Jerry Lee Lewis - Great Balls Of Fire (Saturday Night Beechbut Show Feb 14, 1958)
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- Jerry Lee Lewis (born September 29, 1935) is an American rock and roll and country music singer and pianist. An early pioneer of rock and roll music, Lewis was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986 and his pioneering contribution to the genre has been recognized by the Rockabilly Hall of Fame. In 2004, Rolling Stone Magazine ranked him number 24 on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. In 2003, they listed his box set All Killer, No Filler: The Anthology number 242 on their list of "500 greatest albums of all time."
Lewis was born to the poor family of Elmo and Mamie Lewis in Ferriday in Concordia Parish in eastern Louisiana, and began playing piano in his youth with his two cousins, Mickey Gilley and Jimmy Swaggart. His parents mortgaged their farm to buy him a piano. Influenced by a piano-playing older cousin Carl McVoy (who later recorded with Bill Black 's Combo), the radio, and the sounds from the black juke joint across the tracks, Haney's Big House, Lewis created his style from black artists who were unable to play to white audiences, mixing rhythm and blues, boogie-woogie, gospel, and country music, as well as ideas from established "country boogie" pianists like recording artists Moon Mullican and Merrill Moore. Soon he was playing professionally.
Lewis played at clubs in and around Ferriday and Natchez, Mississippi, becoming part of the burgeoning new rock and roll sound and cutting his first demo recording in 1954. He made a trip to Nashville around 1955 where he played clubs and attempted to drum up interest, but was turned down by the Grand Ole Opry as he had been at the Louisiana Hayride country stage and radio show in Shreveport. Recording executives in Nashville suggested he switch to playing a guitar.
Lewis travelled to Memphis, Tennessee in November 1956, to audition for Sun Records. Label owner Sam Phillips was away on a trip to Florida, but producer and engineer Jack Clement recorded Lewis's rendition of Ray Price's "Crazy Arms" and his own composition "End of The Road". During December 1956, Lewis began recording prolifically, both as a solo artist and as a session musician for such Sun artists as Carl Perkins and Johnny Cash. His distinctive piano playing can be heard on many tracks recorded at Sun during late 1956 and early 1957, including Carl Perkins' "Matchbox", "Your True Love", "You Can Do No Wrong", and "Put Your Cat Clothes On", and Billy Lee Riley's "Flyin' Saucers Rock'n'Roll". Until this time, rockabilly had rarely featured piano, but it proved a highly influential addition and rockabilly artists on other labels soon also started working with pianists.
Lewis's own singles advanced his career as a soloist during 1957, with hits such as "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" and "Great Balls of Fire", his biggest hit, bringing him to national and international fame, despite criticism for the songs' overtly sexual undertones which prompted some radio stations to boycott them. In 2005, "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" was selected for permanent preservation in the National Recording Registry at the Library of Congress.
Lewis would often kick the piano bench out of the way to play standing, rake his hands up and down the keyboard for dramatic accent, sit down on the keyboard and even stand on top of the instrument. His first TV appearance, in which he demonstrated some of these moves, was on The Steve Allen Show on July 28, 1957, where he played the song "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin On." He is also reputed to have set a piano on fire at the end of a live performance, in protest at being billed below Chuck Berry.
His dynamic performance style can be seen in films such as High School Confidential and Jamboree. He has been called "rock & roll's first great wild man" and also "rock & roll's first great eclectic." Classical composer Michael Nyman has also cited Lewis's style as the progenitor of his own aesthetic. ~ SOURCE: Wikipedia
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Gold, this metal head came here coz he just heard Jerry passed away, he was a true rebel of his time, I take my hat off to you sir, rest easy mate
The world definitely wasn't ready for a man like Jerry Lee Lewis, and it showed.
The Jim Morrison of his time, perhaps?
Maybe because he married a 13 year old. Thats the only reason
@@lucaskoning7118 I'm not sure about 13, but it was common in the 50s and 60s for underage girls to marry. My mom was 16 when she married my dad. Nobody thought anything of it back then.
