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Just so you know this still happens and a couple of states in America today. We really need to change these laws I think about 5 to 10 girls get married off every year.
Even back then this was a scandal. It seriously hamstrung his whole career, you can see a fairly clear decline after their marriage since even in the 60s cousin marrying was kind of weird in the west and marrying a 13 year old was weird even in the south
It may have been legal but was it fair to a thirteen year old. Did it take away her childhood experience? Did she have a fair chance to pick someone else if she waited to become mature
But where the he'll was her parent no one speaks about that I blame the parents as much or more then Jerry Lee. She was living with her parents but they didn't know Jerry Lee wasn't sniffing around their daughter or they were sniffing each othe was daddy's gun stolen if it was my 13 year old daughter Ole killer wound have his ass full of buckshot if not the real thing
Well technically she was no longer a child, but she strongly wanted to get married and start a family. She thought a nuclear bomb could fall on her at any time and didn't want to waste time.
@@LankyJay601 Different times...I was offered a 12yr for a wife in Morocco exactly 10yrs ago this week...still happens(not looking for a wife,nevermind a 12yr old one)!
Elvis partly followed Jerry's example when he met Priscila: "On September 13, 1959, fourteen year old Priscilla Beaulieu met 24-year old Elvis Presley at a party, at his home in Bad Nauheim, Germany, which he had rented during his military service" (Source: Wikipedia).
My Mom was 16 and my Dad was 21 when they got married. And yes we're from the south. It wasn't uncommon way back then. 13 years old is wayyyyy too young though still for back then. Oddly enough, I was 16 when I had my first boyfriend who was 21. I had to sneak around though, and didn't understand why my parents forbid it, and one night, when I came home, tipsy from drinking with my boyfriend, at around 3 AM, wayyyyy past my curfew, my stepdad was waiting. My boyfriend pulled up to our driveway to drop me off. My stepdad came outside, with a shotgun. He calmly walked up to my boyfriend's car, told me to get inside the house. With his shotgun in his hand, he opened the passenger door of my boyfriend's car, sat in the seat, and closed the door. I ran inside like I was told. My boyfriend told me the next day, that my stepdad pointed the shotgun at him, and told him he wasn't going to see me anymore, or he'd kill him. Needless to say, I continued to sneak around to see him. We were together for 7 years. We were engaged when I was 18. But, I broke it off, but we stayed together until I was 23. Then I left him for someone else. I have a daughter who will be 21 this month, and if she tried to date a 21 year old man, when she was 16, I probably would have shot him myself. It's funny that when you become a parent, I really understood then the problem with a 21 year old wanting to date a 16 year old. Not saying my boyfriend was a bad guy, not at all. He treated me like a queen. But, it still wasn't right.
Happens a lot. My grandma was around 16 when she met my 30 something year old grandpa and they married right after she graduated high school (he was big on education and wanted to wait until she graduated and helped her get into college later). Kind of weird though, even back then her parents weren't happy and chased him off, supposedly once even with a gun, but the forbidden fruit angle only made her love him more.
One of his wives was a friend of my mom’s. They went to junior high together. Dorothy Barton was my mom’s friend. Her dad was pastor of the Assembly of God church in Sterlington, Louisiana.
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@@FactsVerse there are 13 year olds still married to grown men to this day!!! Its legal in a few states and happened a handful of times per year!!! Please spread the word and let people know this needs to change!!!
My aunt Annie was 12 when she married my uncle earl he was around 18 .in Kentucky that's how they did it then people didn't live very long back then. There first child was a son he was stillborn.they had two daughters after. They were married to the day he died .he was 58 .they loved each other very much.she died about 4 years later.
In other words velocity brand you just don't quite get it this is not the same moment in time, I have no opinion on whether it was right or wrong at that particular moment you know why because I didn't live at that moment I'm sorry you're so f****** fragile that you can't realize that particular fact but I do however appreciate the fact that you feel like you can add an opinion that you have no business adding because you didn't live there either
@@verlocitybrand2290, the hillbillys of the "South" always got married early in their life. They werenot having "their way" with many women like men and women in the 21st century, but in days gone by, young women's goals was to get married and be THERE for THEIR MAN. I am not saying I approve but it was the lifestyle of these young Americans. The parents of these young girls approved for their daughters and sisters to be settled for life. Leaving their parents' home cut the cost of supporting them. Most of these parents did not have regularly paying jobs......subsistence farming.
@@narvelancoleman8597 Don't throw around such a strong words when you don't know what you're talking about. People used to live like that. And you likely would have too if you had been born back then. You just have the privilege of standing on your high perch today and judging them from a modern perspective.
