Jerry Lee Lewis: Another Place Another Time

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Eddie Kilroy called me at midnight one Friday night and told me that if I would come down to Mercury Records and teach Jerry Lee Lewis this song, he thought we could cut a hit on it the next morning.

The next morning was Saturday and after being up all night helping Jerry Lee learn it, we went to Columbia Studio and recorded it. Cutting a hit record is so simple if you have a hit song and impossible if you don't. This record, not only won a BMI Award but received a Grammy Nomination!

- Jerry

(From the Liner Notes on the CD, "KILLER COUNTRY")

In 1968, from the moment "Another Place, Another Time" began to sprint up the charts, Jerry Lee was in Los Angeles, and suddenly his booker, Ray Brown, had the phone ringing off the hook for Jerry Lee Lewis, for the first time in ten years.

His country breakthrough had been preceded by many, many country records since his first in 1956.

Nothing had changed in Jerry's approach to country music. The only difference was that "ANOTHER PLACE, ANOTHER TIME" was a HIT!

One by one, they're turning out the lights

I've been feedin' that ole juke box just to hold you tight

Guess It's for the best, I just put in my last dime

Heard you whisper we'd meet again, "Another Place, Another Time

Chairs are stacked all over tables and it's closin' time they say

I could wait right here forever, If they'd only let me stay

Anywhere would be much better than that old lonely room of mine

And a sleepless night a waiting for, Another Place, Another Time

Chorus:

Won't that room of mine be a lonely place to be

After I've been holdin' you so close to me

And won't that old stairway be a little hard to climb

To a lonely room to wait for, Another Place, Another Time

Tag: Won't that old stairway be a little hard to climb

To a lonely room to wait for, Another Place, Another Time

Words and Music by Jerry Chesnut