Wanda Jackson
Wanda Jackson diventa famosa come "The Queen of Rockabilly" verso la fine dei '50, quando dimostra di essere una delle pochissime donne in grado di afrontare il lato violento e scatenato del R&R come e meglio dei suoi contemporanei di sesso maschile. Originaria dell'Oklahoma, Wanda Lovenne Jackson (n. 1937,USA) inizia a suonare la chitarra nel 1943, in California, dove la famiglia si è momentaneamente trasferita. Tornata a Oklahoma City la giovane Jackson nei primi '50 approda alla stazione radio KLPR dove canta country music. E' il 1954 quando viene udita dal cantante Hank Thompson, che la invita ad unirsi alla sua band di western-swing e in seguito le procura un contratto con la Decca. Qui, accompagnata dai Brazos Valley Boys di Thompson, incide diverso materiale, anche in duetto con Bill Gray. Dopo aver terminato gli studi, verso la fine del 1955, la Jackson riprende a esibirsi e di quel periodo è un tour con Johnny Cash, Floyd Cramer e Elvis Presley. Nel 1956 inizia a incidere musica country per la Capitol ma l'anno successivo, spinta dal successo che sta ottenendo il compagno di etichetta Gene Vincent, la Jackson comincia a orientarsi verso il R&R. Fujiyama Mama (1957) scuote le hit parades del Giappone e la Jackson è letteralmente costretta a effettuarvi un tour. Al suo rientro riprende ad incidere R&R e di rilievo sono Mean Mean Man (1958) e Let's Have a Party; quest'ultimo, con l'accompagnamento dei Blue Caps di Gene Vincent, sale in classifica nell'ottobre del 1960. Dello stesso anno è ROCKIN WITH WANDA! (Capitol 1960 USA), uno dei migliori album di R&R in assoluto. Nel 1961 è la volta della sua composizione Right Or Wrong a salire in classifica e a dare il titolo al quarto album (Capitol 1961 USA). Nelle registrazioni di questi anni è spesso accompagnata da musicisti quali Roy Clark alla chitarra e Merrill Moore al piano. In The Middle Of A Heartache, la sua ultima apparizione nelle classifiche verso la fine del '61, segna l'inizio del ritorno della Jackson al suo grande amore, la musica country. Il resto dei '60 la vede sempre più impegnata in questo settore anche se non mancano digressioni in campo R&R, soprattutto negli spettacoli che effettua numerosi a Las Vegas, nel resto degli USA e in Europa. Malgrado il successo, la Jackson trova sempre più spesso la risposta ai suoi problemi nell'alcool. Nei '70 però esce da quella crisi e, assieme al marito Wendell Goodman, diventa membro di una chiesa battista di Oklahoma City. La sua attività si svolge a favore della religione e, in campo discografico, si dedica prelevamente alla musica gospel.
Publicity photo of Wanda Jackson, age 17.
Wanda Lavonne Jackson (born October 20, 1937) is an American singer, songwriter, pianist and guitarist who had success in the mid-1950s and 1960s as one of the first popular female rockabilly singers and a pioneering rock-and-roll artist. She is known to many as the "Queen of Rockabilly" or the "First Lady of Rockabilly".
Jackson mixed country music with fast-moving rockabilly, often recording them on opposite sides of a record. As rockabilly declined in popularity in the mid-1960s, she moved to a successful career in mainstream country music with a string of hits between 1966 and 1973, including "Tears Will Be the Chaser for Your Wine", "A Woman Lives for Love" and "Fancy Satin Pillows".
She had a resurgence in popularity in the 1980s among rockabilly revivalists in Europe and younger Americana fans. In 2009, she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in the category Early Influence.
Early life
Jackson was born to Tom Robert Jackson (March 24, 1915 – October 1985) and Nellie Vera Jackson (December 19, 1913 – January 14, 2011) in Maud, Oklahoma, in 1937. She has lived much of her life in Oklahoma City. Her father, a musician, moved the family to Bakersfield, California, during the 1940s in hopes of a better life. Two years later, he bought Jackson a guitar and encouraged her to play. He also took her to see performances by Spade Cooley, Tex Williams and Bob Wills, which left a lasting impression. In 1948, when she was 11, the family moved back to Oklahoma. In 1956, she won a talent contest which led to her own radio program, soon extended by 30 minutes.Jackson began her professional career while still attending Capitol Hill High School in Oklahoma City after being discovered by Hank Thompson in 1954, who heard her singing on a local radio station, KLPR-AM, and invited her to perform with his band, the Brazos Valley Boys. She recorded a few songs on their label, Capitol Records, including "You Can't Have My Love", a duet with Thompson's bandleader, Billy Gray. The song was released as a single in 1954 and reached number 8 on the country chart. Jackson asked Capitol to sign her but was turned down by producer Ken Nelson, who told her, "Girls don't sell records." She signed with Decca Records instead.
Career
1955–1959
After graduating from high school, Jackson began to tour with her father as manager and chaperon. She often shared the bill with Elvis Presley, who encouraged her to sing rockabilly. She briefly dated Presley while touring. She was a cast member of ABC-TV's Ozark Jubilee in Springfield, Missouri, from 1955 to 1960. In 1956 she signed with Capitol, recording a number of singles mixing country with rock and roll. "I Gotta Know", released in 1956, peaked at number 15.Jackson's stage outfits in these years were often designed by her mother. Unlike the traditional clothing worn by female country music singers of the time, she wore fringed dresses, high heels and long earrings. She has claimed she was the first woman to put "glamor into country music."
She continued to record more rockabilly singles through the decade with the producer Ken Nelson. Jackson insisted that Nelson make her records sound like those of label mates Gene Vincent and the Blue Caps. Nelson brought in many experienced and popular session players, including the rock-and-roll pianist Merill Moore and the then-unknown Buck Owens. With a unique vocal style and upbeat material, Jackson created some of the most influential rock and roll of the time.
In the late 1950s, Jackson recorded and released a number of rockabilly songs, including "Hot Dog! That Made Him Mad", "Mean, Mean Man", "Fujiyama Mama" (which hit number 1 in Japan) and "Honey Bop". The songs were only regional hits. She toured Japan in February and March 1959.
1960–1964: The Queen of Rockabilly
In 1960, Jackson had a Top 40 pop hit with "Let's Have a Party", a song Presley had recorded three years earlier. She was headlining concerts with her own band, which she dubbed the Party Timers. Prominently featured were the pianist Big Al Downing and the guitarist Roy Clark, who was virtually unknown at the time. Her country music career also began to take off with the self-penned "Right or Wrong", a number 9 hit, and "In the Middle of a Heartache", which peaked at number 6. Both records also had Top 40 success.The unexpected success of her records led Capitol to release a number of albums composed of her 1950s material, including Rockin' with Wanda (1960) and There's a Party Goin' On, which included "Tongue Tied" and "Riot in the Cell Block No. 9". Her 1961 and 1962 albums, Right or Wrong and Wonderful Wanda, featured her two top-ten country hits from 1961. In 1963, Jackson recorded another album, Two Sides of Wanda, which included both rock and roll and country music, including a cover of Jerry Lee Lewis's "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On". The album earned Jackson her first Grammy nomination, for Best Female Country Vocal Performance.
1965–1979: Country, gospel, and foreign language hits
By 1965, Jackson was focusing more exclusively on traditional country music as rockabilly declined in popularity, and had a string of Top 40 hits during the next ten years. In 1966, she released two singles that peaked in the country top 20, "Tears Will Be the Chaser for Your Wine" and "The Box It Came In".In early 1965, Jackson was invited by the German distribution partner of Capitol Records, Electrola, to record in German. Jackson's German-language debut single, "Santo Domingo" (backed with "Morgen, ja morgen"), recorded at Electrola's studios in Cologne, peaked at number 5 on the official German charts and at number 1 on the charts of Germany's most influential teen magazine, Bravo. In the first months following the chart success of Santo Domingo, Jackson also re-recorded some of her German songs in Dutch and Japanese. The success of Santo Domingo prompted the recording of eight further German-language singles until 1968, which were also released on an album, Made in Germany. Her last German single was recorded in 1970.
