British guitarist reacts to the QUEEN of rockabilly! Wanda Jackson!

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  • @hipgnotist777
    @hipgnotist777 5 лет назад +72

    Wanda is STILL TOURING at 80, or so now! I saw her on;y 3 years ago and she was just as epic as ever!

    • @redshield3296
      @redshield3296 5 лет назад +2

      Steve Bass Id love to see her!

    • @augustwest2408
      @augustwest2408 5 лет назад +5

      Saw her several yrs back at a festival in p-cola. Great story teller and alot of fun. Headliners Cake and Janes Addiction. Good time.

    • @carbine090909
      @carbine090909 5 лет назад +3

      @@augustwest2408 oh that's perfect!

    • @wingsofpegasus
      @wingsofpegasus  5 лет назад +3

      Haha cool!

    • @edf9682
      @edf9682 3 года назад +4

      I saw her with Jack White in LA and it was awesome! She was 80 and could still rock!

  • @ge-8135
    @ge-8135 5 лет назад +59

    Wings of Peg sharing another hidden gem that I would never experience otherwise. The expert analysys is the cherry on top of the musical sundae.

  • @josephwinters5067
    @josephwinters5067 5 лет назад +35

    WANDA JACKSON ,WAS A FIREBALL .

  • @TheSillykelly
    @TheSillykelly 5 лет назад +30

    I loved this analysis. This 60 yr old performance, her style, attitude, glam and fashion, still kicks butt today. Would love to see more talents of this level vs the auto tuned, over produced, over marketed pop stars we tend to get more of now.

  • @floydsuke
    @floydsuke 4 года назад +19

    I toured with my Identical twin brother for 35 years doing our original Contemporary Christian Music. In 1975 we were in concert with Wanda in West Memphis Arkansas, just across the Mississippi River from Memphis Tennessee. We were part of an Evanglistic crusade. Wanda and her husband Wendel Goodman booked us for serveral weeks in the Oklahoma City area where they lived. At the time I did not know much about Wanda, but she was so kind to my twin and I . - FLOYD

  • @stargazer1460
    @stargazer1460 5 лет назад +53

    Those country players were some party animals! They jammed and partied like rock stars.👍😎🤘

  • @reemclaughlin4260
    @reemclaughlin4260 5 лет назад +58

    She's having a blast, and you have that smile Fil! 🤙🏼💖

  • @gregmardon6973
    @gregmardon6973 5 лет назад +34

    Being a fan of rockabilly I have known her music from Way Way Back, as long as I can remember she has been called (Queen of Rockabilly). That's one hell of a career that she has had, and you are so very correct Fil of all the talent she has worked with over the years, amazing♡

  • @urasam2
    @urasam2 3 года назад +13

    This has to be one of the classic performances of all time. Wanda absolutely tears it up, and it's a fabulous performance from the whole band - cracking guitar solo and the piano player smashes those keys to pieces. I've had to watch this six times in a row because it fills me with such joy.

  • @markwheeler9781
    @markwheeler9781 5 лет назад +13

    That performance by Wanda... what could be more fun than that?

  • @bekind6763
    @bekind6763 5 лет назад +24

    She definitely can play & you can tell she is enjoying every minute of it . Great video & analysis!

  • @sheilaisaacs981
    @sheilaisaacs981 3 года назад +6

    she is the epitome of grace and so beautiful you don't expect that voice and what a voice!

  • @dmac8949
    @dmac8949 5 лет назад +10

    Wanda Jackson!!!!, a man after me own heart...great to see a person of your age recognizing all of these old great talents...a local band from my home town(that other London in Canada)went to Nashville and did an album with Wanda a few years ago, needles to say they were star strucked

  • @suzannerobbins6293
    @suzannerobbins6293 4 года назад +3

    Hi Fil...Once again one from childhood..preteen years! You sure give me so much pleasure! Must share you with my 2 musicial kids...of course they are now 42, and 54, but their love of music endures! I had stacks of 45s playing all day long at my house! Do you ever tour America!?

