it was fantastic. 201 00:10:38,159 --> 00:10:40,378 I never thought that much about it at the time. 202 00:10:40,465 --> 00:10:45,079 Now I do. I am the only one in the business that had two records do that. 203 00:10:45,819 --> 00:10:47,821 "Whole Lotta Shakin'" and "Great Balls of Fire." 204 00:10:47,908 --> 00:10:50,867 - Two in a row that... - They were number one on every chart, 205 00:10:50,954 --> 00:10:52,913 from Easy Listening charts 206 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:55,002 to rock and roll to rhythm and blues 207 00:10:55,089 --> 00:10:58,875 to gut bucket blues to, uh, the country charts, 208 00:10:58,962 --> 00:11:01,399 uh, the pop chart... any charts they had, 209 00:11:01,486 --> 00:11:03,140 the record was number one. 210 00:11:03,227 --> 00:11:05,229 - I thought, "Here we go." 211 00:11:05,316 --> 00:11:07,579 The one and only Jerry Lee Lewis! 212 00:11:07,667 --> 00:11:09,146 Thank you very, very much. 213 00:11:14,195 --> 00:11:17,764 ♪ Put on your high-heel sneakers ♪ 214 00:11:19,156 --> 00:11:22,246 ♪ Comb that wig down on your head ♪ 215 00:11:25,772 --> 00:11:30,341 ♪ Oh, put on your high-heel sneakers ♪ 216 00:11:31,081 --> 00:11:36,173 ♪ Honey, comb that wig down on your head ♪ 217 00:11:38,959 --> 00:11:42,223 ♪ 'Cause we're goin' out tonight, baby ♪ 218 00:11:42,310 --> 00:11:46,575 ♪ Oh, I'm pretty sure you're gonna knock 'em dead ♪ 219 00:11:50,361 --> 00:11:52,320 ♪ Yeah, yeah! ♪ 220 00:11:53,625 --> 00:11:55,627 It was all a brand-new situation 221 00:11:55,715 --> 00:11:57,412 and I wasn't used to money like that. 222 00:11:57,499 --> 00:11:59,022 Cars like that, anything like that. 223 00:11:59,109 --> 00:12:00,545 But it was all new 224 00:12:00,632 --> 00:12:02,112 and it was exciting and I was young. 225 00:12:02,199 --> 00:12:03,853 I enjoyed it. It was great. 226 00:12:03,940 --> 00:12:05,246 Busted rock and roll wide open. 227 00:12:05,333 --> 00:12:06,726 I have seen the footage 228 00:12:06,813 --> 00:12:08,292 that the girls would rush the stage 229 00:12:08,379 --> 00:12:10,120 and you caused some riots in some cities. 230 00:12:12,427 --> 00:12:13,776 The girls really loved you. 231 00:12:13,863 --> 00:12:16,518 How did their mamas feel about that? 232 00:12:16,605 --> 00:12:18,476 I never met their mothers. 233 00:12:18,563 --> 00:12:22,480 ♪ Put on your red dress, baby ♪ 234 00:12:23,394 --> 00:12:26,441 ♪ 'Cause we're goin' out tonight ♪ 235 00:12:30,053 --> 00:12:34,710 ♪ Whoa, put on your red dress, baby ♪ 236 00:12:35,624 --> 00:12:38,540 ♪ You know we goin' out tonight ♪ 237 00:12:43,197 --> 00:12:47,027 ♪ Oh, I'm gonna take my picture, baby ♪ 238 00:12:47,114 --> 00:12:52,206 ♪ 'Cause some cats might wanna fight ♪ 239 00:12:55,687 --> 00:12:56,645 ♪ Yeah ♪ 240 00:13:03,347 --> 00:13:04,827 ♪ Open up, a-honey ♪ 241 00:13:04,914 --> 00:13:07,395 ♪ It's your lover boy me that's a-knockin' ♪ 242 00:13:07,482 --> 00:13:09,527 ♪ Why don't you listen to me, baby ♪ 243 00:13:09,614 --> 00:13:12,748 ♪ All the cats are at the high school rockin' ♪ 244 00:13:12,835 --> 00:13:15,011 ♪ Honey, get your boppin' shoes ♪ 245 00:13:15,098 --> 00:13:17,622 ♪ 'Fore the jukebox blows a fuse ♪ 246 00:13:17,709 --> 00:13:19,886 ♪ Everybody hoppin' everybody's boppin' ♪ 247 00:13:19,973 --> 00:13:22,323 ♪ Boppin' at the high school hop ♪ 248 00:13:22,410 --> 00:13:24,499 ♪ Boppin' at the high school hop ♪ 249 00:13:24,586 --> 00:13:26,980 ♪ Boppin' at the high school hop ♪ 250 00:13:27,067 --> 00:13:29,373 ♪ Boppin' at the high school hop ♪ 251 00:13:29,460 --> 00:13:31,593 ♪ Boppin' at the high school hop ♪ 252 00:13:31,680 --> 00:13:34,030 ♪ Everybody hoppin' everybody's boppin' ♪ 253 00:13:34,117 --> 00:13:36,424 ♪ Boppin' at the high school hop ♪ 254 00:13:36,511 --> 00:13:41,081 ♪ Come on, little baby let's just rock a little bit tonight ♪ 255 00:13:41,168 --> 00:13:44,562 ♪ Come on, help mama let's shake things up tonight ♪ 256 00:13:45,999 --> 00:13:49,306 ♪ Well, my heart's a-beatin' rhythm and my feet are movin' smooth and light ♪ ♪ 257 00:13:51,613 --> 00:13:54,964 You have, over the years, been held accountable 258 00:13:55,051 --> 00:13:57,967 for marrying a 13-year-old girl. 259 00:13:58,054 --> 00:14:00,317 Well, she was 12 years old. 260 00:14:00,404 --> 00:14:02,711 ♪ Come on pretty baby, let's shake things up tonight ♪ 261 00:14:02,798 --> 00:14:04,408 Thirteen the next day. 262 00:14:04,495 --> 00:14:05,845 ♪ Yeah ♪ 263 00:14:10,327 --> 00:14:12,068 And all of a sudden, she was 14. 264 00:14:14,679 --> 00:14:17,117 I... I... I felt like doing it and I felt like it was right. 265 00:14:17,204 --> 00:14:18,945 It had to be done. 266 00:14:19,032 --> 00:14:21,077 ♪ Well, let me tell you something, baby ♪ 267 00:14:21,164 --> 00:14:22,949 ♪ I'mma gonna give you some good news ♪ 268 00:14:23,036 --> 00:14:24,602 Uh, when will you marry? 269 00:14:24,689 --> 00:14:26,561 - Pardon? - When will you marry? 270 00:14:26,648 --> 00:14:29,390 Why don't we leave our personal questions out of this, eh? 271 00:14:29,477 --> 00:14:31,566 You, way in the back there, yeah. 272 00:14:31,653 --> 00:14:34,482 What's the latest about Jerry Lee Lewis? 273 00:14:34,569 --> 00:14:36,832 What's the latest on Jerry Lee Lewis? 274 00:14:38,573 --> 00:14:40,227 Oh, he just became a father. 275 00:14:42,490 --> 00:14:43,795 He adopted his wife. 276 00:14:45,623 --> 00:14:48,061 ♪ Well, everybody hoppin'... ♪ 277 00:14:48,148 --> 00:14:51,194 They made a big deal out of it, which I could have cared less. 278 00:14:51,281 --> 00:14:53,457 And I didn't get mad at the press. 279 00:14:53,544 --> 00:14:58,288 I got mad at nobody. I mean, I knew what I was doing. 280 00:14:58,375 --> 00:15:01,161 And they said, "Well, you'll never... never be back again. 281 00:15:01,248 --> 00:15:02,902 "You'll never be a big star again." 282 00:15:02,989 --> 00:15:04,338 We had to work every date we could get 283 00:15:04,425 --> 00:15:06,122 just to make ends meet. 284 00:15:06,688 --> 00:15:09,256 Times were hard, but Jerry never faltered. 285 00:15:11,345 --> 00:15:13,129 He wasn't discouraged. 286 00:15:13,216 --> 00:15:15,392 He went from making like $10,000 a night 287 00:15:15,479 --> 00:15:17,177 to $200 a night, and he said, 288 00:15:17,264 --> 00:15:19,657 "Oh, okay! So I'm making $200 a night," 289 00:15:19,744 --> 00:15:21,137 and he just kept right on working. 290 00:15:21,224 --> 00:15:23,574 No regrets or a whole lot of regrets? 291 00:15:24,401 --> 00:15:26,490 No regrets on my part, baby. 292 00:15:26,577 --> 00:15:30,146 ♪ Boppin' at the high school hop ♪ 293 00:15:32,757 --> 00:15:34,934 There are times in every entertainer's life 294 00:15:35,021 --> 00:15:36,805 when changes seem to be in order. 295 00:15:36,892 --> 00:15:39,199 Our next presenter was a major star 296 00:15:39,286 --> 00:15:41,941 in the early days of the rock and roll craze. 297 00:15:42,028 --> 00:15:45,727 His flamboyant style carried him to the top of the pop music charts. 298 00:15:45,814 --> 00:15:48,512 Then he made a change in style and presentation, 299 00:15:48,599 --> 00:15:51,472 even in physical appearance, and he has risen to stardom 300 00:15:51,559 --> 00:15:53,387 in the country music field. 301 00:15:53,474 --> 00:15:56,259 The style may have changed but the real talent remains. 302 00:15:56,346 --> 00:15:59,654 And there's still a whole lotta shakin' goin' on for Jerry Lee Lewis! 303 00:16:04,702 --> 00:16:06,139 ♪ You left me ♪ 304 00:16:06,226 --> 00:16:08,576 ♪ Honey, you went away ♪ 305 00:16:10,186 --> 00:16:13,407 ♪ You said that you were coming back home in just a day ♪ 306 00:16:13,494 --> 00:16:14,408 ♪ Oh, yeah ♪ 307 00:16:15,191 --> 00:16:17,541 ♪ But you've broken your promise ♪ 308 00:16:17,628 --> 00:16:20,109 ♪ Left me here alone ♪ 309 00:16:20,196 --> 00:16:22,285 ♪ I don't know why you did, dear ♪ 310 00:16:22,372 --> 00:16:24,722 ♪ But I do know that you're gone ♪ 311 00:16:24,809 --> 00:16:29,249 ♪ And I'm walkin' the floor over you ♪ 312 00:16:30,554 --> 00:16:35,081 ♪ I can't sleep a wink that is true ♪ 313 00:16:35,168 --> 00:16:37,039 ♪ I'm hopin' and I'm prayin'♪ 314 00:16:37,126 --> 00:16:40,260 ♪ As my heart breaks right in two ♪ 315 00:16:40,347 --> 00:16:43,872 ♪ Walkin' the floor over you ♪ 316 00:16:43,959 --> 00:16:45,134 ♪ Yeah ♪ 317 00:16:47,049 --> 00:16:49,573 It took me 12 years to make that comeback. 318 00:16:50,270 --> 00:16:52,837 But when I did, I made it. I knew I'd make it. 319 00:16:55,231 --> 00:16:57,799 I traveled on the road 12 years, straight on the road. 320 00:16:58,930 --> 00:17:03,065 Three hundred and fifteen, 325 and 30 days a year. 321 00:17:05,111 --> 00:17:10,333 ♪ Someday you might be lonely too ♪ 322 00:17:10,420 --> 00:17:12,727 ♪ Walkin' that ol' floor is good for you ♪ 323 00:17:12,814 --> 00:17:15,556 Every day, every day, every day. 324 00:17:15,643 --> 00:17:18,037 - ♪ Just keep right on walkin' ♪ - Day in, day out. 325 00:17:18,124 --> 00:17:20,213 Year in and year out in the backseat of a car. 326 00:17:20,300 --> 00:17:22,128 ♪ Remember that I love you pretty baby ♪ 327 00:17:22,215 --> 00:17:24,217 Six, seven, 800 miles a day. 328 00:17:24,304 --> 00:17:25,609 Every day. 329 00:17:25,696 --> 00:17:30,658 ♪ I'm walkin' the floor over you ♪ 330 00:17:30,745 --> 00:17:33,748 ♪ I can't sleep a wink that is true ♪ 331 00:17:33,835 --> 00:17:36,751 In '68, when you started having big hits with country songs, 332 00:17:36,838 --> 00:17:39,928 did you decide consciously that you're going to change your approach? 333 00:17:41,190 --> 00:17:42,452 Well, I had to change something. 