“The Killer”, Jerry Lee Lewis               

“Great Balls of Fire” was recorded by Jerry Lee Lewis at Sun Records
in Memphis, Tennessee. It reached #2 on the Billboard pop charts, #3
on the R&B charts, and #1 on the country charts. It was ranked as the
96th greatest song ever by Rolling Stone and sold one million copies
in its first 10 days of release in the United States and would go on to
sell over 5 million copies, making it both one of the best-selling singles
in the United States as well as one of the world’s best-selling singles
of all time.

                  (photo: Larry Philpot) <[email protected]>

Jerry Lee Lewis turned  78 on September 29.                              

Heck Harper and his faithful steed “Jodie”

Heck Harper (Hector Vincent Flateau) (Sep. 20, 1919 – Nov. 2. 1998)

                     Patsy Cline (Virginia Patterson Hensley)

                         (September 8, 1932 – March 5, 1963)

Cline was one of the most influential, successful and acclaimed female
vocalists of the 20th century. She died at age 30 at the height of her
career in a private plane crash that also took the lives of country stars
Cowboy Copas and Hawkshaw Hawkins.

Kitty Wells (Ellen Muriel Deason) (August 30, 1919 – July 16, 2012)

Wells ranks as the sixth most successful female vocalist in the history of
Billboard‘s country charts, Her 1952 hit recording, "It Wasn’t God Who
Made Honky Tonk Angels", made her the first female country singer to
have a number-one hit. 

1956 publicity photo

When Decca Records offered 9 year old Brenda Lee a recording 
contract, her first record was "Jambayala" backed with "Bigelow
6–200".

Brenda Mae Tarpley will be 69 in December