I didn't love his music until I heard his Live at the Star Club album. Live, he knocks the socks off his official recordings. I don't think Iggy Pop is wild anymore... What an entertainer!
Went home for thanksgiving and watched my parents tv. First time watching tv in quite a while and let me say, even major broadcasting can't get half as good a line-up as they listed at the end of this vid.
i was 8 yrs old when i saw will never forget it - steve allen was one of the funniest showsw to watch growing - especially when had his laughing jags watch close some one throws back a piano stool
Hey Heater - thanks for the correction! Yer absolutely right - RUSSELL SMITH (and not to be confused with same-name cat in the Amazing Rhythm Aces!) on drums. And yer right about Van Eaton as the studio drummer. Say didn't Smith play drums in Sonny Burgess' Pacers? Tarp Tarrant was later, but that's a gaunt him on the drum riser up behind Jerry on two covers of Shelby Singleton's Sun re-release LPs of Jerry.
This is a great, classic vid, and as "horarwgt" points out - yes - kinescope, which has a great quality to it. I saw this show. The piano bench is thrown back out on stage and slides by left to right at bottom of screen. JW Brown on bass and Jimmy Van Eaton(?) on drums. Later b&w clips of Jerry have Tarp Tarrant on drums. Yes - Steve Allen was way ahead of the game in promoting the "new" rock 'n' roll artists. Also, this number was cut by Roy Hall and others before Jerry.
This is a kinescope -- a film shot by pointing a movie camera at a TV monitor showing the live broadcast. Before videotape, this was the only way to preserve what was otherwise only a one-shot live television performance. I'm glad I got to talk to both Jerry Lee and Steve. Interesting that The Diamonds are billed as "The Four Diamonds" and Brenda Lee was an upcoming guest. Brenda signed with Decca in 1956 at the age of 11 but didn't break though until late December 1959 with "Sweet Nothin's."
@thrund actually the DVD was created from the original Kinescope. Kinescope was a process of using a film camera to record from the television monitor. This was the only means of preserving TV programming pre-videotape technology.
@beatleforce1 Actually it was of a T.V, in 1957. I'm not sure if videotape was in wide use by 57 but it was common in the early 50's to do a show live and film it with a 35mm film camera off the screen of a studio monitor. There was no other way to record the show, this also allowed people on the east coast to watch a show at 8 pm live then the film would be processed and flown to the west coast so they could watch it at 8 pm their time. It was the only way at the time.
@okltsply The version that was watched on the west coast of course was no where near as good in quality as the live show of course, I think that's what you have here.
@okltsply That would require a very fast trans-continental flight but it seems plausible.
I do think you are correct about 35mm filming it off the monitor. My friend owned the original 35mm film of Elvis Presley's first and second performances on the Ed Sullivan Shows. He also had the original copis of the Beattle's first two performances on Sullivan.
He allowed his films to be copied to video tape but I think the quality of the original was better.
@GregAllen92 I know it's correct, at least the filming of the monitor part. I'm pretty sure they flew the film out to the west coast and this is why many shows were done in New York(time shifting) but I may be wrong. I read about this a long time ago so some of it is fuzzy, that and I just found out recently that the Beatles '64 show in Washington was later transmitted to movie theaters via phone lines then projected on to the theater screen. I was amazed by this because(cont.)
@okltsply first of all i didn't think It was possible to transmit video in real time in 1964 over the pre-internet phone system. I know ATT was working on a videophone around that time. The theater would receive the video signal then project it onto the screen,what they used to interface to the projector is what baffles me I tried researching on the web but had no luck if anyone knows how this was done I'd appreciate a comment on here.(cont.)