334 00:17:42,539 --> 00:17:43,758 I couldn't get no air play. 335 00:17:43,845 --> 00:17:45,368 ♪ One more time now! ♪ 336 00:17:45,455 --> 00:17:48,110 ♪ I'm walkin' the floor over you ♪ 337 00:17:48,197 --> 00:17:50,591 ♪ Walkin' the floor Walkin' the floor ♪ 338 00:17:50,678 --> 00:17:54,638 ♪ Can't sleep a wink that is true ♪ 339 00:17:54,725 --> 00:17:56,118 "Great Balls of Fire." 340 00:17:56,205 --> 00:17:57,424 - Remember that record? - Mm-hmm. 341 00:17:57,511 --> 00:17:59,817 The flip side of it, I got a gold record for. 342 00:17:59,904 --> 00:18:02,559 You won again. Hank Williams Jr., the number one country record. 343 00:18:09,436 --> 00:18:11,264 So I've been signing contracts, sang all of it. 344 00:18:20,490 --> 00:18:23,058 ♪ The news is out ♪ 345 00:18:25,408 --> 00:18:27,541 ♪ All over town ♪ 346 00:18:29,064 --> 00:18:32,807 ♪ That you've been seen ♪ 347 00:18:33,764 --> 00:18:35,984 ♪ Out runnin' around ♪ 348 00:18:37,290 --> 00:18:40,119 ♪ Yes, I know that I ♪ 349 00:18:42,338 --> 00:18:44,819 ♪ Should leave, but then ♪ 350 00:18:46,647 --> 00:18:51,173 ♪ I just can't go ♪ 351 00:18:51,956 --> 00:18:53,088 ♪ You win again ♪ 352 00:18:55,351 --> 00:18:59,921 ♪ This heart of mine ♪ 353 00:19:00,008 --> 00:19:04,230 ♪ Could never see ♪ 354 00:19:04,317 --> 00:19:09,148 ♪ What everybody ♪ 355 00:19:09,235 --> 00:19:11,672 ♪ Knew but me ♪ 356 00:19:11,759 --> 00:19:15,066 ♪ Just trusting you ♪ 357 00:19:16,807 --> 00:19:19,245 ♪ You know that was my great sin ♪ 358 00:19:20,942 --> 00:19:25,425 ♪ Darlin', I just can't go ♪ 359 00:19:26,121 --> 00:19:27,775 ♪ You win again ♪ 360 00:19:55,019 --> 00:19:55,933 ♪ Oh, yeah! ♪ 361 00:20:02,723 --> 00:20:04,333 ♪ Yeah! ♪ 362 00:20:04,420 --> 00:20:08,642 ♪ This heart of mine ♪ 363 00:20:09,295 --> 00:20:13,690 ♪ Could never see ♪ 364 00:20:13,777 --> 00:20:18,217 ♪ What everybody knew ♪ 365 00:20:18,304 --> 00:20:20,654 ♪ But me ♪ 366 00:20:20,741 --> 00:20:23,570 ♪ Well, I just trusted you ♪ 367 00:20:25,746 --> 00:20:28,705 ♪ Was my great sin ♪ 368 00:20:29,837 --> 00:20:35,277 ♪ You know that I just can't go ♪ 369 00:20:35,364 --> 00:20:36,757 ♪ You win again ♪ 370 00:20:38,802 --> 00:20:43,198 ♪ What can I do? ♪ 371 00:20:43,981 --> 00:20:49,030 ♪ You win again ♪ 372 00:20:52,599 --> 00:20:54,818 Since you've been working, can you give us some estimate 373 00:20:54,905 --> 00:20:56,733 of the number of titles you've recorded? 374 00:20:56,820 --> 00:20:58,082 How many songs altogether? 375 00:20:59,562 --> 00:21:01,782 Lord, I... I swear, killer. 376 00:21:01,869 --> 00:21:04,654 - I don't know. I call everybody "killer." 377 00:21:04,741 --> 00:21:09,137 I... I don't know. I've... I've recorded 378 00:21:09,224 --> 00:21:11,879 - nine zillion songs. Yeah. 379 00:21:11,966 --> 00:21:14,925 I've had 14 number one hit records in the last three years, 380 00:21:15,012 --> 00:21:18,277 - uh, in the country western field of music in the States. - Is it? 381 00:21:18,973 --> 00:21:22,411 - And, of course, now I can go back to 1956. - Mmm. 382 00:21:22,498 --> 00:21:25,196 "Great Balls of Fire," "Crazy Arms," "Whole Lotta Shakin'." 383 00:21:25,284 --> 00:21:27,938 "You Won again," "Breathless," "High School Confidential." 384 00:21:28,025 --> 00:21:29,723 And... there's several records on the back. 385 00:21:32,552 --> 00:21:37,339 Do you want to be, "The greatest live show on Earth?" End of quote. 386 00:21:37,426 --> 00:21:39,341 You don't want a... a intro act. 387 00:21:39,428 --> 00:21:42,605 You don't want a follow act. Why? 388 00:21:42,692 --> 00:21:45,608 Because I really don't think there's anybody qualified. 389 00:21:47,218 --> 00:21:50,657 I've been my own man. I've done my own thing. 390 00:21:50,744 --> 00:21:52,876 Uh, they've called me this. They've called me that. 391 00:21:52,963 --> 00:21:54,443 And they've said this about me. 392 00:21:54,530 --> 00:21:55,879 But there ain't no following me. 393 00:21:57,185 --> 00:21:59,100 Were you arrogant? Were you conceited, you know? 394 00:21:59,187 --> 00:22:00,580 No. No. Never. 395 00:22:00,667 --> 00:22:02,321 I've never been conceited. 396 00:22:02,408 --> 00:22:05,628 I knew I have enough confidence in myself 397 00:22:05,715 --> 00:22:08,109 that I really wasn't worried about anybody following me. 398 00:22:08,196 --> 00:22:09,197 Mmm-hmm. 399 00:22:09,284 --> 00:22:12,766 And like Hank Williams said, 400 00:22:12,853 --> 00:22:15,464 "Just move over, little dog. Big dog's moving in." 401 00:22:17,858 --> 00:22:19,250 ♪ Come on over, baby ♪ 402 00:22:19,338 --> 00:22:21,514 ♪ Whole lotta shakin' goin' on ♪ 403 00:22:23,472 --> 00:22:24,691 ♪ Come on over, baby ♪ 404 00:22:24,778 --> 00:22:27,781 ♪ Baby, you can't go wrong ♪ 405 00:22:27,868 --> 00:22:29,913 ♪ Jerry Lee Lewis ain't fakin' ♪ 406 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:32,351 ♪ Got a whole lotta shakin' goin' on ♪ 407 00:22:34,004 --> 00:22:35,179 ♪ Yeah! ♪ 408 00:22:49,019 --> 00:22:51,892 ♪ Whole lotta shakin' goin' on ♪ 409 00:22:51,979 --> 00:22:55,417 ♪ Whole lotta shakin' goin' on ♪ 410 00:22:56,984 --> 00:23:01,380 ♪ Goin' on ♪ 411 00:23:10,780 --> 00:23:15,568 ♪ The falling leaves ♪ 412 00:23:15,655 --> 00:23:19,180 ♪ Drift by my window ♪ 413 00:23:21,704 --> 00:23:24,620 ♪ The autumn leaves ♪ 414 00:23:26,579 --> 00:23:31,497 ♪ All red and gold ♪ 415 00:23:31,584 --> 00:23:33,716 ♪ I see your lips ♪ 416 00:23:33,803 --> 00:23:36,893 What'd your dad do for a living? What kind of a man was he? 417 00:23:36,980 --> 00:23:40,157 ♪ Your summer kisses ♪ 418 00:23:40,244 --> 00:23:42,812 He was a... he was a farmer, a great man. 419 00:23:42,899 --> 00:23:45,162 ♪ The sunburned hands... ♪ 420 00:23:45,249 --> 00:23:47,513 And, uh, my mother was a great lady 421 00:23:47,600 --> 00:23:49,732 and I had the greatest parents in the world. 422 00:23:49,819 --> 00:23:51,995 They bought me a piano when I was eight years old. 423 00:23:52,082 --> 00:23:54,215 They mortgaged the home to buy me a piano. 424 00:23:54,302 --> 00:23:57,000 It was the greatest sounding piano I ever heard in my life. 425 00:23:57,566 --> 00:24:00,395 And I... I would imagine any piano would have sounded 426 00:24:00,482 --> 00:24:05,705 that good to me at the time, and I lived with that piano. 427 00:24:05,792 --> 00:24:11,058 Uh, I sat on a piano stool five, six, seven hours a day. 428 00:24:11,145 --> 00:24:12,538 Day in and day out. 429 00:24:13,234 --> 00:24:16,193 I loved it and my mother walked by and was listening 430 00:24:16,280 --> 00:24:18,587 and she told my dad, she said, 431 00:24:19,762 --> 00:24:23,331 "Elmo, he... he's going to be a natural-born pianist." 432 00:24:23,418 --> 00:24:25,942 And he... And Dad said, "Yeah, he might be a piano player." 433 00:24:28,379 --> 00:24:30,860 And so, unless there is a difference between a pianist 434 00:24:30,947 --> 00:24:32,949 and a piano player, I don't know. 435 00:24:33,036 --> 00:24:34,734 We're still working on that one. 436 00:24:37,258 --> 00:24:38,825 To go back to my childhood, 437 00:24:38,912 --> 00:24:42,132 well, all the families, like my cousin Mickey, 438 00:24:42,219 --> 00:24:45,484 Jimmy, a whole flock of cousins, 439 00:24:45,571 --> 00:24:48,182 we all played piano and sang and... 440 00:24:48,269 --> 00:24:52,316 but I'm the one that had the piano. 441 00:24:54,057 --> 00:24:56,277 Eventually, they all got a piano. 442 00:24:56,364 --> 00:24:59,672 But they... they never did quite get it. 443 00:24:59,759 --> 00:25:01,804 Mickey, Jerry Lee just told on you, 444 00:25:01,891 --> 00:25:03,676 said that you have been stealing his music 445 00:25:03,763 --> 00:25:05,242 since you were three years old. 446 00:25:05,329 --> 00:25:06,853 No, I didn't say that! 447 00:25:06,940 --> 00:25:08,898 We're going to put the cousins together. 448 00:25:09,464 --> 00:25:12,467 Let's relive the old days in Ferriday, Louisiana. 449 00:25:12,554 --> 00:25:15,122 Here's Jerry and Mickey! 450 00:25:15,209 --> 00:25:16,863 - Thank you. 451 00:25:16,950 --> 00:25:18,429 ♪ What those five foot could do ♪ 452 00:25:18,517 --> 00:25:21,084 ♪ Has anybody seen my girl? ♪ 453 00:25:23,130 --> 00:25:25,524 ♪ Coochie woo, coochie coo ♪ 454 00:25:25,611 --> 00:25:27,526 ♪ Coochie, coochie, coochie woo ♪ 455 00:25:27,613 --> 00:25:30,920 ♪ Has anybody seen my girl? ♪ All right, Jerry. 456 00:25:31,007 --> 00:25:35,011 ♪ Here now, if you run into a five-foot two ♪ 457 00:25:35,098 --> 00:25:37,057 ♪ Covered with fur ♪ 458 00:25:37,144 --> 00:25:39,059 ♪ Diamond rings and all them things ♪ 459 00:25:39,712 --> 00:25:42,018 ♪ Bet your life, Mickey it ain't her ♪ 460 00:25:42,105 --> 00:25:44,368 ♪ Coochie love, coochie woo ♪ 461 00:25:44,455 --> 00:25:46,806 ♪ Coochie, coochie, coochie coo ♪ 462 00:25:46,893 --> 00:25:49,722 ♪ Has anybody seen my girl? ♪ 463 00:25:49,809 --> 00:25:51,245 - ♪ Oh, yeah!♪ - ♪ Yeah!♪ 464 00:25:51,332 --> 00:25:55,597 ♪ Has anybody seen my girl? ♪ 465 00:25:59,427 --> 00:26:00,733 All right! 466 00:26:00,820 --> 00:26:03,083 Mickey's mother, uh, told me, 467 00:26:03,170 --> 00:26:05,259 she said, "Mickey wants a piano." 468 00:26:05,346 --> 00:26:07,653 She said, "Will you teach him how to play it if I get him one?" 469 00:26:07,740 --> 00:26:09,132 I was just beginning to play, myself. 470 00:26:09,219 --> 00:26:10,743 Between Jimmy, Mickey and yourself, 471 00:26:10,830 --> 00:26:12,571 there's not a lot of age difference, is it? 472 00:26:12,658 --> 00:26:14,529 It was just like a few months or something? 473 00:26:14,616 --> 00:26:18,185 - About nine to ten, twelve months. - Is that right? 474 00:26:18,272 --> 00:26:20,056 We all would play and Jimmy was playing 475 00:26:20,143 --> 00:26:22,537 - and we were all playing, you know. - Did you guys have lessons? 