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
cute liked picked trying
I thought it was a very cute song. I just picked them out because I liked them. I wasn't trying to make any statements.
awful fifteen five minutes work
We had to work five back-to-back shows, forty-five minutes on, fifteen minutes off. That's just an awful lot of singing.
current photos ten vintage
We have two photos that we're selling, we have a vintage 1956 and we have a current one, and the vintage ones outsell the current ones ten to one!
america available company group label recorded
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.
dutch learn recorded
Well, I didn't learn them I had to do them phonetically. But I've recorded in Dutch and Japanese, too.
along american-musician bringing people shows singing
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.
american-musician exactly nice planned
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.
american-musician days however minute tape thirty three worn
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.
causing happened people remember thrills
So, it happened pretty fast, but, it is causing a lot of stir, which thrills me that people still remember the songs.
danced teenager
Right, I was a teenager then, this was my generation's music, it was what I danced to on dates.
american-musician careers steered
You know, no one steered people's careers in those days, I don't think, like they do today.
american-musician
I have some of the old videos of my performances on it.