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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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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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.
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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.
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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.