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From Ferriday, Louisiana,
Jerry Lee Lewis.
[audience applauding]
[playing "She Even Woke Me Up To Say Goodbye"]
♪ Mornings come ♪
♪ And lord my mind is achin' ♪
Yes, it is.
♪ Sunshine standing quietly ♪
♪ At my door ♪
♪ Just like the dawn ♪
♪ My heart is silently breaking ♪
♪ And with my tears ♪
♪ Lord, it goes tumblin' ♪
♪ To the floor ♪
♪ Once again ♪
♪ The whole town will be talking ♪
♪ Yes, they will ♪
♪ Lord, I've seen the pity ♪
♪ That's in their eyes ♪
♪ Oh, they could never understand ♪
♪ It's her sorrow it's not a man ♪
[plays piano riff]
♪ And no matter what they say ♪
♪ We know she tried ♪
♪ Baby's packed her soft things ♪
♪ And she's left me ♪
♪ She's left me ♪
♪ Lord knows that I didn't mean ♪
♪ To make her cry ♪
♪ It's not her heart, Lord ♪
♪ It's her mind ♪
♪ She didn't mean to be unkind ♪
♪ Why, she even woke me up ♪
♪ To say goodbye ♪
[audience applauding]
Back on Music Center tonight, visiting with the killer,
Jerry Lee Lewis.
You had all these big rock hits,
and all of a sudden in the late '60s,
you've had these big country music hits.
Do you think your fans expected the natural transition into country music?
I'm country.
- [woman] Mmm-hmm. - I was born country.
- [man] Yeah. - But I was raised on rock and roll.
[women screaming]
[Jerry] Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, Fats Domino.
Especially Little Richard. Now, they rate right along there with Elvis.
The first time I ever heard Elvis on radio, me and my daddy was driving along.
I heard him doing a song called Blue Moon of Kentucky.
I said, "I don't know who that is," I said,
"but the door has finally been opened."
And me and my daddy was out in a field.
We were were pulling corn, you know.
And I said, "Dad, I think I'm going to Memphis."
I was 20 years old then.
I said, I read about this boy
called Elvis Presley, who's really something else.
And Sam Phillips got him started.
I think he could get me started.
And we drove down from from Ferriday, Louisiana,
into Memphis here
and pulled up in front of Sun Records here.
I said, "Well, you're going to have to cut a little demo for me,
for Mr. Phillips to listen to."
So he put it down and I said, I'm going to do
"Crazy Arm," kind of a rhythm and blues style, the way I do it.
And I just kicked it off, and here's the way I did it.
[plays "Crazy Arms"]
♪ Now, blue ♪
♪ Ain't the word ♪
♪ For the way that I feel ♪
That's all. That's it.
[man] You said that when Sam
first heard the tape of, um, "Crazy Arms,"
by the time you got through the intro, he was sold on it.
He was. Sam... Sam Phillips' a genius on that.
He... a remarkable man.
He... he knew... he knew what was happening.
He knew just... just like that when nobody else did.
Jud Phillips, Sam's brother, took me up to New York City.
Auditioned me for Steve Allen, and, uh...
He heard me do the audition for him in his office.
He said, "You've got three minutes."
I said, "That's all I need."
[playing "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On"]
♪ Come on over, baby ♪
♪ Whole lotta shakin' goin' on ♪
♪ Hey, come on, baby ♪
♪ Baby, you can't go wrong ♪
♪ Oh, been thinkin' ♪
♪ Whole lot of shakin goin' on ♪
♪ Yeah, come on over, baby ♪
♪ We got chicken in the barn ♪
♪ Oh, honey ♪
♪ Come on over we got the bull by the horn ♪
♪ Oh, we ain't fakin' Whole lot of shakin' goin' on ♪
♪ Well, shake, baby, shake ♪
♪ Shake, baby, shake ♪
♪ Shake, honey, shake ♪
♪ Shake, baby, shake ♪
♪ Come on over ♪
♪ Whole lot of shakin goin' on ♪
♪ Oh! ♪
[audience cheering]
♪ Yeah, come on over, baby ♪
♪ We got chicken in the barn ♪
♪ Whose barn, what barn, my barn ♪
♪ Come on, honey ♪
♪ We got a bull by the horn ♪
♪ Oh! We ain't fakin' ♪
♪ A whole lot of shakin' goin' on ♪
♪ Easy now, shake ♪
♪ Oh, shake, baby ♪
♪ You can shake one time for me ♪
♪ Well, I said come on over, baby ♪
♪ A whole lot of shakin' goin' on ♪
Now let's get real low, shake.
All you gotta do, honey
is kinda stand in one spot,
jump around just a little bit.
That's when you heard that I got something, you know.
Now, let's go.
♪ Shake it, oh ♪
♪ Shake it, honey, shake ♪
♪ Shake, baby shake, baby, shake ♪
♪ We ain't fakin'♪
♪ A whole lotta shakin' goin' on ♪
[audience applauding]
Busted wide open and...
They had to build two new plants
to keep up with shipping that record.
The record was selling over 300,000 records a day.
Anybody that wouldn't have liked "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On"
would have had to have a problem. No.
That was music.
John Lennon said it was the most perfect
rock and roll record that's ever been cut.
[host, on radio] Right now, it's Red Hot & Blue,
coming through on WHBQ... on the magazine floor.
Good cotton pickin' jacket. Where'd you get that at, Don Lasko's?
That's a good plug. We all get free Coke tomorrow.
I bought this jacket in New York City.
In New York City. I understand
you've been uptown about as far as you can get.
You've been around that Cyclone?
- End up with a stone. - I've been tryin' it.
If you don't know what a Cyclone is,
that thing when Jerry Lee gets to New York,
he's gotta hit that Coney Island out there, you know?
Gets on this cotton pickin' thing that just goes up and down, man.
Up and down.
I understand "Whole Lotta Shakin'"
sold about a million, 500,000.
- Is that right? - I believe so.
You know what's been worrying me here
for the last three or four weeks? What the heck
you're going to get me for Christmas?
Mr. Dewey Phillips played my record
on WHBQ Red Hot & Blue.
Uh... Red Hot & Blue was something else.
What have you been hearing about this "Great Balls of Fire" record all over the country?
- Did you hear a lot about it? - Well, it seems to be moving along, uh, pretty good.
I understand it's breaking all over the country.
Yes sir, on the Dewey Phillips Show...
Right now, it's going to be one of the hottest
cotton pickin' numbers in the country in about three weeks
what it says already in Memphis.
Great... What was that girl said? No.
-"Great Balls of Fire." Hit it. - Yeah.
♪ You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain ♪
♪ Too much love drives a man insane ♪
♪ You broke my will But what a thrill ♪
♪ Goodness gracious great balls of fire! ♪
♪ I laughed at love 'cause I thought it was funny ♪
♪ You came along and you moved me, honey ♪
♪ I've changed my mind This love is fine ♪
♪ Goodness gracious great balls of fire ♪
♪ Kiss me, baby ♪
♪ Ooh, feels good ♪
"Great Balls of Fire" was written by Otis Blackwell.
