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Friday, June 15, 2012
The Jerry Lee Lewis Show featuring Jackie Wilson and Carl Perkins (1971)
If you'd told me that any lengthy program showcasing Jerry Lee Lewis would be virtually unwatchable, I wouldn't have believed you. But this is pretty awful stuff -- the worst kind of Hollywood-meets-Nashville pap, down to the apparently obligatory I-am-not-a-hippie patriotic odes and nods to Woody Guthrie Even a couple of tunes where Jerry Lee warbles meaningfully sans piano. A trainwreck of a period piece, and useful on that score, but no fun at all to watch...
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If you'd told me that any lengthy program showcasing Jerry Lee Lewis would be virtually unwatchable, I wouldn't have believed you. But this is pretty awful stuff -- the worst kind of Hollywood-meets-Nashville pap, down to the apparently obligatory I-am-not-a-hippie patriotic odes and nods to Woody Guthrie Even a couple of tunes where Jerry Lee warbles meaningfully sans piano. A trainwreck of a period piece, and useful on that score, but no fun at all to watch...
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