Dissect DJs - Jerry Lee Lewis - Great Balls of Fire

Episode Date: July 2, 2021

We throw it all the way back to '57 this week, and try to figure out what the Hell Jerry Lee is referencing with his "Great Balls of Fire".Hint: It might be exactly what you think. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain You about your love drives a man insane You broke my will Of what a thrill DOSID DJ I've changed my mind It's just great balls of fire Because it's time for the Dicect DJs

Because we are the DJs That like to spit it, mix it Throw it back and dissect it Watch this DGGJ does it What's going on everybody I was wondering what those sounds were There was a whole like performance that went along with it

I'd like give a DJ beat But this time I just went with random sound effects One day we will be like you know In a public studio Not in my garage with like a folded up couch next to us And a plethora of bikes to my left Fucking plethora. What a word for this amount of bikes that is in your garage

Sometimes but But sometimes... Real quick, he has a bike hanging up. Four bikes sitting. He has a double bikes in the area. There's a motorcycle bike. It's a grill. There's a fucking grill.

There's a ladder randomly that just goes to nowhere. Multiple tires. This garage has everything. It's my snowboard, you know. Sometimes you got to chill in the elements to do the right amount of dissection. And sometimes the dissection... Brings us too. Even finds you in some heat in the form of great balls of fire.

What are great balls of fire? I want to know. That's one thing I wanted... At the beginning of this, that's my question. Let's go right into it. Well, that's my question. I want to answer throughout this entire song is, what is goodness gracious great balls of fire?

Because initially, when you think about it, great balls of fire could be a couple different things. One, you and your girlfriend were hanging out, had some, we're making jalapeno poppers. She forgot to wash her hands, decides to scratch your balls. Oh, shit. Great balls of fucking fire. I'll tell you that much. Two, you're hot. You've been playing basketball.

You've put over too many shorts. Great balls of fire. Are we even talking about testicles? Like those are dusties, I went straight to double testicles. It could be great balls of fire. Wait, the basketball reference also referenced testicles for you. No, great balls of fire. Like NBA Jam.

Oh, like, he's on fire. Yeah. So that sound effect, if you can't roll with it. He's on fire. I was actually going to do it already, but, uh, yeah. I had to call it out. All right, we're going to, all right, here you go. He's on fire!

Yeah, NBA Jam. T.E., remember that? That was when they brought in tournament edition right around 94. Sega Genesis. If you guys don't know, what happens is the, when he's shooting the ball for the third time and he makes the basket, the ball down turns on fire and then you're just wet as fuck.

And it's a great ball on fire. You can't miss. You can't miss then. They should have had this song come on right when you become on fire, but like, goodness grace, and great balls are fire. You just start wetting. And in order to put out the fire in the other team, you got to make a basket back.

But do you think it ever happened in NBA jam where like somebody just got on fire and then they just wetted the rest of the game? The game doesn't allow you to do that. I thought if you're on fire, you're like, I know, unless you're just standing there. It starts to help you.

Anyway, fucking great. Well, you know, Why don't they bring that back, by the way? Two on two. You can get two best guys of each team. They should have this same old NBA jam, same old one, and every year have new players of each team, or you can do any team or any players. Play the Lakers with LeBron and AD all day. You don't.

A.D. swat and shots. LeBron just does everything. He's going to dump the three-point line. That's what we do. This is what we are. This is with a question of what are great balls of fire, right? That's where we're getting to here. So.

The die second. You know, it could be medieval. It could be medieval. Explain this. Shot cannons out. They surround the cannon with tar, light it on fire, then shoot it into the... I know how cannons work. Well, I'm just saying, you didn't know the tar part where they light it on fire.

How do you know? I am. Did you know that? No. Okay, see? I know you long enough. I didn't know that. I shouldn't assume.

I've actually seen some actual medieval-ass-can. I've been to Gettysburg. You know, I've been some, like, I've been a... Scotland. No, no, no, but like, they had canons there. Yeah, but they didn't do fire balls. Yeah, well, they did it differently. They actually had, like, cannonballs that they would fire and shit, which is a weird weapon.

What other kind of balls are fire? What if it was just, like, meatballs that you're cooking that has, like a spicy recipe? You know? Again, the jalapenos. Instead of making the jalapenos, before she scratched your balls, you put the jalapenos in the fucking meat, and then the jalapenos are hot. And those are great meatballs of fire. See, I'm with you. Mario?

