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
danced teenager
Right, I was a teenager then, this was my generation's music, it was what I danced to on dates.
check
They didn't really check it . . . It was just purposeless.
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!
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.
nashville records coast
If I needed to record, I'd head to the coast or Nashville, one or the other.
media today
But, we didn't have all the media that we do today.
country rocks records
On that show, I did country and some rock, too, whatever record I had out at the time, I'd sing that.
firsts albums sweden
And it wasn't until '84 when I was first asked to come to Sweden and do an album and concert tour.
singing records nelson
I learned so much about recording and about singing on records from Ken Nelson.
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.
appreciate people inspired
I really appreciate people like Rosie coming out and saying I've inspired them.