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Shirley Bassey DANKE SCHÖN
Danke Schoen Lyrics by Kurt Schwabach and Milt Gabler; Music by Bert Kaempfert Released live on (More) Danke Schoen Lyrics by Kurt Schwabach and Milt Gabler; Music by Bert Kaempfert Released live on the 2003 compilation album All By Myself. I have also been advised that Shirley performed this song live at several venues in the early eighties. The song was a huge hit in the sixties for Wayne Newton. He achieved chart success in the US with the single, and the album of the same title. The song also formed part of the soundtrack for the eighties movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Bert Kaempfert By Richard Ginnell, All Music Guide Bert Kaempfert may only be known to modern audiences, if at all, as the fellow who first recorded the Beatles in Hamburg, but he ought to be recognized for far more than just that inadvertent milestone. A winning tunesmith and clever arranger/conductor, Kaempfert also came up with an original, infectious, durable, contemporary extension of the swing era in his easy listening albums of the 1960s. He struck gold when he harnessed the appeal of a lead trumpet melody line in "Wonderland By Night" (a number one hit in America), then discovered what a thumping Fender bass allied with swinging brushed drums and rhythm guitar could do to give an infectious lift to layers of voices, flutes, brass, and strings. This double-LP set gives you a good deal of the story in one deluxe package, complete with outrageously hyped-up liner notes and evocative photos of the recording sessions. Along the way, you'll hear the superb original versions of several Kaempfert-penned hits made ubiquitous by other artists, such as "L-O-V-E" (Nat "King" Cole), "Strangers in the Night" and "The World We Knew" (Frank Sinatra), "Danke Schoen" (Wayne Newton), and "Spanish Eyes" (Al Martino). Then there are the catchy Kaempfert recordings that you might recognize from '60s television shows. "A Swingin' Safari," a hit for Billy Vaughn in a copycat arrangement, served as the opening music for The Match Game, and "That Happy Feeling" was the theme song for Sandy Becker, the star of a popular New York City children's show. Circulating throughout several of the tracks is the pithy, jazzy trumpet of Fred Moch, and the photo of the unidentified session drummer suggests that he might have been as hip a character as his playing sounds. Text © All Music Guide Biography Wayne Newton By John Bush, All Music Guide Born in 1942 in Roanoke, Virginia, Newton began singing professionally at the age of six, and formed a rockabilly duo with his brother Jerry after the family moved to Phoenix in the mid-'50s. The pair was featured on a local TV show while still in their pre-teens, and moved to Las Vegas in the early '60s for a five-year engagement (recording as well, for both Capitol and George Records). By 1963, Jerry had dropped out of the act, and Wayne returned to Capitol to begin recording as a solo act, under the tutelage of Bobby Darin. Newton's first three singles charted well, led by 1963's Top 20 hit "Danke Schoen" (a staple of Newton's act for the rest of his life) Despite the acres of fame and riches (and winning a libel lawsuit against a 1991 NBC documentary which questioned if mob money had helped buy the Aladdin), Newton was forced to file bankruptcy in the early '90s. Several multi-million dollar performances around the world cured his financial blues, and in no time he was back on top. Newton has been cameo featured in several films, including The Adventures of Ford Fairlane and Vegas Vacation. Text © All Music Guide Lyrics Danke schoen, darlings danke schoen Thank you for seeing me again Though we go on our separate ways Still the memory stays, for always my heart says danke schoen darlings danke schoen Thank you for seeing me again Though we go on our separate ways Still the memory stays, for always my heart says danke schoen darlings danke schoen Thank you for seeing me again Though we go on our separate ways Still the memory stays, for always my heart says danke schoen darlings danke schoen Thank you for seeing me again Though we go on our separate ways Still the memory stays, for always my heart says danke schoen darlings danke schoen Thank you for seeing me again Though we go on our separate ways Still the memory stays, for always my heart says Danke schoen, auf Wiedersehen (Less)
JERRY LEE LEWIS: HAUNTED HOUSE: GENE SIMMONS (IN CONCERT: 1974)
