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 |  Sujet: Help Get Wanda into the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame ! Lun 24 Sep 2007, 19:32 | |
| Help Get Wanda into the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame ! To Whom It May Concern This is to propose that the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame finally nominates Wanda Jackson for induction. For heaven's sake, the whole thing risks ridicule and having the appearance of being a little boy's club unless it acknowledges the contribution of one of the first women of rock and roll. It might be hard to admit but the musical influence of several male pioneers is somewhat obscure today. Even though their records will always be thrilling, their sound is not really heard in echo.
Look around today and you can hear lots of rocking girl singers who owe an unconscious debt to the mere idea of a woman like Wanda. She was standing up on stage with a guitar in her hands and making a sound that was as wild and raw as any rocker, man or woman, while other gals were still asking, "How much is that doggy in the window?"… It is strange to find myself a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame while there seem still be a number of notable absentees. I'd like to be able to send the museum some old guitar that I played in '77, with a good heart and clear conscience. Right now I'd be embarrassed to see it on display in a glass case in Cleveland while Wanda is still rocking and still missing from the Hall…
Come on you guys. DO THE RIGHT THING…HELP INDUCT WANDA…
Yours through music,
Elvis Costello
More Quotes
"In September, Jackson was honored as a recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts' National Heritage Fellowship. And it helps counter the nagging sense that Wanda Jackson, arguably the first woman in rock & roll, should already be in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. "
- JAMES SULLIVAN, Rolling Stone Magazine
"The Oklahoma-born singer/guitarist toured with (and dated) Elvis in the '50s and was one of the first women to sing rock 'n' roll. As such, she's influenced nearly every woman who has picked up a guitar since -- but she has not been inducted into the Rock 'N' Roll Hall of Fame. James Taylor is in there, and Bob Seger and Jackson Browne and the Shirelles and even Jann Wenner, but shockingly, not Wanda Jackson. "
- MARY DICKIE, Toronto Sun
"If you know the first thing about the history of rock and roll, then you know Wanda Jackson. Sure, Elvis might have been the king of rock and roll, but there's no doubt that Jackson was the queen. Elvis Costello recently penned a letter of support for her induction, writing, "This is to propose that the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame finally nominates Wanda Jackson for induction. For heaven's sake, the whole thing risks ridicule and having the appearance of being a little boy's club unless it acknowledges the contribution of one of the first women of rock and roll." "
- BOBBY TANZILO, OnMilwaukee
"Jackson really deserves to be considered along with Gene Vincent and Eddie Cochran as one of the ground-floor greats, but she has yet to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. She's actually been passed over for the decidedly un-rocking James Taylor and Paul Simon."
- TIM PERLICH, NOW Magazine
"Why the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has failed to induct Jackson despite the entreaties of Elvis Costello and other vocal supporters is a great mystery. She's the "Queen of Rockabilly," after all, and one of rock 'n' roll's greatest mavericks. The music and its fans owe her a lot."
- Tom Laskin, ISTHMUS
More from ELVIS on the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame Elvis Costello said in an interview with The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, April 13th, 2005...
"The very next night we drove up to Tulsa, and Wanda Jackson got up and sang 'Crying Time' with us. It's an extraordinary situation that she is not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. If it's going to have any meaning, that thing, it's got to have Wanda in it." You can help by voicing your opinion on the matter by writing to the Hall of Fame Nominating Committee at the address below.
Wanda Jackson most certainly should be in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame! After all, she was the first gal to record R&R in 1956.
If you agree...
Please send your letters submitting her name to:
Joel Peresman
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation
1290 Avenue of the Americas
2nd Floor
New York City, NY 101044 
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