Showing posts with label Jerry Lee Lewis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jerry Lee Lewis. Show all posts
Friday, March 30, 2012
JERRY LEE LEWIS MARRIES FOR THE 7th TIME!
Jerry is one who believes in marriage and keeps believing! Linking to one of many articles about Jerry's 7th marriage, this one from the Los Angeles Times explains just how close to home Jerry's new bride is!
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
VIVA LAS VEGAS ROCKABILLY FESTIVAL IN VEGAS : APRIL 2011
We're linking to the ROCKABILLY FESTIVAL coming up in APRIL 2011, in Las Vegas, which promises to be a rolicking good time, with RECORD HOPS, CAR SHOW and FASHION SHOW included.
JERRY LEE LEWIS is the headliner... THE BLASTERS, THE DYNOTONES, and the LUSTRE KINGS will be playing. And from the 1950's. JOE BENNETT and the SPARKLETONES, SONNY BURGESS and the PACERS, and the Original MEDALLIONS. Besides Jerry there will be a few from the old days and lots of bands that are playing Rockabilly today! DJ's from Japan, Texas, Spain, Michigan, California, and Switzerland.
JERRY LEE LEWIS is the headliner... THE BLASTERS, THE DYNOTONES, and the LUSTRE KINGS will be playing. And from the 1950's. JOE BENNETT and the SPARKLETONES, SONNY BURGESS and the PACERS, and the Original MEDALLIONS. Besides Jerry there will be a few from the old days and lots of bands that are playing Rockabilly today! DJ's from Japan, Texas, Spain, Michigan, California, and Switzerland.
Saturday, October 23, 2010
(335) PLACES TO GO THINGS TO DO : SAN FERNANDO VALLEY : THE PALOMINO : MARTY ROBBINS
Another club that I frequented along with songwriter friends and my friends who played there was the PALAMINO, in the San Fernando Valley neighborhood of North Hollywood. The place evolved over the years and was open until the mid 1980's. It seated a lot of people but had an intimate feel.
It was the first place people played when they came through town. It was once considered one of the most important Country Music clubs in the country so Johnny Cash came through, as well as so many others - Jerry Lee Lewis, Marty Robbins.
Here's a video of Jerry Lee Lewis recorded at the Palamino... Jerry is said to hold the record for performances at the Palamino!
It was the first place people played when they came through town. It was once considered one of the most important Country Music clubs in the country so Johnny Cash came through, as well as so many others - Jerry Lee Lewis, Marty Robbins.
Here's a video of Jerry Lee Lewis recorded at the Palamino... Jerry is said to hold the record for performances at the Palamino!
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
(287) JERRY LEE LEWIS WHITE CHRISTMAS
VIDEO REMOVED Dec 3, 2010. See other Jerry Lee Lewis posts by using the Google seach feature that searches this blog.
Jerry settles down to the piano to perform a classic and is uncharacteristically mellow!
Jerry settles down to the piano to perform a classic and is uncharacteristically mellow!
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Were Reading GQ MAGAZINE November 2009 on JERRY LEE LEWIS
JERRY LEE LEWIS WILL NOT GO TO HELL by Chris Health is the writer and we can't link to the article so run out and buy the magazine won't you?
"Such myths seemed to envelop Jerry Lee Lewis long ago. He was the crazy one who had burned both ends of every candle he could find; the rock n roll pioneer who did plenty that no one had done before and more than a little than no one would ever see the need to do again; who had enjoyed grand triumphs and a series of unimaginable tragedies; who would find himself adrift, surrounded by darkness he had sought out for himself and a whole load of darkness that had been thrown upon him; who was riven by the pulls of what he believed to be right and what simply felt right at the time; who was swamped by legend and history and rumor."
"Such myths seemed to envelop Jerry Lee Lewis long ago. He was the crazy one who had burned both ends of every candle he could find; the rock n roll pioneer who did plenty that no one had done before and more than a little than no one would ever see the need to do again; who had enjoyed grand triumphs and a series of unimaginable tragedies; who would find himself adrift, surrounded by darkness he had sought out for himself and a whole load of darkness that had been thrown upon him; who was riven by the pulls of what he believed to be right and what simply felt right at the time; who was swamped by legend and history and rumor."
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
(224) JERRY LEE LEWIS - WHITE CHRISTMAS
Here's a YouTube presentation of Jerry Lee Lewis performing "White Christmas"
Monday, September 29, 2008
(192) FIRST JERRY LEE LEWIS and THEN THE BEATLES MONEY!
JERRY LEE LEWIS VERSION OF "MONEY"
THE BEATLES' VERSION OF "MONEY"
THE BEATLES' VERSION OF "MONEY"
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
A PAUSE WITH GEORGE JONES - WHO'SE GONNA FILL THEIR SHOES?
We thought we'd take a pause here because one of the friends of this blog sent us this YouTube video of George Jones singing "Who'se Gonna Fill Their Shoes?" which mentions Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee Lewis as the Memphis Boys.