@lucaskoning7118 well, this was before that happened, so that doesn't apply to this performance
The status quo wanted to kill rock n' roll music. The whole persecution of Jerry Lee for marrying an underage girl was more about that than anything else. I am sure there were plenty of underage women wed back then. (Think Appalachia) The USA was closing in on being a theocracy back then-not so great.@@lucaskoning7118
The true definition of a 50's rock star. Unrefined, outrageous, controversial, raunchy, and wildly entertaining! Jerry Lee Lewis is definitely in a class of his own. What I love about him is the fact that he didn't turn his back on his fans over some tabloid bullshit. He's still the same today as he was back then.
he broke taboos, he broke conventions, he broke morals and he was not a rebel: he was the first real rocker.
@R A R No need to project your personal problems on us rockers!
Inbred?
Chuck Berry is better, this guy didn’t write this song. Chuck Berry wrote his own songs.
@@Endsomniac this is about Jerry Lee Lewis (come on ) .....if you want to talk about Chuck Berry there are lots of videos to comment and yeah he was great just as Jerry Lee is great and there were a lot more great old rock n rollers
This is rock n roll ...this is punk this is metal this is the killer
Lord, I can't imagine seeing this guy live in the 50s. It would've been crazy.
The only groupies were at family reunions!
He was fabulous. Saw him twice in 58 or 59 at a club in Toledo Oh.
@@tandmm Lucky you 😮 I’d give anything to timetravel back to the 50s and experience it all for myself!
@@tandmm where the shows really that wild?man you lucky
@@rwfrench66GenXand cousins! They were both groupies and cousins back in them days.. sure do miss them days
We played this at my dads funeral. Dad was a true teddy boy who loved this song. He always said he’d want it at his cremation. Very appropriate. Miss you dad. RIP Mike Bailey. - the best.!!!!!
@@patricklucas3166 Wow what a lovely comment
My dad passed away March 4th 2019 he was born 1939, me in 73.
It’s hard not having them around but we have to carry on, they live on in us and our children.
We have to keep listening to their music. Take care bud. Be safe.
I learned a new phrase; 'Teddy Boy',
had never heard that, it's British for;
Rock subculture youth, back in the day,
haha,
Rock on!!
@@bikersoncall I’ve learned a new phrase too bud. “Rock subculture youth.” Love it. 👍
@@Jase73 😁👍
RIP to your Dad, he had great taste in music 💯🔥🤙
For me this is one of the greatest songs of all time. RIP Jerry
R.I.P. Jerry Lee Lewis (1935-2022)🕊
Another amazing musician has left us
My thoughts and prayers go out to his family, friends and loved ones during this very difficult time💔😔
He was the last member of the Million Dollar Quartet. Wish I had continued to play piano, I’d love to play like he could.
@@codyzellmer1998 I feel the same way man, I used to play Piano and wanted to become a professional Pianist. Unfortunately I have other skills and wanted to shift focus towards work.
😭😭😭😭 Rest in peace
Crazy to think, probably every single person in this video is no longer with us…
RIP to the cousin lover
The Killer...... RIP. I lift my glass in a toast. Someday we will jam again on the other side. God bless you.
I love this man! To me he is the true beginning of Rock and Roll! Nobody like him EVER!! God Bless
R.I.P to the original bad boy of rock 'n' roll.
May you rest in peace, thank you for the music...
Today is Jerry Lee's 85th birthday. I love you Jerry Lee ❤🎹
Love you more
@@jonburrows2684 Happy Birthday King🎂🎉🎂🎉
@@elisecliftonklitz well thank you honey, thank you very much!
@@jonburrows2684 today is also the 10th anniversary of my UA-cam channel. I purposely created it on your birthday!
@@jonburrows2684 OMG. My bad. Your birthday is tomorrow 🎉🎉
Rock & Roll Legend, theres something that cant be taught
RIP Jerry your music will make everyone dance in heaven !
Jerry Lee Lewis is timeless and iconic. His piano playing and singing is still fabulous today. No wonder My Mom and her friends loved him.
Rest in peace - the one and only engineer of rock piano. I loved your music since I was 6y old ❤️🔥😢🌹
He was pure action from the get go..Lucky enough to seen him live.
REST IN PEACE DEAR MR JERRY LEE LEWIS...TRUE ROCK AND ROLL LEGEND
Hard to comprehend now how insanely groundbreaking stuff like this was at the time…RIP to The Killer.
He really reminds you why the piano is a percussion instrument...
YES INDEED
I know right !
