Wanda Jackson
Wanda Jackson
Wanda Lavonne Jacksonis an American singer, songwriter, pianist and guitarist who had success in the mid-1950s and 1960s as one of the first popular female rockabilly singers and a pioneering rock and roll artist. She is known to many as the "Queen of Rockabilly"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth20 October 1937
CityMaud, OK
CountryUnited States of America
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It would be nice to say that I planned all of this, that this was exactly what I'd planned, but it was just one of those things that happened.
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It would take them three days to tape a thirty minute show, and you just got so worn out, you did it however they wanted, just to get it over with.
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We had to work five back-to-back shows, forty-five minutes on, fifteen minutes off. That's just an awful lot of singing.
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I'd been working with Elvis, but I just recorded Country, so he, definitely, like you said, encouraged me to try it, but I didn't, right then.
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But, it was a popular show, and I knew everyone on it, so it was always fun to do.
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Right, I was a teenager then, this was my generation's music, it was what I danced to on dates.
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So, it happened pretty fast, but, it is causing a lot of stir, which thrills me that people still remember the songs.
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Well, I didn't learn them I had to do them phonetically. But I've recorded in Dutch and Japanese, too.
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Yeah, but I have the box set out now.
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You know, no one steered people's careers in those days, I don't think, like they do today.
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I have some of the old videos of my performances on it.
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I enjoyed listening to it, but I didn't think I could do it.
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There wasn't so many ISSUES like there are today. It was a simpler time.
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It really is, to see that this kind of music is still so popular.