  • @Voirreydirector
    @Voirreydirector 5 лет назад +16

    Whoo hoo! My favorite! I got in so much trouble when I was little teaching this song to my little friends on Sunday afternoon. Mom had to explain to me that not every song that mentions Biblical names is ok on Sundays, pretty much if you can sing Sweet Home Chicago or Traveling Band to the tune, Nana’s gonna be sure I was going to hell. I was sent outside to think up a new gospel song of my own, or an adaptation of one I had heard, to literally sing for my supper! The rest of the week I was the music teacher’s little Wanda, too much fun!

  • @mikejohnson5837
    @mikejohnson5837 5 лет назад +11

    What a great voice! I remember seeing her on TV growing up. Like you said mostly country shows around that time period. Would still Like to see her. What a time capsule she is having been around for the births of rockabilly and rock and roll. It would be a blast to hear stories about the early years with people like Joe Maphis, Roy Clark and Buck Owens not to mention Elvis Presley. Fantastic stuff Fil, great history lesson!

  • @King35Fan
    @King35Fan Год назад +3

    Elvis recorded this composition by Claude Demetrius in January 1958 for the New Orleans-based setting of King Creole and the arrangement and driving force was present in his original, recorded before Wanda’s performance. Elvis also introduced hard-driving and “rockabilly” songs in the same manner,m.

  • @sbardellajulio3114
    @sbardellajulio3114 5 лет назад +23

    🤘🤘🤘 great blues 🤘🤘🤘
    bless the queen wanda 🤘
    pure history👍🤘rock

  • @thomaskline
    @thomaskline 4 года назад +4

    I saw her in Nashville in 2012. Wanda walks out grabs the audience and blasts, that’s fifty years after this video.

  • @BOOMNERD51
    @BOOMNERD51 5 лет назад +8

    Thanks, Fil. My head's still spinning from all the musical connections. Glad you'd just done the Joe Maphis analysis. When I first spotted the double-becked guitar I thought of Junior Brown! I'll certainly watch again just to remember all the music business history! Thanks, Wanda for trailblazing when I was only 7!

    • @wingsofpegasus
      @wingsofpegasus  5 лет назад +1

      Cool!

    • @rockinredneck57
      @rockinredneck57 3 года назад

      That's the very first double neck electric guitar, built by Mosrite guitars, Semie Moseley in 1956.

  • @mlhesler68
    @mlhesler68 5 лет назад +9

    She was special in rock n roll. Many didn't like her because they didn't think she was lady like.

  • @hazelmaylebrun6243
    @hazelmaylebrun6243 5 лет назад +3

    She's fabulous. She has broken down many barriers for women and man... I do love rockabilly. I still love it.

  • @judacia
    @judacia 4 года назад +1

    wonderful Wanda. thank you for giving her more exposure.

  • @coleparker
    @coleparker Год назад +3

    Kind of music that never grows old.

  • @stewartfenton7660
    @stewartfenton7660 Год назад +1

    My wife and I walked into the Country Hall of Fame Museum(I think it's called) in Nashville, on my pilgrimage to the South twenty years ago. First thing I saw was a big screen with this girl doing that intro, I'd never seen her on screen before, but I knew what she was gonna do. I said to Jane, "she's gonna tear it up", I don't know how I knew that. But I'd loved her records from way before then. Man she was just the greatest thing.

  • @gobangs1117
    @gobangs1117 3 года назад +3

    There will only ever be ! Wanda Jackson! WILD!

  • @ragazzi25
    @ragazzi25 3 года назад +3

    1958,USA....glorious times!

  • @peterhelphope1621
    @peterhelphope1621 5 лет назад +9

    Phil....you have a wonderful way with you...and I wish you success and happiness in all you do and life..thanks for giving the insights with such enthusiasm and obvious passion...your smile beams from your soul, just like the music you play...I am sure you will become a big trend on u tube, just keep being you and persistence will break down the doors of Jericho... Lots of love and light Peter x

  • @bluzgrl2187
    @bluzgrl2187 5 лет назад +3

    She's a lil Spit Fire !! Some cool Rockabilly !!

  • @daverenick4782
    @daverenick4782 4 года назад +3

    What I think is..."Outa Sight" old hippie phrase....you're a wonderful historian friend....

