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  Myra Gale Brown - Wiki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Myra Gale Brown (born July 11, 1944) is the former wife and second cousin of singer Jerry Lee Lewis.
Brown's age and blood relationship to Lewis caused an uproar on his first tour of England and was later hyped by anti-Rock and Roll Christian preachers.
Myra is on record (April 17 1998 on WDBX 91.1 FM Carbondale, Illinois) as calling the campaign a "witch-hunt", and saying of the years that followed:
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 Search: Myra Gale Brown - WebCrawler
Brown (born July 11, 1944) is the former wife and first cousin once removed of singer Jerry Lee Lewis.
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 Myra Gale Brown - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Myra Gale Brown (born July 11, 1944) is the former wife and second cousin twice removed of singer Jerry Lee Lewis.
She married Lewis on December 12, 1957 at the age of 13.
Myra later wrote, together with Murray Silver, a biography of Lewis, Great Balls of Fire: The Uncensored Story of Jerry Lee Lewis (ISBN 0-688-01384-8).
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 Jerry Lee Lewis Online Wild One's Clubhouse: The Largest Jerry Lee Lewis Homepage on the Internet!
Myra: Well what had happened was that Jerry had been to Nashville, like I said earlier, he had auditioned and hung around and I think he had enough money to stay 3 or 4 nights in a hotel.
Myra: You know..........we were so young and stupid, and not young and foolish, but young and stupid OK, that we thought when we got back home it was going to be all gone away.
Myra: Everyday Devin we thought that is was going to be the last day of the scandal.
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 Jerry Lee Lewis - Search View - MSN Encarta
In 1957, while still married to his second wife, he married his 13-year-old second cousin, Myra Gale Brown.
Lewis also suffered a series of personal tragedies, starting in 1962 when his second son drowned in a swimming pool.
In 1971 Myra divorced him and in 1973 his older son, Jerry Lee, Jr., died in an automobile accident.
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 Lewis, Jerry Lee - Questions, Answers, Fun Facts, Information
Before his divorce was final, Jerry married Janet Mitchum on September 15, 1953 and before they were divorced in 1957, he married his cousin, Myra Gale Brown, which caused major controversy.
Myra Gale was the daughter of Jerry Lee's uncle, J.W. Brown.
Although Myra was only 13, their marriage license claimed she ws 20.
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 Jerry Lee Lewis - Biography - AOL Music
He sneaked off and married his 13-year-old cousin, Myra Gale Brown, the daughter of his bass-playing uncle, J.W. Brown.
With the Killer insisting that she accompany him on a debut tour of England, the British press got wind of the marriage and proceeded to crucify him in the press.
The next decade and a half saw several marriages fall apart (starting with his 13-year-long union with Myra), the deaths of his parents and oldest son, battles with the I.R.S., and bouts with alcohol and pills that frequently left him hospitalized.
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Reportedly sweating off up to seven pounds a night, Brown was a captivating performer who'd incorporate a furious regimen of spins, drops and shtick (such as feigning a heart attack, complete with the ritual donning and doffing of capes and a fevered return to the stage) into his skintight rhythm & blues.
Brown was among the first group of performers inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986.
Myra is 13 years old, though she claims in the marriage license to be 20.
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 Jerry Lee Lewis Summary
At the age of 16, while toying with the idea of becoming a minister, he married and divorced Dorothy Barton; in 1953, at the age of 17, he met and married Jane Mitcham and was a father by age 19.
Lewis and Gale were married and soon after, accompanied by Myra, Lewis embarked on a 37-day, 30-show tour engagement in England.
Lewis' turbulent personal life was hidden from the public until a 1958 British tour, when reporters learned about the twenty-three year old star's third wife, Myra Gale Brown, who also happened to be his thirteen year old second cousin once removed.
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 Sex scandal? We’ve been here before - Crime & Punishment - MSNBC.com
Jerry Lee Lewis couldn’t understand what all the fuss was over about his marriage to Myra Gale Brown.
Myra was Lewis’ cousin, and when they married in 1957, she was only 13 years old and he was still married to his second wife.
The British tabloids did what they do, and in the ensuing frenzy, Lewis’ tour was canceled, his record contract was torn up and his songs disappeared from the radio.
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 - rock and roll history - classicbands.com_
The Eagles, Chicago and Linda Ronstadt perform at a benefit show for the presidential campaign for California governor Jerry Brown, who also happens to be Ronstadt's boyfriend.
Elvis Presley's personal physician, George Nichopoulos, was charged with 'illegally and indiscriminately' prescribing over 12,000 tablets of uppers, downers, and painkillers for the rock and roll star during the 20 months preceding his untimely death.
James Brown launches an unsuccessful lawsuit against the producers of the movie The Commitments, claiming one of the characters too closely resembles him.
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 www.On-This-Day.com - December 11
1971 - James Brown 32nd album, "Revolution of the Mind," was released.
1972 - James Brown was arrested after a show in Knoxville, TN, and charged with "disorderly conduct" after being accused of trying to incite a riot.
The charges were dropped when Brown threatens to sue for $1 million.
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 Myra | MYRA - information about myra, Top 10 Related Keywords -- Internet Top10 Search Engine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
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 Jimmy Swaggart:
Remember when your cousin, Jerry Lee Lewis married his cousin, Myra Gale Brown when she was thirteen years old and eight months pregnant?
If you and Myra Gale Brown are both Jerry Lee Lewis’ cousins, does that mean Myra is your sister?
Myra Gale Brown was Jerry Lee’s second wife.
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 Jerry Lee Lewis
In 1952 he married his preacher's daughter Dorothy Barton, but soon abandoned her to play the piano at Haney's Big House.
A year and half later he married his 13 year old cousin Myra Gale Brown, his bass player's daughter, before his divorce was final.