@bio2020 wrong all of lewis's songs were original his act orginal i dont liek him opr the music but it was his samewith elvis elvis covered a few songs everybody does sinatra, cole, fitzgerald, crosby every singer everyone covers and btw all that "black music was writen and produced by new york jews its a fact Mama throton's song was written by a white new york jew he produced it and sold it, she just sung it...stop being a black worshipper and racist msuic doesnt know race and many had a hand
@bio2020 Didn't Robert Johnson (RIP) get his inspiration from the white jazz musicians of the era?? If you're still that bent about shit that happened in the 50's (that you can do nothing about) may I suggest fornicating yourself with an iron stick? BTW I'm Native American and I thank God that I'm a citizen of this great nation.
Notice at the end, the next guests scheduled and how hip Steve was (if mocking to some) and the effect he had on bringing new things to a staid, suburban culture. It was a "coming attractions" of the '60s revolution. Unlike Ed Sullivan, who wanted BIG acts and "high culture," Steve danced to his own tune. Rock on Streve!
like all true cool, his confidence seems so modern...is he checking out the state of his trouser snake at 3:39? he is, isnt he? ...and those hand moves around the mike stand...just been reading hellfire by nick tosches - great stuff.
Many moons ago on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, Shelly Winters asked Killer how he was able to play the way he did and he responded, "It;s just a God-given talent." True dat.
this man is able to dance whilst playing the piano. Thats a bloody gift in my book. A rock and roll classic and modern bands should take a page out of his book as he had it.
Thank you for posting this. For those of you too young to know, this is the greatest rock and roll performance in the history of television. That's all there is to it. For many years it was lost. I want to think every person in the chain, all the way down to thrund, who has kept this alive. It's American history.
I saw him in person in Albany, Ga. while "Whole Lot Of Shaking" was #1 on the charts. I was 14 years old then. He spent twenty minutes singing this song mostly on top of the piano belting it out. He threw the piano stool at least15 feet and destroyed it doing two shows that night. He threw his nylon shirt into the audiance and ithe girls coulkd not tear pieces so one got the whole shirt.He gave his all to entertain you. seen him 8 or 10 times . Always a great show. Respectfully -Ol ED
Steve Allen recognized excellence in any entertainment genre. Hence, Jerry Lee's appearance. He even had the Collins Kids on his show in 1956. Ah, the good old days.
He kicks the bench off the stage at 4:09. Too bad the camera wasn't pulled back. Who knew that Allen could be so enthusiastic about such frenetic performances, 53 years ago?!?
It's so funny how he dances during the song and than he makes faces while he is talking to the crowd like saying "stand in one spot" that part it is so funny
For a man who didn't like Rock & Roll, Steve Allen really dug Jerry Lee Lewis. The Killer even named one of his kids Steve Allen Lewis. What a performance!
Yeah. There is a clip of him playing Great Balls of Fire with the piano rigged to shoot a ball of fire at certain points, but as far as just lighting it on fire, he himself actually stated in an interview that he never did that and to do so would be absolutely asinine.
He used that straight stand to great effect, as a stage prop. In other clips, JLL reaches his right leg around the mic stand, and gives the upper register of the 88s his heel. Vintage stuff. Pure magic.
Contrast the schmaltzy 'rock and roll' riffs of the Allen studio band of 50s era establishment musicians with the hard-edged , driving, manic energy of the killer's performance.
now I am going to have to listen to All of the Sun Recordings again ... trying to remember if there was a Guitar Part on Any of the Earliest Sessions.
From 14.Nov.1956 til end of Dec.1957 mostly played (nearly all sessions) Roland Janes guitar there. He was the SUN guitarist for the studio sessions/recordings.
Jay B. Perkins twice (04.Dec.'56 for example) and one times did it Jack Clement.
@thePharoah90086 Roand Janes was the "House" Lead Guitar Player and is on Jerry Lee's records, Billy Lee Reily and lots of others. He didn't tour a lot though he's on the records. This was Jerry Lee's touring band in the 1950's. James Van Eaton was on Drums.
@thePharoah90086 I think that's him behind the piano next to the drummer. It's a little blurry but I don't think that is a bass. A bass in those day's would have been the (big up rights) I think Jerry Lee handeled the bass part with his left hand on the piano and didn't need a bass player!!!