Jumpin' Gene Simmons was the lead singer of the Bill Black Combo in the early '60s (not to (More) Jumpin' Gene Simmons was the lead singer of the Bill Black Combo in the early '60s (not to be confused with the schoolteacher-turned-KISS member of the '70s, '80s, and '90s). When Hi Records attempted to get Domingo Samudio (later better known at Sam the Sham) to re-record his "Haunted House" (he recorded it for Dingo Records), Simmons volunteered to do the job. Simmons attributed the success of this to the overexposure of British acts on the radio. Lyrics for: Haunted House I just moved in my new house today Movin was hot but I got squared away Bells started ringin and chains rattled loud I knew I'd moved in a haunted house Still I made up in my mind to stay Nothin was a gonna drive me away When I seen somethin that gave me the creep Had a one big eye and two big feet I stood right still and I did the freeze And he did the stroll right up to me Made a sound with his feet like a drum Sayin you'll be here when the mornin comes Say yes I'll be here when the mornin comes I'll be right here and I ain't gonna run I bought this house now you know I'm boss Ain't no haint gonna run me off In the kitchen my stove was a blazin hot The coffee was a boilin in the pot The grease had melted in my pan I had a hunk of meat in my hand From out of space there sat a man On a hot stove was pots and pans Say that's hot I began to shout He drank a hot coffee from the spout He ate the raw meat right from my hand Drank the hot grease from the fryin pan He said to me now you better run And don't be here when the mornin comes Say yes I'll be here when the mornin comes I'll be right here and I ain't gonna run I bought this house now you know I'm boss... (Fade)"We fought," Huey P. Meaux told Colin Escott, "but we delivered." Meaux was one of those colorful characters who gave southern writers prime source material and who made outsiders wonder if they were being put on. A Cajun named after Louisiana dictator Huey ("Kingfish") Long, Meaux had worked in all aspects of the record business, and in September 1973 he was glad to be in his own loud clothes instead of what he had been wearing most recently: prison garb. Upon his release he had re-established contact with Mercury. Now, after agreeing with Mercury's vice president of artists and repertoire Charlie Fach that a pure Jerry Lee album was the cure to everyone's ills, he was signed to produce such an LP. The resulting set, Southern Roots, was recorded virtually nonstop over three days and nights in Memphis. Meaux enjoyed extraordinary connections, so he was able to assemble a group that was undoubtedly Jerry Lee's most sympathetic accompaniment since his 1964 tour. He recruited guitarist Steve Cropper, bassist Donald ("Duck") Dunn, and drummer Al Jackson, the essential Stax rhythm section, as the core band. Then he added other top-of-the line musicians like organist Augie Meyers of the Sir Douglas Quintet, the original Memphis Horns, members of the Memphis Beats, and Carl Perkins. Mack Vickery contributed harmonica, vocals, and enough craziness to be allowed in the same room with Meaux and Jerry Lee. Recording conditions were chaotic, to put it mildly. Musicians, family members, delivery men, ex-girlfriends, and people just off the street wandered around, pushed engineers out of the way, and slept on the floor. Unlike the London session earlier in the year, where producer Steve Rowland tried to tone down his charges' behavior and instead made everyone more nervous, Meaux encouraged all in his kingdom to whoop it up. The unwieldy Southern Roots sessions were not designed with controlled behavior in mind, but they did yield what was unquestionably the most spirited and sustained studio album of Jerry Lee's long and spirited career. The album was subtitled Back Home to Memphis and featured Jerry Lee's only post-Sun studio performances that consistently captured what made him special, different, and impossible to pigeonhole. A filthy Mack Vickery tune written with Jerry Lee in mind, "Meat Man," kicked off the album and pinned itself in fifth gear. "Meat Man" was two minutes and forty seconds of vivid sexual boasts, delivered furiously and convincingly: "They call me the meat man/You oughta see me eat ma'am." He did not sing as if there were any possibility that the woman might decline his offer. Jerry Lee made listeners believe he had a "Maytag tongue with a sensitive taster." He whooped it up in an avalanche of a solo and his least practiced shouting in years. His mind wasn't in a studio; as far as he was concerned he was in the darkest, toughest roadhouse in Mississippi. "Meat Man" was the most frankly sexual song of Jerry Lee's career, no small achievement. It was the first time in the studio since his glory days at Sun that he sounded truly free. Even when the song ended, he refused to stop, shouting, "Meat man, you mother!" until Meaux shut off the tape. "When a Man Loves a Woman" was originally a hit for Percy Sledge, and Meaux's decision to record it hinted at his agenda more than any other song on Southern Roots. Meaux loved Memphis music, but one of his more brilliant ideas on this session was to act as if Jerry Lee's Memphis homecoming belonged at Stax, not Sun. For a decade the soul masters at