Crazed intensity marked his appearances in the early and mid 60s

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Charlie Fach, the head of Smash Records, later asserted that Mercury had not been coerced into signing Linda Gail. "It wasn't a 'buy the rum to get the bourbon' deal. I thought she was a good country singer – as good as any girl in country music. Radio wouldn't accept her, though. She lived the same veil-of-tears life that every country girl sings about and she was especially big in Texas. She did well in all the pisspots down there - Panther Hall and so on. What amazed me, though, was the way she married everyone in the damn band - sometimes more than once, I think. One time she just moved across the hall to her new husband. It seemed as though everything to do with Jerry Lee Lewis was unbelievable. One time I remember I persuaded Gene Shepherd, who was a top writer for Playboy, to follow Jerry Lee around for a while and write a story. He called me later and told me that Playboy had turned the piece down. The only piece of his they'd ever rejected. They thought he was making it up."