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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.
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Well, I didn't learn them I had to do them phonetically. But I've recorded in Dutch and Japanese, too.
Wanda Jackson
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I'd been working with Elvis, but I just recorded Country, so he, definitely, like you said, encouraged me to try it, but I didn't, right then.
Wanda Jackson -
You know, no one steered people's careers in those days, I don't think, like they do today.
Wanda Jackson -
None of the other guys in the band really sang, so that's when I brought Roy Clark in.
Wanda Jackson -
I never kissed a bear, I've never kissed a goon, but I can shake a chicken in the middle of a room.
Wanda Jackson -
Right, I was a teenager then, this was my generation's music, it was what I danced to on dates.
Wanda Jackson -
I thought it was a very cute song. I just picked them out because I liked them. I wasn't trying to make any statements.
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The young people at the shows are all singing them right along with me, so I know that they have the records, they're bringing 'em out for me to sign.
Wanda Jackson -
We had to work five back-to-back shows, forty-five minutes on, fifteen minutes off. That's just an awful lot of singing.
Wanda Jackson -
It would be nice to say that I planned all of this, that this was exactly what I'd planned, but it was just one of those things that happened.
Wanda Jackson -
You could have a hit in California that no one had heard of in Oklahoma.
Wanda Jackson -
So, it happened pretty fast, but, it is causing a lot of stir, which thrills me that people still remember the songs.
Wanda Jackson -
They didn't really check it . . . It was just purposeless.
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I knew it was very big in Europe, I've been working over there for twelve years.
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Yeah, but I have the box set out now.
Wanda Jackson -
It would take them three days to tape a thirty minute show, and you just got so worn out, you did it however they wanted, just to get it over with.
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But, it was a popular show, and I knew everyone on it, so it was always fun to do.
Wanda Jackson -
He's a mean, mean man, but I love him all I can.
Wanda Jackson -
I'd sing and shake my leg a bit, and it looked like I was doing something.
Wanda Jackson