Stax (and, later, Hi) had been the groundbreaking performers in town; in the mid- and late-sixties Sun was a clearing house for second-rate talent. Stax and Sun had different sounds, but they were linked because the country-blues fusion at Sun set the stage for Stax to come up with its country-rhythm-and-blues union. So in taking Jerry Lee back to a "Memphis sound," Meaux was both returning to past glories and nudging the Killer forward. "When a Man Loves a Woman" was a colossal ballad with a bite, and Meaux's arrangements kept the focus on Jerry Lee's voice and piano, a logical idea that in 1973 seemed novel. The only thing wrong with "When a Man Loves a Woman" was that it faded out after only four minutes and twenty seconds. "Hold On I'm Coming," a suggestive hit for Sam and Dave, was another tune that originated in the Stax axis, and Jerry Lee recast it as a funky, soulful strut. "I made love to a lotta women in Tennessee," Jerry Lee sang as if he needed to remind himself. "I'm comin, C-o-m-i-n…" An alternate version was slightly faster and much looser. Roscoe Gordon's "Just a Little Bit" got the Sir Douglas Quintet treatment, with Augie Meyers's charmingly trashy organ fighting Jerry Lee for room until piano and organ merged in an otherworldly, bass-heavy keyboard crash. The Killer's singing on this ideal funk-rocker was as ferocious as the song's rhythms. His wild pleading danced across the studio floor until it collapsed in a heap with all the other stragglers. "Born to Be a Loser" was a strong southern ballad with lyrics that Jerry Lee obviously related to: "Ain't nobody perfect," he sang. "Think about it." By the end of the song, he was addressing his potential partner as "you good-looking wench." The second side of Southern Roots erupted to life with "Haunted House," originally a novelty hit for Memphis singer Gene Simmons. (In spite of its relative obscurity, "Haunted House" has garnered quite a celebrity fan club. On Halloween night 1981 Bruce Springsteen began a concert by being carried onstage in a coffin, jumping out, and singing it.) Those listening closely could hear liquor and pills rattling through the vocal. Fats Domino's "Blueberry Hill" was a straightforward, southern-ballad performance with a touch of Dixieland horns, still on the highest level. The album ended with three songs as weird as the participants in the session; all three featured at least one "think about it." Doug Sahm's "The Revolutionary Man" was a barnstorming rocker, piano and horns once again battling organ. One suspected that good ole boy Jerry Lee's idea of revolution was different from that of confirmed hippie Sahm, but at least Jerry Lee acted like he knew what he was singing about. The backup singers, not even remotely annoying, sang, "Jerry is a rebel," in a melody swiped from Gino Washington's obscure "Gino Is a Coward." Earl ("Kit") Carson's "Big Blue Diamond" offered an unbuttoned solo, and the album slid home with another Mack Vickery song, "That Old Bourbon Street Church." The strong ballad was also thematically useful in that the Vickery numbers that opened and closed the album defined the two Jerry Lees. In "Meat Man" he was a raving, cocksure stud; by "The Old Bourbon Street Church" he was vanquished, drunk, nearly crying, begging for forgiveness. In Vickery, a fan as well as a professional, Jerry Lee had found someone who could articulate his troubles better than he himself ever could. Although they did not surface until the late eighties, another album's worth of first-rank tunes were cut at the Southern Roots sessions. Even better, full session tapes emerged in which fans could hear Jerry Lee, Meaux, and Vickery whoop it up. Everyone at that three-day session was intoxicated by talent as well as by alcohol; unlike the typical Jerry Lee seventies session, in which a truck load of hired guns played their parts and left as soon as the clock said they could, it sounded like the Southern Roots musicians were in Memphis because they loved the music. They were all crazy, but they were also crazy about music. With them cheering him on, Jerry Lee scorched for the last time in a long time. Instead of reviving Jerry Lee's career, Southern Roots condemned it. The album never hit the Billboard chart because its ridiculous cover, a drawing of the Killer that looked positively antebellum, gave the LP all the appearances of yet another reissue of old cuts. All but the most loyal fans did not know that there were any new hits because nothing from Southern Roots got on the radio. In a pea-brained marketing move, Mercury opted for "Meat Man" as the first single. Granted, it was a stupendous song, but part of what made it fantastic was that it was a defiant, upraised middle finger at countrypolitan record formats. Jerry Lee made a sublime album, but nobody got to hear it. He resigned himself to the inevitable. (Less)