476 00:26:22,624 --> 00:26:25,061 - or was this just in you? - No, we just taught ourselves to play. 477 00:26:25,148 --> 00:26:26,846 - You taught yourselves... - Well, actually, it was very easy 478 00:26:26,933 --> 00:26:28,587 for me to pick up because he was already playing. 479 00:26:28,674 --> 00:26:30,980 So every time that Jerry would do something I could watch him. 480 00:26:31,067 --> 00:26:33,548 Who was the most attractive to the girls? 481 00:26:33,635 --> 00:26:35,419 Was it Mickey, or you, Jerry Lee? Or was it Jimmy? 482 00:26:35,506 --> 00:26:36,856 - Had to be Jerry. 483 00:26:36,943 --> 00:26:38,292 He... he got... He got all the girls. 484 00:26:38,379 --> 00:26:39,641 Oh, he did? - Really? 485 00:26:39,728 --> 00:26:41,643 - Played the piano. - Well, I got them at first 486 00:26:41,730 --> 00:26:42,862 and Mickey stole them. 487 00:26:42,949 --> 00:26:44,820 Oh, I see. 488 00:26:44,907 --> 00:26:46,430 He was kind of waiting in the wings. 489 00:26:46,517 --> 00:26:48,345 Yeah. Oh, Jimmy didn't have a chance. 490 00:26:48,432 --> 00:26:49,956 ♪ I could ♪ 491 00:26:51,131 --> 00:26:52,349 ♪ Have fallen ♪ 492 00:26:53,916 --> 00:26:57,964 ♪ My soul cast way down ♪ 493 00:26:58,051 --> 00:26:59,052 Wonderful! 494 00:27:02,490 --> 00:27:05,101 He said, "I'm going to be the biggest thing in the world." 495 00:27:05,188 --> 00:27:07,582 I asked him. I said, "Yeah, yes, Jerry. 496 00:27:07,669 --> 00:27:09,366 "But... but what about your soul?" 497 00:27:09,453 --> 00:27:11,194 ♪ ...is their delight ♪ 498 00:27:11,281 --> 00:27:12,892 "How about your soul?" 499 00:27:12,979 --> 00:27:14,284 ♪ Singin' all night Drinkin' wine ♪ 500 00:27:14,371 --> 00:27:15,982 ♪ Spo-dee-o-dee drinkin' wine ♪ 501 00:27:16,069 --> 00:27:18,680 ♪ Wine spo-dee-o-dee drinkin' wine ♪ 502 00:27:18,767 --> 00:27:20,726 ♪ Wine spo-dee-o-dee drinkin' wine ♪ 503 00:27:20,813 --> 00:27:23,076 ♪ Drinkin' wine pass that bottle to me ♪ 504 00:27:23,163 --> 00:27:24,294 Take one, child. 505 00:27:24,381 --> 00:27:25,426 ♪ Some buys a gallon ♪ 506 00:27:25,513 --> 00:27:26,557 ♪ Some buys a quart ♪ 507 00:27:26,645 --> 00:27:27,820 ♪ When you buy black beer ♪ 508 00:27:27,907 --> 00:27:29,560 ♪ Now you're doin' things smart ♪ 509 00:27:29,648 --> 00:27:31,606 ♪ Kickin' down a window knockin' down doors ♪ 510 00:27:31,693 --> 00:27:33,739 ♪ Drop, drop, drop...♪ 511 00:27:33,826 --> 00:27:36,263 "Drinking Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee," I remember that very well. 512 00:27:37,264 --> 00:27:39,788 Well, I remember my my aunt Minnie Bell Swaggart, 513 00:27:39,875 --> 00:27:43,313 Jimmy's mother, she got on me about that song. 514 00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:45,576 She said, "Now, Jerry, that's not a Christian song." 515 00:27:46,447 --> 00:27:49,668 I said, "I don't... I don't know. I think it's a good song." 516 00:27:49,755 --> 00:27:51,844 Aunt Minnie bursts in that it's not a Christian song. 517 00:27:51,931 --> 00:27:54,673 I said, "No, but it's a good boogie woogie song." 518 00:27:54,760 --> 00:27:56,283 - ♪ Drinkin' wine ♪ - ♪ Oh, boy ♪ 519 00:27:56,370 --> 00:27:57,980 ♪ Pass that bottle to me ♪ 520 00:27:59,503 --> 00:28:00,853 ♪ Yeah ♪ 521 00:28:02,289 --> 00:28:04,639 We've always been close with family 522 00:28:05,292 --> 00:28:07,816 and Mickey is my first cousin. Jimmy is my first cousin. 523 00:28:09,035 --> 00:28:10,558 I'm their first cousin. 524 00:28:10,645 --> 00:28:12,125 yeah. 525 00:28:12,212 --> 00:28:14,301 I had so many first cousins, I had to marry one of 'em. 526 00:28:14,388 --> 00:28:16,216 Oh, no. 527 00:28:18,348 --> 00:28:20,089 ♪ My name is Jerry Lee Lewis ♪ 528 00:28:20,176 --> 00:28:22,439 ♪ I come from Ferriday, Louisiana ♪ 529 00:28:22,526 --> 00:28:24,485 ♪ I'm gonna do you a little boogie on this here piano ♪ 530 00:28:24,572 --> 00:28:26,400 ♪ Doing mighty fine I'm gonna make you shake it ♪ 531 00:28:26,487 --> 00:28:27,967 ♪ I'll make you do it and make you do it ♪ 532 00:28:28,054 --> 00:28:29,708 ♪ Do it, do it until you break it ♪ 533 00:28:29,795 --> 00:28:32,580 ♪ It's called the Lewis boogie The Lewis way ♪ 534 00:28:32,667 --> 00:28:34,930 ♪ I like to do my boogie woogie every day ♪ 535 00:28:49,162 --> 00:28:50,424 Now come on, Jimmy... 536 00:29:03,567 --> 00:29:05,961 Baby, get 'em! 537 00:29:11,140 --> 00:29:14,535 I mean, I love Jerry because I think he's... he's the best talent in the family. 538 00:29:14,622 --> 00:29:16,232 I've stated that for years. 539 00:29:16,319 --> 00:29:17,756 I still think so. 540 00:29:17,843 --> 00:29:19,670 He's never felt any different. 541 00:29:20,933 --> 00:29:22,935 ♪ Well, down in New Orleans the land of dreams ♪ 542 00:29:23,022 --> 00:29:25,372 ♪ The best doggone place, son you have ever seen ♪ 543 00:29:25,459 --> 00:29:27,896 ♪ The cats go wild do a boogie that's hot ♪ 544 00:29:27,983 --> 00:29:30,420 ♪ My boogie woogie makes you want to stop and do the bop ♪ 545 00:29:30,507 --> 00:29:32,945 ♪ It's called the Lewis boogie The Lewis way ♪ 546 00:29:33,032 --> 00:29:35,861 ♪ I like to do my boogie woogie every day, yeah ♪ 547 00:29:47,611 --> 00:29:49,831 ♪ Yeah! All right!♪ 548 00:29:58,144 --> 00:29:59,188 ♪ All right! ♪ 549 00:29:59,275 --> 00:30:01,974 ♪ Lewis boogie, Lewis way ♪ 550 00:30:02,061 --> 00:30:04,715 ♪ Me and Mickey do a boogie every day ♪ 551 00:30:10,634 --> 00:30:12,767 A lot of people that see you on stage 552 00:30:12,854 --> 00:30:14,943 think you're completely out of control. 553 00:30:15,030 --> 00:30:17,250 Are you ever out of control when you're on stage? 554 00:30:17,946 --> 00:30:21,080 I would never think that I would be out of control. 555 00:30:21,167 --> 00:30:22,559 But you're pretty active on stage. 556 00:30:22,646 --> 00:30:24,474 That's why people, I guess, have that impression. 557 00:30:24,561 --> 00:30:27,260 Probably so, killer. Yeah, I was pretty active on stage. 558 00:30:27,347 --> 00:30:29,697 I had to be. You had a lot of competition, to fight. 559 00:30:29,784 --> 00:30:32,091 You know, Elvis Presley up there, jumping all over the place. 560 00:30:32,178 --> 00:30:34,441 Little Richard jumping all over pianos and everything. 561 00:30:34,528 --> 00:30:37,444 So I needed to do something. So I just kicked my piano stool back. 562 00:30:37,531 --> 00:30:39,663 Are you ready? 563 00:30:39,750 --> 00:30:41,665 Well, let's go one time then. 564 00:30:42,928 --> 00:30:46,192 - ♪ Baby, shake it ♪ 565 00:30:46,932 --> 00:30:49,151 ♪ A whole lotta shakin' goin' on ♪ 566 00:30:49,238 --> 00:30:50,849 ♪ All right, all right ♪ 567 00:30:55,288 --> 00:30:57,812 ♪ I said shake, baby, shake ♪ 568 00:30:57,899 --> 00:31:00,336 ♪ Shake it, baby, shake it ♪ 569 00:31:00,423 --> 00:31:02,512 ♪ Move it, baby, move it ♪ 570 00:31:02,599 --> 00:31:05,951 ♪ Move Honey, I ain't fakin' ♪ 571 00:31:06,038 --> 00:31:09,780 ♪ A whole lotta shakin' goin' on ♪ 572 00:31:09,868 --> 00:31:14,568 The fans are so loyal, and I love them very much. 573 00:31:15,569 --> 00:31:17,876 And when I do a show for 'em, I work. 574 00:31:23,707 --> 00:31:25,100 ♪ Yeah ♪ 575 00:31:25,187 --> 00:31:28,234 They know when they come to see Jerry Lee Lewis, 576 00:31:28,321 --> 00:31:31,498 and they pay to get in the door that they are going to see a show. 577 00:31:31,585 --> 00:31:33,587 ♪ Shake it, baby, shake it ♪ 578 00:31:33,674 --> 00:31:35,894 ♪ Come on, do the shake baby, shake ♪ 579 00:31:36,677 --> 00:31:38,374 ♪ We ain't gonna let it break ♪ 580 00:31:38,461 --> 00:31:40,246 Sitting there playing. I was good. 581 00:31:40,333 --> 00:31:41,638 I was going great enough. 582 00:31:41,725 --> 00:31:43,684 ♪ Come on, come on ♪ 583 00:31:43,771 --> 00:31:45,468 There had to be some more excitement, 584 00:31:45,555 --> 00:31:47,514 the more we added to it, you know? 585 00:31:47,601 --> 00:31:50,299 A little kicking the stool back was... was good. 586 00:31:50,386 --> 00:31:53,085 Jumping up on the piano was something... that was the deal. 587 00:31:56,088 --> 00:31:57,567 When I was really young, hop upon it. 588 00:31:58,394 --> 00:32:00,570 ♪ Oh, do the shake ♪ 589 00:32:00,657 --> 00:32:02,529 ♪ Baby, shake ♪ 590 00:32:02,616 --> 00:32:04,226 ♪ Shake, baby, shake ♪ 591 00:32:04,966 --> 00:32:06,837 ♪ Shake, baby, let it shake ♪ 592 00:32:07,664 --> 00:32:09,405 ♪ Shake, make it shake ♪ 593 00:32:10,145 --> 00:32:12,147 ♪ Come on, come on ♪ 594 00:32:12,931 --> 00:32:14,758 ♪ Yeah, yeah ♪ 595 00:32:15,455 --> 00:32:17,979 ♪ Shake, baby, shake ♪ 596 00:32:18,066 --> 00:32:19,720 ♪ Shake, baby, shake ♪ 597 00:32:19,807 --> 00:32:21,069 I don't try that today, 598 00:32:21,852 --> 00:32:24,594 but I might give it another shot before I die. I don't know. 599 00:32:25,856 --> 00:32:27,989 ♪ Come on, come on ♪ 600 00:32:28,816 --> 00:32:31,645 I think I was caught up in music when I was born. 601 00:32:32,254 --> 00:32:33,647 I heard music in church. 602 00:32:33,734 --> 00:32:35,954 I heard music on street corners. 603 00:32:36,041 --> 00:32:38,608 Um, I heard these people 604 00:32:39,218 --> 00:32:41,394 struttin' around Ferriday, Louisiana, 605 00:32:42,047 --> 00:32:44,440 on, uh, street corners, just picking the blues 606 00:32:44,527 --> 00:32:46,051 on little guitars, you know. 607 00:32:46,834 --> 00:32:48,662 Uh, they were colored people 608 00:32:48,749 --> 00:32:53,319 and they were... laying something down I liked. 609 00:32:53,406 --> 00:32:56,539 I don't... I didn't know what it was, but I knew it was good. 610 00:32:56,626 --> 00:32:59,499 And I had to get involved with it. I knew that. 611 00:32:59,586 --> 00:33:01,936 Ain't as big a house. It was a pretty large place. 