Great Balls of Fire! Page #2

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every day you live you have a choice

whether or not to serve God.

I will.

Choices, Jerry Lee. Talk to God.

Lord, I just wanna serve you

and I want to preach your word.

Hallelujah.

Just give me one hit record.

- Hey, killer.

- Hey.

- Take a look at that.

- Jerry!

Thank you.

Whoo!

Go, girl!

- Well, hello, girls.

- Come on.

Come on over.

A whole lotta shakin' goin' on.

Well, don't be afraid, little girls.

It's only me, Jerry Lee.

Don't you like it?

My mama don't want me

listening to rock and roll.

She says it leads to impure thoughts.

Her mama's right.

It is the devil's music.

Yeah.

- What do you think?

- Yeah.

Roy Hall had a country version

of that a couple of years ago.

- No big deal.

- Yes, sir, but mine's rock and roll.

Yeah, but, man, we can't

put out a song like that.

Man, it's too suggestive.

Everybody knows "whole lotta shakin"'

is what humpin' is all about.

- That's why the kids are gonna love it.

- And the parents ain't gonna stand for it.

- Play somethin' else.

- I can play anything, anywhere, anytime,

but that "Shakin"' song

has got 'em all beat.

And stay the hell out!

- Hey, buddy, where you going?

- I'm with the band. I'm with the band.

- Hey!

- Hey, I'm with the band.

- There's a queue.

- Come on, little lady. Get off him here.

What you gonna do about it?

Take your bald head and get out.

Let go!

Jerry. Jerry!

I've had it. I'm goin' back

to my job at the electric company.

You can't. We're gonna

cut another record soon.

"Crazy Arms" didn't make us

a nickel, man.

I got four mouths to feed.

Your big mouth is five.

Jay, I'll tell you what I'm gonna do.

We're gonna be partners.

Fifty-fifty. What do you say?

What's 50 per cent of nothin', man?

Look at these people.

Right, that does it.

- Let's do that "Shakin"' song.

- We can't play that n*gger music in here.

These rednecks might lynch us.

Are you crazy?

Yeah.

Fifty-fifty, right?

Now real low.

All you got to do, honey, is just stand it...

right in one tight, little, sweet, little spot...

and then wiggle it around

just a little-ittle-ittle-ittle-ittle-ittle-ittle-

ittle-ittle-ittle-ittle-ittle-ittle-ittle-ittle bit.

And that's when you flat-out smack-dab

have got something, you know?

Let's go!

"Whole Lotta Shakin"' is bein' banned

by radio stations all over the South.

Now the preachers are

getting involved in the act.

Don't get your head turned

by a bunch of Bible-thumpers.

Give me some money. I'd take 'em

to New York. I'd put 'em on national TV.

- Why throw good money after bad?

- If you don't, you'll lose him

like you lost Elvis.

All right,

take the son of a b*tch to New York.

Jerry Lee Lewis!

- Is that for me?

- Yes.

Get out the cheque.

- Well, sign it.

- It's a small fortune.

I know, but it's a quarter

of what we'll owe him. Now sign it.

It's great publicity.

Hi.

- Well, hello, doll.

- Excuse me, little lady. This way, Jerry.

Stand back. Give the boy air here.

Now, good people, since Jerry here

appeared on the Steve Allen Show,

"Whole Lotta Shakin"'

has sold 200,000 copies,

has hit number ten on the pop charts,

and is zooming higher every day.

Everybody is goin' crazy

for his pumpin' piano sound.

Why, this boy can make

a horse stop and listen.

He is an action artist.

Jerry, I'd like to present you with this,

your first royalty cheque.

There's more zeroes here than

there was Fs on my third-grade report.

Is that $4,000?

- No, cousin. That's $40,000.

- $40,000!

Fifty-fifty, remember?

Some religious people take exception

to the suggestiveness of your song

and its savage animal rhythms.

Well, I... It just comes out that way

naturally. I can't help it.

Hasn't your song been banned

by several radio stations?

- They say it's against God.

- Well, I don't understand that.

I serve him gladly. I sing. I shout. It's not

my fault I don't play like some old lady.

Amen, Brother Lewis. Amen. Come on,

let's go and get these bags here.

Any plans for sellin' Lewis

to a major label like Elvis?

Hell, no.

Jerry Lee Lewis is gonna

be bigger than Elvis.

See that look in his eye?

That boy could get himself,

and us, in a whole lotta trouble.

Oh, hell. He may be a little wild,

but he's a good old boy.

He's been stayin' at your place, hasn't he?

Well, yeah.

- But it's awful crowded.

- Look, Jay, it's like this.

If Casanova over there can live with you,

you can keep an eye on him,

keep him out of trouble.

Keep those cheques rolling in.

Ow! Ow!

All right. I guess we could

scooch things around a little.

Well, that's fine, Jay, fine.

There's the big man. Oop!

Freight train comin' through.

I really do appreciate you folks takin' me

in like this. I... I really do, Jay.

Well, shoot, cousin.

We're glad to have you here.

Well, it just goes to show you

how important family really is.

Sure is better than that old couch.

Well, you just make yourself

right at home here, cousin.

Thank you, Lois. Thank you very much.

I forgot something.

Hey.

What say you and me take a drive

down to the Kreme Kup?

- OK.

- I'm takin' the car.

It's Jerry Lee Lewis!

What? Hello, girls.

- Can I get a couple of cones?

- Oh, cones, cones, cones.

No dip.

Nice dry-cleaned uniforms y'all got there.

- What's your name?

- Missy.

Missy. That's a very nice name.

- That'll be 20 cents.

- You think you could take it out of this?

$40,000?!

- We don't have that kind of change.

- Gosh, I'm sorry. That's all I've got.

I got a dollar.

Oh, it's on the house.

Well, thank you very much.

You can get free custard here

any time you want!

I saw this thing at school.

They had this movie about the H-bomb.

You know, the hydrogen bomb. About it

comin' and blowin' up the whole world.

Oh, that's the Apocalypse.

That's in Revelations in your Bible.

You know, I go on fine all day at school.

And then at night, when I lay down,

I think to myself...

"Is this the night

the bomb's gonna come?"

All I ever wanted was a little

pink house with a blue door.

A little baby sittin' in a highchair.

Who do you see comin' up the walk

of that pink house? Hm?

I don't know.

You don't know?

Well?

Do you think he might be about,

oh, six foot tall,

with big blue eyes

and wavy, curly blond hair?

What?

Now maybe I won't have anything.

This old horrible bomb's

gonna come and wipe it all away.

Uh-uh.

Everything'll be destroyed,

and this is as far as I'll ever get in life.

Mm-mm.

I don't even know what hydrogen is.

And 1,000 makes $40,000.

Sh!

- Pow!

- Urgh!

Hi!

Hallelujah!

Hallelujah!

I had my car break down once

on the side of the road.

And I got out and I laid hands

on the hood of this car

and I said "Devil, if you think I've been

crazy before, you just wait one minute

because I'm going to ask the Lord

to come down and heal this Plymouth. "

- Amen.

- Hallelujah.

So I got down and I asked the Holy Spirit

to make her whole again

and the Holy Spirit, lo and behold,

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