Groups results for: time life sounds of the eighties Shirley Bassey DANKE SCHÖN Danke Schoen Lyrics by Kurt Schwabach and Milt Gabler; Music by Bert Kaempfert Released live on (More) Danke Schoen Lyrics by Kurt Schwabach and Milt Gabler; Music by Bert Kaempfert Released live on the 2003 compilation album All By Myself. I have also been advised that Shirley performed this song live at several venues in the early eighties. The song was a huge hit in the sixties for Wayne Newton. He achieved chart success in the US with the single, and the album of the same title. The song also formed part of the soundtrack for the eighties movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Bert Kaempfert By Richard Ginnell, All Music Guide Bert Kaempfert may only be known to modern audiences, if at all, as the fellow who first recorded the Beatles in Hamburg, but he ought to be recognized for far more than just that inadvertent milestone. A winning tunesmith and clever arranger/conductor, Kaempfert also came up with an original, infectious, durable, contemporary extension of the swing era in his easy listening albums of the 1960s. He struck gold when he harnessed the appeal of a lead trumpet melody line in "Wonderland By Night" (a number one hit in America), then discovered what a thumping Fender bass allied with swinging brushed drums and rhythm guitar could do to give an infectious lift to layers of voices, flutes, brass, and strings. This double-LP set gives you a good deal of the story in one deluxe package, complete with outrageously hyped-up liner notes and evocative photos of the recording sessions. Along the way, you'll hear the superb original versions of several Kaempfert-penned hits made ubiquitous by other artists, such as "L-O-V-E" (Nat "King" Cole), "Strangers in the Night" and "The World We Knew" (Frank Sinatra), "Danke Schoen" (Wayne Newton), and "Spanish Eyes" (Al Martino). Then there are the catchy Kaempfert recordings that you might recognize from '60s television shows. "A Swingin' Safari," a hit for Billy Vaughn in a copycat arrangement, served as the opening music for The Match Game, and "That Happy Feeling" was the theme song for Sandy Becker, the star of a popular New York City children's show. Circulating throughout several of the tracks is the pithy, jazzy trumpet of Fred Moch, and the photo of the unidentified session drummer suggests that he might have been as hip a character as his playing sounds. Text © All Music Guide Biography Wayne Newton By John Bush, All Music Guide Born in 1942 in Roanoke, Virginia, Newton began singing professionally at the age of six, and formed a rockabilly duo with his brother Jerry after the family moved to Phoenix in the mid-'50s. The pair was featured on a local TV show while still in their pre-teens, and moved to Las Vegas in the early '60s for a five-year engagement (recording as well, for both Capitol and George Records). By 1963, Jerry had dropped out of the act, and Wayne returned to Capitol to begin recording as a solo act, under the tutelage of Bobby Darin. Newton's first three singles charted well, led by 1963's Top 20 hit "Danke Schoen" (a staple of Newton's act for the rest of his life) Despite the acres of fame and riches (and winning a libel lawsuit against a 1991 NBC documentary which questioned if mob money had helped buy the Aladdin), Newton was forced to file bankruptcy in the early '90s. Several multi-million dollar performances around the world cured his financial blues, and in no time he was back on top. Newton has been cameo featured in several films, including The Adventures of Ford Fairlane and Vegas Vacation. Text © All Music Guide Lyrics Danke schoen, darlings danke schoen Thank you for seeing me again Though we go on our separate ways Still the memory stays, for always my heart says danke schoen darlings danke schoen Thank you for seeing me again Though we go on our separate ways Still the memory stays, for always my heart says danke schoen darlings danke schoen Thank you for seeing me again Though we go on our separate ways Still the memory stays, for always my heart says danke schoen darlings danke schoen Thank you for seeing me again Though we go on our separate ways Still the memory stays, for always my heart says danke schoen darlings danke schoen Thank you for seeing me again Though we go on our separate ways Still the memory stays, for always my heart says Danke schoen, auf Wiedersehen (Less)