612 00:33:02,023 --> 00:33:03,982 It was right on Main Street of Ferriday, 613 00:33:04,069 --> 00:33:05,505 going out through color town. 614 00:33:06,245 --> 00:33:08,812 And they always came in on those big buses, you know? 615 00:33:09,465 --> 00:33:11,467 And I could tell when one was coming into town, 616 00:33:11,554 --> 00:33:13,513 and he would have a... a big name, 617 00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:16,255 and he had all the... the great blues singers that come through there, 618 00:33:16,342 --> 00:33:20,433 one more at a time or another, you know, and I... I never missed one of them. 619 00:33:20,520 --> 00:33:23,044 I could sneak in there through a window or something. 620 00:33:23,131 --> 00:33:25,742 Mr. Haney himself was a big colored man. 621 00:33:25,829 --> 00:33:28,484 He was a great big man, bigger as a door. 622 00:33:28,571 --> 00:33:32,227 And he could just pick you up, and throw you like a football if he wanted to, you know, 623 00:33:33,228 --> 00:33:35,796 He caught me in there a few times and put me out. 624 00:33:35,883 --> 00:33:39,974 He said, "Boy, if your uncle Lee Calhoun caught you in here, 625 00:33:40,061 --> 00:33:42,716 your mama or daddy caught you, they'd kill me. 626 00:33:42,803 --> 00:33:44,544 And I'd sneak back in again. 627 00:33:44,631 --> 00:33:46,589 And that's where the rhythm and blues 628 00:33:46,676 --> 00:33:49,897 and the gut bucket blues and the dancing 629 00:33:50,550 --> 00:33:53,031 and the rock and roll came, and that's where it come from. 630 00:33:53,118 --> 00:33:55,120 And I knew that's where it was coming from. 631 00:33:55,207 --> 00:33:56,817 Well, that was my side of the fence, 632 00:33:56,904 --> 00:33:59,820 and it was either Haney's big house or at my house. 633 00:34:01,213 --> 00:34:04,825 That's about the way it was. 634 00:34:04,912 --> 00:34:10,004 Well, I kind of... I wanted... And I know this must sound stupid to a lot of people, 635 00:34:10,613 --> 00:34:14,182 but it would kind of be like at that time, looking back, 636 00:34:14,269 --> 00:34:16,097 it would kind of be like strolling through heaven. 637 00:34:17,881 --> 00:34:19,709 Walking by Haney's big house. 638 00:34:21,537 --> 00:34:25,280 Hearing BB King picking the blues. 639 00:34:25,367 --> 00:34:28,022 A guitar coming out, and singing those blues 640 00:34:28,109 --> 00:34:30,372 and a drummer wailing behind him. 641 00:34:31,504 --> 00:34:34,463 An old, big stand-up bass, getting on with the program, you know. 642 00:34:35,160 --> 00:34:38,511 To me as a man, that's... that's music. 643 00:34:39,947 --> 00:34:42,428 I shaped myself around that. 644 00:34:42,515 --> 00:34:44,212 That's... that's me. 645 00:34:44,299 --> 00:34:46,084 That's got to be me right there. 646 00:34:46,171 --> 00:34:49,609 The Killer, Mr. Jerry Lee Lewis! 647 00:34:57,660 --> 00:35:01,142 Okay, I thought it was Wednesday. 648 00:35:01,229 --> 00:35:02,839 I thought we were off tonight. 649 00:35:06,887 --> 00:35:10,499 ♪ Well, you can't be my lovin' baby ♪ 650 00:35:10,586 --> 00:35:12,414 ♪ You ain't got the style ♪ 651 00:35:13,198 --> 00:35:15,765 ♪ I'm a-gonna get me some real gone love ♪ 652 00:35:15,852 --> 00:35:18,333 ♪ That'll drive a cool cat wild ♪ 653 00:35:18,420 --> 00:35:19,465 ♪ I wanna move ♪ 654 00:35:20,118 --> 00:35:22,598 ♪ Move on down the line ♪ 655 00:35:23,991 --> 00:35:25,732 ♪ I'm a-gonna get some little lovin' ♪ 656 00:35:25,819 --> 00:35:27,951 ♪ I wanna do it do it all the time ♪ 657 00:35:28,038 --> 00:35:29,083 Oh! 658 00:36:00,419 --> 00:36:03,552 ♪ Yeah, I'm gonna show you ain't so hot ♪ 659 00:36:03,639 --> 00:36:05,946 ♪ I'm gonna get something that you ain't got ♪ 660 00:36:06,033 --> 00:36:08,905 ♪ She's gonna be sweet, she won't do me wrong ♪ 661 00:36:08,992 --> 00:36:11,299 ♪ Lay it down baby, do it all night long ♪ 662 00:36:11,386 --> 00:36:14,781 ♪ Move, move on down the line ♪ 663 00:36:15,738 --> 00:36:20,395 ♪ Boogie woogie time baby Rockin', rollin' all the time ♪ 664 00:36:20,482 --> 00:36:22,180 ♪ Yeah, boy ♪ 665 00:36:35,671 --> 00:36:39,327 ♪ Well, I wanna move on down the line ♪ 666 00:36:39,414 --> 00:36:41,982 ♪ I'm gonna get me a gal truly fine ♪ 667 00:36:42,069 --> 00:36:44,289 ♪ She can't be square she can't be slow ♪ 668 00:36:44,376 --> 00:36:45,942 ♪ And when she starts a-struttin' you know ♪ 669 00:36:46,029 --> 00:36:47,857 ♪ She's gotta go, I'm gonna move ♪ 670 00:36:47,944 --> 00:36:50,251 ♪ Move on down the line ♪ 671 00:36:51,774 --> 00:36:53,123 ♪ I'd love to do it ♪ 672 00:36:53,211 --> 00:36:55,256 ♪ All the time ♪ 673 00:36:56,910 --> 00:36:57,911 ♪ Oh! ♪ 674 00:36:58,694 --> 00:37:01,871 ♪ Well, you can't be my lovin' baby ♪ 675 00:37:01,958 --> 00:37:03,743 ♪ You ain't got the style ♪ 676 00:37:04,657 --> 00:37:07,442 ♪ I'm a-gonna get some real gone love ♪ 677 00:37:07,529 --> 00:37:10,053 ♪ I'm gonna drive a cool cat wild ♪ 678 00:37:10,140 --> 00:37:11,359 ♪ I wanna move ♪ 679 00:37:11,446 --> 00:37:13,143 ♪ Move, move, move ♪ 680 00:37:13,231 --> 00:37:14,449 ♪ Move on down the line ♪ 681 00:37:14,536 --> 00:37:16,930 ♪ Move, move down the line ♪ 682 00:37:17,017 --> 00:37:20,586 ♪ I'm gonna get a little lovin' and it's gonna be all so fine ♪ 683 00:37:20,673 --> 00:37:21,935 - ♪ Move ♪ - ♪ Sing it, Tom ♪ 684 00:37:22,022 --> 00:37:24,764 ♪ Well, I'm gonna move on ♪ 685 00:37:24,851 --> 00:37:26,374 - ♪ Down the line ♪ - ♪ Yeah ♪ 686 00:37:26,461 --> 00:37:29,551 ♪ Get some love gonna make some time ♪ 687 00:37:29,638 --> 00:37:32,554 ♪ She'll be sweet won't do me wrong ♪ 688 00:37:32,641 --> 00:37:35,427 ♪ She'll be cool and twice as gone ♪ 689 00:37:35,514 --> 00:37:36,776 - ♪ Move ♪ - ♪ Move it, baby ♪ 690 00:37:36,863 --> 00:37:38,734 ♪ Movin' on down the line ♪ 691 00:37:38,821 --> 00:37:40,823 - ♪ Gotta move on down ♪ - ♪ Yeah ♪ 692 00:37:40,910 --> 00:37:42,999 ♪ Well, I'm gonna do right ♪ 693 00:37:43,086 --> 00:37:45,175 ♪ Do right all the time ♪ 694 00:37:45,263 --> 00:37:47,090 ♪ Yeah ♪ 695 00:37:47,177 --> 00:37:49,267 ♪ I wanna do right ♪ 696 00:37:49,354 --> 00:37:54,837 ♪ Do right all the time ♪ 697 00:37:56,535 --> 00:37:57,840 ♪ Yeah! ♪ 698 00:38:02,018 --> 00:38:04,804 ♪ Gonna tell Aunt Mary 'bout Uncle John ♪ 699 00:38:04,891 --> 00:38:08,503 ♪ He claim he has the misery but he's havin' a lot of fun ♪ 700 00:38:08,590 --> 00:38:11,027 - ♪ Yeah, baby ♪ - ♪ Whoo ♪ 701 00:38:11,114 --> 00:38:13,813 ♪ Oh, baby! ♪ 702 00:38:13,900 --> 00:38:17,512 - ♪ Lotta lovin' tonight ♪ - ♪ Yeah! ♪ 703 00:38:17,599 --> 00:38:20,123 ♪ Well, long tall Sally, you know she's built for speed ♪ 704 00:38:20,210 --> 00:38:22,735 - ♪ She's got... ♪ - ♪ Everything that Jimmy Lee needs ♪ 705 00:38:22,822 --> 00:38:24,606 ♪ Oh, baby ♪ 706 00:38:24,693 --> 00:38:26,695 There's some good church singing from the Bible. 707 00:38:27,653 --> 00:38:30,525 And I was caught up in that real heavily too. 708 00:38:31,178 --> 00:38:34,181 I loved it. I learned a lot from the Pentecostal Church. 709 00:38:40,666 --> 00:38:42,581 My church down in Louisiana, a little small 710 00:38:42,668 --> 00:38:45,497 Assembly of God church, they sang. 711 00:38:45,584 --> 00:38:48,456 ♪ Well, I saw Uncle John with bald-headed Sally ♪ 712 00:38:48,543 --> 00:38:50,937 ♪ He saw Aunt Mary coming and he ducked back in the alley ♪ 713 00:38:51,024 --> 00:38:52,591 The spirit rose up, it was good. 714 00:38:52,678 --> 00:38:54,462 ♪ Come on, baby ♪ 715 00:38:54,549 --> 00:38:58,074 ♪ Ooh, honey ♪ 716 00:38:58,161 --> 00:38:59,946 I just love that style of music. 717 00:39:00,033 --> 00:39:02,035 People are just into it. 718 00:39:02,122 --> 00:39:03,819 And always will be good. 719 00:39:03,906 --> 00:39:06,431 ♪ We're gonna have some fun tonight ♪ 720 00:39:06,518 --> 00:39:08,868 ♪ Havin' me some fun tonight ♪ 721 00:39:08,955 --> 00:39:10,783 ♪ Everything'll be all right ♪ 722 00:39:10,870 --> 00:39:13,394 ♪ Oh, we're gonna have some fun ♪ 723 00:39:22,664 --> 00:39:25,972 ♪ When the shadows of this ol' life are gone ♪ 724 00:39:26,059 --> 00:39:29,802 ♪ Jerry Lee Lewis will fly away ♪ 725 00:39:29,889 --> 00:39:31,673 ♪ Just like a bird ♪ 726 00:39:31,760 --> 00:39:33,893 ♪ From prison bars has flown ♪ 727 00:39:33,980 --> 00:39:37,810 ♪ Soon I'm going to fly away ♪ 728 00:39:37,897 --> 00:39:39,942 ♪ I will ♪ 729 00:39:40,029 --> 00:39:43,555 - ♪ Fly away ♪ - ♪ Oh, glory, I ♪ 730 00:39:43,642 --> 00:39:45,600 ♪ I'll fly away ♪ 731 00:39:45,687 --> 00:39:48,081 ♪ When I die ♪ 732 00:39:48,168 --> 00:39:50,562 ♪ Hallelujah, by and by ♪ 733 00:39:50,649 --> 00:39:53,739 ♪ I'll fly away ♪ 734 00:39:54,653 --> 00:39:56,698 ♪ Just a few more ♪ 735 00:39:56,785 --> 00:39:58,526 ♪ Weary days and then, Lord ♪ 736 00:39:58,613 --> 00:40:02,530 ♪ I'll fly away ♪ 737 00:40:02,617 --> 00:40:04,358 ♪ To a land ♪ 738 00:40:04,445 --> 00:40:06,708 ♪ Where joy would never end ♪ 739 00:40:06,795 --> 00:40:09,668 ♪ I'll fly away ♪ 740 00:40:09,755 --> 00:40:11,104 ♪ Yeah! ♪ 741 00:40:11,191 --> 00:40:16,109 ♪ I'll fly away Oh glory, I ♪ 742 00:40:16,196 --> 00:40:18,154 ♪ I'll fly away ♪ 743 00:40:18,241 --> 00:40:20,635 ♪ When I die ♪ 744 00:40:20,722 --> 00:40:22,898 ♪ Hallelujah, bye and bye ♪ 745 00:40:22,985 --> 00:40:26,162 ♪ I'll fly away ♪ 746 00:40:26,859 --> 00:40:28,948 ♪ Well, some glad morning ♪ 747 00:40:29,035 --> 00:40:30,993 ♪ When this life is o'er ♪ 748 00:40:31,080 --> 00:40:32,299 ♪ I'll...♪ ♪ 749 00:40:32,386 --> 00:40:34,736 Jerry Lee Lewis surviving success. 