Heat

“You can buy songs individually on itunes all you want, but you’re gonna miss out on some great ones. This record here was a B side – it wasn’t the side they were pushing on the radio. It’s not the one you would seek out if you were looking for the hit, but if you happened to flip the record over, there it was. You don’t have great discoveries like that any more; I wish you did. Here’s one I made a few years ago.”

“Hope all you listeners won’t accuse me of cronyism just because I occasionally play records by people I know.”

“Didn’t stay with straight country music for long. In March of 1956, he hopped on the rockabilly train and recorded this wild single.”

“Our next performer is kind of a cross between a modern day Prometheus and a possum. And he’s the closest thing country music has to a bushido. Here he is, the flat top wonder”

“Just to give you an idea of how important this record was, back when it came out there were three different chart positions. You had the black charts, the pop charts, and the country charts. This record hit number 3 black, number 2 pop, and number 1 country. People think we do nothing but play obscure music here on Theme Time Radio Hour. Well here’s a record that was number 1, 2, and 3 all at the same time. Here’s the piano pounding madman, Jerry Lee Lewis.”