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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Wow, thanks for that post of the stained glass windows! Remarkable!
I think they are referring to awareness of the recording artist in the listening public -- who recorded first, topped the charts first, sold a lot of records early on.
Didn’t realize he was a cousin to Mickey Gilley.
I saw him live in a bar in Milwaukee in the early 60’s.
The bar closed-—NO MORE BOOZE-—but he played & answered questions until 2 hours past closing time.
Jerry Lee did not precede Elvis in that fashion, for sure.
That’s really bad
And Jimmy swaggert
No shit
That pretty much tells you the demographic of this forum lol
Would have been Ted Mack Amateur Hour target audience in the 60s or Lawrence Welk
He didn’t originate
He sang plain vanilla what others originated and that could pass muster for radio and tv at the time
A crooner pretty much like Sedaka and Avalon
Y’all can have all that
I’d rather hear perry como or Andy Williams if I’m going that way
Jerry Lee Lewis along with Little Richard and Berry were the true originators
although Ike turner had what I believe first rock and roll record of note years before
I’m hearing Mantovani music in the background when I read these posts
Looks like they both gained widespread attention in the same year:
from Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Lee_Lewis
Lewis made his first recordings in 1956 at Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee. “Crazy Arms” sold 300,000 copies in the South, and his 1957 hit “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On” shot Lewis to fame worldwide.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvis_Presley
Presley’s first RCA Victor single, “Heartbreak Hotel”, was released in January 1956 and became a number-one hit in the United States.
Both men played as young teenagers in small venues in their local areas before they gained the widespread audiences.
Rock and roll was a symptom of loosening mores more than causative
A huge youth bubble after an existential war and incredible good times
Plus the huge Immigration waves ending in the 20s bringing non Anglo Saxon cultural and political ways had reached power
The Fabians and Frankfurter mindset had more power than before
It was. Lot of things
You can blame LSD the pill and rock and roll if you go down that wormhole
It was demographic shift much as anything
Too many kids
Prosperity
And a new stronger more left leaning culturally urban electorate feeling it’s oats
Both political parties baring Dixiecrats and a few pubs here and there were culture moderates by freepers standards
I blame the youth bubble more than. Anything
And the prostate new reaction to anything deemed prejudice after the media and Hollywood drove home Nazi atrocities
That killed rational discourse about anything touchy about our race or religion frictions
There really were commies at State and Hollywood
To where today speaking the truth is very often bigotry
Yeah Dammit , it was all because of that rock and roll nonsense…..lol
Does Cliff Richard count? He was a bit of a copycat for the sound, but then half the acts in the late 50s were ripping each other’s chord sequences and beats off. There’s more plagiarism in early rock n roll than there are unauthorised samplings in gangsta rap.
“Move It” in 1958 is wildly thought of as the UK’s first proper rock n roll hit.
Cliff Richard never made it over here. Neither did Robbie Williams.
Sam Phillips could not release it for until after Elvis died, because he sold Elvis’ contract to RCA for the princely sum of $35,000.
Sam had no regrets, he paid off all of his debts, and had enough money to participate in the initial public offering of a hot hotel stock…Holiday Inn.
The Quartet is now reunited.
Fastest 90 minutes of entertainment I’ve ever seen. Saw it in Vegas and Tyler, Texas.
Family, friends and fans bid farewell Saturday to rock ‘n’ roll pioneer Jerry Lee Lewis at memorial services held in his north Louisiana home town of Ferriday, La.
https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/family-fans-bid-adieu-music-icon-jerry-lee-92697841
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