750 00:40:34,823 --> 00:40:36,825 And I just thank God. 751 00:40:36,912 --> 00:40:39,262 I'm so glad and thank Jesus that he had held on, 752 00:40:39,349 --> 00:40:41,134 and he has been through a lot. 753 00:40:41,221 --> 00:40:43,136 But God's going to take him through all of it. 754 00:40:43,223 --> 00:40:46,182 ♪ Oh, I'll fly away ♪ 755 00:40:46,269 --> 00:40:49,098 ♪ Oh, glory, I ♪ 756 00:40:49,185 --> 00:40:51,057 ♪ I'll fly away ♪ 757 00:40:51,666 --> 00:40:53,363 ♪ When I die ♪ 758 00:40:53,451 --> 00:40:55,627 ♪ Hallelujah, by and by ♪ 759 00:40:55,714 --> 00:41:00,458 ♪ I'll fly ♪ 760 00:41:01,110 --> 00:41:06,507 ♪ Fly away ♪ 761 00:41:11,207 --> 00:41:14,472 I was told you were in Bible college or Bible school, at one time. 762 00:41:14,559 --> 00:41:15,951 - Is that... - Yes, Bible college, you're right. 763 00:41:16,038 --> 00:41:18,824 I... I was in Bible college for a couple of years 764 00:41:18,911 --> 00:41:21,914 and, uh, in chapel one morning, 765 00:41:22,001 --> 00:41:26,832 this little, young preacher wanted me to back him up on piano 766 00:41:26,919 --> 00:41:30,226 - while he sang "My God Is Real." And he... - Mmm-hmm. 767 00:41:30,313 --> 00:41:32,577 You know, he done it, he done like he says, uh, 768 00:41:32,664 --> 00:41:34,666 uh, he said... 769 00:41:34,753 --> 00:41:37,756 ♪ There are some things ♪ 770 00:41:37,843 --> 00:41:40,933 - ♪ I may not know ♪ 771 00:41:41,020 --> 00:41:42,935 I said, "whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, son. 772 00:41:43,022 --> 00:41:44,502 -"Just a minute," you know. - Mm-hmm. 773 00:41:44,589 --> 00:41:46,895 I said, "You want the song to go over with the people, 774 00:41:46,982 --> 00:41:48,984 "you want to really be heard by God and everybody?" 775 00:41:49,681 --> 00:41:50,943 He said, "Uh, sure." 776 00:41:51,030 --> 00:41:52,510 I said, "Well, do it like this here." 777 00:41:53,511 --> 00:41:56,296 - ♪ There are some things ♪ 778 00:41:56,383 --> 00:41:59,821 - ♪ I may not know ♪ 779 00:41:59,908 --> 00:42:03,390 Well, he did it and it brought the house down and I got kicked out of school. 780 00:42:03,477 --> 00:42:06,567 Jerry Lee Lewis, this is the first time we've seen you here with a beard. 781 00:42:06,654 --> 00:42:09,483 And I believe you're growing it for a purpose, right? 782 00:42:09,570 --> 00:42:12,007 Well, you got into that quick, didn't you? 783 00:42:13,879 --> 00:42:15,620 Yes, I'm growing the beard for a movie. 784 00:42:16,969 --> 00:42:19,275 - What's it about? - The name of the movie is The Carpenter. 785 00:42:19,841 --> 00:42:22,540 And I know this is going to shock a lot of folks. 786 00:42:22,627 --> 00:42:27,370 But I'm doing the story of Christ. 787 00:42:28,328 --> 00:42:30,069 I always knew right from wrong. 788 00:42:30,156 --> 00:42:33,812 And, yeah, I've done a little testifying in church before. 789 00:42:35,857 --> 00:42:38,207 I don't claim to be a real Christian person. 790 00:42:38,294 --> 00:42:41,080 I... I'm a Christian-minded person, Richard, but... 791 00:42:44,866 --> 00:42:47,869 ♪ I can hear ♪ 792 00:42:49,915 --> 00:42:55,181 ♪ My Savior calling ♪ 793 00:42:59,315 --> 00:43:03,798 ♪ I can hear ♪ 794 00:43:03,885 --> 00:43:08,847 ♪ My Savior calling ♪ 795 00:43:12,981 --> 00:43:15,244 ♪ I can hear ♪ 796 00:43:17,638 --> 00:43:23,557 ♪ My savior calling ♪ 797 00:43:27,430 --> 00:43:28,693 ♪ Take thy cross ♪ 798 00:43:31,478 --> 00:43:35,047 ♪ And follow ♪ 799 00:43:35,134 --> 00:43:40,269 ♪ Follow me ♪ 800 00:43:40,356 --> 00:43:42,576 You can do good, Mr. Phillips, don't get me wrong. 801 00:43:42,663 --> 00:43:44,970 Wait a minute. Now, when I say do good... 802 00:43:45,057 --> 00:43:46,798 You can have a kind heart. 803 00:43:46,885 --> 00:43:48,974 I don't mean. I don't... 804 00:43:49,061 --> 00:43:51,629 You can help people. You can save souls. 805 00:43:51,716 --> 00:43:53,500 ♪ Through the garden ♪ 806 00:43:53,587 --> 00:43:57,939 ♪ 'Cause I will ♪ 807 00:43:58,026 --> 00:44:01,813 ♪ I'll go with ♪ 808 00:44:01,900 --> 00:44:05,468 ♪ Him through ♪ 809 00:44:05,555 --> 00:44:07,122 ♪ The garden ♪ 810 00:44:07,209 --> 00:44:09,255 When you listen, when you think, 811 00:44:09,342 --> 00:44:12,258 that you can't do good, with rock and roll... 812 00:44:12,345 --> 00:44:14,303 No. No! No, no. 813 00:44:14,390 --> 00:44:16,392 Yes. 814 00:44:16,479 --> 00:44:19,918 How can the-- how can the devil save souls? 815 00:44:20,005 --> 00:44:21,615 What are you talking about? 816 00:44:21,702 --> 00:44:23,573 Man, I have the devil in me! 817 00:44:23,661 --> 00:44:25,314 If I didn't have, I'd be a Christian! 818 00:44:25,401 --> 00:44:27,752 ♪ I'll go with with him ♪ 819 00:44:29,754 --> 00:44:31,930 H... E... L... L... 820 00:44:32,017 --> 00:44:33,322 Now look, Jerry. 821 00:44:33,409 --> 00:44:37,500 ♪ I'll go with... ♪ 822 00:44:37,587 --> 00:44:40,025 Religious conviction... 823 00:44:40,112 --> 00:44:43,028 doesn't mean anything resembling extremism. 824 00:44:43,115 --> 00:44:48,294 ♪ Where He leads me... ♪ 825 00:44:48,381 --> 00:44:50,209 Are you following those that heal? 826 00:44:50,905 --> 00:44:53,255 - Like Jesus Christ did? What? 827 00:44:53,342 --> 00:44:55,431 Well, it's happening every day. What do you mean? 828 00:44:55,518 --> 00:44:57,738 The blinded eyes were opened. Jerry. 829 00:44:57,825 --> 00:45:00,654 The lame were made to walk. Jesus Christ... 830 00:45:00,741 --> 00:45:02,612 The crippled were made to walk. 831 00:45:02,700 --> 00:45:04,702 But when it comes to worldly music, 832 00:45:04,789 --> 00:45:06,747 - rock and roll... Cut it out! 833 00:45:06,834 --> 00:45:09,532 ...anything like that, you're still a sinner. 834 00:45:09,619 --> 00:45:11,665 ♪ Where He leads... ♪ 835 00:45:11,752 --> 00:45:14,929 And then you're a sinner and unless you been saved and born again 836 00:45:15,625 --> 00:45:18,237 and be made as a little child... 837 00:45:18,324 --> 00:45:20,630 and walk before God and be holy, 838 00:45:20,718 --> 00:45:23,329 and, brother, I mean, you got to be so pure... 839 00:45:23,416 --> 00:45:26,506 you got to walk and talk with God to go to heaven. 840 00:45:26,593 --> 00:45:29,509 - You got to be so good in His presence. Hallelujah. 841 00:45:29,596 --> 00:45:31,206 All right. You're right. 842 00:45:31,293 --> 00:45:33,252 It's what's written in the Bible. 843 00:45:33,339 --> 00:45:35,384 Big china mighty "Great Balls of Fire." 844 00:45:35,471 --> 00:45:39,998 ♪ Go with... ♪ 845 00:45:50,660 --> 00:45:52,358 I just signed the contract for it. 846 00:45:52,445 --> 00:45:54,055 That's why I'm growing the beard. 847 00:45:56,188 --> 00:45:58,886 Next up from our affiliate WSM TV in Nashville, Tennessee, 848 00:45:58,973 --> 00:46:02,411 Mr. Jerry Lee Lewis, who in June of this year was rushed to a Memphis hospital 849 00:46:02,498 --> 00:46:05,414 with a ruptured stomach, he had two emergency operations, 850 00:46:05,501 --> 00:46:08,069 and doctors gave him a slim chance of survival. 851 00:46:08,156 --> 00:46:10,115 He remained in intensive care for over two months, 852 00:46:10,202 --> 00:46:12,160 - and now he says The Killer is back. ...Almost died. 853 00:46:12,247 --> 00:46:14,075 - He is here tonight... - He was rushed to this hospital 854 00:46:14,162 --> 00:46:16,077 late one night with a perforated stomach. 855 00:46:16,164 --> 00:46:17,426 They still don't know what caused that. 856 00:46:17,513 --> 00:46:19,298 We started getting hit records. 857 00:46:19,385 --> 00:46:21,735 Or not necessarily the hit records, 858 00:46:21,822 --> 00:46:24,869 but once we built up a good circuit, was making good money. 859 00:46:24,956 --> 00:46:27,219 That's when Jerry started drinking again. 860 00:46:27,306 --> 00:46:30,265 For the next several days, it didn't appear Jerry Lee Lewis would live. 861 00:46:31,179 --> 00:46:34,443 Two difficult operations. Two months in intensive care. 862 00:46:34,530 --> 00:46:37,403 Jerry Lee, you look fine, but you appear to have lost 863 00:46:37,490 --> 00:46:39,187 some weight from the last time we met. 864 00:46:39,274 --> 00:46:41,450 Has that been one of the... the results of this whole thing? 865 00:46:41,537 --> 00:46:44,149 Yes, Tom, I would imagine about 40 pounds. 866 00:46:44,236 --> 00:46:46,978 I guess I took enough pills for the whole town. 867 00:46:47,065 --> 00:46:49,589 Drank enough whiskey to lift any ship off the ground. 868 00:46:49,676 --> 00:46:52,200 I used to drink a fifth of tequila to sober up on. 869 00:46:52,287 --> 00:46:54,333 I drank two and three fifths of whiskey a day 870 00:46:54,420 --> 00:46:55,856 and a fifth of tequila to sober up and do my show. 871 00:46:55,943 --> 00:46:58,032 But what'd the doc say to you, Jerry? 872 00:46:58,119 --> 00:47:00,165 I'm assuming that he discussed the surgery with you before the fact. 873 00:47:00,252 --> 00:47:03,559 Did he go through the... What's that in your hand there? A cigar? 874 00:47:03,646 --> 00:47:05,953 One, two. A-one, two, three, four. 875 00:47:08,173 --> 00:47:09,261 ♪ Oh! ♪ 876 00:47:10,697 --> 00:47:13,700 ♪ Well, busted flat in Baton Rouge ♪ 877 00:47:13,787 --> 00:47:15,310 ♪ Waiting for the train ♪ 878 00:47:16,268 --> 00:47:20,620 ♪ Feelin' nearly faded as my jeans ♪ 879 00:47:20,707 --> 00:47:23,623 ♪ Ol' Bobby thumbed the diesel down ♪ 880 00:47:23,710 --> 00:47:25,755 ♪ Just before it rained ♪ 881 00:47:25,843 --> 00:47:28,976 ♪ Lord, it took us all the way to New Orleans ♪ 882 00:47:31,196 --> 00:47:36,070 ♪ I pulled my old harpoon out of my dirty red bandanna ♪ 883 00:47:36,157 --> 00:47:40,945 ♪ Blowing low while Bobby sang the blues ♪ 884 00:47:41,032 --> 00:47:44,078 ♪ With them windshield wipers slappin' time ♪ 885 00:47:44,165 --> 00:47:46,602 ♪ Bobby holding hand in mine ♪ 886 00:47:46,689 --> 00:47:50,693 ♪ We finally sang up every song that driver knew ♪ ♪ 887 00:47:50,780 --> 00:47:52,826 The demons that live in Jerry 888 00:47:52,913 --> 00:47:54,610 are in his mind. 889 00:47:54,697 --> 00:47:56,830 They torment him constantly. 