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
dutch learn recorded
Well, I didn't learn them I had to do them phonetically. But I've recorded in Dutch and Japanese, too.
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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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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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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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.
knew twelve
I knew it was very big in Europe, I've been working over there for twelve years.
leg looked shake sing
I'd sing and shake my leg a bit, and it looked like I was doing something.
hear listen
You could hear a song, and if you didn't like it, well, you didn't listen to it.
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.
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.
wanted plans wells
Well, I didn't really have a plan. I just wanted a hit.