Artist.......: Wanda Jackson
Album........: Live de la Semaine
Label........: n/a
Genre........: Country
Catnr........: n/a
Source.......: DVBS
Rip.date.....: 2011-02-15
Str.date.....: 2011-01-00
Quality......: 171kbps/48.0kHz/Joint Stereo
Url..........: http://www.wandajackson.com/
track title time
1. Live de la Semaine 28:58
* Intro
* Mean Mean Mean
* Shakin' All Over
* Rip It Up
* Like A Baby
* Nervous Breakdown
* You Know I'm No Good
* Let's Have A Party
* Ending
Runtime 28:58
Size 35.61
Release Notes:
Wanda Jackson was only halfway through high school when, in 1954, country singer
Hank Thompson heard her on an Oklahoma City radio show and asked her to record
with his band, the Brazos Valley Boys. By the end of the decade, Jackson had
become one of America's first major female country and rockabilly singers.
Jackson was born in Oklahoma, but her father Tom -- himself a country singer who
quit because of the Depression -- moved the family to California in 1941. He
bought Wanda her first guitar two years later, gave her lessons, and encouraged
her to play piano as well. In addition, he took her to see such acts as Tex
Williams, Spade Cooley, and Bob Wills, which left a lasting impression on her
young mind. Tom moved the family back to Oklahoma City when his daughter was 12
years old. In 1952, she won a local talent contest and was given a 15-minute
daily show on KLPR. The program, soon upped to 30 minutes, lasted throughout
Jackson's high-school years. It's here that Thompson heard her sing. Jackson
recorded several songs with the Brazos Valley Boys, including "You Can't Have My
Love," a duet with Thompson's bandleader, Billy Gray. The song, on the Decca
label, became a national hit, and Jackson's career was off and running. She had
wanted to sign with Capitol, Thompson's label, but was turned down, so she
signed with Decca instead.
Jackson insisted on finishing high school before hitting the road. When she did,
her father came with her. Her mother made and helped design Wanda's stage
outfits. "I was the first one to put some glamour in the country music -- fringe
dresses, high heels, long earrings," Jackson said of these outfits. When Jackson
first toured in 1955 and 1956, she was placed on a bill with none other than
Elvis Presley. The two hit it off almost immediately. Jackson said it was
Presley, along with her father, who encouraged her to sing rockabilly.
In 1956, Jackson finally signed with Capitol, a relationship that lasted until
the early '70s. Her recording career bounced back and forth between country and
rockabilly; she did this by often putting one song in each style on either side
of a single. Jackson cut the rockabilly hit "Fujiyama Mama" in 1958, which
became a major success in Japan. Her version of "Let's Have a Party," which
Elvis had cut earlier, was a U.S. Top 40 pop hit for her in 1960, after which
she began calling her band the Party Timers. A year later, she was back in the
country Top Ten with "Right or Wrong" and "In the Middle of a Heartache." In
1965, she topped the German charts with "Santa Domingo," sung in German. In
1966, she hit the U.S. Top 20 with "The Box It Came In" and "Tears Will Be the
Chaser for Your Wine." Jackson's popularity continued through the end of the
decade.
Jackson toured regularly, was twice nominated for a Grammy, and was a big
attraction in Las Vegas from the mid-'50s into the '70s. She married IBM
programmer Wendell Goodman in 1961, and instead of quitting the business -- as
many women singers had done at the time -- Goodman gave up his job in order to
manage his wife's career. He also packaged Jackson's syndicated TV show, Music
Village. In 1971, Jackson and her husband became Christians, which she says
saved their marriage. She released one gospel album on Capitol in 1972, Praise
the Lord, before shifting to the Myrrh label for three more gospel albums. In
1977, she switched again, this time to Word Records, and released another two.
In the early '80s, Jackson was invited to Europe to play rockabilly and country
festivals and to record. She's since been back numerous times. More recently,
American country artists Pam Tillis, Jann Browne, and Rosie Flores have
acknowledged Jackson as a major influence. In 1995, Flores released a rockabilly
album, Rockabilly Filly, and invited Jackson, her longtime idol, to sing two
duets on it with her. Jackson embarked on a major U.S. tour with Flores later
that year. It was her first secular tour in this country since the '70s, not to
mention her first time back in a nightclub atmosphere. Jackson returned to the
studio in 2010 to begin work on a new album. Produced by Jack White and
featuring a band comprised of the White Stripes frontman, his wife Karen Elson,
various Raconteurs, My Morning Jacket's Carl Broemel, and a host of others, The
Party AinÆt Over arrived in early 2011.