WANDA JACKSON

You could have a hit in California that no one had heard of in Oklahoma.

I really appreciate people like Rosie coming out and saying I've inspired them.

It really is, to see that this kind of music is still so popular.

Well, I didn't really have a plan. I just wanted a hit.

I'm still learnin'. I pick up something from every performer I watch.

And it wasn't until '84 when I was first asked to come to Sweden and do an album and concert tour.

Yeah, they let me do whatever I wanted to.

Getting comments like that from even the young people at the shows who probably aren't singers, the girls who just tell me that I'm an inspiration to them, for one reason or another.

They're dressing like in the 50's when they come out to the shows, and many of them have vintage cars.

You know, no one steered people's careers in those days, I don't think, like they do today.

I loved Carl Perkins, Jerry lee Lewis... not only were they personal friends.

I have some of the old videos of my performances on it.

If I needed to record, I'd head to the coast or Nashville, one or the other.

None of the other guys in the band really sang, so that's when I brought Roy Clark in.

As I go back and listen, the other girls weren't singing quite like I was.

I learned so much about recording and about singing on records from Ken Nelson.

I didn't realize how many true Rockabilly fans there were here in America.

I enjoyed listening to it, but I didn't think I could do it.

There wasn't so many ISSUES like there are today. It was a simpler time.

But, we didn't have all the media that we do today.

It seems like the good things that have happened in my career are things that you don't try to plan and push, and make it happen, it just seems to happen.

If something pops in my mind and it's easy, I write it.

I have eighteen titles in the German language. I had a number one song in 1965.

So, it's nice to know that you've inspired someone to do their life's work.

On that show, I did country and some rock, too, whatever record I had out at the time, I'd sing that.