♪ Well, I'll still love you like a lover should ♪
Well, I went and recorded it in one day.
Sidney Stokes would play guitar on it.
♪ Got to tell this world that you're mine, mine, mine, mine ♪
I said, "Sidney, can you play electric bass, though?"
He said, "Yeah, I can play one a little bit."
And we have a spinning piano just like this one here.
This might be it.
♪ Great balls of fire ♪
[Jerry] I don't remember who was playing drums on it.
I said, "What do you do?" He said, "I play drums."
I said, "Well, can you pull those drums over here and play?"
♪ Well ♪
♪ Kiss me, baby, mmm, feels good ♪
I pulled him over and we took one take on "Great Balls of Fire."
♪ Well, I'll still love you like a lover should ♪
♪ You're fine, so kind ♪
♪ Got to tell this world that you're mine, mine, mine, mine ♪
♪ I chew my nails and I twiddle my thumbs ♪
♪ Real nervous but it sure is fun ♪
♪ Come on, baby, drive me crazy ♪
♪ Goodness gracious great balls of fire ♪
[interviewer 1] How did you feel about "Great Balls of Fire?"
It was number one on the R&B charts,
the pop charts, the country and western charts.
Well, I thought it was fantastic.
I never thought that much about it at the time.
Now I do. I am the only one in the business that had two records do that.
"Whole Lotta Shakin'" and "Great Balls of Fire."
- Two in a row that... - They were number one on every chart,
from Easy Listening charts
to rock and roll to rhythm and blues
to gut bucket blues to, uh, the country charts,
uh, the pop chart... any charts they had,
the record was number one.
- I thought, "Here we go." - [audience shrieking]
[announcer] The one and only Jerry Lee Lewis!
Thank you very, very much.
[playing "Hi-Heel Sneakers"]
[crowd shrieking and cheering]
♪ Put on your high-heel sneakers ♪
♪ Comb that wig down on your head ♪
♪ Oh, put on your high-heel sneakers ♪
♪ Honey, comb that wig down on your head ♪
♪ 'Cause we're goin' out tonight, baby ♪
♪ Oh, I'm pretty sure you're gonna knock 'em dead ♪
♪ Yeah, yeah! ♪
[Jerry] It was all a brand-new situation
and I wasn't used to money like that.
Cars like that, anything like that.
But it was all new
and it was exciting and I was young.
I enjoyed it. It was great.
Busted rock and roll wide open.
[woman] I have seen the footage
that the girls would rush the stage
and you caused some riots in some cities.
The girls really loved you.
How did their mamas feel about that?
I never met their mothers.
♪ Put on your red dress, baby ♪
♪ 'Cause we're goin' out tonight ♪
♪ Whoa, put on your red dress, baby ♪
♪ You know we goin' out tonight ♪
♪ Oh, I'm gonna take my picture, baby ♪
♪ 'Cause some cats might wanna fight ♪
♪ Yeah ♪
♪ Open up, a-honey ♪
♪ It's your lover boy me that's a-knockin' ♪
♪ Why don't you listen to me, baby ♪
♪ All the cats are at the high school rockin' ♪
♪ Honey, get your boppin' shoes ♪
♪ 'Fore the jukebox blows a fuse ♪
♪ Everybody hoppin' everybody's boppin' ♪
♪ Boppin' at the high school hop ♪
♪ Everybody hoppin' everybody's boppin' ♪
♪ Boppin' at the high school hop ♪
♪ Come on, little baby let's just rock a little bit tonight ♪
♪ Come on, help mama let's shake things up tonight ♪
♪ Well, my heart's a-beatin' rhythm and my feet are movin' smooth and light ♪ ♪
[interviewer] You have, over the years, been held accountable
for marrying a 13-year-old girl.
Well, she was 12 years old.
♪ Come on pretty baby, let's shake things up tonight ♪
Thirteen the next day.
♪ Yeah ♪
And all of a sudden, she was 14.
I... I... I felt like doing it and I felt like it was right.
It had to be done.
♪ Well, let me tell you something, baby ♪
♪ I'mma gonna give you some good news ♪
[man] Uh, when will you marry?
- Pardon? - When will you marry?
Why don't we leave our personal questions out of this, eh?
You, way in the back there, yeah.
What's the latest about Jerry Lee Lewis?
What's the latest on Jerry Lee Lewis?
Oh, he just became a father.
[all laughing]
He adopted his wife.
[all laughing]
♪ Well, everybody hoppin'... ♪
They made a big deal out of it, which I could have cared less.
And I didn't get mad at the press.
I got mad at nobody. I mean, I knew what I was doing.
And they said, "Well, you'll never... never be back again.
"You'll never be a big star again."
We had to work every date we could get
just to make ends meet.
Times were hard, but Jerry never faltered.
[High School Confidential continues indistinctly]
[woman] He wasn't discouraged.
He went from making like $10,000 a night
to $200 a night, and he said,
"Oh, okay! So I'm making $200 a night,"
and he just kept right on working.
No regrets or a whole lot of regrets?
No regrets on my part, baby.
♪ Boppin' at the high school hop ♪
[man] There are times in every entertainer's life
when changes seem to be in order.
Our next presenter was a major star
in the early days of the rock and roll craze.
His flamboyant style carried him to the top of the pop music charts.
Then he made a change in style and presentation,
even in physical appearance, and he has risen to stardom
in the country music field.
The style may have changed but the real talent remains.
And there's still a whole lotta shakin' goin' on for Jerry Lee Lewis!
- [playing "Walking The Floor Over You"] - [audience applauding]
♪ You left me ♪
♪ Honey, you went away ♪
♪ You said that you were coming back home in just a day ♪
♪ Oh, yeah ♪
♪ But you've broken your promise ♪
♪ Left me here alone ♪
♪ I don't know why you did, dear ♪
♪ But I do know that you're gone ♪
♪ And I'm walkin' the floor over you ♪
♪ I can't sleep a wink that is true ♪
♪ I'm hopin' and I'm prayin'♪
♪ As my heart breaks right in two ♪
♪ Walkin' the floor over you ♪
♪ Yeah ♪
It took me 12 years to make that comeback.
But when I did, I made it. I knew I'd make it.
I traveled on the road 12 years, straight on the road.
Three hundred and fifteen, 325 and 30 days a year.
♪ Someday you might be lonely too ♪
♪ Walkin' that ol' floor is good for you ♪
[Jerry] Every day, every day, every day.
- ♪ Just keep right on walkin' ♪ - Day in, day out.
Year in and year out in the backseat of a car.
♪ Remember that I love you pretty baby ♪
Six, seven, 800 miles a day.
Every day.
♪ I'm walkin' the floor over you ♪
♪ I can't sleep a wink that is true ♪
[man] In '68, when you started having big hits with country songs,
did you decide consciously that you're going to change your approach?
