A video of Jerry Lee Lewis performing a tame version — for “The Killer,” that is — of “Great Balls of Fire” concludes, and John Robertson offers an observation.
“I’ve never actually heard him perform this song, I’ve only heard Goose in ‘Top Gun,’ ” said Robertson, 19, of Otterville.
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