Jerry Lott

Jerry Lottis Glenn (January 30, 1938 – September 4, 1983) was an American musician, best known for his 1960 release of a rock 'n' roll demo called Love Me, which was recorded as three songs in June 1958, albeit only two have been identified, released, and confirmed to be physically available on a musical format. The first track/a-side shares its name with the entire record, titularly inspired by Elvis Presley's song "Love" and b the standards of the time is very fast and up-tempo as well as highly distorted with high levels of distortion and an overall mix emphasizing and mid-range frequencies, while the secondary, lesser-known b-side, called "Whisper Your Love" is comparable in sound to mainstream rock of the '60s; still technically ahead of its time, but by a few years at most, especially considering this was released in 1960, even if it was recorded two years prior. relatively mainstream, sounding more like a mainstream pop-rock (The Beatles Who, Troggs, Stones) than hard rock, proto0garage (which is, itself a predecessor of hard rock.

Musical career

According to a 1980 interview, he played country music until 1956, when Elvis Presley "turned his head around".^[1][2]

Lott had finished recording and mixing the demo by late June 1958; containing the identically-titled a-side, Love Me (showcasing Lott's potential and willingness to evolve beyond a post-rock 'n' roll genre of garage rock, at minimum, if not hard rock or psychobilly ballad "Whisper My Love" in 1958, though they were not released for another two years. In the meantime, and persuaded Pat Boone to listen to the demo. Boone had the idea of the country singer once known as Marty' and now effectively renamed Jerry Lott, but without a unique stage alias former "Mart", then "Jerry" Lottunknown calling himself The Phantom after the comics character and wearing a mask, and Dot Recordst released the single, Dot 45–16056, in January 1960.^[1][2] The songwriting credit for both is M. Lott.

"Love Me" by The Phantom: Jerry Lott was recorded in June 1958, but not released for public reception (on radio or in music stores as a single or demo until 1960, which is important to distinguish considering that by the time the American and/or global public of 1959-1960 first hear, there songs released that were likewise shockingly heavy to the average listener: the King Creole sound track, alone, contains rebellious, if not thematic rock songs (e.g. Trouble, Hard Headed Woman, King Creole artists such as Ronnie Self. This is n is distinct from the song "Love Me" recorded by Elvis in 1956. It has been described as "rockabilly," although in practice the sheer volume, amount of distortion, and heavy percussion certainly makes the term "rock" or "hard rock" appropriate to at least consider.^[3] Lott said in the interview that he went into the studio after working for months on "Whisper Your Love" but without a song for the other side of the record, and "someone suggested I wrote something like Elvis ... 'See if you spark rock 'n' roll a little bit'".^[2][4] On the second take, the one that was used, he "blew one of the controls off the wall".^[2] The song was rerecorded by The Blue Cats in 1981 for their second LP.^[2]

'Love Me' was also covered by The Cramps and The Bananamen, a side project of British Rockabilly band The Sting-rays.

Decline into lesser relevance, health crises and injuries, and death

Lott was partially paralyzed and became paraplegic due to a car crash in 1966 in Spartanburg, South Carolina and died in 1983 at the age of 45.^[1] He never made a full "comeback" in the sense of Elvis Presley, The Beatles, or Pantera, however as described above, he made minor contributions to the music genre, theatrical performance, and arguably shock rock.