Thanks George for a great song!
Thanks George for a great song!
A YouTube video of George Jones singing "Who'se Gonna Fill Their Shoes?"
Saturday, November 3, 2007
(64) SAM PHILLIPS and SUN RECORDS : WHO DISCOVERED WHO?
When Colonel Parker bought Elvis' contract with Sam Phillips for his local Memphis label at Sun Records, he then sold Elvis to RCA for much more. Of all the artists who recorded at Sun, Elvis Presley emerged to be the most musically impactful of them all.
There' a controversy about Sam - just how interested he really ever was in Elvis - just how much insight he had that Elvis would be famous. Was he just a man who had a small struggling business who rarely turned away income or someone who was a visionary?
A woman named Marion Keister is the key here.
Elvis made his first record at Sun. A vanity recording that he paid a few dollars to record, "My Happiness," which was given to his mother as a gift. At the time he had graduated from Hume high school in Memphis a couple months earlier and was working as a parts driver for a local electric company. He was not yet with the Blue Moon Boys - Bill Black and Scotty Moore, though he may have met them here or there. He was helping support his family and still putting clothes on layaway. He made this record with Marion Keister as the producer. Of course when it came to a vanity recording there wasn't a lot of production considerations. It was basically no budget. Yet, vanity and other no budget recordings today hold the history of Rockabilly and early Rock and Roll. Marion remembered Elvis. She talked him up to Sam Phillips.
Came the day that Sam needed some singers for a project and it was Marion who suggested he call Elvis in. Sam was impressed. One thing lead to another. Marion had a background as a DJ and as a singer herself. She and Elvis would also cross paths in the military.
Sun Records is associated with many people who were in early Rockabilly and early Rock and Roll. Their attraction to the label has much to do with Sun being "it" in Memphis - the location - as well as a building reputation based on who else used the studio. No doubt as some of them succeeded others wanted the luck of the studio to rub off on them. Did Sam Phillips really "Discover" so much talent or did they "Discover" his studio?
I have to back up a bit here and say that a few people claimed to "Discover" me who were onto my road to success after I started to ride it. I always credited the Akron, Ohio photographer who insisted I looked like James Dean, Irving Waitzkin. He took me to the Beacon Journal and had photographer Bill Samaris there take photos of me for that Roto Cover that made all the difference.
Here's the History of Rock site on Sam Phillips.:
There' a controversy about Sam - just how interested he really ever was in Elvis - just how much insight he had that Elvis would be famous. Was he just a man who had a small struggling business who rarely turned away income or someone who was a visionary?
A woman named Marion Keister is the key here.
Elvis made his first record at Sun. A vanity recording that he paid a few dollars to record, "My Happiness," which was given to his mother as a gift. At the time he had graduated from Hume high school in Memphis a couple months earlier and was working as a parts driver for a local electric company. He was not yet with the Blue Moon Boys - Bill Black and Scotty Moore, though he may have met them here or there. He was helping support his family and still putting clothes on layaway. He made this record with Marion Keister as the producer. Of course when it came to a vanity recording there wasn't a lot of production considerations. It was basically no budget. Yet, vanity and other no budget recordings today hold the history of Rockabilly and early Rock and Roll. Marion remembered Elvis. She talked him up to Sam Phillips.
Came the day that Sam needed some singers for a project and it was Marion who suggested he call Elvis in. Sam was impressed. One thing lead to another. Marion had a background as a DJ and as a singer herself. She and Elvis would also cross paths in the military.
Sun Records is associated with many people who were in early Rockabilly and early Rock and Roll. Their attraction to the label has much to do with Sun being "it" in Memphis - the location - as well as a building reputation based on who else used the studio. No doubt as some of them succeeded others wanted the luck of the studio to rub off on them. Did Sam Phillips really "Discover" so much talent or did they "Discover" his studio?
I have to back up a bit here and say that a few people claimed to "Discover" me who were onto my road to success after I started to ride it. I always credited the Akron, Ohio photographer who insisted I looked like James Dean, Irving Waitzkin. He took me to the Beacon Journal and had photographer Bill Samaris there take photos of me for that Roto Cover that made all the difference.
Here's the History of Rock site on Sam Phillips.:
Sam Phillips at the Tennessee Encylopedia - Clearly a Son of the State! Link above!
Decide for yourself: With Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and many others on the Sun Label, was Sam Phillips all he's said to be?
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
(56) BUDDY KNOX : AN INTELLECTUAL and A GENTLEMAN
Now friends, I've gone off on a tangent about Elvis returning to the United States, at a time when I was on the Buddy Knox tour. It was great to be there when Elvis got off the train, to be part of the party at Graceland TM, and to be considered an actual friend of Elvis' Presley and a few of his friends, people who made it happen for him.
But I want to tell you nothing made me prouder than to be associated with a Rockabilly Superstar like Buddy professionally. When Buddy said "You're coming on the road with me," he was including me in on the road to success.