That’s how it was back in the day. That was normal through human history until around 100 years ago. In Romeo and Juliet, Juliet is thirteen years old. Shakespeare didn’t see anything wrong with that. Because it was perfectly normal. If a woman wasn’t married by the age of 20, she was already an “old maid”. Remember, the life expectancy on those days was pretty short compared to today. And most babies died. If you didn’t marry young, you wouldn’t marry at all.
I'm super confused by all the comments saying it was a different time back then and it was acceptable. No, it was definitely still considered wrong, that's why the fans and press turned on him and his career was decimated. If it was a different time and more acceptable, that wouldn't have happened. I'm not making excuses for Elvis, but the fact that he waited until she was 18 to marry her, and both he and Priscilla said (I have no idea if this was true, of course), that they waited until marriage, plus the fact that she wasn't related to him, definitely made that much more palatable to people.
My grandma was 13 and my grandpa 19 when they married. They had a wonderful 79 year marriage until he died she only made it months after he died. Things were different back then. My grandpa was kind and wonderful to her all her life. They had 13 kids and had a successful wonderful life together.
I've read statistics that marriages with an age Gap end in divorce less often and usually last longer. Often it can because the younger person is mature for their age and doesn't like people their own age. My dad was around 10 years older than my mom and 15 years older than my stepmom (married for around 15 years now) and my biological grandpa was 15 or 20 years older than my grandma (married tor around 15 years) and she remarried later to a man 5 years younger than her (married for over 40 years). Most of the longest marriages I've seen were either high school sweethearts who waited until they were established financially to get married or they had a sizable age gap.
You said, just because it was the 60's doesn't make it okay. Then proceed to say it happened in 1957. Also Loretta Lynn married at 13 and it didn't hurt her career any.
@@nicholasnovak4 If you look more into how he treated her and his other wives,no it's not that different at all. It might be worse in fact. Kelly never killed a woman as far as we know,Jerry Lewis very well may have killed one of his wives.
Jerry Lee and StepGrandpa were cousins…and idk what part of the country you hail from, but that shit was NOT “that common” around here in Northeast Louisiana by the 60’s…maybe the 40s but the 60s…hell naw. More than half his family disowned him for doing that shit…and while i dont condone it…if we’re gonna judge him by our “modern” standards of today, you could at least stop calling him, a 23yr old at the time, a “grown man”…because in 2024 a 23yo, in terms or maturity and responsibility, is anything but grown…hell they more closely resemble a damn 13yo of the 1960s, than an actual 23 year old man of the day…sad but true….
No it wasn't, that's why is blew up. When Elvis's bodyguard found out about the age of Priscilla he said: "I was in shock, I instantly imagined us all in jail."
Sort of uncomfortable with the cousin thing still, eh? It is legal most places because science discovered decades ago that there are no health issues, and even some benefits. As for her age: Legal age varies somewhat by jurisdiction; apparently, no laws were broken in Mr. Lewis' case. Morally, minimum age is an individual judgement and is extremely variable, subject to personal experience and beliefs. Various religions have guidelines, or at least mentions in their holy texts, almost always referring to an age far younger than that with which moderns are comfortable. Nature says one thing, society says another, and the law says a third. To me, that says pick your own minimum age unapologetically, which Mr. Lewis apparently did.
Yes I knew that but its his business NOT the world's business & yes elvis did the same except they wasn't cousins no it was so wrong but back n them days it was okay I guess I don't agree with it but its none of my business back then they did things different than we do today..what he does & who he does it with. Jerry is a great artist & singer.
It's still legal to marry thirteen-year-old girls and a couple states in America we really need to change these walls it happens a handful of times every year
I think he did a song called shake baby shake or shake rattle and roll... something to that affect... when rock and roll was new... a lot of rock songs were called rock n roll... check out Hen Gates and his Gaters..... circa 1960..