Well, I had to change something.
I couldn't get no air play.
♪ One more time now! ♪
♪ I'm walkin' the floor over you ♪
♪ Walkin' the floor Walkin' the floor ♪
♪ Can't sleep a wink that is true ♪
[Jerry] "Great Balls of Fire."
- Remember that record? - Mm-hmm.
The flip side of it, I got a gold record for.
You won again. Hank Williams Jr., the number one country record.
[vocalizing]
[audience applauding]
So I've been signing contracts, sang all of it.
[audience applauding]
[playing "You Win Again"]
♪ The news is out ♪
♪ All over town ♪
♪ That you've been seen ♪
♪ Out runnin' around ♪
♪ Yes, I know that I ♪
♪ Should leave, but then ♪
♪ I just can't go ♪
♪ You win again ♪
♪ This heart of mine ♪
♪ Could never see ♪
♪ What everybody ♪
♪ Knew but me ♪
♪ Just trusting you ♪
♪ You know that was my great sin ♪
♪ Darlin', I just can't go ♪
♪ You win again ♪
♪ Oh, yeah! ♪
♪ Yeah! ♪
♪ This heart of mine ♪
♪ Could never see ♪
♪ What everybody knew ♪
♪ But me ♪
♪ Well, I just trusted you ♪
♪ Was my great sin ♪
♪ You know that I just can't go ♪
♪ You win again ♪
♪ What can I do? ♪
♪ You win again ♪
[audience cheering]
[man] Since you've been working, can you give us some estimate
of the number of titles you've recorded?
How many songs altogether?
Lord, I... I swear, killer.
- I don't know. I call everybody "killer." - [man chuckles]
I... I don't know. I've... I've recorded
- nine zillion songs. - [man] Yeah.
I've had 14 number one hit records in the last three years,
- uh, in the country western field of music in the States. - Is it?
- And, of course, now I can go back to 1956. - Mmm.
"Great Balls of Fire," "Crazy Arms," "Whole Lotta Shakin'."
"You Won again," "Breathless," "High School Confidential."
And... there's several records on the back.
[man] Do you want to be, "The greatest live show on Earth?" End of quote.
You don't want a... a intro act.
You don't want a follow act. Why?
Because I really don't think there's anybody qualified.
I've been my own man. I've done my own thing.
Uh, they've called me this. They've called me that.
And they've said this about me.
But there ain't no following me.
[man] Were you arrogant? Were you conceited, you know?
[Jerry] No. No. Never.
I've never been conceited.
I knew I have enough confidence in myself
that I really wasn't worried about anybody following me.
[man] Mmm-hmm.
And like Hank Williams said,
"Just move over, little dog. Big dog's moving in."
[both laughing]
♪ Come on over, baby ♪
♪ Whole lotta shakin' goin' on ♪
[audience applauding]
♪ Come on over, baby ♪
♪ Baby, you can't go wrong ♪
♪ Jerry Lee Lewis ain't fakin' ♪
♪ Got a whole lotta shakin' goin' on ♪
♪ Yeah! ♪
- [audience cheering] - [vocalizing]
[vocalizing continues]
♪ Whole lotta shakin' goin' on ♪
♪ Goin' on ♪
[audience applauding]
[playing "Autumn Leaves"]
♪ The falling leaves ♪
♪ Drift by my window ♪
♪ The autumn leaves ♪
♪ All red and gold ♪
♪ I see your lips ♪
[man] What'd your dad do for a living? What kind of a man was he?
♪ Your summer kisses ♪
[Jerry] He was a... he was a farmer, a great man.
♪ The sunburned hands... ♪
And, uh, my mother was a great lady
and I had the greatest parents in the world.
They bought me a piano when I was eight years old.
They mortgaged the home to buy me a piano.
It was the greatest sounding piano I ever heard in my life.
And I... I would imagine any piano would have sounded
that good to me at the time, and I lived with that piano.
Uh, I sat on a piano stool five, six, seven hours a day.
Day in and day out.
I loved it and my mother walked by and was listening
and she told my dad, she said,
"Elmo, he... he's going to be a natural-born pianist."
And he... And Dad said, "Yeah, he might be a piano player."
And so, unless there is a difference between a pianist
and a piano player, I don't know.
We're still working on that one.
To go back to my childhood,
well, all the families, like my cousin Mickey,
Jimmy, a whole flock of cousins,
we all played piano and sang and...
but I'm the one that had the piano.
Eventually, they all got a piano.
But they... they never did quite get it.
Mickey, Jerry Lee just told on you,
said that you have been stealing his music
since you were three years old.
No, I didn't say that!
[man] We're going to put the cousins together.
Let's relive the old days in Ferriday, Louisiana.
Here's Jerry and Mickey!
- Thank you. - [audience applauding]
♪ What those five foot could do ♪
♪ Has anybody seen my girl? ♪
♪ Coochie woo, coochie coo ♪
♪ Coochie, coochie, coochie woo ♪
♪ Has anybody seen my girl? ♪ All right, Jerry.
♪ Here now, if you run into a five-foot two ♪
♪ Covered with fur ♪
♪ Diamond rings and all them things ♪
♪ Bet your life, Mickey it ain't her ♪
♪ Coochie love, coochie woo ♪
♪ Coochie, coochie, coochie coo ♪
♪ Has anybody seen my girl? ♪
- ♪ Oh, yeah!♪ - ♪ Yeah!♪
[together] ♪ Has anybody seen my girl? ♪
[audience applauding]
All right!
Mickey's mother, uh, told me,
she said, "Mickey wants a piano."
She said, "Will you teach him how to play it if I get him one?"
I was just beginning to play, myself.
Between Jimmy, Mickey and yourself,
there's not a lot of age difference, is it?
It was just like a few months or something?
- About nine to ten, twelve months. - Is that right?
We all would play and Jimmy was playing
- and we were all playing, you know. - Did you guys have lessons?
- or was this just in you? - No, we just taught ourselves to play.
- You taught yourselves... - Well, actually, it was very easy
for me to pick up because he was already playing.
So every time that Jerry would do something I could watch him.
Who was the most attractive to the girls?
Was it Mickey, or you, Jerry Lee? Or was it Jimmy?
- Had to be Jerry. - [audience titters]
He... he got... He got all the girls.
- [woman] Oh, he did? - Really?
- Played the piano. - Well, I got them at first
and Mickey stole them.
- [laughing] - [man] Oh, I see.
He was kind of waiting in the wings.
Yeah. Oh, Jimmy didn't have a chance.
♪ I could ♪
♪ Have fallen ♪
♪ My soul cast way down ♪
[man] Wonderful!
[speaking indistinctly]
[Jimmy] He said, "I'm going to be the biggest thing in the world."
I asked him. I said, "Yeah, yes, Jerry.
"But... but what about your soul?"
♪ ...is their delight ♪
"How about your soul?"