890 00:47:56,917 --> 00:47:58,614 Jerry is daily reminded 891 00:47:58,701 --> 00:48:01,356 by his own conscience, of his shortcomings. 892 00:48:01,443 --> 00:48:03,968 ♪ Feelin' good was easy, Lord ♪ 893 00:48:04,055 --> 00:48:05,795 ♪ When Bobby sang the blues ♪ 894 00:48:05,883 --> 00:48:09,190 Jerry feels like he was put here and given his talent 895 00:48:09,277 --> 00:48:11,845 not to raise hell and do what he does. 896 00:48:11,932 --> 00:48:16,371 He feels like he was given his talent to use, and to be a preacher. 897 00:48:16,458 --> 00:48:19,157 ♪ Oh! ♪ 898 00:48:19,244 --> 00:48:21,420 ♪ From the coal mines of Kentucky ♪ 899 00:48:21,507 --> 00:48:23,683 ♪ To the California sun ♪ 900 00:48:24,423 --> 00:48:27,382 ♪ Bobby shared the secrets of my soul ♪ 901 00:48:27,469 --> 00:48:29,558 I don't even believe in religion-- 902 00:48:29,645 --> 00:48:32,039 the Bible don't even speak-- the word is not, "religion" 903 00:48:32,126 --> 00:48:33,649 is not even in the Bible. 904 00:48:33,736 --> 00:48:35,477 Salvation. 905 00:48:35,564 --> 00:48:37,218 ♪ ...kept me from the cold ♪ 906 00:48:37,305 --> 00:48:39,220 Are you sanctified, brother? 907 00:48:41,744 --> 00:48:44,312 ♪ Lord, I let her slip away ♪ 908 00:48:44,399 --> 00:48:47,620 ♪ Looking for the home I hope she'll find ♪ 909 00:48:47,707 --> 00:48:51,406 Do you think you're a Christian or going to hell or what? 910 00:48:51,493 --> 00:48:54,148 ♪ On one single yesterday ♪ 911 00:48:54,235 --> 00:48:55,758 I think we're both in trouble. 912 00:48:55,845 --> 00:48:57,935 ♪ Holding Bobby's body close to mine ♪ 913 00:48:58,022 --> 00:48:59,893 ♪ Oh!♪ 914 00:48:59,980 --> 00:49:03,592 ♪ Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose ♪ 915 00:49:03,679 --> 00:49:06,944 In situations like that, men have been known to turn to drugs, 916 00:49:07,031 --> 00:49:10,034 alcohol, anything to feed these demons and keep them quiet. 917 00:49:10,121 --> 00:49:13,298 ♪ ...please the Lord Bobby sang the blues ♪ 918 00:49:14,429 --> 00:49:18,694 ♪ Buddy, that was good enough for Jerry Lee ♪ 919 00:49:18,781 --> 00:49:21,175 Talk about those demons. 920 00:49:21,262 --> 00:49:23,395 He shot his bass player because... 921 00:49:23,482 --> 00:49:26,485 I'm not certain why he shot his bass player, to be honest with you. 922 00:49:26,572 --> 00:49:28,922 I just... I know he did shoot his bass player. 923 00:49:29,009 --> 00:49:30,271 ♪ Good enough for me ♪ 924 00:49:30,358 --> 00:49:31,881 - Shot him in the chest. - Right. 925 00:49:33,274 --> 00:49:34,580 Now, Jerry says that he didn't. 926 00:49:34,667 --> 00:49:36,277 He did not mean to shoot him. 927 00:49:36,364 --> 00:49:37,670 He was shooting at a Coke bottle. 928 00:49:37,757 --> 00:49:39,454 ♪ Yeah ♪ 929 00:49:39,541 --> 00:49:41,761 ♪ Good enough for me and Bobby McGee ♪ 930 00:49:41,848 --> 00:49:44,329 ♪ One more time Yeah, Bobby McGee ♪ 931 00:49:44,416 --> 00:49:47,593 - The bass player eventually came back to him, too, didn't he? - No. 932 00:49:47,680 --> 00:49:48,942 - Oh, he didn't? - No, he didn't. 933 00:49:52,772 --> 00:49:54,992 - No, he didn't. No, he didn't. - No? Right. 934 00:49:56,080 --> 00:49:57,516 Not to my knowledge. 935 00:49:59,692 --> 00:50:01,694 Jerry's been haunted by a lot of demons. 936 00:50:01,781 --> 00:50:03,217 - And still? - Oh, yes. 937 00:50:11,008 --> 00:50:13,010 ♪ My God is real ♪ 938 00:50:14,794 --> 00:50:17,362 ♪ He's real in my soul ♪ 939 00:50:18,972 --> 00:50:21,453 ♪ For He has washed ♪ 940 00:50:21,540 --> 00:50:23,890 ♪ And He made me whole ♪ 941 00:50:24,673 --> 00:50:28,373 ♪ Yeah, His love for me ♪ 942 00:50:28,460 --> 00:50:30,201 ♪ Is like pure gold ♪ 943 00:50:31,593 --> 00:50:33,769 ♪ My God is real ♪ 944 00:50:33,856 --> 00:50:38,296 ♪ For I can feel Him in my soul ♪ 945 00:50:40,994 --> 00:50:42,778 I walked into the wagon wheel one night, I was running late, 946 00:50:42,865 --> 00:50:46,913 and I heard Johnny Littlejohn playing drums. 947 00:50:47,000 --> 00:50:49,481 And he was doing... and singing "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On." 948 00:50:50,351 --> 00:50:52,701 And I stood there and listened to it, 949 00:50:52,788 --> 00:50:54,616 and I... and... 950 00:50:55,574 --> 00:50:59,230 and I'd done it pretty close to the exact way he'd done it. 951 00:50:59,317 --> 00:51:02,059 Word for word. The way he was, he said, 952 00:51:02,146 --> 00:51:05,453 "Stand in one spot and wiggle it around a little bit," 953 00:51:05,540 --> 00:51:08,195 I said, "Man, that is fantastic." 954 00:51:08,282 --> 00:51:11,329 ♪ All you gotta, honey is just stand that thing in one little spot ♪ 955 00:51:13,157 --> 00:51:15,420 ♪ And then you wiggle it and wiggle it and wiggle it ♪ 956 00:51:15,507 --> 00:51:17,161 ♪ And wiggle it and wiggle it... ♪ 957 00:51:17,248 --> 00:51:18,379 I said, "That's a hit." 958 00:51:18,466 --> 00:51:19,859 ♪ All you gotta, honey ♪ 959 00:51:19,946 --> 00:51:21,252 ♪ Is stand in one little spot ♪ 960 00:51:23,645 --> 00:51:25,560 ♪ Wiggle it around a little bit ♪ 961 00:51:25,647 --> 00:51:28,215 Sam said it never would happen because it was too vulgar. 962 00:51:28,302 --> 00:51:30,652 ♪ Well come on over baby ♪ 963 00:51:30,739 --> 00:51:33,046 ♪ There's a whole lotta shakin' goin' on ♪ 964 00:51:33,133 --> 00:51:36,571 It's risque. I didn't know what the word risque meant at the time. 965 00:51:36,658 --> 00:51:38,747 ♪ Shake, baby, shake ♪ 966 00:51:39,400 --> 00:51:41,924 ♪ Shake it, babe, shake it ♪ 967 00:51:42,011 --> 00:51:45,667 ♪ Ooh, why don't you shake? ♪ 968 00:51:45,754 --> 00:51:47,452 Well, I can't believe that everybody that's bought 969 00:51:47,539 --> 00:51:49,497 "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" is gonna burn in hell. 970 00:51:49,584 --> 00:51:51,760 I don't think that's gonna happen to you. 971 00:51:51,847 --> 00:51:54,372 I don't know, Tom. I could not say for sure. 972 00:51:57,244 --> 00:52:00,378 I couldn't really picture Jesus Christ 973 00:52:00,465 --> 00:52:01,901 singing "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On." 974 00:52:01,988 --> 00:52:04,033 ♪ Move it, move it, move it ♪ 975 00:52:04,121 --> 00:52:06,471 But then again, we're not Jesus Christ. 976 00:52:06,558 --> 00:52:08,081 ♪ Move it, move it, baby ♪ 977 00:52:08,168 --> 00:52:09,604 Who's to say and who's the judge? 978 00:52:11,302 --> 00:52:12,868 Kind of like I'm capable of judging. 979 00:52:12,955 --> 00:52:16,524 Now, but Jimmy Lee Swaggert is capable of judging. 980 00:52:16,611 --> 00:52:19,484 And I wish he would quit judging me so much on his television show. 981 00:52:20,963 --> 00:52:27,796 ♪ A whole lotta shakin' goin' on ♪ 982 00:52:27,883 --> 00:52:30,103 Jerry Lee, when you're 80 years old, 983 00:52:30,190 --> 00:52:32,627 you're not going to be banging the piano on your feet 984 00:52:32,714 --> 00:52:34,281 - and still singing rock and roll. - How do you know that now? 985 00:52:34,368 --> 00:52:35,978 How do you know that? 986 00:52:36,065 --> 00:52:38,764 - Do you... - I heard people say that 25 years ago to me. 987 00:52:39,895 --> 00:52:43,943 - Do you think you are? - 30 years ago, 35 years ago, I had people tell that to me. 988 00:52:45,031 --> 00:52:47,686 - But, Jerry Lee... - And I've seen them buried in the casket, brother. 989 00:52:48,382 --> 00:52:50,863 I never had mixed emotions. 990 00:52:50,950 --> 00:52:55,433 I knew what was what and what wasn't, 991 00:52:55,520 --> 00:52:59,437 and I knew what salvation was. 992 00:52:59,524 --> 00:53:01,874 I knew what sanctification meant. 993 00:53:01,961 --> 00:53:04,181 And I knew what being a... 994 00:53:05,312 --> 00:53:09,360 a... a regular sinner, so to speak, meant, 995 00:53:09,447 --> 00:53:11,536 or being the center of attention, too. 996 00:53:11,623 --> 00:53:13,407 But... I'm going to get you mixed up. 997 00:53:31,773 --> 00:53:33,949 ♪ Sweet Little Sixteen ♪ 998 00:53:34,689 --> 00:53:36,909 ♪ She's got the grown-up blues ♪ 999 00:53:36,996 --> 00:53:38,998 ♪ Wearin' tight dresses and lipstick ♪ 1000 00:53:39,085 --> 00:53:40,869 ♪ She's sportin' high-heel shoes ♪ 1001 00:53:42,131 --> 00:53:43,872 ♪ But tomorrow morning ♪ 1002 00:53:43,959 --> 00:53:46,353 ♪ She's gonna have to change the trend ♪ 1003 00:53:46,440 --> 00:53:49,138 ♪ And gonna be sweet sixteen ♪ 1004 00:53:49,226 --> 00:53:51,663 ♪ And back in class again ♪ 1005 00:53:51,750 --> 00:53:54,231 ♪ Well, they'll be rockin' on Bandstand ♪ 1006 00:53:54,318 --> 00:53:56,537 ♪ Philadelphia, PA ♪ 1007 00:53:56,624 --> 00:53:58,974 ♪ Deep in the heart of Texas ♪ 1008 00:53:59,061 --> 00:54:01,325 ♪ And round the 'Frisco Bay ♪ 1009 00:54:01,412 --> 00:54:03,631 ♪ Far out in St. Louis ♪ 1010 00:54:03,718 --> 00:54:06,330 ♪ Way down in New Orleans ♪ 1011 00:54:06,417 --> 00:54:10,725 ♪ Everybody wanna get with Sweet Little Sixteen ♪ 1012 00:54:10,812 --> 00:54:12,336 Whoo! 1013 00:54:14,947 --> 00:54:17,515 Chuck Berry was the king of rock and roll. 1014 00:54:20,735 --> 00:54:22,955 Quote, Jerry Lee Lewis. 1015 00:54:23,042 --> 00:54:24,043 ♪ Sweet Little Sixteen ♪ 1016 00:54:24,957 --> 00:54:26,828 ♪ She's got the grown-up blues ♪ 1017 00:54:27,394 --> 00:54:29,570 ♪ Tight dresses and lipstick ♪ 1018 00:54:29,657 --> 00:54:31,659 ♪ She's sportin' high-heel shoes ♪ 1019 00:54:31,746 --> 00:54:34,445 ♪ Yeah, but tomorrow morning ♪ 1020 00:54:34,532 --> 00:54:36,795 ♪ She's gonna change the trend ♪ 1021 00:54:36,882 --> 00:54:39,188 ♪ She's gonna get it back to class ♪ 1022 00:54:39,276 --> 00:54:41,060 ♪ Again and again ♪ 1023 00:54:41,147 --> 00:54:44,281 ♪ 'Cause they'll be rockin' on Bandstand ♪ 1024 00:54:44,368 --> 00:54:46,239 ♪ In Philadelphia, PA ♪ 1025 00:54:46,326 --> 00:54:48,894 ♪ Deep in the heart of Texas ♪ 1026 00:54:48,981 --> 00:54:51,679 ♪ And round the 'Frisco Bay ♪ 1027 00:54:51,766 --> 00:54:53,202 ♪ All over St. Louis ♪ 1028 00:54:53,290 --> 00:54:55,814 ♪ Way down in New Orleans ♪ 1029 00:54:55,901 --> 00:54:58,207 ♪ In Louisiana, baby ♪ 1030 00:54:58,295 --> 00:55:03,952 ♪ Sweet Little Sixteen ♪ 1031 00:55:04,039 --> 00:55:05,911 Well, Chuck Berry was like Hank Williams. 1032 00:55:05,998 --> 00:55:08,783 I've always said, Chuck Berry, he... 1033 00:55:08,870 --> 00:55:10,742 Everything he done, he wrote himself. 1034 00:55:10,829 --> 00:55:13,135 He wrote all his songs and he sang his songs. 1035 00:55:13,222 --> 00:55:15,181 ♪ Oh! There she is again ♪ 1036 00:55:15,268 --> 00:55:17,662 ♪ Standing over by the record machine ♪ 1037 00:55:19,011 --> 00:55:22,928 ♪ Oh, gee, she's lookin' like a model on the cover of a magazine ♪ 1038 00:55:24,843 --> 00:55:26,497 ♪ Look at her she's too cute ♪ 1039 00:55:26,584 --> 00:55:28,542 ♪ To be a minute over 17 ♪ 1040 00:55:30,892 --> 00:55:32,851 ♪ And meanwhile, I'm thinking ♪ 1041 00:55:35,767 --> 00:55:38,291 ♪ She's in the mood no need to break it ♪ 1042 00:55:38,378 --> 00:55:41,033 ♪ Got me a chance and I wanna take it ♪ 1043 00:55:41,120 --> 00:55:43,731 ♪ If she can dance get ready, oh, baby ♪ 1044 00:55:43,818 --> 00:55:46,517 ♪ Come on, Queenie let's shake it ♪ 1045 00:55:46,604 --> 00:55:49,998 ♪ Go, go, go, Little Queenie ♪ 1046 00:55:50,825 --> 00:55:54,742 ♪ Yeah, go, go, go Little Queenie ♪ 1047 00:55:57,266 --> 00:56:02,141 ♪ Go, go, go Little Queenie ♪ 1048 00:56:02,228 --> 00:56:07,233 ♪ There she is again she's standin' over by the record machine, ho! ♪ 1049 00:56:07,320 --> 00:56:10,105 Me and Chuck, well, we're very good friends, still really great friends. 1050 00:56:10,192 --> 00:56:12,194 Me and Chuck Berry-- My mother always thought 1051 00:56:12,281 --> 00:56:14,632 Chuck Berry was the greatest rock and roll singer in the world. 1052 00:56:14,719 --> 00:56:16,808 I said, "Wait a minute, Mama, I do rock and roll." 1053 00:56:16,895 --> 00:56:19,114 ♪ And if it's good I'll admit it ♪ 1054 00:56:19,201 --> 00:56:21,029 ♪ Come on, give it to me give it to me ♪ 1055 00:56:21,116 --> 00:56:22,944 ♪ Let's get with it with it, with it, baby ♪ 1056 00:56:23,031 --> 00:56:25,730 ♪ Go, go, go Little Queenie ♪ 1057 00:56:27,384 --> 00:56:29,951 ♪ Go, go, go Little Queenie ♪ 1058 00:56:32,519 --> 00:56:36,915 ♪ Go, go, go Little Queenie ♪ 1059 00:56:37,002 --> 00:56:40,440 ♪ I said, go, go, go Little Queenie ♪ 1060 00:56:41,310 --> 00:56:45,227 ♪ Go, go, go, go Little Queenie ♪ 1061 00:56:47,273 --> 00:56:50,494 ♪ Go, go, go Little Queenie ♪ 1062 00:56:50,581 --> 00:56:52,409 ♪ Take it from me ♪ 1063 00:57:10,688 --> 00:57:12,690 He was rock and roll. For real. 1064 00:57:12,777 --> 00:57:15,432 What is your definition of rock and roll? 1065 00:57:15,519 --> 00:57:17,999 Rock and roll is... 1066 00:57:18,086 --> 00:57:20,088 It's the greatest music that's ever been. 1067 00:57:21,481 --> 00:57:23,701 Or ever will be. 1068 00:57:23,788 --> 00:57:26,051 Whether it was taken from gospel roots 1069 00:57:26,138 --> 00:57:29,184 or whether it was taken from rhythm and blues roots 1070 00:57:29,271 --> 00:57:33,275 or Black roots, red roots or blue roots or whatever roots, 1071 00:57:33,362 --> 00:57:35,016 rock and roll is rock and roll. 1072 00:57:35,103 --> 00:57:37,105 All right, girls, let's go! 1073 00:57:37,192 --> 00:57:40,500 I hope you ain't putting that on tape. 1074 00:57:40,587 --> 00:57:41,980 Boy. 1075 00:57:42,067 --> 00:57:44,635 All of my big hit records have all been one take. 1076 00:57:44,722 --> 00:57:45,810 You ready to cut? 1077 00:57:46,767 --> 00:57:48,682 You ready to cut "Great Balls of Fire?" 1078 00:57:48,769 --> 00:57:50,815 I told them, I said, "Just think what I could do 1079 00:57:50,902 --> 00:57:52,381 if you'd let me practice." 1080 00:57:52,469 --> 00:57:54,296 What did you think rock and roll was? 1081 00:57:54,383 --> 00:57:57,169 Well, at that time, it really wasn't any rock and roll. 1082 00:57:57,256 --> 00:58:01,042 - It was rockabilly. - How was rockabilly different than boogie woogie? 1083 00:58:01,129 --> 00:58:03,958 Rockabilly is the next thing to hillbilly. 1084 00:58:04,045 --> 00:58:08,485 Rockabilly is a stand-up, big stand-up bass 1085 00:58:08,572 --> 00:58:11,270 with Bill Black playing on it, you know? 1086 00:58:11,357 --> 00:58:13,533 And Scotty Moore on the guitar picking, 1087 00:58:13,620 --> 00:58:15,622 trying to pick Chet Atkins style, which he can't. 1088 00:58:15,709 --> 00:58:16,841 And Elvis Presley singing, 1089 00:58:16,928 --> 00:58:19,191 Baby, baby, baby. 1090 00:58:20,888 --> 00:58:22,803 - Rockabilly. - That was rockabilly? 1091 00:58:22,890 --> 00:58:24,675 - Yeah. - So what was rock and roll? 1092 00:58:25,284 --> 00:58:26,981 - Jerry Lee Lewis. 1093 00:58:31,116 --> 00:58:32,291 Hello? 1094 00:58:33,422 --> 00:58:36,730 Yes. Ah, hello, darling. 1095 00:58:38,210 --> 00:58:40,038 Yeah, this is The Killer speaking. 1096 00:58:40,125 --> 00:58:42,170 How many wives has he had, now? 1097 00:58:42,257 --> 00:58:43,302 Four. 1098 00:58:43,389 --> 00:58:44,521 Do I like what? 1099 00:58:44,608 --> 00:58:46,131 - Is he married right now? - No. 1100 00:58:46,218 --> 00:58:48,699 I sure do like it, baby. 1101 00:58:50,135 --> 00:58:51,397 Hiyah! 1102 00:58:53,181 --> 00:58:56,010 ♪ Chantilly lace and a pretty face ♪ 1103 00:58:56,097 --> 00:58:58,622 ♪ Pony tail hangin' down ♪ 1104 00:58:58,709 --> 00:59:01,668 ♪ A wiggle and a walk a giggle and a talk ♪ 1105 00:59:01,755 --> 00:59:04,279 ♪ You know it makes the world go round ♪ 1106 00:59:04,366 --> 00:59:07,065 ♪ Ain't nothing in the world like a big-eyed girl ♪ 1107 00:59:07,152 --> 00:59:10,242 ♪ To make me act so funny spend my money ♪ 1108 00:59:10,329 --> 00:59:12,418 ♪ I feel real loose like a long-necked goose ♪ 1109 00:59:12,505 --> 00:59:15,595 ♪ Like a, oh, honey that's what I like ♪ 1110 00:59:16,378 --> 00:59:17,554 ♪ What's that, baby? ♪ 1111 00:59:20,208 --> 00:59:22,080 ♪ Pick you up at 8:00 and don't be late? ♪ 1112 00:59:25,997 --> 00:59:27,607 ♪ You gotta be joking, woman ♪ 1113 00:59:28,913 --> 00:59:31,524 ♪ I thought you might fix The Killer up and don't be late ♪ 1114 00:59:32,699 --> 00:59:34,701 ♪ Anyway, baby You know what I gotta have ♪ 1115 00:59:36,137 --> 00:59:39,140 ♪ Chantilly lace and a pretty face ♪ 1116 00:59:39,227 --> 00:59:41,708 ♪ Pony tail hangin' down ♪ 1117 00:59:41,795 --> 00:59:44,624 ♪ A wiggle and a walk and a giggle and a talk ♪ 1118 00:59:44,711 --> 00:59:46,452 ♪ You know it makes the world go round ♪ 1119 00:59:46,539 --> 00:59:48,802 Why do you think she married you, Jerry Lee? 1120 00:59:48,889 --> 00:59:50,804 Well, I thought she loved me. 1121 00:59:50,891 --> 00:59:54,329 Jerry Lee, do you want out of this marriage? 1122 00:59:54,416 --> 00:59:55,940 Do you want out of this marriage? 1123 00:59:56,027 --> 00:59:58,159 ♪ Ooh honey, that's what I like ♪ 1124 01:00:00,466 --> 01:00:01,815 That's good. 1125 01:00:01,902 --> 01:00:03,425 I'd just like to get out 1126 01:00:03,512 --> 01:00:05,079 and rock in front of everybody. 1127 01:00:05,166 --> 01:00:07,734 I'd make every joint in town 1128 01:00:07,821 --> 01:00:10,258 and go through every beer, three, two beers. 1129 01:00:10,345 --> 01:00:12,347 Joint... Fight my way in and fight my way out. 1130 01:00:14,915 --> 01:00:17,483 ♪ Everybody call me Rockin' Jerry Lee ♪ 1131 01:00:18,789 --> 01:00:19,833 Whoo! 1132 01:00:19,920 --> 01:00:21,226 And Elvis, he wouldn't do that 1133 01:00:21,313 --> 01:00:22,488 He was kind of scared of that. 1134 01:00:24,142 --> 01:00:25,056 ♪ Look out, honey ♪ 1135 01:00:33,804 --> 01:00:35,675 He told me that, "Jerry Lee, you're gonna be killed. 1136 01:00:35,762 --> 01:00:37,285 "Somebody's gonna kill you doing that." 1137 01:00:37,372 --> 01:00:39,810 But... "Nah. They ain't gonna get me." 1138 01:00:39,897 --> 01:00:40,985 ♪ Shake it one time ♪ 1139 01:00:41,072 --> 01:00:43,596 ♪ Shake it, babe, shake it ♪ 1140 01:00:43,683 --> 01:00:46,381 ♪ Shake, mama, shake it ♪ ♪ 1141 01:00:46,468 --> 01:00:51,299 So why do you figure Elvis became Elvis? 1142 01:00:51,386 --> 01:00:53,650 Because he had a great manager. 1143 01:00:55,216 --> 01:00:57,654 Tom Parker. 1144 01:00:57,741 --> 01:01:00,700 Who treated him as if he was a monkey in a cage. 1145 01:01:00,787 --> 01:01:03,877 ♪ Train I ride ♪ 1146 01:01:03,964 --> 01:01:06,314 ♪ Sixteen coaches long ♪ 1147 01:01:09,143 --> 01:01:11,232 ♪ Train I ride ♪ 1148 01:01:12,059 --> 01:01:14,279 ♪ Sixteen coaches long ♪ 1149 01:01:16,760 --> 01:01:18,849 ♪ Hey, you, crankin' my baby ♪ 1150 01:01:19,501 --> 01:01:21,286 ♪ And my baby gone ♪ 1151 01:01:24,289 --> 01:01:28,685 ♪ And it's, ooh Comin' around ♪ 1152 01:01:31,688 --> 01:01:34,908 ♪ And it's, ooh, hey ♪ 1153 01:01:34,995 --> 01:01:36,997 ♪ Comin' around comin' around again ♪ 1154 01:01:39,217 --> 01:01:41,219 ♪ Yeah, you bring in my baby ♪ 1155 01:01:41,306 --> 01:01:43,308 ♪ Bringin' her back You know what you oughta mean ♪ 1156 01:01:45,005 --> 01:01:48,879 If you would have had the Colonel, could you have been king? 1157 01:01:48,966 --> 01:01:50,924 I don't think the Colonel could have lived through it. 1158 01:01:51,838 --> 01:01:54,580 ♪ We're just goin' through the motions ♪ 1159 01:01:55,450 --> 01:01:59,280 ♪ Of the parts we've learned to play ♪ 1160 01:02:00,455 --> 01:02:05,330 ♪ Never quite together like before ♪ 1161 01:02:06,723 --> 01:02:10,030 Now, boy, I have played every nightclub in the world. 1162 01:02:11,205 --> 01:02:14,382 Every hole that has ever been built and torn down. 1163 01:02:15,296 --> 01:02:17,777 Some that haven't even been constructed. 