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 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.
check
They didn't really check it . . . It was just purposeless.
danced teenager
Right, I was a teenager then, this was my generation's music, it was what I danced to on dates.
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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.
knew twelve
I knew it was very big in Europe, I've been working over there for twelve years.
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.
leg looked shake sing
I'd sing and shake my leg a bit, and it looked like I was doing something.
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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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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!
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.
dutch learn recorded
Well, I didn't learn them I had to do them phonetically. But I've recorded in Dutch and Japanese, too.
box
Yeah, but I have the box set out now.
nice inspired nice-day
So, it's nice to know that you've inspired someone to do their life's work.