This may sound crazy but I dont get tired of watching this video. I had never seen this extended version. Wow what I like about this performace of Jerry Lee lewis is that he really wanted to make an impact and he did......
We got chicken in the barn and the bull by the horn
79tazman 15 hours ago
the kid in the commercial is don knotts i think,,
ole1rebel 3 days ago
I love it when the Killer's hair flies up and down like a wild man! That IS rock n' roll!
sabinoson 1 week ago
I just watched the movie, and i notice that the bass player really danced like the real bass player (y)
MasssTR 1 week ago
Video starts at 2:16.
Necroticpus 2 weeks ago 2
@Necroticpus
no, at 0:00 ;-) ... at 2:16 all of the incomplete videos of that show starts
thrund 1 week ago
even in 57' , they forced advertisements down your throat....
TebooTedMarshall 2 weeks ago
if it wasn't for " Stride " wax on my back it would really bother me where they put the mic stand but with STRIDE it just rolls off my back !
great share thank you :)
mbg615 2 weeks ago
I didn't love his music until I heard his Live at the Star Club album. Live, he knocks the socks off his official recordings. I don't think Iggy Pop is wild anymore... What an entertainer!
RochesFan 3 weeks ago
When I come across these majestic pieces of artwork I'd like to "Stride Wax" in time !!! ;)))
mellowsweetlady 3 weeks ago
thats pure talent
sabreyow 3 weeks ago 2
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Awesome! A true God. Check out rockabillygone - all one word- to hear some original rockabilly
rockabillygone 3 weeks ago
I could use a wax job!
jaguilar300 1 month ago
He craps all over the commercial
hanknz01 1 month ago
Wow Watching 1957 In 2011...Amazing
MasterChiefNoShields 1 month ago 2
There are times you could swear you could hear a piano beg for mercy!
TNviewer01 1 month ago
This video makes me miss Steve Allen. Much thanks to whomever recorded it.
I've been told that a lot of these Steve Allen shows are lost to history.
GregAllen92 1 month ago 3
i love the commercial
bettyrose420 1 month ago
u just waxed the kitchen floor...
Calikokatspiano 1 month ago
c"etait le bon temps
jeanmariebasset 1 month ago
im seeing him in a concert tommorow in Chicago
yerrowcookie 1 month ago
Went home for thanksgiving and watched my parents tv. First time watching tv in quite a while and let me say, even major broadcasting can't get half as good a line-up as they listed at the end of this vid.
monkeyboylx92 1 month ago
Whoa! A commercial from 1957!! That is so cool :) Normally I hate commercials, but this was great ha ha =D
IrishChris1979 1 month ago
Forget JLL. I want to see more Stride Wax, baby!
letsif 2 months ago
ah them good ol' waxjobs
Planetcaravan56 2 months ago
"If I could play the piano like Jerry Lee, I wouldn't dance" - Elvis Presley
Kruezoraxe 2 months ago 24
@Kruezoraxe From what I remember it was "If I could play the piano like Jerry Lee, I would quit singing" But whatever
TheRitchardgaleHater 1 month ago
AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
jamesjuma1 2 months ago
jerry was tired of waiting he started those chords before the camera got to him lol
newwavepop 3 months ago
He's not called the killer for nothing!
LITEE43 3 months ago 2
So buy liquid stride because in 20 years you'll find out that it causes Cancer!
muclesmarinara 3 months ago
Man.. ty for uploading this.
OliAppleseed 3 months ago
starts at 2:14
heritagecore1 3 months ago in playlist heritagecore1's favorites
He looks funny, when he pounds on the piano.
kindagoofy1 3 months ago
that wax looks awesome!
ianwilson2007 3 months ago
...and this was rock n roll
justdadance 3 months ago
thanks a lot for uploading the ad as well (seriously)
bilelulabula 4 months ago
Never heard a part from 2:45 to 3:05. Weird.