  • @NKBobcat
    @NKBobcat Год назад +1

    Loved your videos 4 years ago and still love them today! Great unbiased analysis. You are the best!

  • @noodlehat3250
    @noodlehat3250 Год назад +3

    The piano player is killing it.

  • @pbracey1
    @pbracey1 5 лет назад +6

    Thanks for that history Fil. Very interesting! She's an amazing performer.

  • @thejohnwattshow5119
    @thejohnwattshow5119 5 лет назад +4

    My favorite hit she came out with was "I love rock and roll" when she was with the blackhearts.

  • @justMe-zl4pu
    @justMe-zl4pu 5 лет назад +29

    Playing guitar, singing, and dancing...in high heels. Impressive.

    • @carbine090909
      @carbine090909 5 лет назад +2

      that was my thought too!!! :-)

    • @justMe-zl4pu
      @justMe-zl4pu 5 лет назад +2

      Wanda did it 1st.

    • @wingsofpegasus
      @wingsofpegasus  5 лет назад

      👍

    • @loripond1839
      @loripond1839 5 лет назад +1

      @@crisprtalk6963 ....he has done an AV on her in the last 3 months or so....👍😁

    • @cawfeedawg
      @cawfeedawg 5 лет назад

      @Dancing Candle He stole if from wanda 🤣

  • @pcs56
    @pcs56 5 лет назад +2

    Your knowledge of so many types of music is very impressive. I really love your videos.

  • @laurietheiw
    @laurietheiw 5 лет назад +1

    What a riot ... she is tearing it up! I am officially binge-watching your videos.

  • @TheAzmountaineer
    @TheAzmountaineer 3 года назад +2

    Joe Maphis on guitar! I saw Joe's son Jody playing drums for the Earl Scruggs Revue back in the mid 70's.

  • @jydymyyyr9630
    @jydymyyyr9630 3 года назад

    Saw her perform at the Grand Ole Opry 10+ years ago. Couldn't quite understand what made her so special... watching this video made it very clear. Thanks for sharing!

  • @paulambry
    @paulambry 5 лет назад +3

    Wow, what a voice and what a mover!

  • @TomTom-rh5gk
    @TomTom-rh5gk 4 года назад +1

    I never heard Wanda Jackson. I always learn a lot from your videos.

  • @jazzcat8786
    @jazzcat8786 5 лет назад +4

    Great sound and energy!! “Girls don’t sell records”😂. Again another great analysis; I know just about everything about Wanda Jackson now🤘🏻

  • @bruceparks3124
    @bruceparks3124 Год назад

    Thanks, Fil. I heard Wanda as a kid growing up in the 50's but knew very little about her. She was fearless.

  • @TheTidalwaves
    @TheTidalwaves Год назад +2

    She does a great job on "Lets Have A Party"

  • @ZionLion44
    @ZionLion44 5 лет назад +12

    They dont make em like that anymore😍😍😍😍

  • @bobjones6572
    @bobjones6572 5 лет назад +2

    Wanda's been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Had a piece of her 70th birthday cake at the Cadillac Lounge in Toronto and saw her again last year. Obviously she's slowed down a little and had to do part of the show sitting down but the audience was in the palm of her hand - and no word of a lie - she blew everyone away with a crystal clear yodel. One of a kind - a trailblazer.

  • @frankmorrow5080
    @frankmorrow5080 5 лет назад +8

    Love Wanda! You should check out Rosie Flores who was influenced by Wanda.

  • @gregorylincoln4328
    @gregorylincoln4328 3 года назад +3

    Her and Elvis appeared in my town in 1955.

  • @joannebeauchamp1169
    @joannebeauchamp1169 Год назад +2

    I saw Wanda Jackson perform twice, and I’m here to tell you…NO ONE puts on a show like Wanda! 👍👍👍👍

  • @carbine090909
    @carbine090909 5 лет назад +5

    I love that she did gospel. She sure has the Spirit with her!

  • @danielerickson5175
    @danielerickson5175 5 лет назад +3

    Go go! Go Wanda go!