♪ Singin' all night Drinkin' wine ♪
♪ Spo-dee-o-dee drinkin' wine ♪
♪ Wine spo-dee-o-dee drinkin' wine ♪
♪ Drinkin' wine pass that bottle to me ♪
Take one, child.
♪ Some buys a gallon ♪
♪ Some buys a quart ♪
♪ When you buy black beer ♪
♪ Now you're doin' things smart ♪
♪ Kickin' down a window knockin' down doors ♪
♪ Drop, drop, drop...♪
"Drinking Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee," I remember that very well.
Well, I remember my my aunt Minnie Bell Swaggart,
Jimmy's mother, she got on me about that song.
She said, "Now, Jerry, that's not a Christian song."
I said, "I don't... I don't know. I think it's a good song."
Aunt Minnie bursts in that it's not a Christian song.
I said, "No, but it's a good boogie woogie song."
- ♪ Drinkin' wine ♪ - ♪ Oh, boy ♪
♪ Pass that bottle to me ♪
♪ Yeah ♪
[Jerry] We've always been close with family
and Mickey is my first cousin. Jimmy is my first cousin.
I'm their first cousin.
- [audience laughing] - [man] yeah.
I had so many first cousins, I had to marry one of 'em.
- [hosts cackling] - [Jimmy] Oh, no.
[playing "Lewis Boogie"]
♪ My name is Jerry Lee Lewis ♪
♪ I come from Ferriday, Louisiana ♪
♪ I'm gonna do you a little boogie on this here piano ♪
♪ Doing mighty fine I'm gonna make you shake it ♪
♪ I'll make you do it and make you do it ♪
♪ Do it, do it until you break it ♪
♪ It's called the Lewis boogie The Lewis way ♪
♪ I like to do my boogie woogie every day ♪
Now come on, Jimmy...
[speaking indistinctly]
Baby, get 'em!
I mean, I love Jerry because I think he's... he's the best talent in the family.
I've stated that for years.
I still think so.
He's never felt any different.
♪ Well, down in New Orleans the land of dreams ♪
♪ The best doggone place, son you have ever seen ♪
♪ The cats go wild do a boogie that's hot ♪
♪ My boogie woogie makes you want to stop and do the bop ♪
♪ It's called the Lewis boogie The Lewis way ♪
♪ I like to do my boogie woogie every day, yeah ♪
[indistinct shouting]
♪ Yeah! All right!♪
♪ All right! ♪
♪ Lewis boogie, Lewis way ♪
♪ Me and Mickey do a boogie every day ♪
[audience applauding]
A lot of people that see you on stage
think you're completely out of control.
Are you ever out of control when you're on stage?
I would never think that I would be out of control.
But you're pretty active on stage.
That's why people, I guess, have that impression.
Probably so, killer. Yeah, I was pretty active on stage.
I had to be. You had a lot of competition, to fight.
You know, Elvis Presley up there, jumping all over the place.
Little Richard jumping all over pianos and everything.
So I needed to do something. So I just kicked my piano stool back.
Are you ready?
Well, let's go one time then.
- [audience cheering] - ♪ Baby, shake it ♪
♪ A whole lotta shakin' goin' on ♪
♪ All right, all right ♪
♪ I said shake, baby, shake ♪
♪ Shake it, baby, shake it ♪
♪ Move it, baby, move it ♪
♪ Move Honey, I ain't fakin' ♪
♪ A whole lotta shakin' goin' on ♪
[Jerry] The fans are so loyal, and I love them very much.
And when I do a show for 'em, I work.
[lips trilling]
♪ Yeah ♪
They know when they come to see Jerry Lee Lewis,
and they pay to get in the door that they are going to see a show.
♪ Shake it, baby, shake it ♪
♪ Come on, do the shake baby, shake ♪
♪ We ain't gonna let it break ♪
Sitting there playing. I was good.
I was going great enough.
♪ Come on, come on ♪
[Jerry] There had to be some more excitement,
the more we added to it, you know?
A little kicking the stool back was... was good.
Jumping up on the piano was something... that was the deal.
[crowd cheering]
When I was really young, hop upon it.
♪ Oh, do the shake ♪
♪ Baby, shake ♪
♪ Shake, baby, shake ♪
♪ Shake, baby, let it shake ♪
♪ Shake, make it shake ♪
♪ Come on, come on ♪
♪ Yeah, yeah ♪
♪ Shake, baby, shake ♪
I don't try that today,
but I might give it another shot before I die. I don't know.
♪ Come on, come on ♪
I think I was caught up in music when I was born.
I heard music in church.
I heard music on street corners.
Um, I heard these people
struttin' around Ferriday, Louisiana,
on, uh, street corners, just picking the blues
on little guitars, you know.
Uh, they were colored people
and they were... laying something down I liked.
I don't... I didn't know what it was, but I knew it was good.
And I had to get involved with it. I knew that.
Ain't as big a house. It was a pretty large place.
It was right on Main Street of Ferriday,
going out through color town.
And they always came in on those big buses, you know?
And I could tell when one was coming into town,
and he would have a... a big name,
and he had all the... the great blues singers that come through there,
one more at a time or another, you know, and I... I never missed one of them.
I could sneak in there through a window or something.
Mr. Haney himself was a big colored man.
He was a great big man, bigger as a door.
And he could just pick you up, and throw you like a football if he wanted to, you know,
He caught me in there a few times and put me out.
He said, "Boy, if your uncle Lee Calhoun caught you in here,
your mama or daddy caught you, they'd kill me.
And I'd sneak back in again.
And that's where the rhythm and blues
and the gut bucket blues and the dancing
and the rock and roll came, and that's where it come from.
And I knew that's where it was coming from.
Well, that was my side of the fence,
and it was either Haney's big house or at my house.
That's about the way it was.
Well, I kind of... I wanted... And I know this must sound stupid to a lot of people,
but it would kind of be like at that time, looking back,
it would kind of be like strolling through heaven.
Walking by Haney's big house.
Hearing BB King picking the blues.
A guitar coming out, and singing those blues
and a drummer wailing behind him.
An old, big stand-up bass, getting on with the program, you know.
To me as a man, that's... that's music.
I shaped myself around that.
That's... that's me.
That's got to be me right there.
The Killer, Mr. Jerry Lee Lewis!
[audience cheering]
Okay, I thought it was Wednesday.
I thought we were off tonight.
[playing "Down The Line"]
♪ Well, you can't be my lovin' baby ♪
♪ You ain't got the style ♪
♪ I'm a-gonna get me some real gone love ♪
♪ That'll drive a cool cat wild ♪
♪ I wanna move ♪
♪ Move on down the line ♪
♪ I'm a-gonna get some little lovin' ♪
♪ I wanna do it do it all the time ♪
Oh!