IStillLoveLucy111 4 months ago
i was 8 yrs old when i saw will never forget it - steve allen was one of the funniest showsw to watch growing - especially when had his laughing jags watch close some one throws back a piano stool
realfunny7 4 months ago
Just listen to that piano playin !!!
bazthehandyman 5 months ago
Love the contrast between Jerry Lee's energy and the ads/host
vdoo84 5 months ago
It takes a special performance to cut through all the advertising crap that, on that evidence, was pretty much all-pervasive even by usual standards.
Always wanted to see that. Thank you
JohnnyTheExFish 5 months ago
She could give me a wax job...
forgotmyoldlogins 5 months ago
thx for sharing..that was spectacular..love the killer
skontch1 5 months ago
Hey Heater - thanks for the correction! Yer absolutely right - RUSSELL SMITH (and not to be confused with same-name cat in the Amazing Rhythm Aces!) on drums. And yer right about Van Eaton as the studio drummer. Say didn't Smith play drums in Sonny Burgess' Pacers? Tarp Tarrant was later, but that's a gaunt him on the drum riser up behind Jerry on two covers of Shelby Singleton's Sun re-release LPs of Jerry.
starboydc 6 months ago
0:33
TheRitchardgaleHater 6 months ago
This is a great, classic vid, and as "horarwgt" points out - yes - kinescope, which has a great quality to it. I saw this show. The piano bench is thrown back out on stage and slides by left to right at bottom of screen. JW Brown on bass and Jimmy Van Eaton(?) on drums. Later b&w clips of Jerry have Tarp Tarrant on drums. Yes - Steve Allen was way ahead of the game in promoting the "new" rock 'n' roll artists. Also, this number was cut by Roy Hall and others before Jerry.
starboydc 6 months ago
@starboydc Actually, this is Russell Smith on Drums! Jerry Lee used him for live shows, and used Jimmy Van Eaton for his recordings at the time!
TheHeater90 6 months ago
You can sure tell this is a southern male..Jerry' s expressions
wisesatyr72 6 months ago
I need a stride wax
Epidemiax19 7 months ago
Stride.
reilly972008 7 months ago
This is a kinescope -- a film shot by pointing a movie camera at a TV monitor showing the live broadcast. Before videotape, this was the only way to preserve what was otherwise only a one-shot live television performance. I'm glad I got to talk to both Jerry Lee and Steve. Interesting that The Diamonds are billed as "The Four Diamonds" and Brenda Lee was an upcoming guest. Brenda signed with Decca in 1956 at the age of 11 but didn't break though until late December 1959 with "Sweet Nothin's."
horarwgt 7 months ago
what a boring fucking commercial
bretrosexual 8 months ago
what a boring fucking comercial
bretrosexual 8 months ago
4:05
Epic!!
Rossazzurro46 8 months ago
@Rossazzurro46 I have done that a few times too while playing this or great balls of fire.. My piano-chair gouged the floor.. :D
Juicefani11 8 months ago
@Juicefani11 ahah!! :D
Rossazzurro46 8 months ago
@Juicefani11 Thats why you have to use stride. ;-)
nzoplkj 7 months ago
Such talent.
Thank you for posting.
Take care and may God bless you.
Jeff Schrembs
wwwElvisCollectorInfo
JeffSchrembs 8 months ago
first it was stride wax, now its stride gum. xD hahaha
LilScruffProductions 8 months ago
Is this filmed off a TV?
beatleforce1 9 months ago
@beatleforce1
No, vid tape (edited at DVD).
thrund 9 months ago 3
@thrund actually the DVD was created from the original Kinescope. Kinescope was a process of using a film camera to record from the television monitor. This was the only means of preserving TV programming pre-videotape technology.
rivermedia 4 months ago
@beatleforce1 Actually it was of a T.V, in 1957. I'm not sure if videotape was in wide use by 57 but it was common in the early 50's to do a show live and film it with a 35mm film camera off the screen of a studio monitor. There was no other way to record the show, this also allowed people on the east coast to watch a show at 8 pm live then the film would be processed and flown to the west coast so they could watch it at 8 pm their time. It was the only way at the time.
okltsply 1 month ago
@okltsply The version that was watched on the west coast of course was no where near as good in quality as the live show of course, I think that's what you have here.
okltsply 1 month ago
@okltsply ok, thanks.
beatleforce1 1 month ago
@okltsply That would require a very fast trans-continental flight but it seems plausible.
