Wanda Jackson

Wanda Jean Jackson ( Maud (Oklahoma) , October 20 1937 ) is an American singer and known to many as the first female rockabilly .



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*1 Biography  ==[Biography  edit ] == Jackson joined Decca in 1954. Jackson signed with Capitol in 1956. In 1960 she was hit in the pop charts when Capitol recording its 1958 "Let's Have a Party" issued. She switched to country music in the sixties and scored a few hits here and there. She often called her the "Queen of Rockabilly". In Germany, Austria, Netherlands and Belgium had Wanda Jackson in the mid sixties a lot of success with a German repertoire. In 1965 it was "Santo Domingo" with the dance orchestra of Horst Wende its largest German-language hit. ===The road to fame [  edit ] === Jackson was still on the 'High School' when country singer Hank Thompson heard her sing in a program on the radio in Oklahoma City and he asked her if she wanted to make some recordings with his band. She met Elvis Presley, who encouraged her genre of gospel - she performed since childhood - to leave and rock 'n' roll to try. She developed her own distinctive sound and performed in a variety of genres, from traditional folk songs to country and loudly voiced evocative ballads . Wanda Jackson at a concert in 013Tilburg==Today [  edit ] == In 1995, Jackson was more or less her comeback in the rock 'n' roll scene, assisting in the album "Rockabilly Filly" Rosie Flores. In 2003 she published her first studio album in years " Heart Trouble "in which she is accompanied by artists such as Elvis Costello, Lee Rocker ( Stray Cats ) and The Cramps . Three years later the album "I Remember Elvis" in which Jackson looks back on her collaboration and friendship with Elvis.
 * 1.1 The road to fame
 * 2 Today
 * 3 Discography
 * 3.1 Singles
 * 3.2 Recent compilations

On August 16, 2007 Jackson attended a concert in Europe, as a guest of René Shuman and Angel-Eye . In 2009, Jackson made ​​a guest appearance on the CD-single "Whiskey Song" by Dutch rock 'n' roll singer William Smulders . It concerns duet versions of Let's Have A Party and Funnel Of Love.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">In 2002, Jackson was included in the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame and in 2009 into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame .

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">In January 2011 they released an album " The Party Is not Over "with arrangements by Jack White . Late 2012 her song "Funnel of Love" was played as background music in the LIGA advertising. ==<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[Discography  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[Single  Edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Recent compilations <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ===