... mortgaged their farm, to buy Jerry Lee his first piano which was a Stark upright. Soon Jerry Lee discovered a new type of music; his own! "I'll tell ya, I started playing piano--I learned to play in two weeks." He started frequenting Haney's Big House with his cousin Jimmy Lee Swaggart. Haney's was a meeting place for blacks. They gathered there for parties. Jerry Lee's uncle ... , Lee Calhoun, owned the place so Jerry Lee and his cousin would hide behind the bar and watch the plantation workers dancing around to the blues. Haney's was the place that made Jerry Lee an outstanding perform...

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... the recognition they deserved, but there are some artists that stand out to be just as influential that maybe did not get they eye of the public as easy as those guys. Carl Perkins is one musician that had a few hits but never really gained the fame and fortune ... and his other brother Clayton all formed a band that played hillbilly songs. Carl made the band special though, because he was knowledgeable of the African American rhythm and blues techniques. After hearing an Elvis Presley recording on the radio he decided he wanted to have a musical career. He then left to ... Perkins, Pres...

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... Vernon married Dee in July, 1960. In 1977, Vernon divorced Dee Stanley after Elvis died. On June 26, 1979 Vernon died, at the age of 63, of heart failure (AElvis@ n.pag). On April 25, 1912 Gladys Love Smith was born. Her parents were Robert Lee Smith and Octavia Luvenia ADoll@ Manshell ... return to a simpler life. On August 14, 1958, Gladys passed away from liver disease at the age of 46 (AElvis@ n.pag). Elvis Aaron Presley was born to Vernon and Gladys Presley in a two-room house in Tupelo, Mississippi on January 8, 1935. Since the Presleys were poor, they had to use welfare ... Elvi...

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