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
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.
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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.
american-musician encouraged recorded
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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I knew it was very big in Europe, I've been working over there for twelve years.
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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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But, it was a popular show, and I knew everyone on it, so it was always fun to do.
danced teenager
Right, I was a teenager then, this was my generation's music, it was what I danced to on dates.
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.
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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.
box
Yeah, but I have the box set out now.
american-musician careers steered
You know, no one steered people's careers in those days, I don't think, like they do today.