  • @bobfossum7515
    @bobfossum7515 5 лет назад +5

    I really look forward to all your great videos,Fil. This was very informative. Keep up the great work

  • @andrewsim9180
    @andrewsim9180 3 года назад +3

    What a zesty performance. She really knows how to ginger-up a song! What an amazing dynamo of a woman!
    A beautiful lilting accent too. You made an inspired choice to include her spoken intro Fil. Also, unlike most vocalists her accent is not half-subdued when singing,. As you know, dropping an accent often helps most singing, but wow! it works wonders for her.
    I marvel at how her performance is simultaneously raw, earthy & raunchy, yet with a graceful, sophisticated elegance.
    Can't you just feel the joy and energy AND SPIRITUALITY of the whole band? When a band has this much fun on stage, it is simply contagious. This inspired performance by the whole band must surely have had the audience spontaneously dancing like crazy, rising from their seats - and probably dancing on the tables too. An absolutely bloody stupendous piece of musical alchemy!!
    Good back-story as well. Thanks for this entertaining video, squire.

  • @williamhenry4986
    @williamhenry4986 3 года назад +3

    When music was music when music was raw at its best

  • @wandaburnsworth1588
    @wandaburnsworth1588 Год назад +2

    So awesome! I was named after her😊

  • @marions.120
    @marions.120 Год назад +1

    Didn’t take 30 seconds and I was smiling!
    ✌️😃🎸🎶🎵🎶

  • @rogerlewis6488
    @rogerlewis6488 3 года назад +2

    Thank you. That sound brought back some memories. Very popular in the dance halls when I was young. I also loved the piano playing in that piece. It brought back memories of one of my favourite teachers. One day at school in 1965 our music teacher was late for class and in walked our maths and tech teacher, he was also my rugby coach. He didn't say anything, just walked to the piano, sat down and started playing, and none of us had heard anything like it before. He started off with the Shoeshine Boy, left hand right down one end doing a rolling, tuneful, repeating bass beat, and the right hand at the high end really beating out a fast tune with some runs, he could've probably given Jerry Lee Lewis a run for his money, and then he went straight into the second tune that sounded very similar to this one. By the time he finished we were all out of our chairs standing around the piano, all totally enthralled. None of us knew he could play. We thought what we had just heard was something new. He told us that the music he had just played came from the mid 1920s, from the speakeasys during prohibition. He then broke it down in a similar way that you do and it was probably my most valuable school music lesson. He told us he was a jazz pianist and I've liked jazz and good improvisation music ever since.

  • @AceMoonshot
    @AceMoonshot 4 года назад +2

    Had some 45s of her but never saw her play before...wow. Just wow. Hawt.

  • @larryhaynes1970
    @larryhaynes1970 5 лет назад +3

    Loads of talent, bet she was a handful back in the day!

  • @davidkleinthefamousp
    @davidkleinthefamousp 3 года назад +2

    Phil (Fil?) just want to say Thank You! You have love and respect for every style (how do I spell genre?) and are a sincere fan. Your youth doesn’t interfere with your attitude. You might say “Rock” but I say God Bless!

    • @wingsofpegasus
      @wingsofpegasus  3 года назад +1

      Thanks! Yes it's Fil as it's the Norwegian spelling after my uncle ☺

    • @stewartfenton7660
      @stewartfenton7660 Год назад

      @@wingsofpegasus Ah!

  • @paulayala4816
    @paulayala4816 5 лет назад +1

    Now this frickin rocks! I am going to have to buy some of this for my upcoming road trip.

  • @cjcarp9438
    @cjcarp9438 3 года назад +2

    Was just listening to Cyndi Lauper's cover of W. J. " Funnel of Love " and wondered if anyone reacted to W. J. and of course only you.. My Father was a big fan of hers, played her Lps all the time.. Thanks.....

  • @talbotsplace7316
    @talbotsplace7316 3 года назад +2

    I had the same silly grin on my face the first time I saw a Wanda Jackson video. Holy smoke, she really had it all together.

  • @majhiggins
    @majhiggins 5 лет назад +1

    I'd never noticed her. Great find. Thanks for sharing it.

