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
girl inspiration people
Getting comments like that from even the young people at the shows who probably aren't singers, the girls who just tell me that I'm an inspiration to them, for one reason or another.
california oklahoma heard
You could have a hit in California that no one had heard of in Oklahoma.
writing mind easy
If something pops in my mind and it's easy, I write it.
jerry
I loved Carl Perkins, Jerry lee Lewis... not only were they personal friends.
appreciate people inspired
I really appreciate people like Rosie coming out and saying I've inspired them.
guy other-guys band
None of the other guys in the band really sang, so that's when I brought Roy Clark in.
wanted plans wells
Well, I didn't really have a plan. I just wanted a hit.
american-musician
Yeah, they let me do whatever I wanted to.
american-musician girls quite
As I go back and listen, the other girls weren't singing quite like I was.
american-musician cars dressing vintage
They're dressing like in the 50's when they come out to the shows, and many of them have vintage cars.
american-musician
Right, different generations come along, and discover the music, I think.
american-musician music
It really is, to see that this kind of music is still so popular.
american-musician issues
There wasn't so many ISSUES like there are today. It was a simpler time.
american-musician
I enjoyed listening to it, but I didn't think I could do it.