In 1967, she recorded two albums, and released a string of singles during the next few years that often asserted a fiery and violent persona, including 1969's "My Big Iron Skillet", a top 20 hit, which threatened death or assault for cheating on a spouse. In 1970 and 1971, she had her final top 20 country hits with "A Woman Lives for Love" (her second Grammy nomination) and "Fancy Satin Pillows". Jackson was a premier attraction in Las Vegas. She followed Kitty Wells's lead as only the second country female vocalist to have her own syndicated television show, Music Village, from 1967 to 1968.
In the early 1970s, at her children's request, Jackson and her husband began to regularly attend church and accepted Christianity. She began recording gospel songs and albums, including Praise the Lord for Capitol in 1972. After Capitol dropped her, she recorded a number of albums for small religious labels and set up evangelical church tours across the country with her husband. Jackson wanted to record a mix of country and gospel music for her albums; however, religious labels were not interested.
1980–1999: Return to rockabilly
In the early 1980s, Jackson was invited to Europe to play and record rockabilly material when revivalists sought her out. She regularly toured Scandinavia, England, and Germany during the decade. Now embracing her rock-and-roll history, Jackson released the album Rockabilly Fever in 1984 (later issued by Rounder Records as Rock N' Roll Your Blues Away in 1986), her first secular album in a decade and her first recording of rock music in over twenty years.Cyndi Lauper acknowledged Jackson's classic rockabilly records were a major influence and inspiration for her during this period, and Jackson's fans also included a new generation of country music female vocalists, among them Rosanne Cash, Pam Tillis, Jann Browne and Rosie Flores. Jackson recorded a duet with Browne on a 1987 album by Browne, and in 1995 she sang two duets with Flores on her 1995 album, Rockabilly Filly, and then embarked on a United States tour with her, her first American tour since the 1970s.
2000–present
She played at the Rockabilly Festival in Jackson, Tennessee, in 2001 with The Cadillac Angels. Despite her age, Jackson continued touring.Jackson released her first studio album since 1987, Heart Trouble (2003) on CMH Records. The sixteen-track album included guest appearances by Elvis Costello, the Cramps and Rosie Flores. The singer Amy LaVere portrayed a young Jackson in the Johnny Cash biopic, Walk the Line (2005).
Jackson was interviewed about the origins of rockabilly in the award-winning Canadian documentary Rockabilly 514 (2008), directed by Patricia Chica and Mike Wafer.
She returned to England on October 28, 2008, for an appearance at the London Rock 'n' Roll Festival with Jerry Lee Lewis and Linda Gail Lewis at the London Forum.
In 2009, she teamed up with Jack White to record The Party Ain't Over (2011), which was well received by many critics but failed to come close to the success of Van Lear Rose, which White produced for the legendary Loretta Lynn. Jackson enjoyed her first charting on the Billboard Hot 200 LP chart, peaking at number 58. The album also broke Mae West's long-standing record for being the oldest female vocalist to make the chart with her 1966 album Way Out West; Jackson was 73 being, a year older than West, at the time of her hit rock LP. Billboard inexplicably failed to include The Party Ain't Over on the Billboard Hot Country LPs chart, although several of the songs were clearly country, and the genre in which Jackson was always most successful in the United States.
To promote The Party Ain't Over, she performed with Jack White on the television programs Late Show with David Letterman and Conan.
Wanda's song "Funnel of Love" appeared in Guy Ritchie's film RocknRolla in 2008 and was included on the film's soundtrack. An episode of the HBO program Entourage in 2010 featured the same song as the music to the ending credits.
