Songs to Dance To: Great Balls of Fire

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What a lovely day today! I’m on the other side of the river (southern Indiana), enjoying lunch. The trees look like they want to bust out with color. I’m ready to look! Meanwhile, let’s get ready to dance with another song that’ll have you rockin’ and rollin’! Great Balls of Fire - Jerry Lee Lewis The Killer! Hope dancing to this doesn’t “kill” @rebelann ’s plastic chairs. Jerry Lee is one of those people who’s in both the Rock and Roll and Country Music Hall of Fame. He dang near had to die to get in the country side (in fact, he was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame about ten days before he died ), but he made it. This is a great 45 to show you why music was so dang hard to categorize in the 50s. This is a rocker. No question. What was the B-side? Lewis’ cover of Hank Williams’ “You Win Again.” Yeah, that kinda music “drives a man insane.” The funny thing about it all is how the “wild, rebellious, evil” rock and roll world shunned Lewis after the incident with Myra. Lewis’ comeback in music was strictly in the “traditional, church-going” world of country music. (Maybe that’s because country music is traditionally southern, and we’re used to cousins marrying. [It’s a joke, folks!]) His career was pretty expansive in the late 60s in country music, even to the point where his soundalike cousin, Mickey Gilley, became popular in music. Listen, there are a lot of dirty secrets (or open scandals) in music. Whatever you might think about the man, the music helped change the world of music forever. Goodness gracious! Great Balls of Fire Written by Otis Blackwell and Jack Hammer Recorded by Jerry Lee Lewis Released as a single, 1957 I chew my nails and I twiddle my thumbs: