Happy birthday to Wanda Lavonne Jackson (born October 20, 1937). She 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. She is known to many as the Queen of Rockabilly (or First Lady of Rockabilly). In 2009, she teamed up with Jack White to record The Party Aint Over (2011), which was well received by many critics but failed to come close to the success of Van Lear Rose that White produced for the legendary Loretta Lynn. Jackson enjoyed her first ever charting on the Billboard Hot 200 LP chart, peaking at number 58. The album also broke Mae Wests long-standing record for being the oldest female vocalist to make the chart with her 1966 album Way Out West with Jackson at 73 being a year older than West at the time of her hit rock LP. Billboard inexplicably failed to include The Party Aint Over on the Billboard Hot Country LPS chart, although several of the songs were blatantly country, and the genre in which Jackson was always most successful in the United States. To promote The Party Aint Over, she performed with Jack White on the Late Show with David Letterman and Conan. In a 2010 episode of the HBO program Entourage, Wandas song Funnel of Love was featured as the music to the ending credits. Jackson appeared on the BBCs Hootenanny at the end of 2010, performing her version of Lets Have a Party and a cover of the Amy Winehouse song You Know Im No Good with Jools Holland and his orchestra. The following year, after Winehouses death, she took part in an Amy Winehouse tribute performance with Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings at the VH1 Divas Live 2011.
Posted on: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 09:24:46 +0000
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