  • @kayredburn930
    @kayredburn930 4 года назад +1

    HI FIL. SHE PLAYED THAT LIKE CRAZY. SHE WAS HAVING FUN. THAT WAS GOOD. YOU DO A VERY GOOD JOB. LOVE YOUR VIDEOS. THANKS. GREAT SHOW. STAY SAFE OUT THERE .PEACE AND LOVE

  • @joyceharrell2980
    @joyceharrell2980 4 года назад +1

    Wow!!! Great analysis on Wanda Jackson. Thanks for the history on her. A lot f fun with this video. I got a great laugh.. Don't remember her, so it was really fun to watch this.

  • @MrDrwinston
    @MrDrwinston 5 лет назад +2

    The old music is so much fun just has a cool grove.

  • @jjohnjoni
    @jjohnjoni 5 лет назад +1

    I was 12 and have not seen this before. No TV at our house back then. Always loved her on the radio and still do!! She is special!

  • @erniemcgowin4637
    @erniemcgowin4637 5 лет назад +1

    As always it’s so interesting to listen to you and your knowledge of American music. Thanks for sharing

  • @sjwillis1137
    @sjwillis1137 5 лет назад +6

    Why am I not surprised Elvis dated her . Brilliant !

  • @jesushernandezpitito
    @jesushernandezpitito 2 года назад +1

    Oh man, she is sooo cool. This is the FIRST i hear of her. I feel so cheated by music media. thanks to you Fil.

  • @davewhitehead5116
    @davewhitehead5116 5 лет назад +3

    Great history lesson on Wanda. I was introduced to her while listening to Rosie Flores. Rosie kind of took over Rockabilly. But Wanda was an original.

  • @lynnlobliner3933
    @lynnlobliner3933 3 года назад +2

    The location where she's performing is Town Hall Party, which was broadcast from Compton California in the 50s. I wasn't into country so it never caught my eye as a pre-teen (my brother was 5 years older than I so I got into rock n roll on the ground floor). But I DO and DID remember hearing her back in the day (from radio) sing Fujiyama Mama and chased that 45 for YEARS. I did finally find it. Elvis sang Hard Headed Woman in King Creole. When I first saw a video from Town Hall Party I would search YT for other acts and few would come up. I see, a few years later (to now) that there are a bunch. They're all live performances, even if they aren't the best audio and visual recordings.

  • @CastleMr40
    @CastleMr40 3 года назад +3

    I always loved the way she pronounced MAY-yunn.

  • @johnnymossville
    @johnnymossville 5 лет назад +2

    That is the voice of rock and roll.

  • @juliepeterson6639
    @juliepeterson6639 Год назад +1

    Love this! I was a little kid and loved this type of music, because I fell asleep in our house, across the Main Street from an R&B bar and stage. Just so happy to hear this!

  • @SlyTyler97
    @SlyTyler97 2 года назад +2

    Always loved her

  • @cinnie2543
    @cinnie2543 3 года назад +1

    What a fun video! I had not heard of her, but was searching for female country singers to put on an Alexa playlist and found her, and then your channel. Nice!

  • @truthteller1951
    @truthteller1951 5 лет назад +2

    Good morning Sunday! No need for coffee now 🎸👍✌️

  • @ruthboykin9873
    @ruthboykin9873 5 лет назад +2

    Great video of Wanda and really enjoyed the history you shared! Robert Smyth suggested your site.

  • @philshock3805
    @philshock3805 8 месяцев назад

    Fantastic assessment. That song intro was epic! Petite and pretty young lady shyly intoduces "best love song ever" ... and then launches into a gritty and raw demand for respect. lol You definitely get an Elvis vibe from this performance (makes me wonder who influenced who) I don't think she's capable of performing any longer but she's still with us at 86 yrs old. Just last night, she was present and on stage to receive an Honorary Doctorate degree from Oklahoma State University! She's the biggest deal many (most?), people never heard of.

  • @drewpall2598
    @drewpall2598 5 лет назад +5

    Dig these early footage of great artist like Wanda Jackson who did pave the way for other artist who came after then. great job on doing Your homework on Wonda. I remember back in the early mid 1980's rockabilly started to make a come back with bands like {Stray Cats} thanks for this great footage Fil.