As I said on an earlier post about the plane crash that killed the Big Bopper, Ritchie Valens, and Buddy Holly, Buddy Knox and I were forced to confront our own mortality because of it. We were grateful to have a tour that was the top of the line with a plush tour bus and a caravan of cars. We had bookings in fine dinner clubs and the best of venues to perform. They had been on buses that broke down and were only trying to make up travel time taking that plane. Jerry Lee Lewis' tour bus was a gray painted school bus, hardly plush at all, despite his success with "Great Balls of Fire."
We shared driving a car and hotel and motel rooms along the way, while the musicians lived out of the tour bus. It could be grueling, but Buddy and I, and the musicians we traveled with lived clean. We didn't do speed to stay awake, but relied on our youthful energy and zeal for entertaining. Despite the obvious stress he always treated the musicians in his band with kindness and courtesy.
We shared driving a car and hotel and motel rooms along the way, while the musicians lived out of the tour bus. It could be grueling, but Buddy and I, and the musicians we traveled with lived clean. We didn't do speed to stay awake, but relied on our youthful energy and zeal for entertaining. Despite the obvious stress he always treated the musicians in his band with kindness and courtesy.
Before it was all over we toured in 47 of the fifty states, skipping Alaska, Hawaii, and Utah - because the Mormons (now the Latter Day Saints) objected to Rock and Roll. We would tour for about two years, using New York City for our breaks, sharing hotel rooms along the way and in New York.
Buddy performed "Party Doll," "Hula Love," and a number of other songs that he had hits with. He liked to go on first, then sit back and enjoy the show. Between his performance and mine, the band played. We got people up and dancing and everyone had a great time of it.
Buddy Knox was an intellectual, a gentleman, and more than all that, a decent human being. He treated people from all walks of life the same and his generous spirit was always evident. He tended to leave big tips.
Sometimes he and I would walk into a diner and the waitresses would ask us if we were the Everly Brothers. (We didn't look like brothers, but brothers as singing duos were popular then.)
Buddy would say "Have you heard of Buddy Knox?"
The waitresses would say something like "Yea, He has Party Doll!"
Buddy would introduce himself, and then play a couple numbers for the whole diner, which thrilled everyone. He signed autographs and he still left big tips.
Sometimes he and I would walk into a diner and the waitresses would ask us if we were the Everly Brothers. (We didn't look like brothers, but brothers as singing duos were popular then.)
Buddy would say "Have you heard of Buddy Knox?"
The waitresses would say something like "Yea, He has Party Doll!"
Buddy would introduce himself, and then play a couple numbers for the whole diner, which thrilled everyone. He signed autographs and he still left big tips.
Rockin Country Style Discography - BUDDY KNOX
Link above to Buddy Knox's official site. (His great son Michael is behind this site.)
Rockabilly Hall of Fame on Buddy Knox
Living closely as we had to, Buddy Knox and I became close friends on tour. When he married my father and I attended. I was in his wedding party. I am so proud to have known Buddy Knox. He truly was one of the good guys in Rock and Roll!
When Buddy was dying in 1999, he said to his son Michael, "Don't let them forget me." Michael promised.
I promise too Buddy.
Thursday, October 4, 2007
(42) ON THE ROAD WITH ROCKABILLY SUPERSTAR BUDDY KNOX!
By the time I left Clock Records and signed with Roulette Records I was at another crossroads. And there was Buddy Knox, the Rockabilly Superstar, there by Fate I suppose. I had signed with Roulette Records, the same label that Buddy Knox and Jimmy Bowen were on. Buddy asked me in New York to go on a tour of the great United States of America with him which I did beginning in 1959!
Buddy Knox had a lush touring bus and a caravan of late model cars while Jerry Lee Lewis still traveled in a school bus. We passed Jerry's gray painted school bus on the road in ours!
After all the radio and television variety shows and record hops and dance parties I had played and sang at, I had never been on the type of tour that Buddy was on, playing nightclub venues all over the country!
Earlier in this blog I posted some You-Tube videos of Buddy Knox and Jimmy Bowen performing on Ed Sullivan's television show and Jamboree. Buddy's "Party Doll" was his signature song, unique with two guitar solos, and a song he had written himself. Here's a video a fellow put up with a song Buddy did on the tour, "Rock Your Little Baby To Sleep."
Buddy Knox had a lush touring bus and a caravan of late model cars while Jerry Lee Lewis still traveled in a school bus. We passed Jerry's gray painted school bus on the road in ours!
After all the radio and television variety shows and record hops and dance parties I had played and sang at, I had never been on the type of tour that Buddy was on, playing nightclub venues all over the country!
Earlier in this blog I posted some You-Tube videos of Buddy Knox and Jimmy Bowen performing on Ed Sullivan's television show and Jamboree. Buddy's "Party Doll" was his signature song, unique with two guitar solos, and a song he had written himself. Here's a video a fellow put up with a song Buddy did on the tour, "Rock Your Little Baby To Sleep."
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