If you read the Wiki bio for JLL ,it paints a picture of a vile man . Marrying his 13 year old cousin was just one highlight. Or lowlight. In another incident ,he got drunk ,took a gun and drove to Elvis' Graceland . He crashed through the gate and Elvis called the cops on him. He married 7 times. Most of the marriages lasted for less than 2 years
Many of his stories are not what really happened like that of graceland. There are so many versions of it one can never be sure as to what has actually happened. He himself said that it was just a joke and the cop didn't get it and arrested JLL
@ Linda Easley , Did you know him Personally ??? Are you Without SIN in your Life ??? ---- I don't think so !! ---- are you an upright citizen ??? have you never ever had a bad thought??? Are you thinking that you are above reproach ??? ---- You need to come to repentance from Unbelief , thus to have a change of mind --- Metanoia --- to turn to CHRIST for forgiveness of your SINS ---- HE took upon HIMSELF your SINS , the SINS of all mankind , on the Cross , Tree at Calvary , Golgotha , HIS SACRIFICE , the Shedding of HIS BLOOD for the remission / forgiveness of SINS , HIS death , burial , Resurrection on the third day according to the Scriptures -- 1 CORINTHIANS 15 VS. 1 ----- 4 ----- as the Jailer /Prison Guard asked CHRIST'S Apostles Paul & Silas --- What MUST I do to be SAVED ??? ---- they answered him saying ----- BELIEVE on / in the LORD YESHUA JESUS CHRIST & you shall be Saved , you & your house ( household / family ) they all TRULY BELIEVED & TRUSTED only on / in HIM for Salvation. ---- * repent , receive HIM into your Life as your LORD & SAVIOUR ---- as HE states that a Person MUST be BORN AGAIN by the HOLY SPIRIT --- John 3 --- other BIBLE Ref's. For those who do respond to HIS calling --- Ephesians 2 VS.8.9. & 10 --- Acts 16 VS. 27 ----- 32 ----- *** Acts 4 V.12 , John 14 V.6 -----* as re. SIN , Romans 3 V.23 , 6 V.23 , ISAIAH 53 ----
I'm a big fan of Jerry as a musician. He inspired me to play piano and it has been a source of great joy for decades. But I can't imagine I would have cared to spend much time with him anywhere except sitting at the piano. He was a terribly flawed man.
Why is there footage of actor JERRY LEWIS? 😂 Jerry lee Lewis was never gonna be as big as Elvis no friggin way, Elvis was in a class of his own. I like a few of Jerry's songs but Elvis was, is and always will be the King 👑
Jerry Lee could preach most ministers under the table and wild or not Jerry Lee always believed in Jesus and many times his fear of the Lord was so strong not to mention his cousin Jimmy Lee Swaggert was always telling him his soul was in danger of hell fire! Jimmy Lee never gave up on him and at the end of his life had turned back to God not that he ever left he was just a wild child! He loved Myra Gail in my opinion until his last days. What no one ever discusses is a lot of women were married at thirteen! My granny was married at thirteen and my mother at sixteen, most her sisters married by sixteen. The outrage was she was his cousin but so what? No one in my family has married a cousin but polygamous do it all the time not to mention the Royals! London threw such a fit but turn a blind eye to royals! That’s why they have that inherited blood disorder because of inbreeding.
Jerry Lee Lewis didn't do any more than other men did back then prissy was only 14 when she lived with elvis,both girls n knew what they were doing, they were mature for their age,Jerry got the ax elvis didnt,Jerry was what you see is what you get others hid theirs I liked him thenand still do
People would have lynch my 3rd gr3at grandfather who. Married my 3rd great grandmother as she was 12 the day they she turned 13 three months latter this 2as also in the south state 0f Alabama
Well in case you're not aware of it then, John Adams and I mean John Adams as in the second President of the United States was courting Abigail when she was 13 and he was 23. They were supposed to marry when she hit 15 but the mother hated him because he was the son of a farmer. Finally when Abigail reached 19 years of age she put her foot down on her mother and they were married. In a letter to Thomas Jefferson after Abigail passed, when he indicated his sorrow at having lost his wife of 54 years and lover for many more that would indicate that they were definitely doing the nasty when she was underaged. This was not unacceptable at the time. Just pointing this out.
I did once know someone at one time who was dating a girl of 13/14 despite being in his early twenties. She married him at 16/17 as it was still legal back then.
@@jaysmith179It's all very well saying that, but just because you are dating someone doesn't mean there is anything sexual going on. Jerry Lee Lewis wasn't breaking the law anyway as this girl was over the age of consent when she married him.
People don’t understand the times back in the sixties and before in the south girls that age were married to men in the 20’s nothing was thought of it, those girls were working at 11 on the farm along with big families and being poor it was good all way around. Then the cousin thing third cousin is not that close, again permissible in the south.
Yes I knew about Jerry Lee and Myra did not see the big deal about the marriage that had DSi new shoes 13 the hell he loved her that's why I married her country music singers are so they really don't matter how old you are in the person you married to if you love that person they always say you should marry them it's why man-made of the country star go back and look at some of the stars of country you will see a lot of different things that the rock and roll business would not like
Let s say he loved her but at 13 did Myra truly understand what true love was. Did she understand responsibility of marriage and being a wife when I married at 22 there was still things I had to learn and adjust to and that was with a realistic concept of marriage
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ok bro
Great timing, he just died lol
Just so you know this still happens and a couple of states in America today. We really need to change these laws I think about 5 to 10 girls get married off every year.