  • @warrennewbill9041
    @warrennewbill9041 4 года назад

    Wow! Roy Clark is a genius guitar player and he played for her, I will be watching all videos of Wanda.

  • @redshield3296
    @redshield3296 5 лет назад +2

    That’s awesome! I love the introduction!

  • @74dartman13
    @74dartman13 5 лет назад +1

    I can't believe I've never heard of her! Thanks for bringing artists like this to our attention. Great background story again!👍😎🎸🎶

  • @monabrown5184
    @monabrown5184 5 лет назад +2

    You absolutely amaze me with the amount of research you do and the knowledge you have on each of your videos. I have heard Wanda Jackson's name before but I had never seen one of her videos, I certainly never knew all of this information about her! And it took a Brit to tell me lol. I have no problem with that. Keep up the great work, I appreciate all of your videos.

  • @jerryw6699
    @jerryw6699 5 лет назад +3

    A very interesting review of a very interesting entertainer. Thanks so much Fil.

  • @truthfinder4973
    @truthfinder4973 3 года назад +1

    wow love the blues in the mix

  • @skipjackbill
    @skipjackbill 4 года назад +1

    and if you get to Maud Oklahoma, the mainstreet is Wanda Jackson Blvd...cool

  • @roustabout583
    @roustabout583 5 лет назад +1

    Great insights! Interesting to know that she recorded the song “Let’s Have a Party” before Elvis did on his 1957 Lp “Loving You” Here she is doing Hard Headed Woman that Elvis had a number one record with from “King Creole” in1958.

  • @danr5105
    @danr5105 4 года назад +1

    Thanks Fil. I am learning not to reject performers that fall out of my current narrow band of interest. I am really starting to appreciate "The Blues" and "older country" style music as the linkage to today is so great. Now I must work on my "jazz appreciation". Currently jazz seems so unorganized while in fact it is anything but.

    • @danr5105
      @danr5105 4 года назад

      Fil. I went to Wikipedia (in particular, "guitar tuning") Wikipedia gets a bad rap sometimes but the amount of detailed information published is staggering. I was a good Algebra student and I have a technical background but taking it all in is work. It is enjoyable work but still work. Things to go slower or perhaps better said "come slower" to my older brain.

  • @jamesrramey
    @jamesrramey 5 лет назад +2

    I miss bands with instruments ! Go Fil , Excellent !

  • @drdreddmanofmystery9482
    @drdreddmanofmystery9482 5 лет назад +1

    I love this series! Not only do I get to learn more about an artist I thought I was familiar with, but I get to learn about more obscure artists like Wanda Jackson, who I've never heard of! Keep up the great work!

  • @cbeth9209
    @cbeth9209 3 года назад +1

    Makes me feel like dancing, just watch Wanda interview about being Elvis girl for about a year, he talked her into singing Rock a Billy...she also opened up and Elvis played last ...amazing info
    See if you can find it ...

  • @davidcalvert2710
    @davidcalvert2710 4 года назад +1

    Hi Fil. You really do your homework on the artists. Wonderful job you do.

  • @user-ey7jo8cz1o
    @user-ey7jo8cz1o 6 месяцев назад +1

    Wanda Jackson has always been my kind of woman.

  • @engineer109a
    @engineer109a Год назад +1

    Wanda told me, back in the late seventies, that she had a guitarist called Vernon Sandusky who worked with her during the mid-late fifties. I wonder what happened to him?

  • @devakolb9187
    @devakolb9187 5 лет назад

    Gutsy little Lady. Such spunk! I think that guitar is almost as big as her. Loved the song and the intrumentals. You go girl!

  • @Diosprometheus
    @Diosprometheus 4 года назад +1

    Ah ha so you have...NICE! She was not only beautiful but amazing. We are living in an amazing age where we can find film clips on the internet of these legendary and pioneering performers. Only 20 or so years ago we were not able to do this like we can today.

  • @stephenolaughlin6595
    @stephenolaughlin6595 5 лет назад +1

    Great performance real good sound quality as well.