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mahatmakanejeeves

(57,489 posts)
Fri Nov 3, 2017, 11:59 AM Nov 2017

Happy 60th Anniversary, the release of "Great Balls of Fire."

http://www.thisdayinrock.com/index.php/general/1957-sun-records-releases-jerry-lee-lewis-definitive-single/

My two favorite performers from the late '50s were Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis. Oh, that explains it.



Another video:



From the movie, Dennis Quaid:



And on this day in 1967, filming ended for "Magical Mystery Tour."

http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/

1967, The filming for The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour was completed finishing with a sequence at Ringo's country house in Weybridge, Surrey, BBC television bought the rights to broadcast the film twice, the first broadcast, in black-and-white was scheduled for December 26, 1967. The second showing, on the color channel BBC2, was not yet available to all Britons, was set for January 5, 1968.

Magical Mystery Tour (film)

First, "I Am The Walrus," performed by Kouchu-Gakudan, a Japanese Beatles tribute band:



Second, I just love Styx, so why not?

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Happy 60th Anniversary, the release of "Great Balls of Fire." (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2017 OP
60 years. Aristus Nov 2017 #1
Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard are my 2 favorite 50s rock-n-rollers too. MiltonBrown Nov 2017 #2

MiltonBrown

(322 posts)
2. Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard are my 2 favorite 50s rock-n-rollers too.
Fri Nov 3, 2017, 09:38 PM
Nov 2017

Did anyone refer to themselves in the 3rd person before Jerry Lee?

'Jerry Lee don't lie'

'Ahh this is the Killer speaking baby'

'You can never tell you can never tell 'bout a JLL he's hell when he's well and I'm damn sure well tonight baby... WOOOO!'

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