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Wanda Jackson [1937-0] American
Rank: 101
Musician, Singer


Wanda Lavonne Jackson is 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. 


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Yeah, they let me do whatever I wanted to.
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I didn't realize how many true Rockabilly fans there were here in America.
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As I go back and listen, the other girls weren't singing quite like I was.
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None of the other guys in the band really sang, so that's when I brought Roy Clark in.
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It seems like the good things that have happened in my career are things that you don't try to plan and push, and make it happen, it just seems to happen.
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They're dressing like in the 50's when they come out to the shows, and many of them have vintage cars.
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Right, different generations come along, and discover the music, I think.
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I'm still learnin'. I pick up something from every performer I watch.
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You could have a hit in California that no one had heard of in Oklahoma.
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So, it's nice to know that you've inspired someone to do their life's work.
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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.
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I enjoyed listening to it, but I didn't think I could do it.
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You know, no one steered people's careers in those days, I don't think, like they do today.
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On that show, I did country and some rock, too, whatever record I had out at the time, I'd sing that.
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I have some of the old videos of my performances on it.
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It really is, to see that this kind of music is still so popular.
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There wasn't so many ISSUES like there are today. It was a simpler time.
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But, we didn't have all the media that we do today.
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I loved Carl Perkins, Jerry lee Lewis... not only were they personal friends.
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I really appreciate people like Rosie coming out and saying I've inspired them.
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Well, I didn't really have a plan. I just wanted a hit.
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I learned so much about recording and about singing on records from Ken Nelson.
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If I needed to record, I'd head to the coast or Nashville, one or the other.
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I have eighteen titles in the German language. I had a number one song in 1965.
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If something pops in my mind and it's easy, I write it.
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And it wasn't until '84 when I was first asked to come to Sweden and do an album and concert tour.
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