Jackson appeared on the BBC's Hootenanny at the end of 2010, performing her version of "Let's Have a Party" and a cover of the Amy Winehouse song "You Know I'm No Good" with Jools Holland and his orchestra. The following year, after Winehouse's death, she took part in an Amy Winehouse tribute performance with Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings at the VH1 Divas Live 2011.
Jackson released her thirty-first studio album Unfinished Business (2012) for Sugar Hill Records. The album goes back to her rockabilly and country roots and was produced by Americana singer-songwriter Justin Townes Earle. The album became Jackson's first in 39 years to make the Billboard Hot Country LP chart.
Personal life
In 1955, Jackson briefly dated Elvis Presley while on tour with him. She married former IBM programmer Wendell Goodman in 1961, who served as her manager. He passed away on May 21, 2017. The couple have two children. As of the 2000s she lives in Oklahoma City.Awards and recognition
Jackson is a member of the Rockabilly Hall of Fame and the Oklahoma Music and Oklahoma Country Music halls of fame, as well as the International Gospel and the German Music halls of fame.Jackson ranked number 35 on CMT's 2002 special, "The 40 Greatest Women of Country Music".
She is a recipient of a 2005 National Heritage Fellowship awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts, which is the United States' highest honor in the folk and traditional arts.
She was nominated for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2005 but was not elected. In September 2008, she was nominated for a second time; and was inducted on April 4, 2009 as an Early Influence. She was the first addition to the category in nine years.
In 2006 Alfred Publishing acknowledged her influence on young musicians by publishing The Best of Wanda Jackson: Let's Have a Party, a songbook with music and lyrics to thirteen songs associated with Jackson. It was the first songbook ever published on Jackson.
In 2009, Oklahoma City named an alley for her in the Bricktown entertainment district. "Wanda Jackson Way" was officially christened with a live performance by Jackson in her "Way" on September 30, 2009. Besides this street in Oklahoma City, the city of Maud, Oklahoma, where she was born, has named one of its streets, Wanda Jackson Boulevard.
On September 9, 2010, she was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award for Performance at the Americana Music Honors & Awards by Jack White on behalf of the Americana Music Association.
In 2013, she was inducted into the Iowa Rock and Roll Music Association (IRRMA) Hall of Fame in the category "Women Who Rock".
In 2016, Jackson received the "Founder of the Sound" award at the Ameripolitan Music Awards.
Covers
In 1964, Ronnie Dove took Wanda's "Right or Wrong" to No. 14 on the Billboard Hot 100.Jackson's "Funnel of Love" is a popular song amongst rock bands, being covered by the English rock band the Fall on their 2010 album Your Future Our Clutter, by the band The Young Veins for their 2010 album Take a Vacation! as a bonus MP3 track when bought on Amazon.com, by Social Distortion lead singer Mike Ness on his 1999 album Under the Influences, by the Welsh psychobilly band Demented Are Go on their 1999 album Hellucifernation, by American indie folk band Mutual Benefit on the compilation album Mad Love in Crazy Times, as well as by Southern Culture on the Skids on the 2007 album Countrypolitan Favorites. It was later recorded by Cyndi Lauper on her 2016 classic country covers album Detour.