I do think you are correct about 35mm filming it off the monitor. My friend owned the original 35mm film of Elvis Presley's first and second performances on the Ed Sullivan Shows. He also had the original copis of the Beattle's first two performances on Sullivan.
He allowed his films to be copied to video tape but I think the quality of the original was better.
GregAllen92 1 month ago
@GregAllen92 I know it's correct, at least the filming of the monitor part. I'm pretty sure they flew the film out to the west coast and this is why many shows were done in New York(time shifting) but I may be wrong. I read about this a long time ago so some of it is fuzzy, that and I just found out recently that the Beatles '64 show in Washington was later transmitted to movie theaters via phone lines then projected on to the theater screen. I was amazed by this because(cont.)
okltsply 3 weeks ago
@okltsply first of all i didn't think It was possible to transmit video in real time in 1964 over the pre-internet phone system. I know ATT was working on a videophone around that time. The theater would receive the video signal then project it onto the screen,what they used to interface to the projector is what baffles me I tried researching on the web but had no luck if anyone knows how this was done I'd appreciate a comment on here.(cont.)
okltsply 3 weeks ago
Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly & Elvis might've been the first ROCK STARS, but @4:09 Jerry Lee became the World's FIRST Punk Rocker! :) j/k
allmightymouse 9 months ago
sounds like jerry lewis stole another black song.
"shake baby shake" ???
just another white guy stealing black music in the 50's to sell it to white audiences
bio2020 9 months ago
@bio2020 wrong all of lewis's songs were original his act orginal i dont liek him opr the music but it was his samewith elvis elvis covered a few songs everybody does sinatra, cole, fitzgerald, crosby every singer everyone covers and btw all that "black music was writen and produced by new york jews its a fact Mama throton's song was written by a white new york jew he produced it and sold it, she just sung it...stop being a black worshipper and racist msuic doesnt know race and many had a hand
deltapunk21 8 months ago
@bio2020 Didn't Robert Johnson (RIP) get his inspiration from the white jazz musicians of the era?? If you're still that bent about shit that happened in the 50's (that you can do nothing about) may I suggest fornicating yourself with an iron stick? BTW I'm Native American and I thank God that I'm a citizen of this great nation.
clongprong 8 months ago
@bio2020
you black guys just can't accept that the white man plays your genres better than you do.
clapton and co owned the blues, eminem owns rap and hip-hop, only james brown and the funk were never bested by a white man.
but the 50s rockers, little richard and jerry lee, well, jeryy lee is a frantic maniac.
so he wins.
OropherThranduil 7 months ago
@OropherThranduil your comment is idiotic on multiple levels...one being: Clapton Sucks.
audible67 7 months ago
@audible67
everybody who thinks cream clapton, the one with the gibsons and woman tone, sucks, well, sucks too much to talk to.
OropherThranduil 7 months ago
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@OropherThranduil English is not your first language?
audible67 7 months ago
FANTASTIC!!! The Killer was Amazing!
amenic1894 9 months ago
1957 showman gr8
patmix 10 months ago
God damn he had some good hair
nagohsemaj 10 months ago
I need Stride Wax!!! >_<
cvela10 10 months ago 27
Todays "stars"can only wish they could produce this much excitement live
luvinhp89 10 months ago
Notice at the end, the next guests scheduled and how hip Steve was (if mocking to some) and the effect he had on bringing new things to a staid, suburban culture. It was a "coming attractions" of the '60s revolution. Unlike Ed Sullivan, who wanted BIG acts and "high culture," Steve danced to his own tune. Rock on Streve!
