Wanda Jackson's debut single, You Can't Have My Love, reached the Top 10
while she was still a sixteen-year-old high school student. She hit the
road after graduation, playing package shows with Carl Perkins, Johnny
Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Elvis Presley, who gave Wanda his ring and
asked her to be his girl. With Presley's encouragement, the Oklahoma
native began recording rock music, often releasing singles with country
on one side and rock on the other during her decade-and-a-half tenure on
Capitol Records.
Known for her energetic stage shows and pioneering presence as a female
artist, Wanda stormed the charts with a series of hit singles, including
Let's Have a Party, Right or Wrong, and In the Middle of a Heartache.
With more than 40 albums to her credit, Wanda has proven to be an
enduring and genre-defying legend of American music.
In Every Night is Saturday Night, Wanda tells her own story of getting
discovered by Country Music Hall of Famer Hank Thompson; shy she refused
to return to The Grand Ole Opry for more than fifty years; the
challenges she and her integrated band, The Party Timers, faced in the
early 1960s; finding the love of her life; her recent work with rock
luminaries Jack White and Joan Jett; and how her deep faith has
sustained her over more than seven decades of rocking, shocking, and
thrilling audiences around the globe.