Super Mario always was shooting out fireballs. Oh, so many. So, what is. But let's go all the way back to what is Jerry Lee Lewis talking about. Ryu and Ken Shriekid. They'd be thrown out mad. I didn't realize the list of great balls of fire. So many great balls.

Well, it makes me wonder where the concept of fireballs actually began. Because what was it before this song? I mean, this goes back a long ways. It doesn't go back. What years ago? What year do you think it goes back to? I'm saying 1959. You said 69 earlier.

I know, but and I said that was way too late and I teased you for that shit and then we're gonna redo the whole discussion This is why we can't do these discussions beforehand So why is it more right now? You're closer, yeah Okay, say I'm closer

Okay, so first of all I want to talk shit on Bing Because I searched that on Bing First of all, I searched it on Google But it took me to the Bing results Which I fucking hate what my computer does that chat It's like bad business Super buggy as fuck

And their answer just like not even Like I will literally show it to you 1995, like it gives me the answer like it's up top. Like, oh, yeah, 1995. It even says Jerry Lewis. Like, that's how off Bing is with the results. And they're just like, they confidently say, 1995, yeah. A millennial coming in there, be like, oh.

They'll think that, yeah, it does sound like way back in the day in 1994. Yeah, exactly. No, the true answer that I got when I searched on a proper. Deeper, on a proper scale. I got 1961. 61. I thought it was actually before that. I thought it was like straight up in the 50s.

But I could see 1961 too. Hey guys, Castle here with a quick editor's note. Upon further research, the song was not released in 1961, but in fact, 1957. It's important to remember sometimes that the internet is actually a very stupid, misinformed moron. That is in fact very wrong all the time. But we feel it is important to get the proper information at it while we're out here dispensing information. So we apologize for that, and the Dysect DJ's inability to do proper research. Now back to your regular schedule, Dysect.

Let's get the story going. What did you talk about the first line? You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain. Too much love drives a man insane. You broke my will. What a thrill. Goodness gracious, great balls. I slow that down.

I wasn't listening. I was just doing the backbeach. Just talk it. You shakes my nerves and you rattle my brain. Okay. So I'm imagining he's talking about a female right now. That's what I got to think. You're shaking my world, girl.

You're shaking my world. You're shaking my world. You're shaking my world. I don't know why I couldn't think of the term that's like your entire like. Rattle. Yeah. I'm being rattled to the core. Too much love drives a man insane. So that kind of like confirms.

Yeah, we're talking about a girl that he loves. Or is he talking about a girl that's like a nympho and they're having way too much sex. Maybe. I don't know. That's why his balls are on fire. The next term is you broke my will. She's fucking the shit out of this man. Still in the mix, yeah.

But what a thrill. Oh, she's fucking and she's like, yo, pull the dick out. We're doing it again right now. Pull it out. We just did it five minutes ago. I don't give a shit. Give me that,

give me it to me now. She's just aggressive. Okay. Or him. That they really don't say. Okay. So then goodness gracious, great balls of fire, which basically means like, dude,

everything my balls are producing are getting thrusted right now into this. That's what this story. This whole song is about fucking. This song is about. And a woman who just make it, like has way more libido? Is that the cool word? She's raised in.

I don't know. I'm actually just tossed because, like, I legit sang this song as a child in front of, like, an audience. Full on. You were talking about a girl that was a nympho that he was boned too much and therefore his balls are on fire. For reals. When I was in elementary school, me and my brother went to, like, a summer camp where, like, they trained us on these performances that we do. And then, like, at the end of the camp, like, it was a big performance. It's like literally in like an amphitheater.

All these people were there. And me and my brother sang this song. So I was like a kid. And I'm singing these words. And I was just singing about fucking, you know, about how my like my ball sack is ready to fucking unload. Like Rew-Sonic and Super Mario all combined. Pliu-Plau-Plet, Pruplei.

How you can. I do it again. I do it. Sonic spin dash. All right. Yeah. Okay. So we got it.

We got it down. Let's keep this next line going. Jerry, hit us. Great balls of fire. Kisses, baby. It feels good. Oh, me, baby. I want to love you like a love of a show.

You're fine. So kind. I've got to tell this world that you might, mind, my, my, mind. That you might, love this, and that's what's all my God. I'm real, love this, but it's fun. Come on, baby. It drives me crazy. It's just great balls of fire.