Discography
Singles
1950s
1960s
1970s
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions |
Album | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Country |
UK |
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| "You Can't Have My Love" (with Billy Gray) |
1954 | 8 | — | N/A | ||||
| "The Right to Love" | — | — | Lovin' Country Style | |||||
| "You'd Be the First One to Know" | — | — | ||||||
| "Tears at the Grand Ole Opry" | 1955 | — | — | |||||
| "It's the Same World (Wherever You Go)" | — | — | ||||||
| "Wasted" | 1956 | — | — | |||||
| "I Gotta Know" | 15 | — | Rockin' with Wanda | |||||
| "Hot Dog! That Made Him Mad" | — | — | ||||||
| "The Heart You Could Have Had" | 1957 | — | — | Lovin' Country Style | ||||
| "Baby Loves Him" | — | — | Rockin' with Wanda | |||||
| "Don'a Wan'a" | — | — | ||||||
| "Cool Love" | — | — | ||||||
| "Fujiyama Mama" | — | — | ||||||
| "Honey Bop" | 1958 | — | — | |||||
| "Mean, Mean Man"[A] | — | 40 | ||||||
| "Rock Your Baby" | — | — | ||||||
| "You've Turned to a Stranger" | 1959 | — | — | |||||
| "You're the One for Me" | — | — | ||||||
| "Reaching" | — | — | N/A | |||||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart | ||||||||
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Album | |||||
| US Country |
US |
US AC |
CAN Country |
NLD |
UK |
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| "Please Call Today" | 1960 | — | — | — | — | — | — | N/A |
| "Let's Have a Party" | — | 37 | — | — | 17 | 32 | Wanda Jackson | |
| "Happy, Happy Birthday Baby" | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Little Charm Bracelet" | 1961 | — | — | — | — | — | — | Wanda Jackson Sings Country Songs |
| "Right or Wrong" | 9 | 29 | 9 | — | — | — | Right or Wrong | |
| "In the Middle of a Heartache" | 6 | 27 | — | — | — | — | Wonderful Wanda | |
| "A Little Bitty Tear" | — | 84 | — | — | — | — | ||
| "If I Cried Every Time You Hurt Me" | 1962 | 28 | 58 | 16 | — | — | — | |
| "I Misunderstood"[B] | — | 117 | — | — | — | — | N/A | |
| "The Greatest Actor"[B] | — | 117 | — | — | — | — | N/A | |
| "One Teardrop at a Time" | — | — | — | — | — | — | Wanda Jackson Sings Country Songs | |
| "But I Was Lying" | 1963 | — | — | — | — | — | — | N/A |
| "This Should Go on Forever" | — | — | — | — | — | — | N/A | |
| "Let Me Talk to You" | — | — | — | — | — | — | Reckless Love Affair | |
| "Slippin'" | 46 | — | — | — | — | — | Wanda Jackson Sings Country Songs | |
| "The Violet and the Rose" | 1964 | 36 | — | — | — | — | — | |
| "Leave My Baby Alone" | — | — | — | — | — | — | N/A | |
| "Candy Man" | — | — | — | — | — | — | Two Sides of Wanda | |
| "Kickin' Our Hearts Around" | 1965 | — | — | — | — | — | — | Wanda Jackson Sings Country Songs |
| "Have I Grown to Missing You" | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "My First Day Without You" | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "The Box It Came In" | 1966 | 18 | — | — | — | — | — | Reckless Love Affair |
| "Because It's You" | 28 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "This Gun Don't Care" | 46 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Tears Will Be the Chaser for Your Wine" | 11 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Both Sides of the Line" | 1967 | 21 | — | — | — | — | — | You'll Always Have My Love |
| "My Heart Get's All the Breaks" | 51 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "A Girl Don't Have to Drink to Have Fun" | 22 | — | — | — | — | — | Cream of the Crop | |
| "By the Time You Get to Phoenix" | 1968 | 46 | — | — | — | — | — | Wanda Jackson Country! |
| "My Baby Walked Out Right on Me" | 34 | — | — | — | — | — | Cream of the Crop | |
| "Little Boy Soldier" | 46 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "I Wish I Was Your Friend" | 51 | — | — | — | — | — | The Many Moods of Wanda Jackson | |