JERRY LEE LEWIS: HAUNTED HOUSE: GENE SIMMONS (IN CONCERT: 1974) Jumpin' Gene Simmons was the lead singer of the Bill Black Combo in the early '60s (not to (More) Jumpin' Gene Simmons was the lead singer of the Bill Black Combo in the early '60s (not to be confused with the schoolteacher-turned-KISS member of the '70s, '80s, and '90s). When Hi Records attempted to get Domingo Samudio (later better known at Sam the Sham) to re-record his "Haunted House" (he recorded it for Dingo Records), Simmons volunteered to do the job. Simmons attributed the success of this to the overexposure of British acts on the radio. Lyrics for: Haunted House I just moved in my new house today Movin was hot but I got squared away Bells started ringin and chains rattled loud I knew I'd moved in a haunted house Still I made up in my mind to stay Nothin was a gonna drive me away When I seen somethin that gave me the creep Had a one big eye and two big feet I stood right still and I did the freeze And he did the stroll right up to me Made a sound with his feet like a drum Sayin you'll be here when the mornin comes Say yes I'll be here when the mornin comes I'll be right here and I ain't gonna run I bought this house now you know I'm boss Ain't no haint gonna run me off In the kitchen my stove was a blazin hot The coffee was a boilin in the pot The grease had melted in my pan I had a hunk of meat in my hand From out of space there sat a man On a hot stove was pots and pans Say that's hot I began to shout He drank a hot coffee from the spout He ate the raw meat right from my hand Drank the hot grease from the fryin pan He said to me now you better run And don't be here when the mornin comes Say yes I'll be here when the mornin comes I'll be right here and I ain't gonna run I bought this house now you know I'm boss... (Fade)"We fought," Huey P. Meaux told Colin Escott, "but we delivered." Meaux was one of those colorful characters who gave southern writers prime source material and who made outsiders wonder if they were being put on. A Cajun named after Louisiana dictator Huey ("Kingfish") Long, Meaux had worked in all aspects of the record business, and in September 1973 he was glad to be in his own loud clothes instead of what he had been wearing most recently: prison garb. Upon his release he had re-established contact with Mercury. Now, after agreeing with Mercury's vice president of artists and repertoire Charlie Fach that a pure Jerry Lee album was the cure to everyone's ills, he was signed to produce such an LP. The resulting set, Southern Roots, was recorded virtually nonstop over three days and nights in Memphis. Meaux enjoyed extraordinary connections, so he was able to assemble a group that was undoubtedly Jerry Lee's most sympathetic accompaniment since his 1964 tour. He recruited guitarist Steve Cropper, bassist Donald ("Duck") Dunn, and drummer Al Jackson, the essential Stax rhythm section, as the core band. Then he added other top-of-the line musicians like organist Augie Meyers of the Sir Douglas Quintet, the original Memphis Horns, members of the Memphis Beats, and Carl Perkins. Mack Vickery contributed harmonica, vocals, and enough craziness to be allowed in the same room with Meaux and Jerry Lee. Recording conditions were chaotic, to put it mildly. Musicians, family members, delivery men, ex-girlfriends, and people just off the street wandered around, pushed engineers out of the way, and slept on the floor. Unlike the London session earlier in the year, where producer Steve Rowland tried to tone down his charges' behavior and instead made everyone more nervous, Meaux encouraged all in his kingdom to whoop it up. The unwieldy Southern Roots sessions were not designed with controlled behavior in mind, but they did yield what was unquestionably the most spirited and sustained studio album of Jerry Lee's long and spirited career. The album was subtitled Back Home to Memphis and featured Jerry Lee's only post-Sun studio performances that consistently captured what made him special, different, and impossible to pigeonhole. A filthy Mack Vickery tune written with Jerry Lee in mind, "Meat Man," kicked off the album and pinned itself in fifth gear. "Meat Man" was two minutes and forty seconds of vivid sexual boasts, delivered furiously and convincingly: "They call me the meat man/You oughta see me eat ma'am." He did not sing as if there were any possibility that the woman might decline his offer. Jerry Lee made listeners believe he had a "Maytag tongue with a sensitive taster." He whooped it up in an avalanche of a solo and his least practiced shouting in years. His mind wasn't in a studio; as far as he was concerned he was in the darkest, toughest roadhouse in Mississippi. "Meat Man" was the most frankly sexual song of Jerry Lee's career, no small achievement. It was the first time in the studio since his glory days at Sun that he sounded truly free. Even when the song ended, he refused to stop, shouting, "Meat man, you mother!" until Meaux shut off the tape. "When a Man Loves a Woman" was originally a hit for Percy Sledge, and Meaux's decision to record it hinted at his agenda more than any other song on Southern Roots. Meaux loved Memphis music, but one of his more brilliant ideas on this session was to act as if Jerry Lee's Memphis homecoming belonged at Stax, not Sun. For a decade the soul masters at Stax (and, later, Hi) had