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When control of Congress is at stake, a politician can't afford to miss even the smallest opportunity to gin up votes. That's why Dick Gephardt, the Democratic minority leader of the House of Representatives, found himself having coffee one morning last week with nine party activists at Mr. C's Family Restaurant in Knoxville, a speck of an Iowa town that boasts the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame and Museum. With embattled Congressman Leonard Boswell at his elbow, Gephardt implored the faithful to pour on the energy: "Iowa literally has the ability to tell us who will...
...roll. At a million places like South Jersey's Avalon Ballroom (admission: 25 cents), kids worked up a sweet sweat jitterbugging to Bobby Day's "Rockin' Robin," Elvis' "All Shook Up," Ray Charles's "Talkin' 'Bout You," the Crickets' "That'll Be the Day," Little Richard's "Good Golly Miss Molly," the Coasters' "Searchin'," Buddy Knox's "Party Doll," Ricky Nelson's "Be Bop Baby," Fats Domino's "I'm Walkin'," the Everly Brothers' "Bye Bye Love," the Diamonds' "Little Darlin'," the Dell Vikings' "Come Go with Me" and Chuck Berry's "School Days." Then they'd slow down...
...When asked to compare himself and Elvis, Jerry Lee used to say, "We are entirely different performers. 'Bout the only thing we got in common is that we're from Tennessee." Except that Presley was from Tupelo, Miss., Jerry Lee in Ferriday, La. He was born September 29, 1935, 274 days after Elvis, in Ferriday, La. Among his cousins were Swaggart and Mickey Gilley, who much later would mimic Jerry Lee's style and sell far more singles than the Moloch...
...didn't write his own stuff. He made other stuff his own. And though he kept recording and refining his style, it must have galled him that some of his later, minor singles were remakes of songs by his old rivals and traveling companions: Little Richard's "Good Golly Miss Molly," Chuck Berry's "Little Queenie" and "Sweet Little Sixteen." Yet Lewis was not one to hide; if the gigs paid a few hundred dollars instead of the thousand he once earned, he was man enough to show up. He had some country hits...
...fourth wife, Jaren Pate, also died in a swimming pool, in 1982. His fifth wife, Shawn Stephens, died a few months into their marriage; it was ruled a methadone overdose, which doesn't explain her "bruised, bloodied corpse" police found in the bedroom of the Lewis's Nesbit, Miss., mansion. Or the comment Lewis supposedly made to Stevens' sister Denise. As she told the Detroit Free Press: "I said, 'What happened?', and Jerry said, 'Your sister's dead, and she was a bad girl...