♪ Yeah, I'm gonna show you ain't so hot ♪
♪ I'm gonna get something that you ain't got ♪
♪ She's gonna be sweet, she won't do me wrong ♪
♪ Lay it down baby, do it all night long ♪
♪ Move, move on down the line ♪
♪ Boogie woogie time baby Rockin', rollin' all the time ♪
♪ Yeah, boy ♪
♪ Well, I wanna move on down the line ♪
♪ I'm gonna get me a gal truly fine ♪
♪ She can't be square she can't be slow ♪
♪ And when she starts a-struttin' you know ♪
♪ She's gotta go, I'm gonna move ♪
♪ Move on down the line ♪
♪ I'd love to do it ♪
♪ All the time ♪
♪ Oh! ♪
♪ Well, you can't be my lovin' baby ♪
♪ You ain't got the style ♪
♪ I'm a-gonna get some real gone love ♪
♪ I'm gonna drive a cool cat wild ♪
♪ I wanna move ♪
♪ Move, move, move ♪
♪ Move on down the line ♪
♪ Move, move down the line ♪
♪ I'm gonna get a little lovin' and it's gonna be all so fine ♪
- ♪ Move ♪ - ♪ Sing it, Tom ♪
♪ Well, I'm gonna move on ♪
- ♪ Down the line ♪ - ♪ Yeah ♪
♪ Get some love gonna make some time ♪
♪ She'll be sweet won't do me wrong ♪
♪ She'll be cool and twice as gone ♪
- ♪ Move ♪ - ♪ Move it, baby ♪
♪ Movin' on down the line ♪
- ♪ Gotta move on down ♪ - ♪ Yeah ♪
♪ Well, I'm gonna do right ♪
♪ Do right all the time ♪
♪ Yeah ♪
♪ I wanna do right ♪
♪ Do right all the time ♪
♪ Yeah! ♪
[audience applauding]
♪ Gonna tell Aunt Mary 'bout Uncle John ♪
♪ He claim he has the misery but he's havin' a lot of fun ♪
- ♪ Yeah, baby ♪ - ♪ Whoo ♪
♪ Oh, baby! ♪
- ♪ Lotta lovin' tonight ♪ - ♪ Yeah! ♪
♪ Well, long tall Sally, you know she's built for speed ♪
- ♪ She's got... ♪ - ♪ Everything that Jimmy Lee needs ♪
♪ Oh, baby ♪
[Jerry] There's some good church singing from the Bible.
And I was caught up in that real heavily too.
I loved it. I learned a lot from the Pentecostal Church.
My church down in Louisiana, a little small
Assembly of God church, they sang.
♪ Well, I saw Uncle John with bald-headed Sally ♪
♪ He saw Aunt Mary coming and he ducked back in the alley ♪
The spirit rose up, it was good.
♪ Come on, baby ♪
♪ Ooh, honey ♪
[Jerry] I just love that style of music.
People are just into it.
And always will be good.
♪ We're gonna have some fun tonight ♪
♪ Havin' me some fun tonight ♪
♪ Everything'll be all right ♪
♪ Oh, we're gonna have some fun ♪
[scatting]
[audience applauding]
♪ When the shadows of this ol' life are gone ♪
♪ Jerry Lee Lewis will fly away ♪
♪ Just like a bird ♪
♪ From prison bars has flown ♪
♪ Soon I'm going to fly away ♪
♪ I will ♪
- ♪ Fly away ♪ - ♪ Oh, glory, I ♪
♪ I'll fly away ♪
♪ When I die ♪
♪ Hallelujah, by and by ♪
♪ I'll fly away ♪
♪ Just a few more ♪
♪ Weary days and then, Lord ♪
♪ I'll fly away ♪
♪ To a land ♪
♪ Where joy would never end ♪
♪ I'll fly away ♪
♪ Yeah! ♪
♪ I'll fly away Oh glory, I ♪
♪ I'll fly away ♪
♪ When I die ♪
♪ Hallelujah, bye and bye ♪
♪ I'll fly away ♪
♪ Well, some glad morning ♪
♪ When this life is o'er ♪
♪ I'll...♪ ♪
Jerry Lee Lewis surviving success.
And I just thank God.
I'm so glad and thank Jesus that he had held on,
and he has been through a lot.
But God's going to take him through all of it.
♪ Oh, I'll fly away ♪
♪ Oh, glory, I ♪
♪ I'll fly away ♪
♪ When I die ♪
♪ Hallelujah, by and by ♪
♪ I'll fly ♪
♪ Fly away ♪
[vocalizing]
I was told you were in Bible college or Bible school, at one time.
- Is that... - Yes, Bible college, you're right.
I... I was in Bible college for a couple of years
and, uh, in chapel one morning,
this little, young preacher wanted me to back him up on piano
- while he sang "My God Is Real." And he... - Mmm-hmm.
You know, he done it, he done like he says, uh,
uh, he said...
[in thick accent] ♪ There are some things ♪
- [playing mellow piano music] - ♪ I may not know ♪
[in normal voice] I said, "whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, son.
-"Just a minute," you know. - Mm-hmm.
I said, "You want the song to go over with the people,
"you want to really be heard by God and everybody?"
He said, "Uh, sure."
I said, "Well, do it like this here."
- ♪ There are some things ♪ - [playing upbeat piano music]
- ♪ I may not know ♪ - [laughing]
Well, he did it and it brought the house down and I got kicked out of school.
Jerry Lee Lewis, this is the first time we've seen you here with a beard.
And I believe you're growing it for a purpose, right?
Well, you got into that quick, didn't you?
[chuckles]
Yes, I'm growing the beard for a movie.
- What's it about? - The name of the movie is The Carpenter.
And I know this is going to shock a lot of folks.
But I'm doing the story of Christ.
I always knew right from wrong.
And, yeah, I've done a little testifying in church before.
I don't claim to be a real Christian person.
I... I'm a Christian-minded person, Richard, but...
[playing "I Can Hear My Savior Calling"]
♪ I can hear ♪
♪ My Savior calling ♪
♪ I can hear ♪
♪ My Savior calling ♪
♪ I can hear ♪
♪ My savior calling ♪
♪ Take thy cross ♪
♪ And follow ♪
♪ Follow me ♪
[Jerry] You can do good, Mr. Phillips, don't get me wrong.
[Phillips] Wait a minute. Now, when I say do good...
[Jerry] You can have a kind heart.
[Phillips] I don't mean. I don't...
You can help people. You can save souls.
♪ Through the garden ♪
♪ 'Cause I will ♪
♪ I'll go with ♪
♪ Him through ♪
♪ The garden ♪
[Jerry] When you listen, when you think,
that you can't do good, with rock and roll...
[man 2] No. No! No, no.
[man] Yes.
[Jerry] How can the-- how can the devil save souls?
What are you talking about?
Man, I have the devil in me!
If I didn't have, I'd be a Christian!
♪ I'll go with with him ♪
[Jerry] H... E... L... L...
[man] Now look, Jerry.
♪ I'll go with... ♪
[man] Religious conviction...
doesn't mean anything resembling extremism.
♪ Where He leads me... ♪
[Jerry] Are you following those that heal?
- Like Jesus Christ did? - [man] What?
