A killer romance. I'm Jason Horton. I'm Rebecca Leib. And this is Ghost Town.

It was May 1958 at Heathrow Airport. Jerry Lewis was arriving to London for a major tour.

A British journalist asked the small girl next to Lewis one question, who are you?

She answered simply and honestly saying, I'm Myra, Jerry's wife. He was not yet divorced and Myra

Brown was his 13-year-old cousin. Today, we're going to talk about the seven wives of Jerry

Leib Lewis. And there are parts that are obviously really bad. There's bad parts. But there's also

a testament to this person who's still alive and the time and place of these marriages and

these women's stories, which I hope there's not a ton out there for some of them. But you really

get a sense of again, like I said, the time and place of things. What music was like the culture of

being married to someone like him. This highly successful, abusive, erratic musician.

So I just want to say that before we even get started. Jerry Lewis was a pioneer of rock and roll

and rockabilly music. He was known by his concerning nickname, the killer, which he used

weaponized after a while. He was very erratic and with threatened many people, not just the

women he was married to. Born in 1935 in Concordia, Parish, Louisiana, Lewis began playing

piano with his two cousins, Mickey Gilly, who went on to be a popular country music singer.

And Jimmy Swagger, who he might know is a pretty iconic televangelist of the 70s.

Recognizing his talent, Lewis's parents mortgaged their farm to buy him his first piano.

Lewis started recording in 50s in Memphis with his 1957 hit, a whole lot of shaking going on,

making him essentially a star, a breakout star. He followed that song with great balls of

fire, also incredibly famous, breathless and high school confidential. I grew up listening to him

on the oldies channel in my town's radio. You'd hear it all the time, soundtracks to things.

He again, as someone grew up in essentially the 90s, it was still such a big part of my musical

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