Jerry Lee Lewis! Born this day, September 29, 1935. "The Killer!" "Wild Man" of rock 'n' roll! Jerry Lee and his Pumpin' Piano!

Click Jerry Lee in action to open to the YouTube playlist (see song titles below).

He helped to pioneer rock-a-billy, but that ol' boogie-woogie beats in his soul and is wired to his finger tips.

Footnote on Jerry Lee's second hit record, "Whole Lotta Shakin'" for Sun Records, February 1957: "I knew it was a hit when I cut it," he said. "Sam Phillips thought it was gonna be too risqué, it couldn't make it. If that's risqué, well, I'm sorry."

"His drive, his timing, his offhand vocal power, his unmistakable boogie-plus piano, and his absolute confidence in the face of the void make Jerry Lee the quintessential rock and roller."  - music writer Robert Christgau

Playlist:

"Crazy arms"

"Whole Lotta shakin' Goin' On" (Intro: Steve Allen)

"Great Balls of Fire" (Intro: Dick Clark)

"Big Legged Woman"

"Pick Me Up on Your Way Down"

"In the Garden"

"You Win Again" (Cameos: Conway Twitty & Dick Clark)

"Life Is Like a Mountain Railroad"

"Old Rugged Cross"/"Chantilly Lace" (Intro: Ricky Skaggs)

"Lewis Boogie"

"She Even Woke Me Up to Say Goodbye"

"Mona Lisa"

"Breathless"

"Who's Gonna Play This Old Piano?"

"My God Is Real" - (This is the song that got him "dismissed" from the Southwest Bible Institute, Waxahachie, Texas, where his mother had enrolled him so he could sing evangelical songs exclusively. When Lewis daringly played a boogie-woogie rendition of "My God Is Real" at a church assembly, he was expelled the next day. He went back to his home in Ferriday, Louisiana, and started playing clubs. He wound up in Memphis where at Sun Records he joined Elvis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Roy Orbison and the rest to punch through with rock and roll!)

"Sweet Georgia Brown"

"Another Place, Another Time"