All right. You know what? When I just heard that one right there, it just made me think, like, I listen so many times with my grandpa and, like, the older folks, like, tell me about, like, music these days. Like, oh, you don't know what it used to be. I'm like, that was literally, like, a guy playing out in ejaculation as he plays the piano. He's literally like, ooh. Kiss me, baby. Yeah.

Like. Feels good. This is like we got to constantly remember. We got to keep remembering this. Every single time a new song comes out and everybody freaks out like, what is this music these days? It's like, no, this shit been happening. I don't know, man, but it's still different from Cardi Beme being like,

I suck your dick in the back of my throat. I mean, then tosses the back of my throat and dick in the balls. It's a little less, a little more subtle. So I have to appreciate that about 1961. Okay. Episode 33, for those of y'all that want to hear us dissect, Wop by Cardi B and making these talions. Throw that out there.

A little bit more direct with their sexual. A little bit more direct, but he's pretty fucking direct. He's literally saying balls. He's talking about his balls. Like, yeah, he calls it balls of fire. He's literally saying balls and they are his balls.

Like, that's what he's saying. There's no innuendo here. It's not like, he's literally talking about his great balls. What other kind of fireballs do we come across? We talked about all the other ones other options. Yeah.

We talked about all the other options. Firing out of like a tailpipe, like the car in Greece. It's none of those. It's none of those. It's literally him talking about. he's talking about his testicles and like I always

by the way which was my first guess I said to say that when we I mean it's go back everybody's first guess yeah it's not that impressive it's literally as a kid I remember thinking that's what he was talking about

but never give me credit you just dig for credit I like it nonstop I like it and I'm not not giving you credit I'm just saying everybody else was thinking the same

everybody was thinking the same thing maybe stop making the whole episode about you all right so let's break down the next part then I laughed at love because I thought it was funny but you came along and moved me honey I've changed my mind this love is fine what okay wait hang on hang on hang on I got it I got at love okay describe that to me what is he said like he laughed at love didn't think it was cool

but she came around and now he's like this love is dope he said this love is fine it's like it's a huge difference it's like uh all right I guess I guess we this is will work. No, he's like, my balls are on fire, so let's fucking see what I should. He's just saying he didn't think love was possible. He's like, actually, but this is fine.

Like, I can do this. He's not saying, like, I'm only like, oh, I never mind. I found a love of my life. He's just like, I didn't think I was going to do this, but this will work. You know what? A little more subtle with this.

Call him back last week. I think Usher could have used a little bit more of this in his, like, approach, you know? Instead of like being like, oh, I got to be in love with this girl, but then I'm into her friend. And now it's like, I got to be in love with you.

But, like, now that you're a little bit like her, like, you remind me of her. And I have to, like, no, it's like, maybe if you looked at it, like, you know, this love is fine. Like, let me, let me just feel this out. Let me see how this takes me. Instead of, like, just making such, like, drastic decisions this way and that, you know. That being said, I don't want to paint Jerry Lee Lewis as the model of who we should be taking. Well, he has quite a very interesting backstory. I think we alluded to earlier, but

So who did he marry? Married his cousin, as I understand. His first cousin? He's so bad at playing off. Okay, so he looked this up. Well, I just want to, it's not his first cousin, it's not his second cousin, it's his third cousin, and biologically, genetically, that's actually okay.

Let me just read this out. I'm just throwing it out there. It's all right. You can get with your third cousin. That's kind of like, you know, it's cool. I don't even know what that, I mean, I'm not telling anybody Go get their third cousin

It feels pretty far removed though I don't know if you guys are feeling it I don't even know if I've ever met a third cousin You can have sex and have a baby with a third cousin And the genetics are far enough apart Where it's fine So just so you know I've never done this

All right he married Mary Gail Brown A lot of ink has been spilled It was closed blood relationship with Myra And the fact that she was only 13 Wait what? Yeah she's only 13 I was trying to have his back on the third cousin deal, but I can't get to the 13. And he was what?

How old was he? He was 23. And real quick, honestly, if you're 85 and you're with a 75-year-old, that's okay. 55, 45, 45, 25, 25. How about 13 and anything is just not a bad deal? Anything over 15? No, not even that. Well, I mean, my grandmother got married at 14, my mom got married to 15.

Different times, I get it. But still awkward. Still awkward. I don't know why they were okay with this. Why was there ever a time when that was okay? I'm never than 14. Yeah, hey, well, she's cute. You know what?