909chuck 11 months ago
Can you still get Stride Wax? That commercial makes me want to wax my floors, lol.
PinkLederhosen 11 months ago
STRIDE WAX can cause blindness, radiations and fishes with 3 eyes
Giogiandfiluccio 11 months ago
I love Stride Wax!
SuperCoolBuzzz 1 year ago
i want stride wax!!!!
nandox156 1 year ago
WOW! that was intense!
SeagullsDiarrhea 1 year ago
stay fresh as a daisy! all through the day hahaha. i love the ending and they even mentioned Mcdonald's lol.
BPRINC1 1 year ago
i love HIS HAIR!!!
50srocknrollfan18 1 year ago
like all true cool, his confidence seems so modern...is he checking out the state of his trouser snake at 3:39? he is, isnt he? ...and those hand moves around the mike stand...just been reading hellfire by nick tosches - great stuff.
bertisg 1 year ago
his lead guitarist in the movie was stevie rays brother jimmie i found that cool
Sly6035 1 year ago
Jerry Lee Lewis at His very best! Too damn bad He flushed His career by marrying His 13 year old cousin.
MrTennesseeVols 1 year ago
@MrTennesseeVols common practice in his world ................ not in the uk as he found out to his cost !
bigrider2806 1 year ago
@MrTennesseeVols Well, I still think he is an amazing artist no matter what.
RoxasSmiles 1 year ago
Many moons ago on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, Shelly Winters asked Killer how he was able to play the way he did and he responded, "It;s just a God-given talent." True dat.
carlhossli 1 year ago
Man I gotta get me some of that Stride Wax.
sweetdictator 1 year ago 2
this man is able to dance whilst playing the piano. Thats a bloody gift in my book. A rock and roll classic and modern bands should take a page out of his book as he had it.
lewis56405 1 year ago
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Also see medley(mighty bo young) under you tube:
shake your moneymaker-elmore james cover
plwblj 1 year ago
J.W. Brown didn't like this video
porconedio 1 year ago
i want some of that wax
programkill 1 year ago 5
he was a killer and he ll stay the last man standing
jlennon555 1 year ago
Happy Birthday "Killer" Sept, 29
cinerama62 1 year ago
Thank you for posting this. For those of you too young to know, this is the greatest rock and roll performance in the history of television. That's all there is to it. For many years it was lost. I want to think every person in the chain, all the way down to thrund, who has kept this alive. It's American history.
sponson 1 year ago 2
I saw him in person in Albany, Ga. while "Whole Lot Of Shaking" was #1 on the charts. I was 14 years old then. He spent twenty minutes singing this song mostly on top of the piano belting it out. He threw the piano stool at least15 feet and destroyed it doing two shows that night. He threw his nylon shirt into the audiance and ithe girls coulkd not tear pieces so one got the whole shirt.He gave his all to entertain you. seen him 8 or 10 times . Always a great show. Respectfully -Ol ED
edwfriend 1 year ago
THE BEST SHOW IN THE WORLD AND BEST OF THE BEST ROCK N ROLL ARTIST ELVISPRESLEY BEST SONG HOUNDING DOG
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Mastergenius00 1 year ago
can anyone tell me the song instrumental 1:54 !
its the rock n roll song.
Mastergenius00 1 year ago
This post is SOLID GOLD, JACK!
jbearden 1 year ago
I actually remember seeing this live--not quite 5 years old--and I still don't know if I ever saw anything that exciting, given that time and place.
pborrellij 1 year ago
@pborrellij Me, too. My brother, two sisters and I were all raving. Our parents sat there in stunned silence ! Hah !
penn4644 1 year ago
Steve Allen recognized excellence in any entertainment genre. Hence, Jerry Lee's appearance. He even had the Collins Kids on his show in 1956. Ah, the good old days.
penn4644 1 year ago
He kicks the bench off the stage at 4:09. Too bad the camera wasn't pulled back. Who knew that Allen could be so enthusiastic about such frenetic performances, 53 years ago?!?
