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Al Terhune
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Newcastle, WA
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Posted 21 Feb 2007 7:50 pm |
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Anybody here a Wanda fan? I just listened to a compilation I got at the library, and, boy, when she wants, she can be a bad little kitten. She has to be in the running for the first female rock and roll singer. When she wants to, she can scowl with the best of them, not to mention sing nice, traditional country--and rockabilly.
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Ray Riley
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Des Moines, Iowa, USA
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Posted 21 Feb 2007 8:26 pm Wanda
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Before I was 14 I was dancing with wanda Jackson and she was 15 in Marshalltown Forest park Ballroom. Have been a fan since then.her wonderful Father used to be by her side all the time. My favorite song is "Iwish I was your friend and not your wife." Later Ray
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Thom Beeman
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California, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 21 Feb 2007 9:45 pm
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First saw her in 1959 and have been a fan ever since. She was on Midwest Country not long ago and you could tell she still enjoyed what she was doing. She gave Joe Savage alot of the spotlight. Fantastic lady.
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Jussi Huhtakangas
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Helsinki, Finland
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Posted 21 Feb 2007 10:45 pm
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There's a Wanda Jackson documentary in the works, here's the youtube trailer for it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JfI9meSjZA
A great deal of the documentary was shot on her European tour about a year ago and the show we did with her here in Helsinki was also filmed. |
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David Doggett
From:
Bawl'mer, MD (formerly of MS, Nawluns, Gnashville, Knocksville, Lost Angeles, Bahsten. and Philly)
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Posted 21 Feb 2007 11:02 pm
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Wanda Jackson is one of my favorite female singers of all time.  |
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Dayna Wills
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Sacramento, CA (deceased)
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Posted 22 Feb 2007 1:38 am
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| My fave Wanda song is "I May Never Get to Heaven." |
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Steve Pacholl
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Minneapolis
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Posted 22 Feb 2007 7:03 am
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I've had the pleasure of working with Wanda and getting to know her and her husband a little bit at Midwest Country. They are wonderful people. Wanda still has a hint of naughtiness in her.
After one of the Midwest Country shows I asked to have a picture taken with Wanda and she said we had to make it a good one. She suprised me by planting a big kiss on my lips for the picture.
At Midwest Country, Wanda would do her "country" show. (She does three different shows - country, rockabilly and gospel). I've also seen her in Mpls at First Ave a couple time with Rosie Flores doing her rockabilly show. Wanda can still get an audience of young people excited. |
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Erv Niehaus
From:
Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 22 Feb 2007 7:59 am
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I have always been a fan of Wanda Jackson.
The only time I ever saw her in person was when she was doing strictly gospel and she gave a concert at an Assembly of God church just down the road from Paynesville, Minnesota.  |
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Ray Minich
From:
Bradford, Pa. Frozen Tundra
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Posted 22 Feb 2007 11:29 am
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Did Wanda Jackson ever do a rendition of "Misty Blue"? I'm sure I heard her version of it on XM-13, but I have never been able to find it to buy it...
Oops, me bad, it was by Wilma Burgess... But I still can't find it... |
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Doyle Weigold
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CColumbia City, IN, USA
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Posted 22 Feb 2007 3:17 pm Wanda Jackson
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| If my memory serves me right, in 57-58, and my first time on the road with a guy by the name of Webb Foley, we worked the Turf Club in Austin Minn. The bartender or owner told us Wanda Jackson was there the week before us. He bragged about her and her lead guitar player. A guy by the name of Roy Clark. We ended up working Fargo, Bismarck, Minot. 60-62 I worked a club in Ft. Wayne Ind. A lead guitar player origanlly from Lima Ohio by the name of Dave Lyle worked with me a while, then went on to work with Wanda Jackson. Always glad to hear good things about Wanda. Didn't she have a big cut on "Right or Wrong? |
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Chuck Thompson
From:
Illinois, USA
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Posted 22 Feb 2007 5:51 pm
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| "some people like to rock - some people like to roll........let's have a party!!!" i love wanda jackson! i love her rockabilly stuff best but anything she sings is beautiful |
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Tony Prior
From:
Charlotte NC
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Posted 23 Feb 2007 3:00 am
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Lets Have a Party..When I was about 10 or so I listened to that record about 50 times a day..I am thinking that WJ may have been my very first influence to spend all of my money on Instruments and be a rock star and then spend the rest of my life trying to earn back all the money that I spent on everything 
She clearly rocked...
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Steve Pacholl
From:
Minneapolis
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Posted 23 Feb 2007 4:55 am
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Doyle;
Always interesting to hear about the artists who stopped by the Turf Ballroom in Austin MN. Austin is my hometown. Unfortunately by the time I went to the Turf in the late 1970's it was at the end of its life as a Ballroom. It's now owned by some relegious group and used as a church. I didn't know Wanda played the Turf, but I know Hank Thompson did, so it makes sense. I believe Buddy Holly was schedule to play there after the Moorehead show.
A few years ago when Hank Thompson was at Midwest Country we got talking music history. I told him I was originally from Austin MN and he asked me about the Turf and what had happened to it. Those of you who have met Hank know that he has a great memory and is a great historian of county music. Hank asked about a lot of local musicians he had met at the Turf, but they were before my time. There was a steel player he mentioned and I can't remember his name right now. I believe he had a clasic country radio show on Mpls public radio a few years ago. As it turned out the steel player's daughter was at the show and Hank was thrilled to meet her and talk about her dad. Of course she was thrilled too. |
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Chris Walke
From:
St Charles, IL
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Posted 23 Feb 2007 8:23 am
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| I saw Wanda Jackson and the All Girl Band play at the Continental Club during SxSW back in 1998. Room was packed, and those ladies rocked. Marcia Ball on piano, Rosie Flores on guitar, and a woman whose name I never got on lap steel. Cool, cool show. |
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Bob Hoffnar
From:
Austin, Tx
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Posted 23 Feb 2007 12:49 pm
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A little while back a crappy local bar in my rather isolated part of brooklyn got her to play a show. She got there looked at the room packed with scruffy drunk local yokels and proceeded to tear the house down. It was her birthday and everybody was just going bananas. She was laughing and talking about how this gig was like those early crazy road house gigs and she couldn't ask for a better birthday present. It was a great night.
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Al Terhune
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Newcastle, WA
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Bob Hoffnar
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Austin, Tx
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Al Terhune
From:
Newcastle, WA
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Posted 25 Feb 2007 7:48 am
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Well, then. How about this:
Wanda's Hot on MySpace!
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My equipment:
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Doyle Weigold
From:
CColumbia City, IN, USA
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Posted 1 Mar 2007 3:23 pm Wanda Jackson
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| Steve Pacholl, I held off awhile because I thought I was getting off topic. This has slowed down a bit so I would appreciate an e-mail from you to talk about that part of the country and the "Turf". What I remember,if I'm thinkin' right is we played behind the bar. There was a bar all the way around you. If you would please e-mail me at guitarmandoyle@hotmail.com |
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Neal Yeagley
From:
Pennsylvania, USA
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Posted 13 Mar 2007 4:35 am Wanda Jackson
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| Hey Ray! Wilma Burgess did record Misty Blue and I have the original LP that she did. Do not know who the steel player was though! Send me an e mail if you need or want any more info. Neal Yeagley |
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