Jerry Lee Lewis
Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On
The Essential Jerry Lee Lewis
(1957)

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blkstd
May 15, 2013 - 07:46
the 'killer'


MojoJojo
Mar 13, 2013 - 14:35
Whole lotta SCOTS going on! #nannerdance


MirageRF
Mar 13, 2013 - 14:34
Pound it, kick it roll on the floor. We be rocking, now! {#Dancingbanana}


SanFranGayMan
Jan 21, 2013 - 21:25
tonypf wrote:

Back in the day, who'd a thunk?

Indeed. Growing up in Memphis as I did, watching and listening to Lewis and Elvis in those seminal days was about as incendiary in that stultified atmosphere as anything could be. White guys singing and moving like Black folk? Pass the smellin' salts! Of course I didn't realize that at 8, but I knew something was 'not right', which is to say, Exactly Right!! And the DJ Dewey Phillips (the object of the musical "Memphis") on WHBQ putting out "race music" on white radio (yes, even radio was segregated then) was outrageous, but we all loved the music, the edginess that was in the air, but unheard by the kids. Marrying your cousin? Maybe in East Tennessee hill country, but not in respectable Memphis! Lawdy mercy!



coloradojohn
Jan 21, 2013 - 21:19
Hard to imagine, 'cause I wasn't there, but this must have really shaken the dust off some folks and made 'em wanna dance in new ways — and prolly scared the bejeezus outta some others!


LizK
Jan 09, 2013 - 21:45
Businessgypsy wrote:
Maybe because the advent of this song was as notable as aliens landing in Central Park. Consider that the three cousins - Evangelist and commercial affection connoisseur Jimmy Swaggart, Rock and Roll founding father Jerry Lee Lewis and Urban Cowboy movement icon Mickey Gilley - came from the Mississippi Delta fields of Ferriday-Vidalia, Louisiana and were not influenced by cosmopolitan diversity and classical music training.

The strange brew that led to Rock and Roll had bits of black juke joint blues, country church Gospel singing, country picking virtuosity heard on WSM and the fertile longings and imaginations of hot blooded boys itching to get out of the dirt farm wasteland and into something, maybe anything.

Thinking that this was the pop music of the 50's is analogous to thinking of letters as the internet of the 1800's. Kinda functions that way, but predates the paradigm.

"commercial affection connoisseur"??? Is that the same as an industrial debutante? {#Bananapiano}


bachbeet
Aug 17, 2012 - 19:43
One of the best songs from the 50s.


WonderLizard
Jul 17, 2012 - 09:19
ScottFromWyoming wrote:
I'm always a little amused that
Jerry Lee Lewis,
Mickey Gilley
Jimmy (Lee) Swaggart are cousins!
At least he didn't marry them.


tonypf
Jun 15, 2012 - 19:06
ottojama wrote:
Last man standing.

Back in the day, who'd a thunk?


oldsaxon
Jun 03, 2012 - 12:03
So 10 people (and I'm being SOOOO polite) give this a 1...why do you listen to this station? Why? why? What is point?


mrtuba9
Feb 29, 2012 - 08:51
Jumped over to a lyrics search, and on the left side of the metrolyrics page, LMFAO...now I've got "wiggle, wiggle, wiggle, yeah!" stuck in my head {#Beat}


MortimerS
Jan 28, 2012 - 16:43
Definitely a T&A man. At least the kids were well developed... Nah, not really.


ick
Oct 25, 2011 - 14:05
Surely you are going to hell for this one Jerry Lee.




ziggytrix
Aug 23, 2011 - 12:29
This song is a great metric for the darkness of an epileptic's sense of humor.


(former member)
Aug 23, 2011 - 12:26



This song be apropos right now, just because of all the shaking going on...




bhallmark
Aug 23, 2011 - 12:23
Thanks Bill, for the homage to the 5.9-er here in DC. I have a lot of broken glass and two very confused dogs. I thought they were supposed to be able to anticipate these things? You know, "woof woof, Timmy's down the well again?!"


Elroweho
Aug 23, 2011 - 12:23
Yeah! It doesn't get more classic R and R than this!


triviagal
Aug 23, 2011 - 12:22
EARTHQUAKE!! Here in VA today. Great song to shake along with. {#Bananapiano}


Dahlia_Gumbo
Oct 24, 2010 - 13:25
{#Notworthy}


Rooney
Sep 22, 2010 - 21:40
some of the young asses on this forum don't believe in early
rock. i pity them. Killer gets a 10 because he was
crazy, innovative, a jerk, banned, and knew how to play a piano.
i had to ask if we were even allowed to listen to this
song. doin' the chicken in the barn, and up yours younger
set.


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