| "If I Had a Hammer" | 1969 | 41 | — | — | — | — | — | |
| "Your Tender Love" | — | — | — | — | — | — | The Happy Side of Wanda | |
| "Everything's Leaving" | 48 | — | — | — | — | — | Wanda Jackson Country! | |
| "My Big Iron Skillet" | 20 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Two Separate Bar Stools" | 35 | — | — | 41 | — | — | ||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart | ||||||||
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions |
Album | |||||
| US Country |
CAN Country |
|||||||
| "A Woman Lives for Love" | 1970 | 17 | — | A Woman Lives for Love | ||||
| "Who Shot John" | 50 | — | N/A | |||||
| "Fancy Satin Pillows" | 13 | 26 | I've Gotta Sing | |||||
| "People Gotta Be Loving" | 1971 | — | — | Praise the Lord | ||||
| "Back Then" | 25 | — | I Wouldn't Want You Any Other Way | |||||
| "I Already Know (What I'm Getting for My Birthday)" |
35 | — | ||||||
| "I'll Be Whatever You Say" | 1972 | 57 | — | |||||
| "I Wouldn't Want You Any Other Way" | — | — | ||||||
| "Tennessee Women's Prison" | — | — | Country Keepsakes | |||||
| "Your Memory Comes and Gets Me" | 1973 | — | — | |||||
| "When It's Time to Fall in Love Again" | — | — | When It's Time to Fall in Love Again | |||||
| "Come on Home (To This Lonely Heart)" | 98 | — | ||||||
| "Jesus Put a Yodel in My Soul" | 1974 | — | — | Now I Have Everything | ||||
| "Where Do I Put His Memory" | — | — | I'll Still Love You | |||||
| "I Can't Stand to Hear You Say Goodbye" | 1975 | — | — | |||||
| "I'll Still Love You" | 1976 | — | — | |||||
Bibliography
Jackson's autobiography titled Every Night is Saturday Night: A Country Girl's Journey to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame was published on November 14, 2017. Co-written by Jackson and Scott Bomar, it was published by BMG Music and features a foreword by Elvis Costello. The launch was honoured by an official party, signing and performance at the Grammy Museum.
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Here I go, Going down, down, down, My mind is a blank, My head is spinning around and around, As I go deep ...
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On this day in 1960 {November 14th} the Wanda Jackson performed "Happy, Happy Birthday, Baby" and the ...
Testo
i love a mean mean man
he lives uptown
when i want him he's never around
he's a mean mean man
he's a mean mean man
he's a mean mean man but i love him all i can
now he calls up and wants a date at 8
he's never on time he's always late
he's a mean mean man
he's a mean mean man
he's a mean mean man but i love him all i can
now we go to a dance, he holds me tight
but he don't even kiss me goodnight
he's a mean mean man
he's a mean mean man
he's a mean mean man but i love him all i can
i know i'm a fool to love that man
but i'm gonna love him as long as i can
he's a mean mean man
he's a mean mean man
he's a mean mean man but i love him all i can
he lives uptown
when i want him he's never around
he's a mean mean man
he's a mean mean man
he's a mean mean man but i love him all i can
now he calls up and wants a date at 8
he's never on time he's always late
he's a mean mean man
he's a mean mean man
he's a mean mean man but i love him all i can
now we go to a dance, he holds me tight
but he don't even kiss me goodnight
he's a mean mean man
he's a mean mean man
he's a mean mean man but i love him all i can
i know i'm a fool to love that man
but i'm gonna love him as long as i can
he's a mean mean man
he's a mean mean man
he's a mean mean man but i love him all i can
Compositori: Wanda Jackson
Testo di Mean Mean Man © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Wanda Jackson was only halfway through high school when, in 1954, country singer Hank Thompson heard ...
