Damaged Goods
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- Location
- Maryland
Married his cousin when she was 14. No one was more entertaining to watch.
The sanctimonious Dick Clark ostracized him for his 1st marriage partly because of Myra Brown's age but mostly because she was JLL's 2nd or 3rd cousin. "Mr. Clark done me wrong; these types of marriages are common in the South," said JLL.
He couldn't buy a hit for a couple of years but in 1960 or 1, he returned as "The Hawk" with an instrumental "In The Mood." Even someone who was tone deaf could tell it was either Jerry Lee or his clone pounding out the song. It was really no secret.
Then he went country, scored big there, and came back big with rock 'n' roll for both his old fans and new ones, regardless of how "Mr. Clark" felt.