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Andy Volk


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Post  Posted 4 Jul 2023 6:18 am    
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A whole lotta talent in this 1955 photo (from Jim Hilmar's FB feed).

From left to right: Jerry Byrd ( lap steel (Trotmore?), Chet Atkins ( Gretsch 6120), Wanda Jackson (strumming her flattop acoustic) and Tommy Jackson (bowing the fiddle).


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Joe Burke

 

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Post  Posted 4 Jul 2023 1:41 pm    
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Too cool.
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Bill Hatcher

 

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Post  Posted 4 Jul 2023 4:35 pm    
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im not convinced that is wanda jackson. she would have been 18 in 1955. thats an older lady.
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Andy Volk


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Post  Posted 4 Jul 2023 4:47 pm    
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That was Jim's caption. I have no clue about Wanda J.
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Erv Niehaus


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Post  Posted 5 Jul 2023 6:57 am    
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That's Wanda Jackson.
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Chris Clem

 

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Post  Posted 5 Jul 2023 6:59 am    
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Maybe....Kitty Wells?, hard to tell for sure.
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Erv Niehaus


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Post  Posted 5 Jul 2023 7:07 am    
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That's sure not Kitty Wells, unless she had a lot of plastic surgery. Whoa!
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Bill Ladd


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Wilmington, NC, USA
Post  Posted 5 Jul 2023 7:38 am    
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Wanda Jackson - says so on her guitar

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Greg Cutshaw


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Corry, PA, USA
Post  Posted 5 Jul 2023 7:59 am    
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I guess maybe Kitty Wells died her hair and borrowed Wanda Jackson's guitar. No mystery here. You can clearly read the name Wanda Jackson on the guitar in the first picture just by doing a simple zoom. I'm pretty sure that's Grady Martin on guitar and Pete Drake on steel and Jerry Rivers on fiddle though lol.
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Chris Clem

 

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Post  Posted 5 Jul 2023 10:02 am    
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I'm wrong.....whoops....Yes that is Wanda.
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Matt Perpick


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Brooklyn, NY, USA
Post  Posted 8 Jul 2023 6:20 pm    
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I read somewhere they used to do a regular radio show together. Is this true? And if so, does anybody know if there are any recordings?
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Terry Wood


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Lebanon, MO
Post  Posted 10 Jul 2023 4:40 am    
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I'm in agreement with Erv, I think it's Wanda Jackson. She did a lot of shows in the 1950s and many with Hank Thompson in Oklahoma on early Television in Oklahoma City. I've seen clips of her and I think this is her.
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Jack Hanson


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San Luis Valley, USA
Post  Posted 10 Jul 2023 10:19 am    
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Bill Hatcher wrote:
im not convinced that is wanda jackson. she would have been 18 in 1955. thats an older lady.


Sure looks like a young Wanda to me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJ4vtwtphQU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHI7Su45pbs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRPs6Srvovc
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David Matzenik


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Post  Posted 1 Aug 2023 1:35 am    
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I was just playing some Hawaiian steel guitar with my friend Johnny Green, when he told me about putting a band together here in Australia, for Wanda Jackson about 10 years ago. His son Hank played guitar in the band, but he's right into Hawaiian steel now.
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