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Jerry Lee Lewis, 'Great Balls of Fire' singer, dead at 87


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Had a studio player on Music Row telling me about a night he was recording and JLL  went out in the alley on a late night break and they heard gunshots,went out to see what was going on and he was target shooting at a neighbors garbage can with his 1911 .45 Auto and they hustled him inside before Police showed up.

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RIP Jerry Lee.

Really is the end of an era.  He was the last of his bunch from the beginnings of Rock & Rock and kept it up until he couldn’t anymore.

I’’m curious to see how his cousin Jimmy Swaggart reacts, lol.

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On 10/28/2022 at 9:02 PM, Alleycat72 said:

Probably get flamed, but having a "relationship" with a 13 year old at 22ish is a problem for me. I believe they have a word for that. 

 

That scandal was in 1958 and Sam Phillips’ brother was Jerry’s manager.  
 

Select-O-Hits, which is owned by Sam W. Phillips and John (Johnny) Phillips, was co-founded in 1960 by their father, Tom Phillips, and uncle, Sam Phillips, the legendary founder of Sun Records.

Tom Phillips began his career in music as the road manager for Jerry Lee Lewis for a number of years. He had invested all of his savings into an upcoming 1958 European tour when news of Lewis marriage to his 13 year-old cousin hit the front pages. Lewis' career came to a sudden, although temporary, halt. The tour was cancelled, and Tom was broke. Sam helped him by giving him a job in the Sun Records warehouse and allowing Tom to live with him while his family stayed behind in Mobile, Alabama. Eventually, Tom saved enough money to send for his family in 1960.

Tom was not satisfied with running the warehouse, so with the help of his wife Lucille, he opened a small record store and one-stop that provided small, predominantly black-owned record stores with everything from phonograph needles to display racks. In the mid-1970s, Select-O-Hits began to concentrate more on distributing and less on retail and one-stops. The retail store closed in the mid-1980s, and the one-stop followed a few years later.

 

 

I spent 22 years working at Select-O-Hits and wouldn’t have had that job if Jerry hadn’t had questionable morals.  I’m not okaying it, but the outcome provided for me and my family for a number of years. 

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1 hour ago, Capbyrd said:

That scandal was in 1958 and Sam Phillips’ brother was Jerry’s manager.  
 

Select-O-Hits, which is owned by Sam W. Phillips and John (Johnny) Phillips, was co-founded in 1960 by their father, Tom Phillips, and uncle, Sam Phillips, the legendary founder of Sun Records.

Tom Phillips began his career in music as the road manager for Jerry Lee Lewis for a number of years. He had invested all of his savings into an upcoming 1958 European tour when news of Lewis marriage to his 13 year-old cousin hit the front pages. Lewis' career came to a sudden, although temporary, halt. The tour was cancelled, and Tom was broke. Sam helped him by giving him a job in the Sun Records warehouse and allowing Tom to live with him while his family stayed behind in Mobile, Alabama. Eventually, Tom saved enough money to send for his family in 1960.

Tom was not satisfied with running the warehouse, so with the help of his wife Lucille, he opened a small record store and one-stop that provided small, predominantly black-owned record stores with everything from phonograph needles to display racks. In the mid-1970s, Select-O-Hits began to concentrate more on distributing and less on retail and one-stops. The retail store closed in the mid-1980s, and the one-stop followed a few years later.

 

 

I spent 22 years working at Select-O-Hits and wouldn’t have had that job if Jerry hadn’t had questionable morals.  I’m not okaying it, but the outcome provided for me and my family for a number of years. 

I've been there a time or two.  

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