Testo
Some people like to rock, some people like to roll
But movin' and a-groovin's gonna satisfy my soul
Let's have a party
Hoo, let's have a party
Well, send 'im to the store, let's buy some more
Let's have a party tonight
But movin' and a-groovin's gonna satisfy my soul
Let's have a party
Hoo, let's have a party
Well, send 'im to the store, let's buy some more
Let's have a party tonight
I never kissed a bear, I never kissed a goon
But I can shake a chicken in the middle of the room
Let's have a party
Hoo, let's have a party
Well, send 'im to the store, let's buy some more
Let's have a party tonight
But I can shake a chicken in the middle of the room
Let's have a party
Hoo, let's have a party
Well, send 'im to the store, let's buy some more
Let's have a party tonight
I never kissed a bear, I never kissed a goon
But I can shake a chicken in the middle of the room
Let's have a party
Hoo, let's have a party
Well, send 'im to the store, let's buy some more
Let's have a party tonight
But I can shake a chicken in the middle of the room
Let's have a party
Hoo, let's have a party
Well, send 'im to the store, let's buy some more
Let's have a party tonight
Honky-Tonky' Joe is knockin' at the door
Bring him in an' fill 'im up an' sit 'im on the floor
Let's have a party
Hoo, let's have a party
Well, send 'im to the store, let's buy some more
Let's have a party tonight
Bring him in an' fill 'im up an' sit 'im on the floor
Let's have a party
Hoo, let's have a party
Well, send 'im to the store, let's buy some more
Let's have a party tonight
The meat is on the stove, the bread's a-gettin' hot
Everybody run, they got the possum in the pot
Let's have a party
Hoo, let's have a party
Well, send 'im to the store, let's buy some more
Let's have a party tonight
Let's have a party tonight
Let's have a party tonight
We're gonna have a party tonight
Everybody run, they got the possum in the pot
Let's have a party
Hoo, let's have a party
Well, send 'im to the store, let's buy some more
Let's have a party tonight
Let's have a party tonight
Let's have a party tonight
We're gonna have a party tonight
Compositori: Jessie May Robinson
Testo di Let’s Have a Party © Imagem Music Inc
Testo
Well a hard headed woman a soft hearted man
Been the cause of trouble ever since the world began
Oh yeah ever since the world began ah oh oh oh oh
A hard headed woman is a thorn in the side of man
Now Adam said to Eve listen here to me
Don't you let me catch you messin' round that apple tree
Oh yeah ever since the world began...
Been the cause of trouble ever since the world began
Oh yeah ever since the world began ah oh oh oh oh
A hard headed woman is a thorn in the side of man
Now Adam said to Eve listen here to me
Don't you let me catch you messin' round that apple tree
Oh yeah ever since the world began...
Now Samson told Delilah loud and clear
Keep your cotton pickin' fingers out of my curly hair
Oh yeah ever since the world began...
Keep your cotton pickin' fingers out of my curly hair
Oh yeah ever since the world began...
Well I heard about a king who's doing swell
Till he started playin' with that evil Jezabel
Oh yeah ever since the world began...
Till he started playin' with that evil Jezabel
Oh yeah ever since the world began...
Compositori: Claude De Metruis
Testo di Hard Headed Woman © Imagem U.S. LLC
Lyrics
Well, once they had a dance they called the bunny-hopNow the cats are in a trance, all they wanna do is bop
So bop, honey bop, well bop, a-honey bop
Oh bop, honey bop, well don't stop, a-honey bop
When the band begins to rock and it's rockin' to your blues
If you think you blow your top
Well, put on your rockin' shoes
And bop, honey bop, well bop, a-honey bop
Let's bop, honey bop, don't stop, a-honey bop
When the night is up and gone, but you still wanna go
Though you see light of dawn, baby tell the band to blow
And bop, honey bop, well bop, a-honey bop
Well bop, honey bop, don't stop, a-honey bop
Well the waltz is for the square and the rhumba is too old
Baby, we're just rockin' let it satisfy your soul
So bop, honey bop, well bop, a-honey bop
Oh bop, honey bop, well don't stop, a-honey bop
Well, now you've heard the dance, they call the bunny-hop
But the cats are in a trance, all they wanna do is bop
So bop, honey bop, well bop, a-honey bop
Well bop, honey bop, well don't stop, a-bop-bop-bop
Written by Glenn Reeves, Mae Boren Axton, Tommy Durden • Copyright © Universal Music Publishing Group
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