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JERRY LEE LEWIS, THE LAST ORIGINATOR OF ROCK, DIES AT 87
jerryleelewis.com ^ | 10/28/2022 | Rick Bragg

Posted on 10/28/2022 8:04:35 PM PDT by Paul R.

Jerry Lee Lewis is survived by his wife, Judith Coghlan Lewis, his children Jerry Lee Lewis III, Ronnie Lewis, Pheobe Lewis and Lori Lancaster, sister Linda Gail Lewis, cousin Jimmy Swaggart and many grandchildren, nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents Elmo and Mamie Lewis, sons Steve Allen Lewis and Jerry Lee Lewis Jr., his siblings Elmo Lewis Jr. and Frankie Jean Lewis and his cousin Mickey Gilley.

Services and more information will be announced in the following days. In lieu of flowers, the Lewis family requests donations be made in Jerry Lee Lewis’ honor to the Arthritis Foundation or MusiCares – the non-profit foundation of the GRAMMYs / National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chat; deadagain; didyousearch; jerryleelewis; lewis; memphis; rock; tennessee; thekiller
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To: Sir_Humphrey
Yeah but PB was very boring. Very milquetoast.

On the contrary, I find him very exciting--his versions of Tutti Frutti and Long Tall Sally are my favorite.

21 posted on 10/28/2022 8:54:05 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: Fiji Hill

Clean living Pat outlasts em all!


22 posted on 10/28/2022 8:54:14 PM PDT by xp38
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To: Paul R.

Jerry Lee Lewis thread - and almost half the comments are on Pat Boone!

Can’t wait for the next Keith Richards thread - half the comments will be on John Denver!


23 posted on 10/28/2022 9:08:42 PM PDT by Stosh
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To: fhayek

Someone mentioned that Pat Boone is still with us. He did sing white versions of R & B.

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“Bad, bad Leroy Brown

Baddest man in the whole darn town”

Pat Boone’s lyrics


24 posted on 10/28/2022 9:12:26 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (Best left handed banjer picker on my whole block.)
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To: bleach

There was three in that family that got..whats the name of that award?

Pat and Pats daughter got it..I cant remember the name of the elder who got it. Think it was a country and western singer.

GEEEZ this memory..


25 posted on 10/28/2022 9:14:53 PM PDT by crz
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To: fhayek

Point takened, but he did help rock crossover to Mom & Dad while the teens danced to those “race” records. I can make the case that Pat, Neil Sedaka & Paul Anka belong in the Rock Hall Of Fame more than Joan Jett, whose biggest hits were covers, Dolly and other recent inductees. Hell Freddy Cannon is still out there as well as Avalon.


26 posted on 10/28/2022 9:16:46 PM PDT by bleach (If I agreed with you, we would both be wrong.)
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To: Paul R.

Gospel Music - Jerry Lee Lewis

27 posted on 10/28/2022 9:19:24 PM PDT by Songcraft
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To: Paul R.
"The Killer" was a great country singer. I can't listen to What's Made Milwaukee Famous (Has Made a Loser Out of Me) without a heavy heart.
28 posted on 10/28/2022 9:33:20 PM PDT by PerConPat (A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground. - Mencken)
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To: Eccl 10:2

He was there at the beginning, early and mid 50s, before Elvis. Who else was that survives? It’s no exaggeration to say he was one of the originators of rock n roll.


29 posted on 10/28/2022 9:46:29 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..Yet more lunacy from the idiot that)
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To: Paul R.
The Hard Rock Cafe in Dallas started out in a location that was a former Baptist church (built in the early 1900s). The developers at the time adapted the windows to the rock & roll theme by having three stained glass windows built to fit - depicting Chuck Berry, Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis.

The Hard Rock Cafe eventually moved to another location and the old building was demolished, but the windows were preserved. They are shown below, displayed inside a Dallas gastro-pub called "The Meddlesome Moth".


30 posted on 10/28/2022 9:55:10 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: Paul R.

Jerry Lee was the first to take Black Music and make it Rock and Roll as did Elvis. Cudos to both but Little Richard was the beginning of Rock and Roll as where his white counterpart, Bill Haley and the Comets. All were great.


31 posted on 10/28/2022 10:08:49 PM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter-deckhand-roughneck-oil field trash- drilling fluid tech-geologist-pilot- pharmacist)
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To: Gnome1949

Got lucky and saw Jerry Lee Lewis,title Richard and Chuck Berry on the same bill at Wolftrap about 20 years ago. The whole park was rocking but Little Richard stole the show.

Now they are all singing “On the Nightshift”!


32 posted on 10/29/2022 3:32:06 AM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Figures )
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To: Fiji Hill
Yeah but PB was very boring. Very milquetoast.

On the contrary, I find him very exciting--his versions of Tutti Frutti and Long Tall Sally are my favorite.

You forgot the /s after your comment. In any event, music is subjective. A lot of people enjoy his music (for some reason) and he is a popular personality so he has to have stuck a cord with some people. I am just not one of them.

33 posted on 10/29/2022 4:41:24 AM PDT by Sir_Humphrey ( I wiIl not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered! My life is my own!i)
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To: DesertRhino

“He was there at the beginning, early and mid 50s, before Elvis.”

I have wondered why people are so quick to say such and such were “there” before Elvis.

Elvis stumbled upon his sound, playing around, during a recording session that would not take off.


34 posted on 10/29/2022 6:28:20 AM PDT by odawg
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To: Paul R.

“The Million Dollar Quartet” was the best production I ever saw on Broadway. Google it, I can’t do it justice.


35 posted on 10/29/2022 7:21:05 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (Freedom isn't free, liberty isn't liberal and you'll never find anything Right on the Left)
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To: Paul R.
JERRY LEE LEWIS, THE LAST ORIGINATOR OF ROCK

Jerry Lee Lewis was Rock-n-Roll to the bone...he had nothing to do with "rock".

"Rock" is a lesser form of music.

36 posted on 10/29/2022 8:05:00 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

Plato: “Let no one ignorant of geometry enter here.”
Jerry Lee Lewis: “Let no one ignorant of boogie woogie enter here.


37 posted on 10/29/2022 8:50:22 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: Paul R.

I see that the byline is his biographer, Rick Bragg, a wonderful and acclaimed writer.


38 posted on 10/29/2022 9:25:31 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free... Galatians 5:1 )
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To: Sir_Humphrey
My favorite version of "Roll Over Beethoven" is by the Four Chaps. Chuck's version might be cool, but the Four chaps really make this tune rock!
39 posted on 10/29/2022 10:12:01 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: Sir_Humphrey; fhayek
Yeah but PB was very boring. Very milquetoast .

At the time, he was the sanitized, nice-guy alternative to the edginess and down-n-dirty honkytonkness of rock'n'roll. Parents could approve of his music, but were justifiably alarmed at the sexual undertones of the early rock lyrics and pounding rhythms, especially on the young teens.

Rock'n'roll of the 50s would soon unleash the 60s and 70s Sexual Revolution that would eventually destroy the majority of women, the family, modesty, public decency, childhood, millions of the unborn, and mental health in this country. Look around you and tell me that's not what has happened.

40 posted on 10/29/2022 10:21:14 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free... Galatians 5:1 )
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