Comparing Jerry with R Kelly who locks up girls... Man, grow up mate!
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Even back then this was a scandal. It seriously hamstrung his whole career, you can see a fairly clear decline after their marriage since even in the 60s cousin marrying was kind of weird in the west and marrying a 13 year old was weird even in the south
It pisses me off how he was never charged with the crime before he died.
Lol You really need to lighten up.
Oh yeah, it wasn't illegal. That could have something to do with him not being charged.
@@Laidengizer011why are you defending him 💀
@@magicalenzorizzuto7098 I'm just stating simple facts. You guys know nothing about the subject. It wasn't illegal at the time.
Remember mandy Smith who was 14 to a marriage to rolling stones
It may have been legal but was it fair to a thirteen year old. Did it take away her childhood experience? Did she have a fair chance to pick someone else if she waited to become mature
But where the he'll was her parent no one speaks about that I blame the parents as much or more then Jerry Lee. She was living with her parents but they didn't know Jerry Lee wasn't sniffing around their daughter or they were sniffing each othe was daddy's gun stolen if it was my 13 year old daughter Ole killer wound have his ass full of buckshot if not the real thing
Well technically she was no longer a child, but she strongly wanted to get married and start a family. She thought a nuclear bomb could fall on her at any time and didn't want to waste time.
The shade was everything “ was still Into Mickey Mouse and probably believed in Santa Claus” 😂😂😂
He didn't say Mickey mouse. He said playing with dolls and watching cartoons. But it was really stupid. She was 13, not 8.
Back in those days, there were plenty of songs with older guys singing about girls turning 16 and now being legal and available. 16, 13, whatever.
Rolling.Stones....Cat.Scratch.Blues?
But are they’re marrying their cousins though?
@@LankyJay601 She wasn't Jerry Lee's cousin, but his cousin's daughter... less blood relative than those north of India, and a lot of Royals
@@williamrae9954 still nasty
@@LankyJay601 Different times...I was offered a 12yr for a wife in Morocco exactly 10yrs ago this week...still happens(not looking for a wife,nevermind a 12yr old one)!
She was just seventeen, you know what I mean. The English were so advanced back in the day.
the difference is paul was 16 when he wrote that song
i thought JLL was Great, start to finish ! He probably should have recorded a rock n roll version of " i did it my way "
It's the cousin part that gives me the creeps!!!
That's Liberace in the pictures with Elvis, not Jerry Lee. Priscilla was 14 when she met the King! Rest in peace Killer.
Elvis partly followed Jerry's example when he met Priscila: "On September 13, 1959, fourteen year old Priscilla Beaulieu met 24-year old Elvis Presley at a party, at his home in Bad Nauheim, Germany, which he had rented during his military service" (Source: Wikipedia).
I remember the controversy. I was in 6th grade then, I think. I do know I was younger than his wife.
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I was 10 years old in 1957. Thought nothing of it. Myself? Jerry Lee Lewis wasn’t my type. But I would have married Elvis at age 10 in a flash.😂
My Mom was 16 and my Dad was 21 when they got married. And yes we're from the south. It wasn't uncommon way back then. 13 years old is wayyyyy too young though still for back then. Oddly enough, I was 16 when I had my first boyfriend who was 21. I had to sneak around though, and didn't understand why my parents forbid it, and one night, when I came home, tipsy from drinking with my boyfriend, at around 3 AM, wayyyyy past my curfew, my stepdad was waiting. My boyfriend pulled up to our driveway to drop me off. My stepdad came outside, with a shotgun. He calmly walked up to my boyfriend's car, told me to get inside the house. With his shotgun in his hand, he opened the passenger door of my boyfriend's car, sat in the seat, and closed the door. I ran inside like I was told. My boyfriend told me the next day, that my stepdad pointed the shotgun at him, and told him he wasn't going to see me anymore, or he'd kill him. Needless to say, I continued to sneak around to see him. We were together for 7 years. We were engaged when I was 18. But, I broke it off, but we stayed together until I was 23. Then I left him for someone else. I have a daughter who will be 21 this month, and if she tried to date a 21 year old man, when she was 16, I probably would have shot him myself. It's funny that when you become a parent, I really understood then the problem with a 21 year old wanting to date a 16 year old. Not saying my boyfriend was a bad guy, not at all. He treated me like a queen. But, it still wasn't right.