- [Jerry] Well, it's happening every day. - [man] What do you mean?
- [Jerry] The blinded eyes were opened. - [man] Jerry.
- [Jerry] The lame were made to walk. - [man] Jesus Christ...
[Jerry] The crippled were made to walk.
But when it comes to worldly music,
- rock and roll... - [man 2] Cut it out!
...anything like that, you're still a sinner.
♪ Where He leads... ♪
[Jerry] And then you're a sinner and unless you been saved and born again
and be made as a little child...
and walk before God and be holy,
and, brother, I mean, you got to be so pure...
you got to walk and talk with God to go to heaven.
- You got to be so good in His presence. - [man 2] Hallelujah.
[man] All right. You're right.
[Jerry] It's what's written in the Bible.
[man] Big china mighty "Great Balls of Fire."
♪ Go with... ♪
[audience applauding]
I just signed the contract for it.
That's why I'm growing the beard.
[sirens wailing]
Next up from our affiliate WSM TV in Nashville, Tennessee,
Mr. Jerry Lee Lewis, who in June of this year was rushed to a Memphis hospital
with a ruptured stomach, he had two emergency operations,
and doctors gave him a slim chance of survival.
He remained in intensive care for over two months,
- and now he says The Killer is back. - [man 2] ...Almost died.
- He is here tonight... - He was rushed to this hospital
late one night with a perforated stomach.
They still don't know what caused that.
We started getting hit records.
Or not necessarily the hit records,
but once we built up a good circuit, was making good money.
That's when Jerry started drinking again.
For the next several days, it didn't appear Jerry Lee Lewis would live.
Two difficult operations. Two months in intensive care.
[Tom] Jerry Lee, you look fine, but you appear to have lost
some weight from the last time we met.
Has that been one of the... the results of this whole thing?
Yes, Tom, I would imagine about 40 pounds.
I guess I took enough pills for the whole town.
Drank enough whiskey to lift any ship off the ground.
I used to drink a fifth of tequila to sober up on.
I drank two and three fifths of whiskey a day
and a fifth of tequila to sober up and do my show.
But what'd the doc say to you, Jerry?
I'm assuming that he discussed the surgery with you before the fact.
Did he go through the... What's that in your hand there? A cigar?
One, two. A-one, two, three, four.
[Playing "Me And Bobby Mcgee"]
♪ Oh! ♪
♪ Well, busted flat in Baton Rouge ♪
♪ Waiting for the train ♪
♪ Feelin' nearly faded as my jeans ♪
♪ Ol' Bobby thumbed the diesel down ♪
♪ Just before it rained ♪
♪ Lord, it took us all the way to New Orleans ♪
♪ I pulled my old harpoon out of my dirty red bandanna ♪
♪ Blowing low while Bobby sang the blues ♪
♪ With them windshield wipers slappin' time ♪
♪ Bobby holding hand in mine ♪
♪ We finally sang up every song that driver knew ♪ ♪
The demons that live in Jerry
are in his mind.
They torment him constantly.
Jerry is daily reminded
by his own conscience, of his shortcomings.
♪ Feelin' good was easy, Lord ♪
♪ When Bobby sang the blues ♪
Jerry feels like he was put here and given his talent
not to raise hell and do what he does.
He feels like he was given his talent to use, and to be a preacher.
♪ Oh! ♪
♪ From the coal mines of Kentucky ♪
♪ To the California sun ♪
♪ Bobby shared the secrets of my soul ♪
I don't even believe in religion--
the Bible don't even speak-- the word is not, "religion"
is not even in the Bible.
Salvation.
♪ ...kept me from the cold ♪
Are you sanctified, brother?
♪ Lord, I let her slip away ♪
♪ Looking for the home I hope she'll find ♪
Do you think you're a Christian or going to hell or what?
♪ On one single yesterday ♪
I think we're both in trouble.
♪ Holding Bobby's body close to mine ♪
♪ Oh!♪
♪ Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose ♪
In situations like that, men have been known to turn to drugs,
alcohol, anything to feed these demons and keep them quiet.
♪ ...please the Lord Bobby sang the blues ♪
♪ Buddy, that was good enough for Jerry Lee ♪
Talk about those demons.
He shot his bass player because...
I'm not certain why he shot his bass player, to be honest with you.
I just... I know he did shoot his bass player.
♪ Good enough for me ♪
- Shot him in the chest. - Right.
Now, Jerry says that he didn't.
He did not mean to shoot him.
He was shooting at a Coke bottle.
♪ Yeah ♪
♪ Good enough for me and Bobby McGee ♪
♪ One more time Yeah, Bobby McGee ♪
- The bass player eventually came back to him, too, didn't he? - No.
- Oh, he didn't? - No, he didn't.
[vocalizing]
- No, he didn't. No, he didn't. - No? Right.
Not to my knowledge.
Jerry's been haunted by a lot of demons.
- And still? - Oh, yes.
- [vocalizing] - [audience applauding]
[playing "My God Is Real"]
♪ My God is real ♪
♪ He's real in my soul ♪
♪ For He has washed ♪
♪ And He made me whole ♪
♪ Yeah, His love for me ♪
♪ Is like pure gold ♪
♪ My God is real ♪
♪ For I can feel Him in my soul ♪
I walked into the wagon wheel one night, I was running late,
and I heard Johnny Littlejohn playing drums.
And he was doing... and singing "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On."
And I stood there and listened to it,
and I... and...
and I'd done it pretty close to the exact way he'd done it.
Word for word. The way he was, he said,
"Stand in one spot and wiggle it around a little bit,"
I said, "Man, that is fantastic."
♪ All you gotta, honey is just stand that thing in one little spot ♪
♪ And then you wiggle it and wiggle it and wiggle it ♪
♪ And wiggle it and wiggle it... ♪
I said, "That's a hit."
♪ All you gotta, honey ♪
♪ Is stand in one little spot ♪
♪ Wiggle it around a little bit ♪
Sam said it never would happen because it was too vulgar.
♪ Well come on over baby ♪
♪ There's a whole lotta shakin' goin' on ♪
It's risque. I didn't know what the word risque meant at the time.
♪ Shake, baby, shake ♪
♪ Shake it, babe, shake it ♪
♪ Ooh, why don't you shake? ♪
[Tom] Well, I can't believe that everybody that's bought
"Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" is gonna burn in hell.
I don't think that's gonna happen to you.
I don't know, Tom. I could not say for sure.
I couldn't really picture Jesus Christ
singing "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On."
♪ Move it, move it, move it ♪
But then again, we're not Jesus Christ.
♪ Move it, move it, baby ♪
[Jerry] Who's to say and who's the judge?
Kind of like I'm capable of judging.
Now, but Jimmy Lee Swaggert is capable of judging.
And I wish he would quit judging me so much on his television show.
♪ A whole lotta shakin' goin' on ♪
[man] Jerry Lee, when you're 80 years old,
you're not going to be banging the piano on your feet
- and still singing rock and roll. - How do you know that now?