It has strings
Jimmie Gordon so does a snare drum, they're just metal
Jimmie Gordon it’s still classed as a percussion
Jerry Lee.. Happy 85th birthday 9/ 29/ 35 Ferriday, LA
You have lived a few lifetimes.. Here's to a few more... God Bless.. Your the true, "King"...
Today we have lost another rock n roll legend. Jerry Lee Lewis sadly died today at the age of 87. RIP wild man.
I was in the US Army where we got to see him on TV and we loved it.
The visuals they made for him for this appearance were the best I've ever seen I think this was his greatest performance
Dies, comes back to life and then dies again 2 days later. A showman to the end. RIP Killer.
Awesome.
Im 25 and I grew up with 2000 pop which i still like. But the more I mature the more I appreciate 50s-80s. It really gets me melancholial… I which I could have lived at this time to just experience this live
The last King has left the Building. R.i.P. JLL
Goodbye Jerry Lee you were part of my rock and roll history.
R.I.P. Jerry Lee Lewis 2022...
Rip Jerry lee Lewis 😢 🙏 💔
Thank you for this video. I'm learning to play the piano just so I can play this song. America has gone dangerously woke and needs people like The Killer to lead us back to sanity.
R.I.P. Jerry Lee Lewis
This was way before my time, yet I still know music won't be made like this anymore!
Jerry Lee was wild
Jerry's hair keeps the beat going. He was a wild thing.
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He still is, despite being in his late 80's now.
R.I.P Jerry Lee Lewis 😢
RIP the BEST and the last of pioneers of rock and roll
I love Jerry Lee it's nice to see.hem still singing or active and is one of history Rock and roll founders of Rock -and- roll musiction's, no matter what anyone says.🎵🎶🎵🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹.
As a young teen, I always saw the danger in him. So one of a kind. Fabulous Rock and Roll. Long live The Killer!
Interestingly I was born November 2,1958. Nine months later from this show airing. No need to Wonder what my mom and dad were doing that night? 😂
Oh dear
Your mom was pretending your dad was Jerry Lee Lewis... 😉
You are old
Sir, your dad got a pair of great! Balls of fire! 😂😂😂😂😂
There musta been a whole lotta shakin' goin' on ;-)
R.I.P. JERRY 😥😢
Lordy, the folks who considered Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis obscene would go apoplectic over what is on the internet today. Watching this brings back many wonderful memories of a bygone sweet time.
1958 was the greatest year in rock and roll.
Rest in Peace ya piano playin fool! Thanks for the rock and roll.......
The world had never seen
something so outrages to
this point, a great song and
performer.
Chris B, if you’ve made it to here, you remember. Remember the night in Long Island long ago. You remember just as you remember my eyes.
I love you eternally x,
Cindy
How can people hate this is part of American music and he was amazing
RIP JERRY LEWIS... 😔😔😔
We Will remember you!
Rest in peace dear Jerry🌊
R.I.P. Jerry oct 28,2022...
RIP Jerry Lee Lewis, Rock In Paradise!
Bumping this in my car in 2024 and singing along
Same brother
He is and forever will be The Piano Man ❤
I don't know what some come on here to rip Jerry or Elvis. Anyone of you would give a million bucks to bang on that piano and sing like that. Take that back you would give your soul if you had one. This is entertainment at it's finest. How much would you give for a ticket back in time!!!!
Rip Jerry lee Lewis. Watched this video over the past years and now your gone. Will still blast your music till I’m gone as well
Rest in Peace Mr.Lewis
Most people open a door & enter a room with some civility. And some people kick the door off its hinges & light the room on fire- thank you Jerry Lee Lewis for some timeless rock n roll!
Hopefully the angels & saints up in heaven aren't too disturbed by that old piano breakdown! RIP Killer
RIP to this man. 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
Jerry, your the last 1950s rock n'roll singer, stay healthy
The day he pass away will be a very Sad day indeed... He is the last living legend of the rock and roll pioneers... ❤️🎶🎹
great song and the drummer is killin it too
... gracias por tu maravillosa música y por haber vivido en este hermoso planeta tierra descansa en paz queridísimo Jerry, hasta luego valedor 🤗🌹
Me and my Brother watched Beechnut show every Saturday. We love Beechnut Spearmint Gum....I remember this night. Bro' and I dug this song and finally Jerry Lee was on TV. My Father came in the living room and said, "get that negro hating dog off the television" but Mom shouted, Leave those boys alone! The fireballs that flew across the screen drove us nuts! Jerry Lee Lewis always claimed to be Klan but lots of Black folk gave him a pass cause he was so great.