He should of went to jail. Sad you had a family member that did that to a child.
Happens a lot. My grandma was around 16 when she met my 30 something year old grandpa and they married right after she graduated high school (he was big on education and wanted to wait until she graduated and helped her get into college later). Kind of weird though, even back then her parents weren't happy and chased him off, supposedly once even with a gun, but the forbidden fruit angle only made her love him more.
Met my husband at 13yo & married at 16yo. Yes, he was an older man.
It's not right to teach people how to live their own lifes
@@anatolytarusin4589
'Lives.'
One of his wives was a friend of my mom’s. They went to junior high together. Dorothy Barton was my mom’s friend. Her dad was pastor of the Assembly of God church in Sterlington, Louisiana.
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@@FactsVerse there are 13 year olds still married to grown men to this day!!! Its legal in a few states and happened a handful of times per year!!! Please spread the word and let people know this needs to change!!!
Even for back then that’s pretty weird
How so?
@@cyclismando you're deranged billy.
My great grandma was 14 and my great grandpa was 16 when they hot married and had their first child.
I had heard some of his music in Finland but I didn't know about the marriage until I moved here in USA. It most certainly ruined his career.
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How did he have three wives by age 22 that’s so crazy
This is Hollywood even today.
My aunt Annie was 12 when she married my uncle earl he was around 18 .in Kentucky that's how they did it then people didn't live very long back then. There first child was a son he was stillborn.they had two daughters after. They were married to the day he died .he was 58 .they loved each other very much.she died about 4 years later.
in other words your aunt was groomed and fell in love with her groomer
In other words velocity brand you just don't quite get it this is not the same moment in time, I have no opinion on whether it was right or wrong at that particular moment you know why because I didn't live at that moment I'm sorry you're so f****** fragile that you can't realize that particular fact but I do however appreciate the fact that you feel like you can add an opinion that you have no business adding because you didn't live there either
@@verlocitybrand2290, the hillbillys of the "South" always got married early in their life. They werenot having "their way" with many women like men and women in the 21st century, but in days gone by, young women's goals was to get married and be THERE for THEIR MAN. I am not saying I approve but it was the lifestyle of these young Americans. The parents of these young girls approved for their daughters and sisters to be settled for life. Leaving their parents' home cut the cost of supporting them. Most of these parents did not have regularly paying jobs......subsistence farming.
Wow 58 was nothing. Still, I still find marrying a 12-year-old gross and bizzare. 🙈
@Test Test... so it's true about Kentucky folks marrying cousins?.. I thought it was just folklore...... that is messed up...
I don't think he should have done it, but I can't help kind of liking his I don't give a fuk attitude.
My great grandmother was 12 and my great grandfather was 20. Married in 1912 and no I’m not joking. She had first child at 12 as well.
Sorry...but that was sick!
@@narvelancoleman8597 Don't throw around such a strong words when you don't know what you're talking about. People used to live like that. And you likely would have too if you had been born back then. You just have the privilege of standing on your high perch today and judging them from a modern perspective.
Wow! Is this true?
That’s how it was back in the day. That was normal through human history until around 100 years ago. In Romeo and Juliet, Juliet is thirteen years old. Shakespeare didn’t see anything wrong with that. Because it was perfectly normal. If a woman wasn’t married by the age of 20, she was already an “old maid”. Remember, the life expectancy on those days was pretty short compared to today. And most babies died. If you didn’t marry young, you wouldn’t marry at all.
"it's human nature" madonna would say lmao
I’m surprised he never went to jail for this
Third cousins are distant enough that it's legal. It was a different time then.
13y old?
@@G.973 different time and place. My own grandma was 14 when she got married the first time and he was 20 years older than her.
@@roxismith6122 R Kelly?
@@G.973 your sarcasm is underwhelming.
@Roxi Smith... it's still sick and uncalled for in my mind...
Lewis passed away today!
Truly, may Jerry find peace 🙏
President Roosevelt. married his cousin as well.
Things that go on in 2022 ARE WAY, WAY WORSE THAN THAT.
MARRYING YOUR 13 YEAR OLD COUSIN IS WEIRD BUT DOESNT COMPARE AS THE PERVERTNESS OF 2022.
So you defend paedophilla
I actually learned about this when I was watching Boondocks
I'm super confused by all the comments saying it was a different time back then and it was acceptable. No, it was definitely still considered wrong, that's why the fans and press turned on him and his career was decimated. If it was a different time and more acceptable, that wouldn't have happened. I'm not making excuses for Elvis, but the fact that he waited until she was 18 to marry her, and both he and Priscilla said (I have no idea if this was true, of course), that they waited until marriage, plus the fact that she wasn't related to him, definitely made that much more palatable to people.
