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The great lady was in the UK at the tail end of last year promoting her Jack White produced new album with appearances on Jools Holland and so on. It was pretty apparent that she was a very feisty lady. But then she would have had to have been to have broken into the male dominated world of rock'n'roll the way she did.
"Rockin' with Wanda" is based on her second album for Capitol which came out in the US in May 1960 though certain tracks on it came from singles recorded and released as far back as 1956, the big breakthrough year in the US for rockabilly and rock'n'roll generally i.e. she was there way back in the beginning or nearasdammit. Her first album "Day dreamin'" was a typical label copout - whilst it had a few rockers (including her most famous number "Let's have a party"), the bulk of the content was pop ballads or C&W - Capitol were obviously not fully convinced that rock'n'roll had a future. This album though doesn't suffer from any lack of conviction. AllMusic refer to it as "Absolutely the best collection of Wanda Jackson's rockabilly recordings" and go on to refer to it as "the leading candidate for the best female rock & roll album of the 1950s".
Of the two earliest tracks on this album, "Hot Dog, that made him mad" could have come straight from the Sun Studio, it has all the attributes. The other is the unusual "I gotta know" which switches from heartfelt country waltz with great fiddle to Elvis style rockabilly and manages both modes extremely successfully. "Cool Love" from `57 has strong similarities to the Gene Vincent sound of that time when the Be-bop-a-lula man was backed by Johnny Meeks on very electric sounding lead guitar and the Clapper Boys on vocals. "Honey Bop", a great rocker, from the following year also shows Vincent touches. Reportedly this was deliberate - Wanda had asked Ken Nelson - who was also producer for Vincent, Capitol's main rock'n'roll star - for just this sound - I have to add that he did it extremely well.
There's plenty more rock'n'roll on the album - "Rock Your Baby", "Baby loves him", "Mean Mean Man" wherein she unleashes a raspy sounding vocal with Little Richard "Whoo's", and "Fujiyama Mama" with its incendiary lyrics - "Well you can talk about me baby, say that I'm mean, I'll blow your head off baby, with nitro-glycerine!". It's topped up with some lighter pop tracks - the Clapper Boy soundalikes turn up again on "You're the one for me" plus Johnny Meeks or his double on the attractive rockaballad, "You've turned to a stranger".
The six added tracks are broadly pop cum country ballads with the exception of "Savin' my love" which is a medium tempo chug-along rocker.
The only negative I can see on the album is that it doesn't include "Let's have a party", the number which made Wanda's name. Its presence would have given us one album containing all of Wanda's best rock'n'roll. And it's a particular shame because Capitol/EMI included the number in their re-release of "Rockin' with Wanda" in the `70's. Which just drops it one star for me.
"Rockin' with Wanda" is based on her second album for Capitol which came out in the US in May 1960 though certain tracks on it came from singles recorded and released as far back as 1956, the big breakthrough year in the US for rockabilly and rock'n'roll generally i.e. she was there way back in the beginning or nearasdammit. Her first album "Day dreamin'" was a typical label copout - whilst it had a few rockers (including her most famous number "Let's have a party"), the bulk of the content was pop ballads or C&W - Capitol were obviously not fully convinced that rock'n'roll had a future. This album though doesn't suffer from any lack of conviction. AllMusic refer to it as "Absolutely the best collection of Wanda Jackson's rockabilly recordings" and go on to refer to it as "the leading candidate for the best female rock & roll album of the 1950s".
Of the two earliest tracks on this album, "Hot Dog, that made him mad" could have come straight from the Sun Studio, it has all the attributes. The other is the unusual "I gotta know" which switches from heartfelt country waltz with great fiddle to Elvis style rockabilly and manages both modes extremely successfully. "Cool Love" from `57 has strong similarities to the Gene Vincent sound of that time when the Be-bop-a-lula man was backed by Johnny Meeks on very electric sounding lead guitar and the Clapper Boys on vocals. "Honey Bop", a great rocker, from the following year also shows Vincent touches. Reportedly this was deliberate - Wanda had asked Ken Nelson - who was also producer for Vincent, Capitol's main rock'n'roll star - for just this sound - I have to add that he did it extremely well.
There's plenty more rock'n'roll on the album - "Rock Your Baby", "Baby loves him", "Mean Mean Man" wherein she unleashes a raspy sounding vocal with Little Richard "Whoo's", and "Fujiyama Mama" with its incendiary lyrics - "Well you can talk about me baby, say that I'm mean, I'll blow your head off baby, with nitro-glycerine!". It's topped up with some lighter pop tracks - the Clapper Boy soundalikes turn up again on "You're the one for me" plus Johnny Meeks or his double on the attractive rockaballad, "You've turned to a stranger".
The six added tracks are broadly pop cum country ballads with the exception of "Savin' my love" which is a medium tempo chug-along rocker.
The only negative I can see on the album is that it doesn't include "Let's have a party", the number which made Wanda's name. Its presence would have given us one album containing all of Wanda's best rock'n'roll. And it's a particular shame because Capitol/EMI included the number in their re-release of "Rockin' with Wanda" in the `70's. Which just drops it one star for me.
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I have the original 1950`s UK release, and the early 80`s re-release of this album and on both copies `Let`s Have A Party` is present. So what happened to it here? Maybe it wasn`t on the US original?
Still a great album that shows a good range for Wanda`s voice, found one of the tracks a bit weird for my taste but an album well worth buying for this original female Rockabilly artist.
Still a great album that shows a good range for Wanda`s voice, found one of the tracks a bit weird for my taste but an album well worth buying for this original female Rockabilly artist.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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WANDA JACKSON'S second LP-Album release came in 1960,and titled-ROCKIN' WITH WANDA!-originally with 12 tracks,but with this compact disc release have been added a further six good bonus tracks[that made up single "B" sides of '58/'59].
Songs include,"ROCK YOUR BABY","FUJIYAMA MAMA","COOL LOVE","HONEY BOP","HOT DOG!THAT MADE HIM MAD","MEAN MEAN MAN","DONA'A WAN'A","I GOTTA KNOW",.
Comes with an informative 8 page booklet about the singer,plus photos.
Regards,Bill.
Songs include,"ROCK YOUR BABY","FUJIYAMA MAMA","COOL LOVE","HONEY BOP","HOT DOG!THAT MADE HIM MAD","MEAN MEAN MAN","DONA'A WAN'A","I GOTTA KNOW",.
Comes with an informative 8 page booklet about the singer,plus photos.
Regards,Bill.
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