Jerry Lee Lewis Breathless reaction.Every JLL song should be called breathless! Cos,that's how he always leavea you.One of the greatest if not the greatest showmen in rock and roll history! #jerryleelewis #rockandroll #musicreactions
I saw Jerry Lee in 1958 when I was 15. I was 5 or 6 feet away with my hands slapping on the stage and his sweat hitting me in the face. So was his music. It was revelatory. I was hooked, and still am. He was the true king of R&R! He's still cookin' and I've loved him to this day. Great reaction.
Haha yes Jerry Lee is very crazy, his life is a legend of his own but his talent is pure and raw. His rhytm feeling and piano skills are insane, only people from the south got this special talent. Imagine a guy like him or the other stars from the 50s are performing today, this is power that you can feel from a video in youtube. Imagine seeing this life, he would break up the fucking room.
I saw him perform in the 60's when i was about 12 years old. He was a wild man playing with his feet & his hair was dancing! Not sure how i managed it but i got backstage at the Houston Colesium & got his autograph on the show program. Also his cousin Mickey Gilley's & David Houston's too. I still have the program.
In the mid 1950s Jerry Lee Lewis was a controversial outlaw of rock and roll. A contemporary of Elvis, Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly and Roy Orbison. His was the kind of rock and roll parents wanted banned and forbid their kids to listen to! He fell on hard times till the rock stars of the 60s and 70s helped him and Chuck Berry make a comeback.
Find the show where his closing song was Great Balls of Fire and during the song he pulled out a can of lighter fluid...squirted it into the open piano and lit it on fire and never missed a key and finished the night with the piano on fire as he played....
Harri, you are SUPER because you understand talent aways trumps gimmicks. J L LEWIS had spectacular musical institution, skill plus keyboard virtuosity ADD to that his stage showmanship, no one can replace his raw, in your face persona. Today is there any one who will surpass him? NO ONE
This is later in his long musical career and he is not as wild as he was when he was younger. However his piano plating is still amazing He can pound the key board insanely fast... change cords etc with without even looking at it and never ever misses a key. Jerry Lee was a total performer.
You should react to, "Jerry Lee Lewis & Carl Perkins "Blue Suede Shoes" (1979)". (423,304 views) It's an excellent performance by two of rock n roll's pioneers! Harri, Carl Perkins originally wrote and recorded "Blue Suede Shoes" and had a number one hit for 3 months with it before Elvis also had a hit with it! It is considered one of the first rockabilly songs! Fun fact: Johnny Cash had suggested to Carl he write a song about Blue Suede Shoes. Carl said, John, I can't write a song about shoes, I don't know nothing about shoes. Later Carl and his band were playing in a bar and he saw a boy get angry at his girlfriend for stepping on his suede shoes while they were dancing. Carl wrote the song after that! And the rest is history!
I don't know if I have mentioned this to you, but Jerry Lee has a cousin Micky Gilley who has some mighty fine songs to his credit and Mickey plays the piano too. I don't think you will be disappointed in reacting to some Gilley music such as Don't the Girls All Get Prettier at Closing Time, True Love Ways, Lawdy Miss Clawdy and so many more. Micky used to have a club in Texas called Gilleys and it was big during the Urban Cowboy phase back in the 80's. Keep the reactions going.
Jerry Lee Lewis was the best piano player ever there's not a close second the things he could do while playing I guess you could say it would leave you breathless
He also comes up with profoundly beautiful improvisations over slower gospel numbers. Search "In The Garden - Jerry Lee Lewis" and dig the solo section. It's beautiful.
This was a great pick Harri! Jerry Lee at his finest. If you want some piano comedy, check out "Victor Borge" (bore guh). Whatever you pick from him you will get a laugh.
******** Yes, Harri The Wildest Rockingest Rock ' n ' Roller , Rhythm & Blues , Country Blues Piano player of them all. --- Harri See Rome 1988 ,W.LS.G.ON. --- Melbourne ,Australia 1989 G.B.of Fire. -- Wild !! --- Hammersmith ODEON '83 , Wembley ' 82 , ' 87 ,' 90 , & W.L.S.G.ON ' 64 ,Wembley '72 just a few various shows. --- Many thanks for this Review. --- In the 1960 's the saying over here was ----- Rock ' n ' Roll's the thing & Jerry Lee 's the King !! ---- Don't get me wrong ,we also like Fats Domino ,Chuck Berry Little Richard etc. But Jerry Lee was something else as you have stated. --- **** great audio 's on Jerry Lee channel , just listened to Camberley 1990 fantastic show. -- John uk ----
The 1983 Hollywood remake of Breathless, Jean-Luc Godard's 1960 cinematic classic, leaned heavily on a cover of this song by the Los Angeles punk-roots-rock band X.
when he was in high school jerry lees father put a piano on the back of his pick up truck, with a sign -jerry lee lewis and his pumping piano, and he would play at barns, in town or wherever people gathered ,and pass the hat round afterwards ,to make extra money and advertise jerry lee
Harri - I just saw and heard something that was absolutely incredible!!! It was a live mini concert by Jerry called Jerry Lee Lewis - Live Concert posted by Vintage Reactions ll and is 21.11 in length - Please watch and listen and you 'll be astounded by his performance with the teenagers dancing around and going nuts - A must!! Kindly react to this! Lenny. I am a longtime vocalist specializing mostly in 60's song covers - and some 70's!!
He made this 20 years earlier. Look up his early appearances on the Ed Sullivan Show and American Bandstand he was like a Tasmanian Devil. His hands move so fast u cant see them.