1164 01:02:17,864 --> 01:02:21,259 ♪ Special anymore ♪ 1165 01:02:21,346 --> 01:02:22,434 Played them all. 1166 01:02:22,521 --> 01:02:25,611 ♪ So try it one more time ♪ 1167 01:02:25,698 --> 01:02:27,656 ♪ With feeling, darlin' ♪ 1168 01:02:27,744 --> 01:02:29,833 ♪ Take it from the top ♪ 1169 01:02:30,834 --> 01:02:34,881 ♪ Let me feel those tears a-fallin' ♪ 1170 01:02:34,968 --> 01:02:38,102 ♪ Jerry Lee don't wanna miss a single drop ♪ 1171 01:02:38,189 --> 01:02:39,451 ♪ Darlin' make... ♪ 1172 01:02:39,538 --> 01:02:40,887 I had been screamin' and hollerin' 1173 01:02:40,974 --> 01:02:42,193 and staying up all night, 1174 01:02:42,280 --> 01:02:43,716 listening to records, radio, 1175 01:02:43,803 --> 01:02:45,587 drinking, cuttin' up, loving women. 1176 01:02:46,327 --> 01:02:50,027 ♪ Try it once more with feeling ♪ 1177 01:02:50,114 --> 01:02:53,944 ♪ And we'll call it a day ♪ 1178 01:02:54,031 --> 01:02:56,207 I'll be here when morning comes. 1179 01:02:56,773 --> 01:03:00,733 And if I die tomorrow, I will have achieved more than all these bastards put together. 1180 01:03:00,820 --> 01:03:04,650 ♪ ...one more time with feeling, darlin' ♪ 1181 01:03:04,737 --> 01:03:07,348 - ♪ Hey, take it from the top ♪ 1182 01:03:07,435 --> 01:03:11,788 ♪ Oh, this one is gonna be the big one, honey ♪ 1183 01:03:11,875 --> 01:03:14,878 ♪ So give whatever thing you've got ♪ 1184 01:03:14,965 --> 01:03:18,490 ♪ And if there's anything left to give ♪ 1185 01:03:18,577 --> 01:03:22,668 ♪ Before we go our separate ways ♪ 1186 01:03:22,755 --> 01:03:26,498 ♪ Try it once more with feeling ♪ 1187 01:03:26,585 --> 01:03:32,373 ♪ And we'll call it a day ♪ 1188 01:03:33,287 --> 01:03:34,506 Jerry Lee Lewis! 1189 01:03:43,689 --> 01:03:46,692 ♪ If you gon' love me Let's please don't tease ♪ 1190 01:03:47,432 --> 01:03:49,826 ♪ If I can hold you then let me squeeze ♪ 1191 01:03:49,913 --> 01:03:52,176 The legendary Jerry Lee Lewis! 1192 01:03:52,263 --> 01:03:55,309 ♪ My love comes a-tumblin' down ♪ 1193 01:03:55,396 --> 01:03:57,268 The fabulous Jerry Lee Lewis! 1194 01:03:58,704 --> 01:04:01,707 There is the joltin', jamboreein', jumpin' Jerry Lee Lewis! 1195 01:04:04,449 --> 01:04:07,191 ♪ Well, I shake all over and you know why ♪ 1196 01:04:07,278 --> 01:04:09,889 The man who doesn't play rock and roll, he is rock and roll. 1197 01:04:09,976 --> 01:04:11,238 Jerry Lee Lewis! 1198 01:04:13,806 --> 01:04:15,068 One and only... 1199 01:04:15,155 --> 01:04:16,635 Jerry Lee Lewis. 1200 01:04:16,722 --> 01:04:18,550 A one-man revolution. 1201 01:04:18,637 --> 01:04:20,247 His name is Jerry Lee Lewis! 1202 01:04:22,946 --> 01:04:25,383 Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Jerry Lee Lewis! 1203 01:04:27,211 --> 01:04:28,386 ♪ Crazy! ♪ 1204 01:04:28,473 --> 01:04:29,778 An old friend of mine... 1205 01:04:29,866 --> 01:04:32,781 Jerry Lee Lewis! 1206 01:04:32,869 --> 01:04:34,914 Jerry Lee Lewis! 1207 01:04:35,001 --> 01:04:37,264 The one and only Jerry Lee Lewis! 1208 01:04:37,351 --> 01:04:39,179 Jerry Lee Lewis! 1209 01:04:39,266 --> 01:04:41,355 Jerry Lee Lewis! 1210 01:04:41,442 --> 01:04:43,183 ♪ Oh ♪ 1211 01:05:04,596 --> 01:05:09,688 ♪ Amazing grace ♪ 1212 01:05:09,775 --> 01:05:14,823 ♪ How sweet the sound ♪ 1213 01:05:14,911 --> 01:05:20,003 ♪ That saved a wretch ♪ 1214 01:05:20,090 --> 01:05:22,744 ♪ Like me! ♪ 1215 01:05:25,182 --> 01:05:30,100 ♪ I once was lost ♪ 1216 01:05:30,665 --> 01:05:35,714 ♪ But now am found ♪ 1217 01:05:35,801 --> 01:05:37,455 ♪ I was blind ♪ 1218 01:05:38,499 --> 01:05:40,937 ♪ But now ♪ 1219 01:05:41,024 --> 01:05:46,420 ♪ I see ♪ 1220 01:05:46,507 --> 01:05:49,510 - ♪ 'Twas grace ♪ - ♪ 'Twas grace ♪ 1221 01:05:49,597 --> 01:05:51,643 - ♪ That taught ♪ - ♪ That taught ♪ 1222 01:05:51,730 --> 01:05:55,908 ♪ My ol' heart to fear ♪ 1223 01:05:57,170 --> 01:05:58,998 ♪ And grace ♪ 1224 01:05:59,868 --> 01:06:05,178 ♪ My fears relieved ♪ 1225 01:06:05,962 --> 01:06:09,748 Would you set the record straight on any of the stories people have heard about you? 1226 01:06:09,835 --> 01:06:12,446 Well, I wouldn't want to believe everything they heard, 1227 01:06:12,533 --> 01:06:15,014 because if they believe and read everything that they heard, 1228 01:06:15,101 --> 01:06:17,234 I would be locked up in the penitentiary for life. 1229 01:06:17,321 --> 01:06:19,279 But you can't do things like they said 1230 01:06:19,366 --> 01:06:21,586 about Jerry Lee Lewis and get... and get by with it. 1231 01:06:21,673 --> 01:06:22,717 It's against the law. 1232 01:06:22,804 --> 01:06:25,416 ♪ The hour... ♪ 1233 01:06:25,503 --> 01:06:26,678 I'm really a good boy. 1234 01:06:37,732 --> 01:06:39,560 - ♪ One by one ♪ 1235 01:06:40,779 --> 01:06:44,826 ♪ They're turning off the lights ♪ 1236 01:06:47,046 --> 01:06:50,789 ♪ I've been feedin' that old jukebox ♪ 1237 01:06:51,833 --> 01:06:55,663 ♪ Just to hold you tight ♪ 1238 01:06:55,750 --> 01:06:58,014 ♪ I guess it's for the best ♪ 1239 01:06:58,753 --> 01:07:04,455 ♪ I just put in my last dime ♪ 1240 01:07:04,542 --> 01:07:07,980 ♪ Heard you whisper we'll meet again ♪ 1241 01:07:08,894 --> 01:07:15,466 ♪ Another place another time ♪ 1242 01:07:15,553 --> 01:07:17,816 ♪ Chairs are stacked ♪ 1243 01:07:17,903 --> 01:07:20,036 ♪ All over tables ♪ 1244 01:07:20,123 --> 01:07:24,562 ♪ It's closing time they say ♪ 1245 01:07:24,649 --> 01:07:28,827 ♪ I could wait right here forever ♪ 1246 01:07:28,914 --> 01:07:32,091 ♪ If they'd only let me stay ♪ 1247 01:07:32,787 --> 01:07:36,748 ♪ Anywhere would be much better ♪ 1248 01:07:36,835 --> 01:07:41,057 ♪ Than that old lonely room of mine ♪ 1249 01:07:42,058 --> 01:07:45,191 ♪ And a sleepless night a waitin' ♪ 1250 01:07:45,278 --> 01:07:50,631 ♪ For another place another time ♪ 1251 01:07:52,242 --> 01:07:57,290 ♪ Won't that room of mine ♪ 1252 01:07:57,377 --> 01:08:01,251 ♪ Be a lonely place to be ♪ 1253 01:08:02,034 --> 01:08:06,169 ♪ After I've been holding you ♪ 1254 01:08:06,256 --> 01:08:08,693 ♪ So close to me ♪ 1255 01:08:09,607 --> 01:08:14,960 ♪ And won't that old, old stairway be ♪ 1256 01:08:16,701 --> 01:08:18,659 ♪ A little hard to climb ♪ 1257 01:08:19,182 --> 01:08:22,185 ♪ To a lonely room to wait ♪ 1258 01:08:22,272 --> 01:08:27,581 ♪ For another place another time ♪ 1259 01:08:29,453 --> 01:08:34,849 ♪ Won't that old stairway ♪ 1260 01:08:34,936 --> 01:08:38,940 ♪ Be a little hard to climb ♪ 1261 01:08:39,027 --> 01:08:41,639 ♪ To a lonely room to wait ♪ 1262 01:08:41,726 --> 01:08:47,384 ♪ For another place another time ♪ ♪ 1263 01:08:57,698 --> 01:09:02,181 ♪ I say troubled in mind ♪ 1264 01:09:02,268 --> 01:09:06,011 ♪ Sometimes I'm blue ♪ 1265 01:09:06,098 --> 01:09:08,056 ♪ Yeah, I won't be ♪ 1266 01:09:09,101 --> 01:09:13,018 ♪ I don't think I'll be blue always ♪ 1267 01:09:13,932 --> 01:09:17,022 ♪ Don't you thank God for the sunshine ♪ 1268 01:09:18,763 --> 01:09:23,376 ♪ Shinin' on you every day ♪ 1269 01:09:27,946 --> 01:09:29,730 ♪ I just might lay ♪ 1270 01:09:31,428 --> 01:09:33,386 ♪ Lay my head ♪ 1271 01:09:35,040 --> 01:09:37,651 ♪ Lay it on some lonesome ♪ 1272 01:09:37,738 --> 01:09:41,525 ♪ Lonesome railroad line ♪ 1273 01:09:42,265 --> 01:09:46,834 ♪ And let that midnight special ♪ 1274 01:09:46,921 --> 01:09:47,792 Look out now. 1275 01:09:48,706 --> 01:09:52,449 ♪ Torture my troubled mind ♪ 1276 01:10:20,172 --> 01:10:21,608 All right, baby. 1277 01:10:23,262 --> 01:10:25,133 ♪ You know, Mama told me ♪ 1278 01:10:26,700 --> 01:10:29,616 ♪ She said, Jerry Lee ♪ 1279 01:10:29,703 --> 01:10:31,575 ♪ Remember, son, the graveyard ♪ 1280 01:10:32,228 --> 01:10:35,100 ♪ Is a mighty lonesome place ♪ 1281 01:10:35,187 --> 01:10:36,928 All right. 1282 01:10:37,015 --> 01:10:40,061 ♪ They put you six feet under the ground, boy ♪ 1283 01:10:40,148 --> 01:10:41,976 ♪ Some mother-humper ♪ 1284 01:10:42,063 --> 01:10:45,502 ♪ With a shovel The dirt in your face ♪ 1285 01:10:49,375 --> 01:10:52,248 ♪ In troubled mind ♪ 1286 01:11:17,708 --> 01:11:18,970 Hey! 1287 01:11:22,843 --> 01:11:23,801 Whoo! 1288 01:11:39,469 --> 01:11:43,908 ♪ Well, I never felt more like singing the blues ♪ 1289 01:11:43,995 --> 01:11:49,130 ♪ I never thought that I'd ever lose your loving ♪ 1290 01:11:49,217 --> 01:11:53,134 ♪ Why'd you do me this way? ♪ 1291 01:11:53,221 --> 01:11:56,921 ♪ Well, I never felt more like cryin' all night ♪ 1292 01:11:57,008 --> 01:11:58,618 ♪ Everything's wrong ♪ 1293 01:11:58,705 --> 01:12:00,838 ♪ Nothing ain't right without you ♪ 1294 01:12:02,318 --> 01:12:03,841 ♪ You've got me singin' the blues ♪ 1295 01:12:06,147 --> 01:12:10,021 ♪ Well, the moon and stars no longer shine ♪ 1296 01:12:10,108 --> 01:12:13,416 ♪ The dream is gone I thought it was mine ♪ 1297 01:12:13,503 --> 01:12:16,462 ♪ Nothin' left for me to do ♪ 1298 01:12:16,549 --> 01:12:21,511 ♪ But cry-why-why-why oh, baby, over you ♪ 1299 01:12:21,598 --> 01:12:25,689 ♪ Well, I never felt more like runnin' away ♪ 1300 01:12:25,776 --> 01:12:27,604 ♪ Why should I go? ♪ 1301 01:12:27,691 --> 01:12:30,041 ♪ I couldn't stay without you ♪ 1302 01:12:30,868 --> 01:12:33,044 ♪ You've got me singin' the blues ♪ 1303 01:12:48,407 --> 01:12:52,237 ♪ The moon and stars no longer shine ♪ 1304 01:12:52,324 --> 01:12:55,458 ♪ The dream is gone I thought it was mine ♪ 1305 01:12:55,545 --> 01:12:58,548 ♪ There's nothin' left for me to do ♪ 1306 01:12:58,635 --> 01:13:01,725 ♪ But cry-why-why-why oh, baby, over you ♪ 1307 01:13:03,161 --> 01:13:07,948 ♪ Well, I never felt more like runnin' away ♪ 1308 01:13:08,035 --> 01:13:09,646 ♪ Why should I go? ♪ 1309 01:13:09,733 --> 01:13:11,735 ♪ I couldn't stay without you ♪ 1310 01:13:12,997 --> 01:13:15,260 ♪ You got me singin' the blues ♪