I'm going to start alive with that. Hey, my cousin, that's 13 looks out right. And I'm pretty sure he wasn't just like hiding. He was like really like walking around with her in the open. Like this is my wife, my 13 year old wife. And I bet he was like a star. Like he was your league. Yeah, he was like you're like.

Parading around with her. Like it's just whatever. Definitely a different time. Crazy. This was still a lifetime of like so many, like our parents were alive at this point. You know, and this was just having. happening like uh but the the part that fucking cracked me up was the second part of the sentence

the fact that she was only 13 and still believed in santa claus when the pair would make so jerry had to like break like they literally like at the first christmas together and his wife was like oh my god we had to get ready for santa he had to look at his wife and be like god damn do i have to be the one to do this right now Say that's not real. The fuck. No, get over here and,

hell. Like, I try to, like, have fun with it and joke around. It's just such an awkward. How long do they stay together?

They stay together forever? Well, the beginning of, I mean, okay, I'm using liveabout. com as this source. Just wondering.

They stay together forever. There's a picture of them. There's a picture of them. You want to come over and look at it. Like, she looks pretty fucking, like a, and he looks extra sketchy

in this picture. That looks like a guy that's taking a picture with, like, a young fan. It's pretty, oh, yeah, That's a pretty sketch-ass fucking phone.

Yeah. Jerry, Jerry, great balls of fire. He's talking about his great balls of fire with a 13-year-old apparently. Yeah. And it makes this song even fucking more worse. He'd already got through two marriages by 1957. And then he got with his 13-year-old cousin? And then, yeah, so he'd already been with two marriages before he married his 13-cous.

Hey, Jerry. Hey, Jerry, if you're still alive, fuck you, homie. And your great balls of fire. And your great balls of fire bullshit. You fucking petty. And you're openly. Family, incestrial petty, bro. get out of here.

Orgasming at the piano. Feels good. By the way, I'm talking about a 13-year-old. Ill. Ew. Oh, fuck you. What else is song? I don't want to hear the rest, but we got to hear it.

We're too deep. We're too deep now. We got to finish it out. We got to finish it. What? Jerry Lee Lewis, look at how scary. Sketchy. Dude, Apple looks like it.

Oh, no. Somebody doing an investigation on this man. This is the original. Yeah. This definitely looks like. It's the original R. Kelly. Jerry Lee Lewis. Yeah, yeah.

The O.G. R. Kelly. you know what's crazy is like, we're talking about this story about how fucked up it was back in the 50s and the 60s. And we watched the whole thing happen in front of all of our eyes. Watch surviving Arkelly

now ago. It's literally it is literally the story times 12 and it just happened in front of everybody's eyes. But yeah, finish the song, here we go. All right, we're like halfway through. It's a short song. It's a short song. They used to make songs real short back then. All right, Jerry, what do you got?

So, kind. Got to tell this world that you mind, my, my, my, my, my. Oh, my. Yeah. I'm a little bit of the fun. Come on, baby. Right. Crazy.

That's great. This is great balls of fire. Fuck you, Jerry. You know what? Or some reason going through that last little... Yeah, I envisioned that whole last part. Yeah. I just felt like he was so much sketchier.

Oh, dude, that whole, yeah, the whole last time we just listened. I was not having fun. The first part I was like, goodness, girl, I was all dancing. is singing. I'm going to sing this for karaoke. Now I'm like, dude, what the fuck do we just listen to it? No, it's a whole different thing when you realize, like, I'm listening to an absolute creeper right now. Talk about sex with a 13-year-old. Talking about this. On a popular track.

Yeah, and he was definitely married to her when they came up. Because, like, that one said, he'd already been married before 1958 twice, and that's when they got married to a 13-year-old. And this song came out in 19601. So, yeah, this was fully who he was referencing when he came up with Great Balls of Fire. And I don't know sure if you heard me earlier, but I'm going to talk shit again. this man's artistic ability on the piano is absolute shit. He literally just bangs the same key, kick, key, key, key, and then does a swipe across the keys and then goes back to a key and then swipe.

Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. Key. Oh, feels good. You know what? For some reason, I had this thing like, Jerry Lewis. It's good, classic music. It's good stuff.

