Jerry Lewis was born in Ferriday, Concordia Parish, to Elmo Kidd Lewis Sr. and Mary “Mamie” Herron Lewis.
He was born proper right into a poor farming family in japanese Louisiana.
Gilley — cousin of rock ‘n’ roll pioneer Jerry Lee Lewis — opened Gilley’s, “the world’s largest honky tonk,” in Pasadena, Texas, throughout the early Seventies. https://t.co/Mw5xrbSGN7
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May 7, 2022
He began having fun with the piano with two of his cousins, Mickey Gilley and Jimmy Swaggart when he was youthful. His mom and father put their farm up available on the market to buy him a piano.
A piano-playing older cousin, Carl McVoy on the radio, and the sounds from Haney’s Big House, a black juke bar all through the tracks, all impressed Lewis.
Swaggart’s music is predominantly religious, and the trio has supplied tens of tens of millions of albums between them.
Gilley is well-known to pop lovers for his worthwhile cowl of “Stand By Me” in 1980.
Mickey Gilley grew up solely all through the Mississippi from his cousins Lewis and Swaggart, nevertheless they sang Gospel and nation music collectively and taught each other piano skills.
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