Lott was born Jerry Lottis in Prichard, Alabama, and grew up in Leakesville, Mississippi.
[1] According to a 1980 interview, he played country music until 1956, when Elvis Presley "turned his head around".
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 "[s]omeone suggested I wrote something like Elvis ... 'See if you spark rock 'n' roll a little bit'".
[2] 'Love Me' was also covered by The Cramps and The Bananamen, a side project of British Rockabilly band The Sting-rays.
Lott was paralyzed in a car accident in 1966 in Spartanburg, South Carolina, and died in 1983 at the age of 45.