Jerry grew up listening to a variety of music; "The Louisiana Hayride" and "Grand Ole' Opry" broadcasts, 78 rpm recordings of country singers and blues men, and the inspired gospel music of the Assembly of God Church.
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 The Day The Music Died
Jerry Lee Lewis was enjoying his own success with a successful tour and a string of hits starting with "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On." Jerry had always been a character, with a strong personality and a fiercely independent spirit.
But in the late fall of 1957 the world was shocked to hear that Jerry Lee had married his 13 year old cousin, Myra Gale Brown.
A planned European tour in late 1957 was canceled, and after the news broke audiences shunned Lewis, calling him a "baby snatcher," even though the practice of cousins marrying (even as young as 13) was common in the rural south where Lewis and Brown were from.
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 Entertainment Weekly | The 100 Greatest Moments in Rock Music | 74 through 76   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Fulfilling every parent's worst rock and roll nightmare, hell-raisin' piano pounder Jerry Lee Lewis, 22, drove from Memphis to Mississippi and got hitched for a third time -- to his 13-year-old second cousin, Myra Gale Brown.
As the man many were calling "the next Elvis" began a U.K. tour, a media feeding frenzy ensued when Myra's age and kinship (and Lewis' still-valid marriage to wife No. 2) were disclosed.
Overnight, the singer with three top 10 hits was banned by many radio stations and American Bandstand, never to reach the pop top 10 again.
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 Maynard cooper gale   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
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 The 10 commandments of pop - smh.com.au
Wild-eyed piano belter Jerry Lee Lewis, Mr Great Balls Of Fire himself, got the, er, ball rolling on this category in 1957 when, after being thrown out of bible college, he married his cousin, Myra Gale Brown.
Lewis was in his early 20s and she was the 13-year-old daughter of his uncle, J W Brown.
When the British press found out there was a Whole Lotta Shaking Going On, they opened up with both barrels on The Killer and his career stalled.
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 The Official Community of Buddy Holly
Notorious for his marriage to his 13 year old second cousin, Myra Gale Brown, his reputation took a hard permanent dive during his tour of England in 1958.
Once the British press learned of his young (and blood-related) wife, news of the scandal spread across the continent and the ocean.
In 1970, Myra divorced him and his 19-year-old son, Jerry Lee Jr., was killed in a road accident in 1973.
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 Amazon.com: Great Balls of Fire: Video: Dennis Quaid,Winona Ryder,John Doe,Stephen Tobolowsky,Trey Wilson,Alec ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
As Myra Gale Lewis herself said, this story is "true as far as it goes," but does not tell the whole story.
It covers the main events of Jerry Lee Lewis' life from his meeting of Myra and geting a contract with Sun Records to the birth of his son Steve Allen Lewis during the midst of his fllisting.
Wynona did a good job of being Myra in my opinion, and I think you will find her laugh in the movie very humerous.
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 American News | 12/14/2006 | The Week That Was   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
In 1939, "Gone with the Wind" had its world premiere in Atlanta.
In 1957, Jerry Lee Lewis secretly married his 13-year-old cousin, Myra Gale Brown, in Hernando, Tenn.
In 1964, singer Sam Cooke was shot and killed at a Los Angeles motel.
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 Class Of 55 Page No 4
Career waned in 1958 after marriage to 13 year old cousin, Myra Gale Brown, daughter of his bass player.
Cousin to country singer Mickey Gilley and TV evangelist Jimmy Swaggart.
Had several duets with his sister Linda Gale Lewis.
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 Jerry Lee Lewis weds his cousin Myra Gale Brown, 13, while still married to his 1st wife Jane Mitcham December 12 in ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Jerry Lee Lewis weds his cousin Myra Gale Brown, 13, while still married to his 1st wife Jane Mitcham December 12 in History (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)
Jerry Lee Lewis weds his cousin Myra Gale Brown, 13, while still married to his 1st wife Jane Mitcham
The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.
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 Jerry Lee Lewis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Phillips did listen, and ultimately signed him to Sun Records, where Jerry Lee went on to record suck Rock n’ Roll hits as Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On, Great Balls Of Fire, You Win Again, High School Confidential, Breathless and many others.
In 1958, controversy engulfed Jerry Lee’s career when it was discovered that he had married his thirteen year old cousin, Myra Gale Brown, daughter of his bass player.
By the late 60’s, Jerry Lee made a huge comeback in the country music market, where he produced another string of hits with both Mercury and Elektra Records.
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 Linda Gail Lewis
She was bitten by the showbiz bug around that time when she performed onstage during a show he headlined with Johnny Cash and Marty Robbins, singing the latter's "A White Sport Coat."
But the going got rough a few years later when word belatedly spread about Jerry Lee's 1957 marriage to their distant cousin Myra Gale Brown.
Linda Gail's school chums shunned her, which is why she got married -- so she could drop out.
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 The Week in Rock 'n' Roll - December 9 - 15
Youthful bride Myra Gale Brown was also the daughter of the bass player in Lewis’ band, and would stay with the rock ’n’ roll star until 1970.
Kerrie McCarver became Lewis’ sixth companion in 1984, at the age of 22.
Cousin Myra went on to publish the book, Great Balls of Fire, in 1982, and pursued a career as a real estate broker.
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 Uncle Joe's Update Archives - December 11 - 20, 2006
The bride, 13-year-old Myra Gale Brown, was also Jerry Lee's second cousin.
On this day in 1971, 36-year-old rock icon/hellraiser Jerry Lee Lewis divorced his 27-year-old second cousin, Myra Gale Brown after 14 years of marriage.
On this day in 1975, Rod Stewart announced that he was leaving the Faces for a solo career.
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