Remembering Jerry Lee Lewis

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🗓️ 8 November 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

We mark the life of the rock 'n' roll pioneer, who died Oct. 28, by listening to archival interviews with his sister, pianist/singer Linda Gail Lewis, and with Myra Lewis Williams, who married Jerry Lee when she was 13. And Ken Tucker reflects on Lewis' 1968 country album.

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0:00.0	This is Fresh Air. I'm David Bean Cooley sitting in for Terry Gross.
0:03.6	You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain
0:06.6	Too much it's a love, drive the man insane
0:09.6	You broke my will, the quarter three
0:12.8	And this race is great, balls of fire
0:16.0	I'll let you love what I thought of this party
0:19.2	You came along and you knew that hearted and cute
0:22.4	I've changed my mind, this world is fine
0:25.2	It's just a great ball of fire, just a baby
0:31.2	It feels good, huh?
0:35.2	Oh, baby
0:37.2	Where are you from?
0:41.2	So can I just wear that you mind?
0:45.2	Fine, fine, fine, fine
0:47.2	I changed my will, then I twit all my time
0:49.2	I'm real, no, let's try it, it's so weird, it's fun
0:53.2	Baby, it's just a baby, it's just a baby
0:57.2	It's just a baby, ball of fire
0:59.2	We're remembering rock and roll pioneer Jerry Lee Lewis
1:03.2	Who died October 28th at age 87
1:05.2	With excerpts from two interviews from our archives
1:09.2	In the second half of the show
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