{"id":23714,"date":"2014-11-04T03:26:47","date_gmt":"2014-11-04T08:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=23714"},"modified":"2016-10-24T17:50:40","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T21:50:40","slug":"november-4-1957-dick-clark-debuts-great-balls-of-fire-just-for-fun-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=23714","title":{"rendered":"November 4, 1957&#8230;Dick Clark Debuts &#8220;Great Balls Of Fire&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\"  title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/November-4-1957...Dick-Clark-Debuts-Great-Balls-Of-Fire-Just-for-fun-here.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>November 4, 1957&#8230;Dick Clark Debuts &#8220;Great Balls Of Fire&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Just for fun, here&#8217;s a little piece of music and television history rolled into one. The song was recorded in Memphis at Sun Studios on October 8, 1957 and was the follow up to Jerry Lee&#8217;s first hit, &#8220;Whole Lotta Shakin&#8221;. This debut performance is on &#8216;The Dick Clark Saturday Beechnut Show&#8217; on ABC from The Little Theater in New York. Notice the ultra quick &#8220;balls of fire&#8221; Lewis creates with magician&#8217;s flash paper while playing. -Bobby Ellerbee  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lidFipyLG8k\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lidFipyLG8k<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jerry Lee Lewis Great Balls of Fire - Rock\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lidFipyLG8k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>Jerry Lee Lewis Great balls of Fire Rock video<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/750196901684528\">Source<\/a>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 4, 1957&#8230;Dick Clark Debuts &#8220;Great Balls Of Fire&#8221; Just for fun, here&#8217;s a little piece of music and television history rolled into one. The song was recorded in Memphis at Sun Studios on October 8, 1957 and was the follow up to Jerry Lee&#8217;s first hit, &#8220;Whole Lotta Shakin&#8221;. This debut performance is on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":23715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_popup_image":0,"_vp_format_audio_url":"","_vp_album_images":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail":0,"_vp_custom_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail_cover":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[784],"class_list":["post-23714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-abc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}