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