Wanda Jackson - Right Or Wrong 1954-1962 - Import 4 CD Box Set

Credits:

Wanda Jackson

Description:

This four-CD set is like a photo album of Wanda Jackson growing up, from innocent adolescent to rockabilly star and the dominant female country singer of the early 1960s. Her complete recordings from the first Decca session in March 1954 until her Capitol session of November 2, 1962, constitute the part of her career that rock & roll and rockabilly fans most care about. Disc one covers those early years, the 15 songs she cut for Decca Records through 1955, when she was still treading a fine line in country music, seemingly trying to be the next Kitty Wells at least part of the time. The singing is glorious and the playing solid, although Jackson, working in this idiom, was like a racing thoroughbred being asked to canter around a track. Then comes "Baby Loves Him," a Jackson original that redefined her for the next few years as a rockabilly star. Disc two features Jackson treading that fine line between straight country and rock & roll, interspersed with slower, more traditional numbers. As late as 1961, Disc three reveals, Jackson was still courting the rock & roll audience, although the main thrust of her career was moving back toward pure country, with forays into pop and country-pop. The country material on Disc four had a serious edge to it by now, and the rock & roll was almost superfluous. By late 1962 and early 1963, however, her sides show the kind of opulent overproduction, complete with choruses and string sections, that would help give country-pop a bad name; her voice is as good as ever, but the material is a stretch after the hot rockin' sides. The booklet is more thorough than most from Bear Family. ~ Bruce Eder

Tracklisting:

1.If You Knew What I Know
2.Lovin' Country Style
3.Heart You Could Have Had, The
4.Right to Love, The
5.You Can't Have My Love
6.If You Don't, Somebody Else Will
7.You'd Be the First One to Know
8.It's the Same World (Wherever You Go)
9.Tears at the Grand Ole Opry
10.Don't Do the Things He'd Do
11.Nobody's Darling But Mine
12.Wasted
13.I Cried Again
14.I'd Rather Have a Broken Heart
15.You Won't Forget (About Me)
16.Step by Step
17.Half as Good a Girl
18.I Gotta Know
19.Cryin' Thru the Night
20.Baby Loves Him
1.Making Believe
2.Just Call Me Lonesome
3.Happy, Happy Birthday Baby
4.Let Me Go, Lover
5.(Let's Have A) Party
6.Day Dreaming
7.Heartbreak Ahead
8.Here We Are Again
9.I Wanna Waltz
10.I Can't Make My Dreams Understand
11.Money Honey
12.Long Tall Sally
13.Sinful Heart
14.Mean Mean Man
15.Rock Your Baby
16.Date with Jerry, A
17.(Every Time They Play) Our Song
18.You've Turned to a Stranger
19.Reaching
20.I'd Rather Have You
1.Lonely Weekends
2.Tweedle Dee
3.Riot in Cell Block #9
4.Little Charm Bracelet
5.Right or Wrong
6.Funnel of Love
7.Tongue Tied
8.There's a Party Goin' On
9.Lost Weekend
10.Man We Had a Party
11.Why I'm Walking
12.I May Never Get to Heaven
13.Stupid Cupid
14.Brown Eyed Handsome Man
15.I Cried Again
16.Last Letter, The
17.Who Shot Sam
18.Slippin' and Slidin'
19.My Baby Left Me
20.So Soon
21.Window Up Above, The
22.Sticks and Stones
1.You Don't Know, Baby
2.Before I Lose My Mind
3.Tips of My Fingers, The
4.Let Me Talk to You
5.(Let's Stop) Kickin' Our Hearts Around
6.Between the Window and the Phone
7.If I Cried Every Time You Hurt Me
8.I Misunderstood
9.Let My Love Walk In
10.To Tell You the Truth
11.To Tell You the Truth
12.Greatest Actor, The
13.You Bug Me Bad
14.One Teardrop at a Time