Wanda Jackson

Wanda Jackson ( born October 20, 1937 in Maud, Oklahoma), actually Wanda Lavonne Jackson is an American rockabilly and country music singer.

Life

Wanda Jackson was born in Oklahoma, but grew from her 4 years in California. As a child she learned to play guitar and piano playing. At 15, she won a talent contest and was allowed to occur daily for fifteen minutes in a local radio station. The country singer Hank Thompson heard her there and encouraged them to more bookings. However, they insisted on making only their high school diploma. 1955 and 1956 she went on tour, including Elvis Presley, who advised her to switch from country music to rockabilly. In 1961 she married and had two children. Her husband Wendell Goodman gave up his job at IBM to become her manager.

Wanda Jackson was the first woman who made ​​"wild" music as their male colleagues and their songs sang huskily. For the more prudish America it was too wild, and they had their greatest successes abroad. For their fans abroad, she sang, among others, also in German, Dutch and Japanese. 1959 stood Fujiyama Mama for months at the top of the Japanese charts - and that is although alluded to in the song in a little more sensitive way to the atomic bombings: " I've been to Nagasaki, Hiroshima too / The things I did to them baby, I can do to you ". Your today 's best-known rock and roll title in 1960 Let's Have A Party. Other hits were Silver Threads And Golden Needles - the first shot of today's country music classic, Stupid Cupid, originally a hit song by Connie Francis, and two self-penned originals, Right Or Wrong and Mean Mean Man. Their most successful in the U.S. title was In The Middle Of A Heartache, the panel reached end of 1961, # 27 in the U.S. singles charts. In 1962 you get two more, smaller successes, one with a cover of Burl Ives A Little Bitty Tear - track (# 84) and with the plate If I Cried Every Time You Hurt Me (# 58). Overall, five plates of Wanda Jackson between autumn 1960 and early summer of 1962 in the U.S. charts were able to place.

In Germany they came up with softer songs on better, but had since only a very brief period of success, from April 1965 to January 1967. You was most successful with Santo Domingo, one composed especially for her by Joachim Relin Bert Olden and German pop. The title came in 1965 at # 5 on the German charts and # 1 on the hit parade of the youth magazine Bravo. Wanda Jackson took this title also for the Asian market in Japanese. The B-side of Santo Domingo - Tomorrow, yes tomorrow - was sung by Wanda Jackson in Dutch. Unlike many other German singing stars from the Anglo- Saxon world, such as Connie Francis, Cliff Richard and Petula Clark, Wanda Jackson took no German-language cover versions of their U.S. hits; their German-language recordings have been explicitly written in German language for them (eg But then came Johnny or who loses his heart to the sea ), or were U.S. hits of other artists used and provided with German texts (eg, Oh, lonesome me by Don Gibson ), the instrumental backing tracks were prefabricated in the Electrola Studios in Cologne and were synchronized by Wanda Jackson either in the studios of their U.S. label Capitol Records in Los Angeles or at their next visit to Electrola in Cologne. Their last success in Germany was the title When the parting comes, which reached number 32 in 1967 the German singles charts in January.

Wanda Jackson played alongside rock and roll and country temporarily and gospel music. In her career she recorded more than 50 albums and goes well with over 70 years still on tour. She has received numerous honors, among other things, she was inducted into the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame, the Rockabilly Hall of Fame and the International Gospel Music Hall of Fame.

In January 2011, Jackson celebrated on the plate market a much awaited comeback: The album The Party Is not Over, produced by Jack White ( The White Stripes ) and has received many good reviews from BBC Music and the journals spin and New Musical Express. The album includes cover versions of rock and roll classics such as Rip It Up, Shakin ' All Over or Nervous Breakdown, but in addition also songs of Bob Dylan (Thunder on the Mountain ) and Amy Winehouse ( You Know That I'm No Good ).

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