The next morning, the dean of the school called Lewis and Green into his office to expel them. Pearry Green, then president of the student body, related how during a talent show Lewis played some "worldly" music. When Lewis daringly played a boogie-woogie rendition of "My God Is Real" at a church assembly, it ended his association with the school the same night. His mother enrolled him at the Southwest Bible Institute in Waxahachie, Texas so that he could sing evangelical songs exclusively. On the live album By Request, More of the Greatest Live Show on Earth, Lewis is heard naming Moon Mullican as an artist who inspired him. The hit of his set was a cover of R&B artist Sticks McGhee's "Drinkin' Wine, Spo-Dee-O-Dee". On November 19, 1949, Lewis made his first public performance of his career, playing with a country and western band at a car dealership in Ferriday. Lewis was influenced by a piano-playing older cousin, Carl McVoy (who later recorded with Bill Black's Combo), the radio, and the sounds from Haney's Big House, a black juke joint across the tracks. His parents mortgaged their farm to buy him a piano. In his youth, he began playing the piano with two of his cousins, Mickey Gilley (later a popular country music singer) and Jimmy Swaggart (later a popular television evangelist). He grew up in an impoverished farming family in eastern Louisiana. Lewis was born to Elmo and Mamie Lewis in Ferriday, Concordia Parish. Music critic Robert Christgau has said of Lewis: "His drive, his timing, his offhand vocal power, his unmistakable boogie-plus piano, and his absolute confidence in the face of the void make Jerry Lee the quintessential rock and roller." Īn exhibit at the Delta Music Museum in Ferriday, Louisiana representing "Ferriday's Famous Cousins" from left to right: Jimmy Swaggart, Lewis and Mickey Gilley Lewis is the last surviving member of Sun Records' Million Dollar Quartet and the album Class of '55, which also included Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Roy Orbison, and Elvis Presley. 24 on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. In 2003, Rolling Stone listed his box set All Killer, No Filler: The Anthology number 242 on their list of " 500 Greatest Albums of All Time".
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In 1989, his life was chronicled in the movie Great Balls of Fire, starring Dennis Quaid. He was also a member of the inaugural class inducted into the Memphis Music Hall of Fame. 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. He has won four Grammy awards, including a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and two Grammy Hall of Fame Awards. Lewis has a dozen gold records in both rock and country. This was followed by Mean Old Man in 2010, which has received some of the best sales of Lewis's career. His 2006 album Last Man Standing is his best-selling release to date, with over a million copies sold worldwide. In the 21st century, Lewis continues to tour around the world and still releases new albums. Lewis's successes continued throughout the decades and he embraced his rock and roll past with songs such as a cover of The Big Bopper's " Chantilly Lace" and Mack Vickery's "Rockin' My Life Away". 1 country hits included " To Make Love Sweeter for You", " There Must Be More to Love Than This", " Would You Take Another Chance on Me" and " Me and Bobby McGee". This reignited his career, and throughout the late 1960s and 1970s he regularly topped the country-western charts throughout his seven-decade career, Lewis has had 30 songs reach the Top 10 on the Billboard Country and Western Chart. In 1968, Lewis made a transition into country music and had hits with songs such as " Another Place, Another Time". His 1964 live album Live at the Star Club, Hamburg is regarded by music journalists and fans as one of the wildest and greatest live rock albums ever. His live performances at this time were increasingly wild and energetic. His popularity quickly eroded following the scandal and with few exceptions such as a cover of Ray Charles's " What'd I Say", he did not have much chart success in the early 1960s. However, his rock and roll career faltered in the wake of his marriage to Myra Gale Brown, his 13-year-old cousin. He followed this with the major hits " Great Balls of Fire", " Breathless", and " High School Confidential". " Crazy Arms" sold 300,000 copies in the South, but it was his 1957 hit " Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" that shot Lewis to fame worldwide. Nicknamed the Killer, he has been described as " rock n' roll's first great wild man and one of the most influential pianists of the 20th century." A pioneer of rock and roll and rockabilly music, Lewis made his first recordings in 1956 at Sun Records in Memphis. Jerry Lee Lewis (born September 29, 1935) is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist.
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