{"id":1700889,"date":"2022-10-18T08:06:29","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T12:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1700889"},"modified":"2022-10-18T08:18:38","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T12:18:38","slug":"the-killer-jerry-lee-lewis-joins-the-country-music-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-killer-jerry-lee-lewis-joins-the-country-music-hall-of-fame\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Killer\u201d Jerry Lee Lewis Joins the Country Music Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-killer-jerry-lee-lewis-joins-the-country-music-hall-of-fame%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1700889&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Two artists who started their careers outside of country music were inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame as early rock pioneer Jerry Lee Lewis and bluegrass performer-turned-country star Keith Whitley joined the ranks.<\/p>\n<p>Lewis, the 87-year-old artist nicknamed \u201cThe Killer,\u201d was unable to attend the induction ceremony on Sunday in Nashville, Tennessee, due to guidance from his doctor. But his fellow country stars Hank Williams Jr. and Kris Kristofferson showed up in his stead to accept and honor the Rock &#038; Roll Hall of Famer.<\/p>\n<p>Whitley\u2019s widow, fellow country star Lorrie Morgan, accepted the medallion on his behalf during the ceremony featuring performances by Garth Brooks, Mickey Guyton, Chris Isaak, Kenny Chesney, Miranda Lambert and Alabama. Also inducted this year was music executive Joe Galante, who had a key role in marketing country music to wider pop and rock audiences starting in the 1980s.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/Jerry-lee-lewis-1.jpg\"><\/a>Jerry Lee Lewis was unable to attend the Hall of Fame ceremony.Michael Ochs Archives <\/p>\n<p>Lewis, from Ferriday, Louisiana, grew up on country music, but Sam Phillips at Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee, turned him into a rockabilly star, with hits like \u201cWhole Lotta Shakin\u2019 Goin\u2019 On\u201d and \u201cGreat Balls of Fire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Williams, who also helped induct Lewis into the Rock &#038; Hall of Fame in 1986, recalled Lewis spending time at his home when he was a kid and listening to Lewis\u2019 rock songs on the radio. He said Lewis taught him that entertaining was about more than skill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJerry Lee doesn\u2019t ask for your attention, he demands it,\u201d Williams said. \u201cHe doesn\u2019t take a stage, he commands it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In Memphis, Lewis played alongside Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins and Johnny Cash in the now famous Million Dollar Quartet. Lewis\u2019 career was nearly derailed over the scandal arising from his marriage to his 13-year-old cousin, Myra, and he faced a backlash from fans during a tour in England in 1958, when crowds became combative.<\/p>\n<p>Lewis was abandoned by concert promoters for several years before mounting a return to the country charts in the late 1960s. He had No. 1 hits on the Billboard Country Chart with \u201cThere Must Be More to Love Than This,\u201d \u201cWould You Take Another Chance on Me\u201d and \u201cChantilly Lace.\u201d His other top country singles included \u201cWhat Made Milwaukee Famous (Has Made a Loser Out of Me),\u201d \u2033She Even Woke Me Up to Say Goodbye\u201d and \u201cTo Make Love Sweeter for You.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Isaak delivered a rollicking version of \u201cGreat Balls of Fire\u201d during the ceremony and 85-year-old actor and singer Kristofferson made a rare public appearance to help unveil Lewis\u2019 plaque, which will be enshrined in the Hall of Fame rotunda.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/Keith-Whitley.jpg\"><\/a>Keith Whitley\u2019s widow accepted the honor on his behalf. Michael Ochs Archives <\/p>\n<p>Morgan was moved to tears during her speech, noting that her late husband would feel so undeserving of the honor. Whitley\u2019s first work as a musician was in bluegrass, when he and Ricky Skaggs started playing as teenagers in Ralph Stanley\u2019s band, the Clinch Mountain Boys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two artists who started their careers outside of country music were inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame as early rock pioneer Jerry Lee Lewis and bluegrass performer-turned-country star Keith Whitley joined the ranks. Lewis, the 87-year-old artist nicknamed \u201cThe Killer,\u201d was unable to attend the induction ceremony on Sunday in Nashville, Tennessee, due &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1897369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1700889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1700889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1897369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1700889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1700889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1700889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}