been the groundbreaking performers in town; in the mid- and late-sixties Sun was a clearing house for second-rate talent. Stax and Sun had different sounds, but they were linked because the country-blues fusion at Sun set the stage for Stax to come up with its country-rhythm-and-blues union. So in taking Jerry Lee back to a "Memphis sound," Meaux was both returning to past glories and nudging the Killer forward. "When a Man Loves a Woman" was a colossal ballad with a bite, and Meaux's arrangements kept the focus on Jerry Lee's voice and piano, a logical idea that in 1973 seemed novel. The only thing wrong with "When a Man Loves a Woman" was that it faded out after only four minutes and twenty seconds. "Hold On I'm Coming," a suggestive hit for Sam and Dave, was another tune that originated in the Stax axis, and Jerry Lee recast it as a funky, soulful strut. "I made love to a lotta women in Tennessee," Jerry Lee sang as if he needed to remind himself. "I'm comin, C-o-m-i-n…" An alternate version was slightly faster and much looser. Roscoe Gordon's "Just a Little Bit" got the Sir Douglas Quintet treatment, with Augie Meyers's charmingly trashy organ fighting Jerry Lee for room until piano and organ merged in an otherworldly, bass-heavy keyboard crash. The Killer's singing on this ideal funk-rocker was as ferocious as the song's rhythms. His wild pleading danced across the studio floor until it collapsed in a heap with all the other stragglers. "Born to Be a Loser" was a strong southern ballad with lyrics that Jerry Lee obviously related to: "Ain't nobody perfect," he sang. "Think about it." By the end of the song, he was addressing his potential partner as "you good-looking wench." The second side of Southern Roots erupted to life with "Haunted House," originally a novelty hit for Memphis singer Gene Simmons. (In spite of its relative obscurity, "Haunted House" has garnered quite a celebrity fan club. On Halloween night 1981 Bruce Springsteen began a concert by being carried onstage in a coffin, jumping out, and singing it.) Those listening closely could hear liquor and pills rattling through the vocal. Fats Domino's "Blueberry Hill" was a straightforward, southern-ballad performance with a touch of Dixieland horns, still on the highest level. The album ended with three songs as weird as the participants in the session; all three featured at least one "think about it." Doug Sahm's "The Revolutionary Man" was a barnstorming rocker, piano and horns once again battling organ. One suspected that good ole boy Jerry Lee's idea of revolution was different from that of confirmed hippie Sahm, but at least Jerry Lee acted like he knew what he was singing about. The backup singers, not even remotely annoying, sang, "Jerry is a rebel," in a melody swiped from Gino Washington's obscure "Gino Is a Coward." Earl ("Kit") Carson's "Big Blue Diamond" offered an unbuttoned solo, and the album slid home with another Mack Vickery song, "That Old Bourbon Street Church." The strong ballad was also thematically useful in that the Vickery numbers that opened and closed the album defined the two Jerry Lees. In "Meat Man" he was a raving, cocksure stud; by "The Old Bourbon Street Church" he was vanquished, drunk, nearly crying, begging for forgiveness. In Vickery, a fan as well as a professional, Jerry Lee had found someone who could articulate his troubles better than he himself ever could. Although they did not surface until the late eighties, another album's worth of first-rank tunes were cut at the Southern Roots sessions. Even better, full session tapes emerged in which fans could hear Jerry Lee, Meaux, and Vickery whoop it up. Everyone at that three-day session was intoxicated by talent as well as by alcohol; unlike the typical Jerry Lee seventies session, in which a truck load of hired guns played their parts and left as soon as the clock said they could, it sounded like the Southern Roots musicians were in Memphis because they loved the music. They were all crazy, but they were also crazy about music. With them cheering him on, Jerry Lee scorched for the last time in a long time. Instead of reviving Jerry Lee's career, Southern Roots condemned it. The album never hit the Billboard chart because its ridiculous cover, a drawing of the Killer that looked positively antebellum, gave the LP all the appearances of yet another reissue of old cuts. All but the most loyal fans did not know that there were any new hits because nothing from Southern Roots got on the radio. In a pea-brained marketing move, Mercury opted for "Meat Man" as the first single. Granted, it was a stupendous song, but part of what made it fantastic was that it was a defiant, upraised middle finger at countrypolitan record formats. Jerry Lee made a sublime album, but nobody got to hear it. He resigned himself to the inevitable. (Less)
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