Every Night Is Saturday Night

A Country Girl's Journey To The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

Wanda Jackson, Scott B. Bomar

• Publisher: Omnibus Press
• Year: 2017
• ISBN:
  9781947026070
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Rock Music

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Foreword
• Preface
• Chapter 1 — Back Then
• Chapter 2 — California Stars
• Chapter 3 — No Place to Go but Home
• Chapter 4 — Turn Your Radio On
• Chapter 5 — Lovin’ Country Style
• Chapter 6 — You Can’t Have My Love
• Chapter 7 — Tears at the Grand Ole Opry
• Chapter 8 — I Wish I Was Your Friend
• Chapter 9 — Rock Your Baby
• Chapter 10 — If You Don’t Somebody Else Will
• Chapter 11 — I Gotta Know
• Chapter 12 — Let’s Have a Party
• Chapter 13 — Fujiyama Mama
• Chapter 14 — Both Sides of the Line
• Chapter 15 — Right or Wrong
• Chapter 16 — You’re the One for Me
• Chapter 17 — A Woman Lives for Love
• Chapter 18 — Santo Domingo
• Chapter 19 — Kickin’ Our Hearts Around
• Chapter 20 — Tears Will Be the Chaser for Your Wine
• Chapter 21 — I Saw the Light
• Chapter 22 — My Testimony
• Chapter 23 — Rockabilly Fever
• Chapter 24 — Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On
• Chapter 25 — Thunder on the Mountain
• Chapter 26 — In the Middle of a Heartache
• Chapter 27 — Treat Me Like a Lady