@@patricklucas3166 Yo! I read an interview The Killer gave in Esquire magazine back in 1981 or 1982, the Reagan/Supply Side era. The politics were kind of reactionary at that time. I certainly wasn't surprised or hurt by that comment given by a white man born in the1930's rural Louisiana. He also said that he and other musicians played with Black musicians and they swapped Blues and Country. Can't condemn a man . The press always baited him his whole life. Well I love the guy, important American artist. Started listening at 7, still listen at 70.
@@patricklucas3166 Question, my friend...how come Australia produces so many great Rock and Blues musicians?
Great Balls of Fire!! We've Lost Another Rock & Roll Hero!
Rest in Peace Jerry Lee Lewis
Rest In Peace Jerry Lee Lewis.
damn kids and their rock n roll...
hiraldo mcgoo lol
You don't hear that very often today
Fuck you
@@kodiedavis1137 You too shitlord
nice BLUES
did he raise some hell in 50,s man gotta love him
Made Elvis look like a geek.
Sadly he is the last of the greats to pass away today :(
appropriate song for the great Jerry lee! still kicking it in '21 back in the day it was a scandal, nowadays early lunch. him, elvis, roy, chuck and the greatest of all little richard
RIP Jerry Lee Lewis
Goodness gracious… RIP Killer
I love that drummer, sounds 50's punk.
Tyler Basho Brandon - That’s Russell Smith - JLL ‘s original road band drummer who stayed with him until the early 1970’s!
No
I would give anything, to have been a teenager in that era ♥️♥️♥️
JLL would have been like playing with a box of matches 🔥 😍 definitely in his prime here.
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Insane energy for 1958 ❤️
This is the ultimate Turing Test. If this performance doesn’t affect you, you are not human.
That’s not what the Turing Test is for but I got a laugh, thanks!
It was really annoying. Guess I am a human after all!
Amazing still performance by him. Wow!!!!!!!
Met Jerry lee’ son out in Memphis at his bar on Beale street. Such a cool experience for a Canadian kid. My day born is 73’ was like a kid in candy store with questions. But he raised his son right. Legend family.may jerry lee rock on
The Killer....one of the great rock n roll singers of all time.
RIP and thank you.
This video captures the frenzied excitement of early rock n' roll. Jerry Lee wasn't a singer, and he was a mediocre piano player -- but he was an energetic entertainer. Parents hated him, but kids loved him, because he made music fun again. It all started with Jerry Lee, Elvis, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, and Bill Haley and his Comets. Today, those early rock n' roll performers look ridiculous and sound musically primitive, but for better or worse, they started a musical revolution. At the time, I preferred the smooth instrumental orchestrations of the Big Bands. I didn't think rock n' roll would last. How wrong I was.
RIP Jerry Lee Lewis (September 29, 1935 - October 28, 2022), aged 87
You will be remembered as a legend.
And that's why they call him "The Killer"!
Absolute Legend
last man standing RIP Little Richard
I would not have been able to stay in my seat! When it comes to Jerry Lee or Ray Charles’s music, I just have to move!
rip legend.
you will never be forgotten.
More great balls of fire up there.........R.I.P. Jerry
Merci de nous partager ces vidéos d'un MONSIEUR DE LA MUSIQUE....
Him and Bobby Darin really allowed for Elvis to be the capstone for the generation
Legends never dies.
Thanks a million and blessings and rewards.
no one had seen anything like jerry lee he was wild and crazy and unique
No one saw anyone white that wild, but like Elvis he ripped off music and stage performances from black people and made a lot of money without giving credit or royalties.
Thank you Little Richard for inspiring others
Jerry Lee Lewis..little Richard the only rockers left !
True story. The killer had a microphone on his chest. He refused to lip sink. This what makes him the last of the greats.
Now this is real rock music not like metal or punk music
I love his phrasing of certain lines in these live performances. And he seldom sings them exactly the same way twice. It was however the spirit moved him at the time.