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<p>[QUOTE="Ladybranch, post: 109814, member: 44"]I haven't a clue to the unknown man. I thought Bobby Darin,</p><p>Mario Lanza and Jerry Lee Lewis, "The Killer," were good guesses; however, it was common knowledge among his associates that Sinatra hated Bobby Darin because Darin used to brag that some day he would be bigger than Sinatra. Sinatra took no humor in anyone encroaching on his territory. I could find no pictures of Darin with either Sinatra or Martin. As Baker pointed out Lanza died in 1959. I could find no pics of Lanza with either Sinatra or Martin.</p><p><br /></p><p>As to Jerry Lee Lewis, his face was much thinner then the person portrayed in these pics. Also in the early '60s his hair was almost blonde. I could find no pics of him with Sinatra or Martin either. BTW, Jerry lives about 10 miles due south of us in a different town. He has been a legend of hmmmm....one sort or another in the Memphis area since the beginning of time. Back in the late 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, it seemed like once a year the IRS trucks, etc... were at his home hauling off stuff and such to pay off his huge tax debt. At one time the tax debt was over $4 million.</p><p><a href="http://www.deseretnews.com/article/366651/JERRY-LEE-IRS-MAKE-PEACE-HE-MUST-RAISE-560000.html?pg=all" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.deseretnews.com/article/366651/JERRY-LEE-IRS-MAKE-PEACE-HE-MUST-RAISE-560000.html?pg=all" rel="nofollow">http://www.deseretnews.com/article/366651/JERRY-LEE-IRS-MAKE-PEACE-HE-MUST-RAISE-560000.html?pg=all</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Lewis has 2 cousins of note, Mickey Gilley and the one time TV evangelist Jimmy Swaggart. Swaggart sexual scandals had him "defrocked" and brought down his empire. In 2013 a club on Beale St. up in Memphis opened supposedly owned and run by Lewis. A short time later I had the opportunity to talk to his cousin Mickey Gilley in Branson, MO. I asked him about the club. He laughed and said Jerry didn't own the club. They only paid him money to use his name. I won't go into that other cousin he married when she was 13 and he 22. That relationship was well documented in the movie <i>Great Balls of Fire</i>. My apologizes for digressing into the world of gossip. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/frown.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":(" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Nowww I did spot pics of a Sinatra and Darin Show. They are in black tie, but definitely different from these pics.:</p><p><a href="http://www.croonerrich.com/sinatradarin.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.croonerrich.com/sinatradarin.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.croonerrich.com/sinatradarin.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>--- Susan[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ladybranch, post: 109814, member: 44"]I haven't a clue to the unknown man. I thought Bobby Darin, Mario Lanza and Jerry Lee Lewis, "The Killer," were good guesses; however, it was common knowledge among his associates that Sinatra hated Bobby Darin because Darin used to brag that some day he would be bigger than Sinatra. Sinatra took no humor in anyone encroaching on his territory. I could find no pictures of Darin with either Sinatra or Martin. As Baker pointed out Lanza died in 1959. I could find no pics of Lanza with either Sinatra or Martin. As to Jerry Lee Lewis, his face was much thinner then the person portrayed in these pics. Also in the early '60s his hair was almost blonde. I could find no pics of him with Sinatra or Martin either. BTW, Jerry lives about 10 miles due south of us in a different town. He has been a legend of hmmmm....one sort or another in the Memphis area since the beginning of time. Back in the late 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, it seemed like once a year the IRS trucks, etc... were at his home hauling off stuff and such to pay off his huge tax debt. At one time the tax debt was over $4 million. [URL]http://www.deseretnews.com/article/366651/JERRY-LEE-IRS-MAKE-PEACE-HE-MUST-RAISE-560000.html?pg=all[/URL] Lewis has 2 cousins of note, Mickey Gilley and the one time TV evangelist Jimmy Swaggart. Swaggart sexual scandals had him "defrocked" and brought down his empire. In 2013 a club on Beale St. up in Memphis opened supposedly owned and run by Lewis. A short time later I had the opportunity to talk to his cousin Mickey Gilley in Branson, MO. I asked him about the club. He laughed and said Jerry didn't own the club. They only paid him money to use his name. I won't go into that other cousin he married when she was 13 and he 22. That relationship was well documented in the movie [I]Great Balls of Fire[/I]. My apologizes for digressing into the world of gossip. :( Nowww I did spot pics of a Sinatra and Darin Show. They are in black tie, but definitely different from these pics.: [URL]http://www.croonerrich.com/sinatradarin.html[/URL] --- Susan[/QUOTE]
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