Yea plus he lied saying she was 15 because he knew it was wrong smh
He could be counted among many others who had a successful career,but be a failure as a human being.
You recon'? How about McKeek? Negativity suggests insecurity. Check your priors.
@@cyclismando amazing comment, spoke my mind
RIP 🙏
My grandma was 13 and my grandpa 19 when they married. They had a wonderful 79 year marriage until he died she only made it months after he died. Things were different back then. My grandpa was kind and wonderful to her all her life. They had 13 kids and had a successful wonderful life together.
Were they cousins?
I've read statistics that marriages with an age Gap end in divorce less often and usually last longer. Often it can because the younger person is mature for their age and doesn't like people their own age. My dad was around 10 years older than my mom and 15 years older than my stepmom (married for around 15 years now) and my biological grandpa was 15 or 20 years older than my grandma (married tor around 15 years) and she remarried later to a man 5 years younger than her (married for over 40 years). Most of the longest marriages I've seen were either high school sweethearts who waited until they were established financially to get married or they had a sizable age gap.
Ok, what does this have to do with incest though?
I don't think molesting a child makes him kind and wonderful.
your grandpa married a child
RIP.Killer...legend.gone
You said, just because it was the 60's doesn't make it okay. Then proceed to say it happened in 1957. Also Loretta Lynn married at 13 and it didn't hurt her career any.
Cousin and 13 is heavy
"Be, locked up like R Kelly"🤣🤣🤣
What R Kelly did was different
@@nicholasnovak4 If you look more into how he treated her and his other wives,no it's not that different at all. It might be worse in fact. Kelly never killed a woman as far as we know,Jerry Lewis very well may have killed one of his wives.
Man, is that SICK or not?
Not. How is it sick?
@@cyclismando Go away Billy you degenerate.
He was sick.She was still a child don`t care how grown up she might have been.
@@cyclismandostop...
Spare me the outrage. Half the marriages wind up in divorce anyway. Where's the evidence this wife was harmed?
Marrying your 13 cousin isn’t normal, least not in the real world
Jerry Lee and StepGrandpa were cousins…and idk what part of the country you hail from, but that shit was NOT “that common” around here in Northeast Louisiana by the 60’s…maybe the 40s but the 60s…hell naw. More than half his family disowned him for doing that shit…and while i dont condone it…if we’re gonna judge him by our “modern” standards of today, you could at least stop calling him, a 23yr old at the time, a “grown man”…because in 2024 a 23yo, in terms or maturity and responsibility, is anything but grown…hell they more closely resemble a damn 13yo of the 1960s, than an actual 23 year old man of the day…sad but true….
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Elvis did the same thing
It was more common than anyone would like to admit
No it wasn't, that's why is blew up. When Elvis's bodyguard found out about the age of Priscilla he said: "I was in shock, I instantly imagined us all in jail."
Sort of uncomfortable with the cousin thing still, eh? It is legal most places because science discovered decades ago that there are no health issues, and even some benefits. As for her age: Legal age varies somewhat by jurisdiction; apparently, no laws were broken in Mr. Lewis' case. Morally, minimum age is an individual judgement and is extremely variable, subject to personal experience and beliefs. Various religions have guidelines, or at least mentions in their holy texts, almost always referring to an age far younger than that with which moderns are comfortable. Nature says one thing, society says another, and the law says a third. To me, that says pick your own minimum age unapologetically, which Mr. Lewis apparently did.
Remember this is Louisiana we are talking about here
sort of uncomfortable with the 13 yr old thing, , way too young, thats child rape
And now they condemned R Kelly to 30 years in prison had he been born black his faith won't be otherwise
It was his third cousin. Does not make it right. Another man thinking with his little head and not his big head.
Jerry Lee Lewis married his cousin
When the folks found now man they starting cussing
Grown man little gal
Oh my goodness Great balls of Fire
I remember. There was a hell of an uproar.
He was a legend in His own mind.
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Well he did become pretty famous.
RIP Mr. Jerry Lee Lewis.
Jerry will be missed. Which of his songs appealed to you the most?
@@FactsVerse The one I remember the most is "Great Balls of Fire".
@@FactsVerse help me Mr fire man please got it on a 67 pressing
High school confidential was my favorite
Yes I knew that but its his business NOT the world's business & yes elvis did the same except they wasn't cousins no it was so wrong but back n them days it was okay I guess I don't agree with it but its none of my business back then they did things different than we do today..what he does & who he does it with. Jerry is a great artist & singer.