How do you know that?
- Do you... - I heard people say that 25 years ago to me.
- Do you think you are? - 30 years ago, 35 years ago, I had people tell that to me.
- But, Jerry Lee... - And I've seen them buried in the casket, brother.
I never had mixed emotions.
I knew what was what and what wasn't,
and I knew what salvation was.
I knew what sanctification meant.
And I knew what being a...
a... a regular sinner, so to speak, meant,
or being the center of attention, too.
But... I'm going to get you mixed up.
[playing "Sweet Little Sixteen"]
♪ Sweet Little Sixteen ♪
♪ She's got the grown-up blues ♪
♪ Wearin' tight dresses and lipstick ♪
♪ She's sportin' high-heel shoes ♪
♪ But tomorrow morning ♪
♪ She's gonna have to change the trend ♪
♪ And gonna be sweet sixteen ♪
♪ And back in class again ♪
♪ Well, they'll be rockin' on Bandstand ♪
♪ Philadelphia, PA ♪
♪ Deep in the heart of Texas ♪
♪ And round the 'Frisco Bay ♪
♪ Far out in St. Louis ♪
♪ Way down in New Orleans ♪
♪ Everybody wanna get with Sweet Little Sixteen ♪
Whoo!
Chuck Berry was the king of rock and roll.
Quote, Jerry Lee Lewis.
♪ Sweet Little Sixteen ♪
♪ She's got the grown-up blues ♪
♪ Tight dresses and lipstick ♪
♪ She's sportin' high-heel shoes ♪
♪ Yeah, but tomorrow morning ♪
♪ She's gonna change the trend ♪
♪ She's gonna get it back to class ♪
♪ Again and again ♪
♪ 'Cause they'll be rockin' on Bandstand ♪
♪ In Philadelphia, PA ♪
♪ Deep in the heart of Texas ♪
♪ And round the 'Frisco Bay ♪
♪ All over St. Louis ♪
♪ Way down in New Orleans ♪
♪ In Louisiana, baby ♪
♪ Sweet Little Sixteen ♪
Well, Chuck Berry was like Hank Williams.
I've always said, Chuck Berry, he...
Everything he done, he wrote himself.
He wrote all his songs and he sang his songs.
♪ Oh! There she is again ♪
♪ Standing over by the record machine ♪
♪ Oh, gee, she's lookin' like a model on the cover of a magazine ♪
♪ Look at her she's too cute ♪
♪ To be a minute over 17 ♪
♪ And meanwhile, I'm thinking ♪
♪ She's in the mood no need to break it ♪
♪ Got me a chance and I wanna take it ♪
♪ If she can dance get ready, oh, baby ♪
♪ Come on, Queenie let's shake it ♪
♪ Go, go, go, Little Queenie ♪
♪ Yeah, go, go, go Little Queenie ♪
♪ Go, go, go Little Queenie ♪
♪ There she is again she's standin' over by the record machine, ho! ♪
Me and Chuck, well, we're very good friends, still really great friends.
Me and Chuck Berry-- My mother always thought
Chuck Berry was the greatest rock and roll singer in the world.
I said, "Wait a minute, Mama, I do rock and roll."
♪ And if it's good I'll admit it ♪
♪ Come on, give it to me give it to me ♪
♪ Let's get with it with it, with it, baby ♪
♪ Go, go, go Little Queenie ♪
[vocalizing]
♪ Go, go, go Little Queenie ♪
♪ I said, go, go, go Little Queenie ♪
♪ Go, go, go, go Little Queenie ♪
♪ Go, go, go Little Queenie ♪
♪ Take it from me ♪
He was rock and roll. For real.
[man] What is your definition of rock and roll?
[Jerry] Rock and roll is...
It's the greatest music that's ever been.
Or ever will be.
Whether it was taken from gospel roots
or whether it was taken from rhythm and blues roots
or Black roots, red roots or blue roots or whatever roots,
rock and roll is rock and roll.
[man] All right, girls, let's go!
[Jerry] I hope you ain't putting that on tape.[LAUGHS]
Boy.
All of my big hit records have all been one take.
[man] You ready to cut?
You ready to cut "Great Balls of Fire?"
I told them, I said, "Just think what I could do
if you'd let me practice."
What did you think rock and roll was?
Well, at that time, it really wasn't any rock and roll.
- It was rockabilly. - How was rockabilly different than boogie woogie?
Rockabilly is the next thing to hillbilly.
Rockabilly is a stand-up, big stand-up bass
with Bill Black playing on it, you know?
And Scotty Moore on the guitar picking,
trying to pick Chet Atkins style, which he can't.
And Elvis Presley singing,
[gibbering] Baby, baby, baby.
- Rockabilly. - That was rockabilly?
- Yeah. - So what was rock and roll?
- Jerry Lee Lewis. - [telephone ringing]
Hello?
Yes. Ah, hello, darling.
Yeah, this is The Killer speaking.
[man] How many wives has he had, now?
Four.
[Jerry] Do I like what?
- Is he married right now? - No.
I sure do like it, baby.
Hiyah!
[playing "Chantilly Lace"]
♪ Chantilly lace and a pretty face ♪
♪ Pony tail hangin' down ♪
♪ A wiggle and a walk a giggle and a talk ♪
♪ You know it makes the world go round ♪
♪ Ain't nothing in the world like a big-eyed girl ♪
♪ To make me act so funny spend my money ♪
♪ I feel real loose like a long-necked goose ♪
♪ Like a, oh, honey that's what I like ♪
♪ What's that, baby? ♪
♪ Pick you up at 8:00 and don't be late? ♪
♪ You gotta be joking, woman ♪
♪ I thought you might fix The Killer up and don't be late ♪
♪ Anyway, baby You know what I gotta have ♪
♪ Chantilly lace and a pretty face ♪
♪ Pony tail hangin' down ♪
♪ A wiggle and a walk and a giggle and a talk ♪
♪ You know it makes the world go round ♪
[reporter 1] Why do you think she married you, Jerry Lee?
Well, I thought she loved me.
[reporter 2] Jerry Lee, do you want out of this marriage?
Do you want out of this marriage?
♪ Ooh honey, that's what I like ♪
That's good.
I'd just like to get out
and rock in front of everybody.
I'd make every joint in town
and go through every beer, three, two beers.
Joint... Fight my way in and fight my way out.
[audience clapping rhythmically]
♪ Everybody call me Rockin' Jerry Lee ♪
Whoo!
And Elvis, he wouldn't do that
He was kind of scared of that.
♪ Look out, honey ♪
He told me that, "Jerry Lee, you're gonna be killed.
"Somebody's gonna kill you doing that."
But... [mumbles] "Nah. They ain't gonna get me."
♪ Shake it one time ♪
♪ Shake it, babe, shake it ♪
♪ Shake, mama, shake it ♪ ♪
So why do you figure Elvis became Elvis?
Because he had a great manager.
Tom Parker.
Who treated him as if he was a monkey in a cage.