First of all, I don't know another fucking song by Jerry Lewis. Couldn't tell you another fucking track by him. And two, this man's a fucking ancestral petty who has no artistic ability when it comes. comes to the piano. Diceg DJs just blew my mind because I just have come to have created, I've created this in my mind and now understand. Fuck Jerry Lee Lewis.

Fuck Jerry Lee Lewis. So I got his birthday. He was born in September 29th, 1935, which means around what, 1958 when he got married or he was like 23. And by this time, then this song came out, he was about. 26 with a 16-year-old. Yeah, yep. Well, by that point, yeah, she was, okay.

I'll push back a little bit on the piano playing. I feel like he does slay some of that piano. Because, like, that part when he's, like, banging on it. Well, that one part when he's, like, banging on the keys, that part, like, sounds easy. But at the same time, like, he was getting after. Like, he was kind of like, gruel, whir, like, he was going back and forth, and he was all over the piano. I think he was slaying the piano at that part.

But, like, it's not necessarily the hardest one, but, like, it is a party. The true piano player would be like, what the fuck was that? Well, I imagine. At this time, like, that was what most piano players were doing. No. I feel like he was got to like... You got Beethoven and shit coming out with way better stuff than that centuries before that, bro.

No. That's what I'm saying. That was what was known as piano but this time. But, like, this kind of party time piano music was relatively new, I feel like, at this point. No, rock and roll in the South was doing this way before. Yeah, I'm sure. Yeah. In the South had that shit.

The blues were doing this way. But give me a decade, though. Educate me. When they started doing this, I mean, with unknown, probably in the clubs, fucking forever to be honest with you but actually like the 20s and shit yeah that's when they were dancing I would love to know what music was like

I would love to all you hear is these songs of like like that couldn't be what the night life was right nobody just sat there all fucking night in the 20s and we're like yeah that's good beats they had to have some kind of beats but like they didn't have no bounce beat they didn't have no bounce and shit and nothing like that but yeah I'm always amazed by that

but anyways I was literally just thinking I heard randomly Beethoven playing earlier and I was just like is this like what they partied on like when you see those like clips of Amadeas or something where they're like literally just palming they put each other just palms on each of his palms like parties was just sucked like yeah like they didn't

like but that was like super fun they were like raging right there had to be underground club that's like the yeah but like what music like music didn't exist to it they didn't really know what rhythm was back there anyways dude I want to get done with this Jerry he doesn't deserve any more of our time I don't like this guy anymore I'm gonna slap him out I'm slapping out the song

And it's meaning, and it's my history with me. I'm balled out on Jerry. And here I go, I'm ready. I'm going to. And the only reason it gets either one of those for this fucking guy is because this song gets me going. And there's something about it. And I just get high energy. And I'm like, ooh, it feels good.

I love you. It's high energy. It's fun. And I've known it since I was a kid. So that's why it gets to one snap and one clap. You were ready to do this for karaoke in like an hour. I was going to do it. I'm not doing it no more.

Some guy keeps doing it. That's why, and I was like, I'm going to kill this song. This guy keeps doing it. I'm going to, he sucks. I want to show it. I could definitely seem this being like somebody's like just one go-to. And I'd be like, oh, yeah. He's like, kiss me, baby.

He feels good. He's so bad. I can fucking give. You don't want to love you like a love for sure. I'm so fine. It sounds like a predator now. Yeah. That's what I see when you look at it.

I get it. What do you got for it? Let me go. Hadoken. Tiger. How do you can? So that was a slap and then just a serious. of different fireballs that I've enjoyed throughout life.

A series of different great fireballs. Yeah. And then just the final Ryu. A fire. No, but then I threw the uppercut sound in there because that one is actually really dope. Like the Hadukin's group,

but like we always sleep on like the, ah! Like that's their best sound out of street fighter because it's like got so much intensity and like whenever you get hit with that shit, you're like, nope. We lost everybody, man.

We off subject there. Yeah, but we were talking about a dude who diddled his cousin when she was 13. So, like, there wasn't, like, a whole lot of need to rescue. But then he went to video games, which is that. We're talking about fireballs. What the fuck is?

Okay, we're going to talk about fireballs. We're going to talk about video games. They're going to talking about a gross, dirty peddlers fucking ball sack and how he's talking about how he's about to fucking jazz all over the fucking room because some 13-year-olds getting him excited, you know, and how he feels fine about love. Let's just not talk about great balls anymore. I don't want to talk about any balls. Fire or great.

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