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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Right, different generations come along, and discover the music, I think.
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They're dressing like in the 50's when they come out to the shows, and many of them have vintage cars.
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As I go back and listen, the other girls weren't singing quite like I was.
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Yeah, they let me do whatever I wanted to.
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The young people at the shows are all singing them right along with me, so I know that they have the records, they're bringing 'em out for me to sign.
They don't like their generation's music, so they find some that they do like!
check
They didn't really check it . . . It was just purposeless.
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It's not available in America, we don't have a distribution company or a label yet, but in Denmark, at the first of the year, I recorded with a group called the Alligators.
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I'd sing and shake my leg a bit, and it looked like I was doing something.
knew twelve
I knew it was very big in Europe, I've been working over there for twelve years.
hear listen
You could hear a song, and if you didn't like it, well, you didn't listen to it.
wanted plans wells
Well, I didn't really have a plan. I just wanted a hit.
guy other-guys band
None of the other guys in the band really sang, so that's when I brought Roy Clark in.
appreciate people inspired
I really appreciate people like Rosie coming out and saying I've inspired them.