It's still legal to marry thirteen-year-old girls and a couple states in America we really need to change these walls it happens a handful of times every year
Wasn't uncommon back in the day, just saying
Is Jerry Lewis still living
No
Yes
His cousin is Jimmy Swaggart, Jerry died about one or two months ago
The third cousin, Mickey Gilley was the one who passed away
Now he's death
"Great Balls of Fire" is the nly song I've heard and its the only one where I was familiar with Jerry Lee Lewis
I think he did a song called shake baby shake or shake rattle and roll... something to that affect... when rock and roll was new... a lot of rock songs were called rock n roll... check out Hen Gates and his Gaters..... circa 1960..
@@jeffcarlson3269 Interesting
Jerry Lee Lewis was agood singer and was penalized too harshly for marring his cousjn,cousin, of cousins married back then elvis had
If you read the Wiki bio for JLL ,it paints a picture of a vile man . Marrying his 13 year old cousin was just one highlight. Or lowlight.
In another incident ,he got drunk ,took a gun and drove to Elvis' Graceland . He crashed through the gate and Elvis called the cops on him.
He married 7 times. Most of the marriages lasted for less than 2 years
Many of his stories are not what really happened like that of graceland. There are so many versions of it one can never be sure as to what has actually happened. He himself said that it was just a joke and the cop didn't get it and arrested JLL
@ Linda Easley , Did you know him Personally ??? Are you Without SIN in your Life ??? ---- I don't think so !! ---- are you an upright citizen ??? have you never ever had a bad thought??? Are you thinking that you are above reproach ??? ---- You need to come to repentance from Unbelief , thus to have a change of mind --- Metanoia --- to turn to CHRIST for forgiveness of your SINS ---- HE took upon HIMSELF your SINS , the SINS of all mankind , on the Cross , Tree at Calvary , Golgotha , HIS SACRIFICE , the Shedding of HIS BLOOD for the remission / forgiveness of SINS , HIS death , burial , Resurrection on the third day according to the Scriptures -- 1 CORINTHIANS 15 VS. 1 ----- 4 ----- as the Jailer /Prison Guard asked CHRIST'S Apostles Paul & Silas --- What MUST I do to be SAVED ??? ---- they answered him saying ----- BELIEVE on / in the LORD YESHUA JESUS CHRIST & you shall be Saved , you & your house ( household / family ) they all TRULY BELIEVED & TRUSTED only on / in HIM for Salvation. ---- * repent , receive HIM into your Life as your LORD & SAVIOUR ---- as HE states that a Person MUST be BORN AGAIN by the HOLY SPIRIT --- John 3 --- other BIBLE Ref's. For those who do respond to HIS calling --- Ephesians 2 VS.8.9. & 10 --- Acts 16 VS. 27 ----- 32 ----- *** Acts 4 V.12 , John 14 V.6 -----* as re. SIN , Romans 3 V.23 , 6 V.23 , ISAIAH 53 ----
I'm a big fan of Jerry as a musician. He inspired me to play piano and it has been a source of great joy for decades. But I can't imagine I would have cared to spend much time with him anywhere except sitting at the piano. He was a terribly flawed man.
He also beat up a few wives.
when jerry was in grade school, he strangled his teacher , thats how jerry got the name killer
Loretta Lynn Cole miners daughter was around the same age. Why wasn't Elvis cancelled. Dble standard l. Either way it's wrong
Why is there footage of actor JERRY LEWIS? 😂
Jerry lee Lewis was never gonna be as big as Elvis no friggin way, Elvis was in a class of his own.
I like a few of Jerry's songs but Elvis was, is and always will be the King 👑
I knew. And I've seen the movie.
I saw the movie too
Jerry 'LAWLER' Lewis😂😂😂😂😂
Jerry Lee could preach most ministers under the table and wild or not Jerry Lee always believed in Jesus and many times his fear of the Lord was so strong not to mention his cousin Jimmy Lee Swaggert was always telling him his soul was in danger of hell fire! Jimmy Lee never gave up on him and at the end of his life had turned back to God not that he ever left he was just a wild child! He loved Myra Gail in my opinion until his last days. What no one ever discusses is a lot of women were married at thirteen! My granny was married at thirteen and my mother at sixteen, most her sisters married by sixteen. The outrage was she was his cousin but so what? No one in my family has married a cousin but polygamous do it all the time not to mention the Royals! London threw such a fit but turn a blind eye to royals! That’s why they have that inherited blood disorder because of inbreeding.
Imagine the world accept gay marriage as a great thing,i saw nothing wrong with loving a female ent you say love is love.
