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Like many other young recording artists of the late 1950s, especially those on major labels, Wanda Jackson was encouraged to straddle musical genres as a hedge against changing trends. She was an accomplished rockabilly singer, but Capitol Records must have worried about how long rockabilly was going to stay popular, so Wanda Jackson has the singer cutting tracks in several other styles -- most frequently country. Her rockabilly fans may have been surprised to hear her first full-length album, which leaned more toward country and also showed off her affinity for straight pop. True, she did cover "Long Tall Sally" and "Money, Honey," and she did a particularly raucous version of "Let's Have a Party" (which surprisingly took off for the pop Top 40 two years after the album's release). But more typical of the sound of the album overall were her versions of Kitty Wells' "Making Believe" and Don Everly's "Here We Are Again," traditional country material, and she even tried her hand at Patti Page's 1954 hit "Let Me Go, Lover!," a pop ballad. Add it all up, and you had one versatile singer, able to sing convincingly anything that was thrown at her. The variety made sense at the time, even if subsequent fans may wish Jackson had rocked out a bit more.
© William Ruhlmann /TiVo
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Ken Nelson, Producer - Dave McEowen, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Wanda Jackson, MainArtist - Quinton Claunch, Composer - Bud Deckelman, Composer - William Cantrell, Composer
℗ 2002 Capitol Records LLC
Ken Nelson, Producer - Dave McEowen, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Wanda Jackson, MainArtist - Thelma Blackmon, Composer
℗ 2002 Capitol Records LLC
Ken Nelson, Producer - Dave McEowen, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Wanda Jackson, MainArtist - Dorothy Dell Brown, Composer
℗ 2002 Capitol Records LLC
Jimmy Work, Composer - Ken Nelson, Producer - Dave McEowen, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Wanda Jackson, MainArtist
℗ 2002 Capitol Records LLC
Don Everly, Composer - Ken Nelson, Producer - Dave McEowen, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Wanda Jackson, MainArtist
℗ 2002 Capitol Records LLC
Enotris Johnson, ComposerLyricist - Ken Nelson, Producer - Richard Penniman, ComposerLyricist - Buck Owens, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Wanda Jackson, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Skeets Mcdonald, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Joe Brawley, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Big Al Downing, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Vernon Sandusky, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Merrill Moore, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Robert "Bumps" Blackwell, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1958 Capitol Records LLC
Rex Griffin, ComposerLyricist - Ken Nelson, Producer - Dave McEowen, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Wanda Jackson, MainArtist
℗ 1958 Capitol Records LLC
Jenny Lou Carson, Composer - Ken Nelson, Producer - Dave McEowen, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Wanda Jackson, MainArtist - Al Hill, Composer
℗ 2002 Capitol Records LLC
Jesse Stone, Composer - Ken Nelson, Producer - Dave McEowen, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Wanda Jackson, MainArtist
℗ 2002 Capitol Records LLC
Ken Nelson, Producer - Dave McEowen, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Wanda Jackson, MainArtist - Buck Bryant, Composer - Jim West, Composer
℗ 2002 Capitol Records LLC
Ken Nelson, Producer - Dave McEowen, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Wanda Jackson, MainArtist - Margo Sylvia, ComposerLyricist - Gilbert Lopez, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1958 Capitol Records LLC
Ken Nelson, Producer - Jessie Mae Robinson, ComposerLyricist - Wanda Jackson, MainArtist
℗ 1958 Capitol Records, LLC
Album review
Like many other young recording artists of the late 1950s, especially those on major labels, Wanda Jackson was encouraged to straddle musical genres as a hedge against changing trends. She was an accomplished rockabilly singer, but Capitol Records must have worried about how long rockabilly was going to stay popular, so Wanda Jackson has the singer cutting tracks in several other styles -- most frequently country. Her rockabilly fans may have been surprised to hear her first full-length album, which leaned more toward country and also showed off her affinity for straight pop. True, she did cover "Long Tall Sally" and "Money, Honey," and she did a particularly raucous version of "Let's Have a Party" (which surprisingly took off for the pop Top 40 two years after the album's release). But more typical of the sound of the album overall were her versions of Kitty Wells' "Making Believe" and Don Everly's "Here We Are Again," traditional country material, and she even tried her hand at Patti Page's 1954 hit "Let Me Go, Lover!," a pop ballad. Add it all up, and you had one versatile singer, able to sing convincingly anything that was thrown at her. The variety made sense at the time, even if subsequent fans may wish Jackson had rocked out a bit more.
© William Ruhlmann /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 12 track(s)
- Total length: 00:29:41
- Main artists: Wanda Jackson
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Capitol Nashville
- Genre: Country
© 2002 Capitol Records LLC ℗ 2002 Capitol Records LLC
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