Great Balls of Fire!

I don't know, Jerry Lee. I don't know.

You don't have to come if you don't want to, cousin.

My daddy will whip me if he finds out

I went to the chocolate quarter with you.

Jimmy Lee swaggart, you're yellow.

Lam not.

Think anybody's seen us?

Who cares?

Come on.

Oh, yeah!

Come on, Jerry Lee.

Let's get out of here. It's the devil's music.

I can feel it.

Yeah!

Come on, Jerry Lee.

Get your arms off... Hey, baby.

Yeah!

Hi, squirt.

Myra, ain't it?

Yeah.

Who are you?

Oh, I'm your daddy's cousin. I'm Jerry Lee Lewis from ferriday, Louisiana.

Your aunt mamie's boy.

I heard about you.

Yeah, they say you're a wild one.

Well, when it comes to playin' this here piano,

you are looking at the wildest mother of them all.

What are you doin' around here?

Well, me and your daddy are puttin' together a band.

I'm gonna be the main attraction, of course.

I've got a ferocious, god-given talent on me.

We're goin' over to sun records.

We're gonna eyeball this Sam Phillips fellow,

see if he can get us a record goin'.

Sam Phillips discovered Elvis, you know.

I know.

I got all Elvis' records.

Oh, Elvis ain't so hot. He can't do this.

Well, you sure think a whole lot of yourself, don't you?

Well, sure, I do.

Don't you?

Me?

I ain't nobody. I'm only 13.

Well, you look all woman to Jerry Lee.

Myra Gale, you better behave yourself.

I am!

Jerry Lee here's a married man.

Ain't that right, Jerry Lee?

Uh, that's not necessarily so, Lois.

And just what do you mean by that?

Well, you see, I was still married to my first wife

when I married my second wife.

So I never really was married to my second wife.

And since I divorced my first wife a couple of years ago...

Daddy, daddy!

I'm as free as a bird in a tree.

Well, hello.

Hey,babe.

Hey, you ready to go?

Where? Where? Sun records.

What, now?

Hell, yeah, now.

What do you think I been waitin' around all day for?

All right.

Daddy, can I go, too?

Little girl, you stay home and do your homework.

Sorry Mr. Phillips couldn't be here today, boys,

but I'll play those tapes, play 'em for him as soon as he gets back.

Are you sure we recorded enough, Mr. clement?

I mean, I can play anything you want. Anything at all.

You're good, boy, you're good,

but a piano ain't never gonna make you no money.

Little girls like guitar players nowadays.

They like to watch 'em wiggle around.

You can't do that behind a piano.

So what did Mr. Sam Phillips think of the great Jerry Lee Lewis?

He ain't heard him yet.

But he will.

It's a guaranteed fact.

Thank you, lord, for this, your bountiful blessing.

Protect and guide us in your everlasting grace.

For what we're about to receive, we give thanks.

Amen.

Amen.

Amen.

Jerry Lee, have some of my meat loaf.

Here you go.

I'm taking the car.

What in holy hell is wrong with him?

Sam Phillips was supposed to be back four days ago.

All this waiting's driving poor Jerry Lee nuts.

Are you ready, Mr. Phillips?

Roll it.

Piano, huh?

I now blue ain't the word

I can sell that.

Wait! Well, I'll be dogged!

Sam Phillips! Come on round here.

All right, good people,

we got a brand-new record recorded today in Memphis

at the same cotton-pickin' studio,

by the same cotton-pickin' man

that discovered Elvis, Mr. Sam Phillips.

Good old Sam of sun records tells me

this boy he's got is gonna be bigger than the big e., Carl Perkins,

and Johnny cash, all three of 'em combined.

That's me!

The name of the song is crazy arms,

and the singer is Jerry Lewis.

Mama, daddy, come quick!

Yeah!

So, what do you think, Memphis?

Call old daddy-o

at the red, hot and blue show, kl5-5656,

and tell me what you think of crazy arms

by Mr. Jerry Lewis.

We love it, daddy-o!

Hot dog!

Sorry.

Watch it!

I'll take him over Elvis any old day, daddy-o!

Whoo!

Whoa! The vote's in

and 39 out of 40 callers say, "yes!"

To crazy arms by Jerry Lewis

well, Myra, throw away them Elvis records.

Here comes Jerry Lee Lewis.

What's that on your face, officer?

Did you hear that?

Get rid of that!

Straighten up.

Now, you're gonna go meet Sam Phillips.

Hi.

For Pete's sakes, Jerry.

Hi. J. Brown and Jerry Lee Lewis to meet Sam Phillips.

Hey, you let me do the talkin', all right?

Sam?

J.W. Brown. Remember me? And, uh, Jerry Lee Lewis here.

Mr. Phillips.

You take a white right hand

and a black left hand

and what do you got?

Son, you got rock 'n' roll.

Jerry, I got big plans for them hands.

Well, Mr. Phillips, these hands can heal the sick, raise the dead,

and make the little girls talk right outta their heads.

Hallelujah!

Jerry Lee Lewis, j.W. Brown, say hello to my brother jud Phillips.

My brother here's got a real good feelin'

about that hot piece of wax you cats cut.

I'm the leg man here. I move the merchandise.

And it's movin' time.

You gonna bust us flat in no time.

Sam here don't understand

that you have to spend money to make money.

That makes sense.

And jud here don't understand

that you cannot spend what you do not have.

That's... Got a point there.

And that is from the genius who sold Elvis Presley

for $35,000.

I've got bigger fish to fry.

Jerry, how would you like

to become a member of the sun family?

Golly! Where do I sign?

On the dotted line.

Maybe I better take a look at that first.

You're the manager?

Well, sure, I am.

Ain't that right, Jerry?

Uh, yes, Mr. Phillips.

He's my manager, he's my bass player, too. And we're family.

But he don't have to read it, 'cause we trust you, Mr. Phillips.

Man, we're gonna batter eardrums

from coast to coast, man.

Hot dog!

Mr. Phillips, look who's outside!

Elvis! Elvis!

Excuse me a second, boys.

Elvis?

How'd you boys like to meet the king of rock 'n' roll?

Well, hell, yeah.

Jerry!

Here you go.

Here it is. Oh, thanks.

Ain't that Jimmy swaggart's car?

- Huh? - Hey, it's uncle Jimmy.

Here you go, cousin.

Take a look at that now, huh?

Just play.

Cousin, I'm of the opinion that a god-given talent like yours

ought to be used for the glory of god.

Well, cousin, I'm of the opinion that a god-given talent

ought to be for the glory of the talented.

Jimmy. Come here.

How come you acting like this?

Well, you got a smart mouth on you talkin' about god that way.

Loosen up, cousin.

Now, look, I know you.

You're my blood, and you're just like me