MattGues 1 year ago
wax
TheLonesomeEchoesite 1 year ago
Is that true J.W. Brown was going to shoot Jerry Lee when he found out about Myra and Jerry Lee?
Juicefani11 1 year ago 11
@Juicefani11
It's said.....and written in Myra's book.....
Thanks God he didn't!
thrund 1 year ago 15
@thrund Amen to that!
Juicefani11 1 year ago
@thrund Might as well have happened, Jerry was done the minute he married his cousin.
thedarklord2006 11 months ago
ken lovelace is jerry's guitar player and he has been for a long time. but not back in the sun days i dont think.
mocatmancb 1 year ago
do they still sell stride wax?
danhabsfan9 1 year ago
It's so funny how he dances during the song and than he makes faces while he is talking to the crowd like saying "stand in one spot" that part it is so funny
But he is stil the king of rock next to Elivis
xoxomileycyrusxoxo15 1 year ago
For a man who didn't like Rock & Roll, Steve Allen really dug Jerry Lee Lewis. The Killer even named one of his kids Steve Allen Lewis. What a performance!
TubeNumber1 1 year ago
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At 2:42 he says "got the bull by the horn", and does the air BJ motion with his hand...no doubt about it...check it.
mphurwitz 1 year ago
and that left hand keeps a-boogiein'
love it
rarejll 1 year ago
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If you like this then please check out Ezra Lee, Australian rockabilly piano
1234ezra1 1 year ago
stride wax lol
cmayle12 1 year ago
Stride Wax , Now made in China
tvfilm 1 year ago
Jerry Lee is GOD!
ZUXAZZ 1 year ago 5
Stride Wax xd
FuckStaub 2 years ago
Is there a video on here of that old footage of him setting his piano on fire? I haven't found it yet.
skullvomit666 2 years ago
@skullvomit666
If you happen to find it please share with me...I've been looking for it too.
andyrooney11 2 years ago
@skullvomit666 He never actually did that. Just fiction made up for the movie.
scarface2891 2 years ago
Are you sure?...I could've sworn I saw some old black & white footage of it on tv when I was a kid.
skullvomit666 2 years ago
Yeah. There is a clip of him playing Great Balls of Fire with the piano rigged to shoot a ball of fire at certain points, but as far as just lighting it on fire, he himself actually stated in an interview that he never did that and to do so would be absolutely asinine.
scarface2891 2 years ago
@skullvomit666 : i don't think there is any footage of him setting his piano on fire
rarejll 1 year ago
buy a can of stride next time XD
hellabeluzia 2 years ago
Did they not have a boom stand for that microphone? Kinda gets in the way don't it? No matter JJL still kicks ass.
MrFingers008 2 years ago
He used that straight stand to great effect, as a stage prop. In other clips, JLL reaches his right leg around the mic stand, and gives the upper register of the 88s his heel. Vintage stuff. Pure magic.
peregrinusnoctis 2 years ago
nice checkerboard floor in the stride wax commercial.
ddamico3 2 years ago
Contrast the schmaltzy 'rock and roll' riffs of the Allen studio band of 50s era establishment musicians with the hard-edged , driving, manic energy of the killer's performance.
squeet48 2 years ago 2
The killer probably rook a few swigs of Stride wax before the show.LOL
squeet48 2 years ago 4
Jerry Lee,Little Richard,Chuck Berry,Ray Charles,Elvis,Buddy Holly etc.,etc.,.
How did we ever manage in the dull 50's?
BillDFC 2 years ago
Where was the Lead Guitar Player when JERRY LEE was making This T.V. Appearance ???
thePharoah90086 2 years ago 3
Which guitar player do you mean?