♪ Train I ride ♪
♪ Sixteen coaches long ♪
♪ Train I ride ♪
♪ Sixteen coaches long ♪
♪ Hey, you, crankin' my baby ♪
♪ And my baby gone ♪
♪ And it's, ooh Comin' around ♪
♪ And it's, ooh, hey ♪
♪ Comin' around comin' around again ♪
♪ Yeah, you bring in my baby ♪
♪ Bringin' her back You know what you oughta mean ♪
If you would have had the Colonel, could you have been king?
I don't think the Colonel could have lived through it.
♪ We're just goin' through the motions ♪
♪ Of the parts we've learned to play ♪
♪ Never quite together like before ♪
Now, boy, I have played every nightclub in the world.
Every hole that has ever been built and torn down.
Some that haven't even been constructed.
♪ Special anymore ♪
Played them all.
♪ So try it one more time ♪
♪ With feeling, darlin' ♪
♪ Take it from the top ♪
♪ Let me feel those tears a-fallin' ♪
♪ Jerry Lee don't wanna miss a single drop ♪
♪ Darlin' make... ♪
I had been screamin' and hollerin'
and staying up all night,
listening to records, radio,
drinking, cuttin' up, loving women.
♪ Try it once more with feeling ♪
♪ And we'll call it a day ♪
I'll be here when morning comes.
And if I die tomorrow, I will have achieved more than all these bastards put together.
♪ ...one more time with feeling, darlin' ♪
- ♪ Hey, take it from the top ♪ - [audience applauding]
♪ Oh, this one is gonna be the big one, honey ♪
♪ So give whatever thing you've got ♪
♪ And if there's anything left to give ♪
♪ Before we go our separate ways ♪
♪ Try it once more with feeling ♪
♪ And we'll call it a day ♪
Jerry Lee Lewis!
[playing "Breathless"]
♪ If you gon' love me Let's please don't tease ♪
♪ If I can hold you then let me squeeze ♪
[announcer 1] The legendary Jerry Lee Lewis!
♪ My love comes a-tumblin' down ♪
[announcer 2] The fabulous Jerry Lee Lewis!
There is the joltin', jamboreein', jumpin' Jerry Lee Lewis!
[women shrieking]
♪ Well, I shake all over and you know why ♪
The man who doesn't play rock and roll, he is rock and roll.
Jerry Lee Lewis!
One and only...
Jerry Lee Lewis.
A one-man revolution.
His name is Jerry Lee Lewis!
[audience cheering]
[announcer 1] Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Jerry Lee Lewis!
♪ Crazy! ♪
An old friend of mine...
Jerry Lee Lewis!
[announcer 2] Jerry Lee Lewis!
The one and only Jerry Lee Lewis!
[announcer 3] Jerry Lee Lewis!
- [announcer 4] Jerry Lee Lewis! - [crowd cheering]
♪ Oh ♪
[playing "Amazing Grace"]
♪ Amazing grace ♪
♪ How sweet the sound ♪
♪ That saved a wretch ♪
♪ Like me! ♪
♪ I once was lost ♪
♪ But now am found ♪
♪ I was blind ♪
♪ But now ♪
♪ I see ♪
- ♪ 'Twas grace ♪ - ♪ 'Twas grace ♪
- ♪ That taught ♪ - ♪ That taught ♪
♪ My ol' heart to fear ♪
♪ And grace ♪
♪ My fears relieved ♪
[man] Would you set the record straight on any of the stories people have heard about you?
Well, I wouldn't want to believe everything they heard,
because if they believe and read everything that they heard,
I would be locked up in the penitentiary for life.
[laughs] But you can't do things like they said
about Jerry Lee Lewis and get... and get by with it.
It's against the law.
♪ The hour... ♪
I'm really a good boy.
[audience applauding]
- [playing "Another Place, Another Time"] - ♪ One by one ♪
♪ They're turning off the lights ♪
♪ I've been feedin' that old jukebox ♪
♪ Just to hold you tight ♪
♪ I guess it's for the best ♪
♪ I just put in my last dime ♪
♪ Heard you whisper we'll meet again ♪
♪ Another place another time ♪
♪ Chairs are stacked ♪
♪ All over tables ♪
♪ It's closing time they say ♪
♪ I could wait right here forever ♪
♪ If they'd only let me stay ♪
♪ Anywhere would be much better ♪
♪ Than that old lonely room of mine ♪
♪ And a sleepless night a waitin' ♪
♪ For another place another time ♪
♪ Won't that room of mine ♪
♪ Be a lonely place to be ♪
♪ After I've been holding you ♪
♪ So close to me ♪
♪ And won't that old, old stairway be ♪
♪ A little hard to climb ♪
♪ To a lonely room to wait ♪
♪ For another place another time ♪
♪ Won't that old stairway ♪
♪ Be a little hard to climb ♪
♪ To a lonely room to wait ♪
♪ For another place another time ♪ ♪
[audience applauding and cheering]
♪ I say troubled in mind ♪
♪ Sometimes I'm blue ♪
♪ Yeah, I won't be ♪
♪ I don't think I'll be blue always ♪
♪ Don't you thank God for the sunshine ♪
♪ Shinin' on you every day ♪
♪ I just might lay ♪
♪ Lay my head ♪
♪ Lay it on some lonesome ♪
♪ Lonesome railroad line ♪
♪ And let that midnight special ♪
Look out now.
♪ Torture my troubled mind ♪
All right, baby.
♪ You know, Mama told me ♪
♪ She said, Jerry Lee ♪
♪ Remember, son, the graveyard ♪
♪ Is a mighty lonesome place ♪
All right.
♪ They put you six feet under the ground, boy ♪
♪ Some mother-humper ♪
♪ With a shovel The dirt in your face ♪
♪ In troubled mind ♪
Hey!
[audience applauding and cheering]
Whoo!
[speaking indistinctly]
[playing "Singing The Blues"]
♪ Well, I never felt more like singing the blues ♪
♪ I never thought that I'd ever lose your loving ♪
♪ Why'd you do me this way? ♪
♪ Well, I never felt more like cryin' all night ♪
♪ Everything's wrong ♪
♪ Nothing ain't right without you ♪
♪ You've got me singin' the blues ♪
♪ Well, the moon and stars no longer shine ♪
♪ The dream is gone I thought it was mine ♪
♪ Nothin' left for me to do ♪
♪ But cry-why-why-why oh, baby, over you ♪
♪ Well, I never felt more like runnin' away ♪
♪ Why should I go? ♪
♪ I couldn't stay without you ♪
♪ You've got me singin' the blues ♪
♪ The moon and stars no longer shine ♪
♪ The dream is gone I thought it was mine ♪
♪ There's nothin' left for me to do ♪
♪ But cry-why-why-why oh, baby, over you ♪
♪ Well, I never felt more like runnin' away ♪
♪ Why should I go? ♪
♪ I couldn't stay without you ♪
♪ You got me singin' the blues ♪