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has got 'em all beat.

And stay the hell out!

- Hey, buddy, where you going?

- I'm with the band. I'm with the band.

- Hey!

- Hey, I'm with the band.

- There's a queue.

- Come on, little lady. Get off him here.

What you gonna do about it?

Take your bald head and get out.

Let go!

Jerry. Jerry!

I've had it. I'm goin' back

to my job at the electric company.

You can't. We're gonna

cut another record soon.

"Crazy Arms" didn't make us

a nickel, man.

I got four mouths to feed.

Your big mouth is five.

Jay, I'll tell you what I'm gonna do.

We're gonna be partners.

Fifty-fifty. What do you say?

What's 50 per cent of nothin', man?

Look at these people.

Right, that does it.

- Let's do that "Shakin"' song.

- We can't play that n*gger music in here.

These rednecks might lynch us.

Are you crazy?

Yeah.

Fifty-fifty, right?

Now real low.

All you got to do, honey, is just stand it...

right in one tight, little, sweet, little spot...

and then wiggle it around

just a little-ittle-ittle-ittle-ittle-ittle-ittle-

ittle-ittle-ittle-ittle-ittle-ittle-ittle-ittle bit.

And that's when you flat-out smack-dab

have got something, you know?

Let's go!

"Whole Lotta Shakin"' is bein' banned

by radio stations all over the South.

Now the preachers are

getting involved in the act.

Don't get your head turned

by a bunch of Bible-thumpers.

Give me some money. I'd take 'em

to New York. I'd put 'em on national TV.

- Why throw good money after bad?

- If you don't, you'll lose him

like you lost Elvis.

All right,

take the son of a b*tch to New York.

Jerry Lee Lewis!

- Is that for me?

- Yes.

Get out the cheque.

- Well, sign it.

- It's a small fortune.

I know, but it's a quarter

of what we'll owe him. Now sign it.

It's great publicity.

Hi.

- Well, hello, doll.

- Excuse me, little lady. This way, Jerry.

Stand back. Give the boy air here.

Now, good people, since Jerry here

appeared on the Steve Allen Show,

"Whole Lotta Shakin"'

has sold 200,000 copies,

has hit number ten on the pop charts,

and is zooming higher every day.

Everybody is goin' crazy

for his pumpin' piano sound.

Why, this boy can make

a horse stop and listen.

He is an action artist.

Jerry, I'd like to present you with this,

your first royalty cheque.

There's more zeroes here than

there was Fs on my third-grade report.

Is that $4,000?

- No, cousin. That's $40,000.

- $40,000!

Fifty-fifty, remember?

Some religious people take exception

to the suggestiveness of your song

and its savage animal rhythms.

Well, I... It just comes out that way

naturally. I can't help it.

Hasn't your song been banned

by several radio stations?

- They say it's against God.

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