Free R Kelly, nobody's asking girls out from the club at 1am about their age, you just want that kookie son nothing more
This is disgusting Lewis was wrongshe was a minor than he should've been locked up.
Jerry Lee Lewis didn't do any more than other men did back then prissy was only 14 when she lived with elvis,both girls n knew what they were doing, they were mature for their age,Jerry got the ax elvis didnt,Jerry was what you see is what you get others hid theirs I liked him thenand still do
yes I knew he married his cousin I'm 80
As my mother used to say: "None of my business what people do in the bedroom, as long as I can't hear it from the kitchen."
@Billy Romp Amen to that. It is no one’s business
Amen!
When kids are involved, it's everyone's business!
@@Sum_Yousah well said. What's wrong with these people who've commented above??!
Kids can't consent you sicko.
I do not remember cause I wasn't born till 58
In most states you can marry your 3rd cousin,but at 13 thats just ugh
In more than half it’s legal to marry your first cousin
People would have lynch my 3rd gr3at grandfather who. Married my 3rd great grandmother as she was 12 the day they she turned 13 three months latter this 2as also in the south state 0f Alabama
She was more of a niece 😢😢😢😢😢 then a cousin🥹
Great singer , great musician, an original . R.I.P Jerry.
Beautiful words, thank you for your message for Jerry. May he find peace 🙏
Need to stop idolizing these nasty entertainers
I wanted to marry my 93 yr old cousin but creepy relatives objected and I haven’t been the same since
Thank God for level headed upstanding citizens such as yourself.
😶 Jerry Lee Lewis...What a weirdo.
12 10 2023
The Killer just didn't care.
Didn't Edgar Allan Poe do the same thing..??
Well in case you're not aware of it then, John Adams and I mean John Adams as in the second President of the United States was courting Abigail when she was 13 and he was 23. They were supposed to marry when she hit 15 but the mother hated him because he was the son of a farmer. Finally when Abigail reached 19 years of age she put her foot down on her mother and they were married. In a letter to Thomas Jefferson after Abigail passed, when he indicated his sorrow at having lost his wife of 54 years and lover for many more that would indicate that they were definitely doing the nasty when she was underaged. This was not unacceptable at the time. Just pointing this out.
He's definitely burning in hell
Femles shuold be a least 30 before allowe to marry
Still not over it? Weird timing also; tasteless.
I thought Jerry Lee was dead!
He is now
@@ThomRock Nope he is still alive i looked it up. Looks like TMZ started this rumor.
@@billagond9209 actually he HAS died since I said this oddly enough. What timing.
@@lilsheba1 Yup, 1 min hes dead and the sources says he's not dead, And now they're saying he's Actually dead lol
But seriously now he gone.
Did she like it?
Where were her parents?
I didn't know that happened 😂😂
No I did ok
It is wrong to do that,,
He should know better then that,,
Not happy at all..
I did once know someone at one time who was dating a girl of 13/14 despite being in his early twenties. She married him at 16/17 as it was still legal back then.
He should of went to jail for messing with a under age child.
@@jaysmith179It's all very well saying that, but just because you are dating someone doesn't mean there is anything sexual going on. Jerry Lee Lewis wasn't breaking the law anyway as this girl was over the age of consent when she married him.
People don’t understand the times back in the sixties and before in the south girls that age were married to men in the 20’s nothing was thought of it, those girls were working at 11 on the farm along with big families and being poor it was good all way around. Then the cousin thing third cousin is not that close, again permissible in the south.
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Yes I knew about Jerry Lee and Myra did not see the big deal about the marriage that had DSi new shoes 13 the hell he loved her that's why I married her country music singers are so they really don't matter how old you are in the person you married to if you love that person they always say you should marry them it's why man-made of the country star go back and look at some of the stars of country you will see a lot of different things that the rock and roll business would not like
Let s say he loved her but at 13 did Myra truly understand what true love was. Did she understand responsibility of marriage and being a wife when I married at 22 there was still things I had to learn and adjust to and that was with a realistic concept of marriage
Nobody said shit , nobody’s even trying to put him in jail now
yawn
Watch the tape again. You missed something.
@@redbone5363 u b wrong
Smh
A 13 yrs. Old Girl is Like Eating Fruit That's Not Ripe.
There is nothing to get alarmed about. In different eras society are different. It happens in all cultures regardless of religion.
Even back then marrying a 13 year old was scandalous. That's a major reason why his career faltered.
His cousins were Mickey Gilley and Jimmy Swaggart.
No, it wasn't accepted. He violated the Mann Act by taking her across State Lines, which should have put him in prison.