That's Jerry Lee's band to this time and that was without a lead guitar player.
thrund 2 years ago 2
the Guitarist that was featured on J.L.L.'s Early Sun Label Recordings (?)
thePharoah90086 2 years ago
now I am going to have to listen to All of the Sun Recordings again ... trying to remember if there was a Guitar Part on Any of the Earliest Sessions.
thePharoah90086 2 years ago
From 14.Nov.1956 til end of Dec.1957 mostly played (nearly all sessions) Roland Janes guitar there. He was the SUN guitarist for the studio sessions/recordings.
Jay B. Perkins twice (04.Dec.'56 for example) and one times did it Jack Clement.
thrund 2 years ago 2
@thrund Propably He has watched "Great balls of fire" movie where Jerry had a lead guitarist.
PeccJeden 1 year ago
@thePharoah90086 Roand Janes was the "House" Lead Guitar Player and is on Jerry Lee's records, Billy Lee Reily and lots of others. He didn't tour a lot though he's on the records. This was Jerry Lee's touring band in the 1950's. James Van Eaton was on Drums.
I'll plant you now and dig you later
Dave
dcrimmen 1 year ago
@thePharoah90086 I think that's him behind the piano next to the drummer. It's a little blurry but I don't think that is a bass. A bass in those day's would have been the (big up rights) I think Jerry Lee handeled the bass part with his left hand on the piano and didn't need a bass player!!!
TheFarmerfitz 10 months ago
Simply Awesome -- without Jerry Lee who knows how music woulda sucked today?
Rock and Roll owes Jerry Lee.
baybo272 2 years ago
At 2:42 he says "got the bull by the horn", and does the air BJ motion with his hand...no doubt about it...check it.
mphurwitz 2 years ago 4
Whoa, you're right. Haha! Fantastic.
BlueOceanBelow 2 years ago
i noticed in his later videos he still pulls up his pants after a performance even as an older man. jerrys COOL always will be.
ilililhy 2 years ago
you had to be there to really understand just how
sensational Jerry Lee was
tweetypie1019 2 years ago
Check his groovy little dance out at the end of his peformance. Just before it cuts to the bus advert.
NayLeland 2 years ago
Fantastic!!
vandret 2 years ago
Crazy, man!... Crazy
vpdoll 2 years ago
jerry rocksss!!!
pedaki 2 years ago
YEAH!!!!
Jerry Lee was a BADASS!!!!
clashcitywannabe 2 years ago
wow Fall Out 3 lol
eminem7080 2 years ago
I love when he really starts pounding on the keys and his hair starts to fly. Awesome
jsun4hees 2 years ago
Wow talk about throwing time..3:10 Then he slows right back down again....Pretty funny but who gives a shit when ya rockin and rollin like this lol.
donnyaldridge 2 years ago
ha ha the advertisements and the products are the funniest, you need a new wax job, lol
johnnyrose666 2 years ago
Man, Steve loves throwin' them stools.
KillAllCops 2 years ago
Go Jerry Go!!!!!!!!
ponda1 2 years ago
hey this guy looks like cramer
username1p 2 years ago
no kramer looks like this guy
chawk111 2 years ago
I guess technically that would be correct since he came before. I love this vid, this is good entertainment, he puts on a good show.
username1p 2 years ago
The Killer himself!...
Ponponio 2 years ago
Whew !!
Breathless thank you
pasco3 3 years ago
This may sound crazy but I dont get tired of watching this video. I had never seen this extended version. Wow what I like about this performace of Jerry Lee lewis is that he really wanted to make an impact and he did......
gabe31g 3 years ago 21
This video is true history and you are not crazy. I cant get enough too!
thrund 3 years ago
GREAT!!!!!!!!!!
jayhawks69 3 years ago
YEAH!!!
Brutus2 3 years ago
Well done Thomas, great to see this complete!
peterchecksfield 3 years ago 16
Thanks Thomas it's good to see the whole build up around this fantastic historic performance
bailbath 3 years ago 8
Very, very good.
Germain and Greta
shadoogies 3 years ago