Jerry Lee & Linda Gail Lewis: Don't Let Me Cross Œuvre 1969
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"Don't Let Me Cross Over" (with Linda Gail Lewis)Mike Douglas Show, 1969,
featuring *Jerry Lee Lewis, Jr., on tambourine. [Only one of two television appearances Jr. made before his tragic death; the other clip is on my channel, from the Midnight Special, "Breathless, where he plays drums with Tarp Tarrant.]
Discography
1969 Single:
US Country Chart Position #9
Album, "Together" (duets with Linda Gail Lewis) Chart #8
"As evidence that Jerry Lee spent much of his life avoiding responsibility are six failed marriages, several disowned children, and stormy unsteady relationships with most of the family members who remained in his inner circle after he hit the big time. Yet he burned to change. When he submitted to duet sessions with his twenty-one-year-old sister, Linda Gail, he was more than anything trying to do right by his family. Their three duets in February--"Don't Let Me Cross Over," "Jackson," and "Sweet Thang"--were not at all embarrassing. Jerry Lee's singing in these duets was always superb, possibly because he felt he had to compensate. His comeback was secure enough that Smash did not balk at releasing "Don't Let Me Cross Over" as a single, and his audience did not hesitate to buy it. It reached Number Nine, Jerry Lee's fifth consecutive Top Ten country-and-western hit."--j. gutterman
"Don't Let Me Cross Over" is a song made famous as a duet by Carl Butler and Pearl, a husband-and-wife country music duo. Originally released in November 1962.
featuring *Jerry Lee Lewis, Jr., on tambourine. [Only one of two television appearances Jr. made before his tragic death; the other clip is on my channel, from the Midnight Special, "Breathless, where he plays drums with Tarp Tarrant.]
Discography
1969 Single:
US Country Chart Position #9
Album, "Together" (duets with Linda Gail Lewis) Chart #8
"As evidence that Jerry Lee spent much of his life avoiding responsibility are six failed marriages, several disowned children, and stormy unsteady relationships with most of the family members who remained in his inner circle after he hit the big time. Yet he burned to change. When he submitted to duet sessions with his twenty-one-year-old sister, Linda Gail, he was more than anything trying to do right by his family. Their three duets in February--"Don't Let Me Cross Over," "Jackson," and "Sweet Thang"--were not at all embarrassing. Jerry Lee's singing in these duets was always superb, possibly because he felt he had to compensate. His comeback was secure enough that Smash did not balk at releasing "Don't Let Me Cross Over" as a single, and his audience did not hesitate to buy it. It reached Number Nine, Jerry Lee's fifth consecutive Top Ten country-and-western hit."--j. gutterman
"Don't Let Me Cross Over" is a song made famous as a duet by Carl Butler and Pearl, a husband-and-wife country music duo. Originally released in November 1962.