Speaking of Lee-J, Jerry Lee probably has more nicknames for himself than anybody who's ever been in show business: "The Killer, " "JLL, " "Ol' Jerry Lee, " "The Ol' Killer, "... the list goes on and on.
Throughout his noble career, Robert Lee Bernside, much like Alvin Lee, Jerry Lee, John Lee and all the other great boogiemen, unlocked the not-so-secret history of American roots music.
Anyone who has ever been to a Jerry Lee Lewis show can tell you how Jerry Lee will insert his name into the lyric of a song at the drop of a hat.
Mr. JERRY LEE LEWIS (Singer): (Singing) My name is Jerry Lee Lewis, I come from Louisiana.
You can hear it on the ruckus arrival of one Jerry Lee Lewis on Sun Records.
"Hi, " I said extending my hand, whereupon Jerry Lee withdrew his like a snake'd bit it.
Mr. MYERS: Even before Jerry Lee and the dawning of rock 'n' roll, boogie-woogie was shifting away from the piano to electric guitar.
Rock and roll is Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis.
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He's a nice kid, and when he gets a singing tour with some other kids named Elvis and Jerry Lee and chats up a former child star named June Carter, he's shyness itself.
Chuck Berry, Martha and the Vandellas, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, the Everly Brothers, James Brown, Lesley Gore, Freddy "Boom Boom" Cannon, the Kingsmen, the Drifters, Fabian, the Coasters, Little Eva, the Ventures, Sam the Sham.
Mr. MYERS: In "Hellfire, " Nick Tosches' biography of Jerry Lee, Nick recounts the scene where young Lewis was playing a Pentecostal hymn at a chapel service, and the preacher shot him a glance of reproach for he was playing it boogie-woogie style.
Mike Lee of Utah, Jerry Moran of Kansas, John Barrasso of Wyoming, Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, Jeff Flake of Arizona, Tim Scott of South Carolina, John Thune of South Dakota and Ron Johnson of Wisconsin.
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