When he appeared on Ed Sullivan, Sullivan insisted he bring his own piano, as he said Lewis was too rough on the pianos for him to use the studio's pianos.
I don't think that's true, according to Wikipedia Jerry Lee was the first great wild man of rock n' roll and one of the most influential pianists of the 20th century. He's in the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame, the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame, he has a star on Hollywood's walk of Fame, an American Music Masters Award, and the Recording Academy's Lifetime Achievement Award. People know he's a legend.
@@cherylwilkinson3228 Good point. I was (clumsily) referring to his recognition by society at large. Everyone knows Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Elvis, etc. as the pioneers, fewer people know Jerry Lee and give him the credit he’s due.
@@vinnygi You're right a lot of young people are never exposed to the great singers and musicians of the past so the probably don't know who Chuck Berry and Little Richard are either. Unfortunately there are no variety shows on anymore so kids are introduced to the talented entertainers that were famous before Tik Tok and RU-vid. That is what's so great about reaction videos like this, people get to see entertainers who became famous by relying on their talent and stage presence.
Love me some Jerry Lee. You should check out an Italian version of him named Antonio Sergentone. Particularly a tune he played in Italy's got talent. He lights his piano on fire like Jerry Lee in the Dennis Quade movie about Mr. Lewis. Check out Antonio Sorgentone vince IGT 2019. Italy's got Talent, its worth it. The song is "Bom Bom".
P.S. So they put lines through message to try & stop people reading the message. However , they don't mind some people hurling abuse & swearing at others on YOU TUBE. Which I have seen on the comments in one documentary ------
Always glad to see you go back to the roots of rock. JLL's version of "Breathless" was released in 1958. But today, I have in mind two much more recent recommendations: “Jules and Jim” (2012) by Nada Surf, from NYC, and “Echo Park” (2019) by Ten Fé, from London.
You should check out Jerry Lee Lewis’ last appearance on The Grand Old Opry ( the story behind it is rock-n-roll renegade history! ). Jerry Lee ( The Killer as he was known ) was an outlaw of the first water!
I love the Killer, favorite songs Chantilly lace and Hot Rod Lincoln. He almost totally tanked his career, by marring his cousin when she was under age.
Listen Jerry Lee Lewis Cable TV Show 1987 (Three Songs: Greats Ball in fire, Shaking Going On and Shake, Rattle and Roll) Ten minutes of amazing moments!
If u want to see something really different by JLL try the opening scene from the movie HIGH SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL.He opens the movie playing this song on the back of a truck.Its great stuff.
HARRI .May I make a request please if I may. Luv to see you react to more David Bowie .There's so many to choose from but they are all good.Slow Burn is one I'm currently stuck on .Thankyou .🙂
Harri, you should react to "Jerry Lee Lewis You Win Again" (124,023 views) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-KduwM7QFG3I.html It's Jerry's version of a Hank Williams classic. It was the B-side of the record, "Great Balls of Fire" and was sort of a surprise hit for him on the Country charts. It peaked at number four. It's one of my favorites by Jerry Lee! (Note: The man at the end of the video that comes up and talks to Jerry is Dewey Phillips, the famous Memphis DJ that played Elvis's very first record on the radio.)
Believe this is in 1975 or 76 but either way jerry lee suffered a broken nose while getting into a fight I believe and suffered from sinus problems for years after. And he's able to perform through that which you can tell his voice changed due to that problem he had. Forget a mic stand lmao
There is a story about Jerry Lee that I can't verify but I want to believe it is true... Supposedly Chuck Berry and Jerry Lee got into an argument about who would close a show they were in...Chuck Berry won the right to be the closing act so Jerry Lee was on before him...As Jerry Lee was finishing his last song he set the piano on fire...As he walked off the stage he went past Chuck and there try to follow that!!! You have to love it...
Harry if you want a real treet you need to listen to Jerry's cousin Mickey Gilly Stand By Me. He plays piana also learned by Kerry 's mom any it is a wonder cover of Stand By Me, thank you Harry?
The original version is way better! Still a great entertainer. Yes, he could play with his feet. Elton John could play with his feet too. I saw him get on top if the piano w his shoes off & played w his feet in concert.
Here is a much earlier and much rawer version B&W Dick Clark Show ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8dQ4M8RYqCE.html The mono rather than stereo really gives it that raw, aged feel. There is a stereo version out, but it lack the punch in the performance. Here's one with the punch and louder, clearer audio. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-nwYZ83l22cA.html
******* Many People think that Mickey Gilley is a Poor man's Jerry Lee Lewis , even though he's Jerry Lee's Cousin. --- Some Jerry Lee fans like him but the majority don't like his music , Compared to Jerry Lee's style of music. --- Anyway he's got a different style of Music. ---
He "fell on hard times" after he married a 13-year-old cousin, and so was black-balled by most venues. He was a good performer, however, he was from the mountains, and early marriages and even incest were not unheard of with those people, at that time. I am in no place to sit in judgement on him, but at that time, most of America just wasn't prepared to deal with that.
I much prefer the raw energy of the original 1958 recording. This is a decent performance, but is really over-produced compared to the classic version, imo.
**** I see that You Tube are At it again with he /she & or a machine or both as re. The Political correctness , they are afraid of upsetting the guy in the thumbs down as to what I have stated . -- that he hasn't got a Soul for real music ---- go get me , Pure , Raw ,down to earth Real Rock ' n ' Roll , by ROCKIN' Jerry Lee Lewis. ---
