Right or Wrong [Box set, Import]

Wanda Jackson | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 14, 1992)
• Number of Discs: 4
• Format: Box set, Import
• Note on Boxed Sets: During shipping, discs in boxed sets occasionally become dislodged without damage. Please examine and play these discs. If you are not completely satisfied, we'll refund or replace your purchase.
• Label: Bear Family
• ASIN: B0000282VR
• Also Available in: Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #181,996 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. If You Knew What I Know

2. Lovin' Country Style

3. The Heart You Could Have Had

4. The Right to Love

5. You Can't Have My Love [With Billy Gray]

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Disc: 2

1. Making Believe

2. Just Call Me Lonesome

3. Happy, Happy Birthday Baby

4. Let Me Go, Lover

5. (Let's Have A) Party

See all 32 tracks on this disc

Disc: 3

1. Lonely Weekends

2. Tweedle Dee

3. Riot in Cell Block #9

4. Little Charm Bracelet

5. Right or Wrong

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Disc: 4

1. You Don't Know, Baby

2. Before I Lose My Mind

3. The Tips of My Fingers

4. Let Me Talk to You

5. (Let's Stop) Kickin' Our Hearts Around

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Editorial Reviews

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, All Music Guide

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wanda Jackson: struggling singer to Nashville star, May 13, 2003

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DJ Joe Sixpack (...in Middle America) - See all my reviews
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If you really want to go all-out on a Wanda Jackson binge, then this monolithic Bear Family box set would be the place to start. This 4-CD set starts off with some of Jackson's earliest (and least well-known) country recordings, made as early as 1954, well before her rockabilly heyday, then moves on to collect all her best rock'n'roll numbers (whew!!), before dipping into the Nashville-styled country groove that she settled into after the rockabilly craze died down. The early tracks are a real revelation, since Wanda's '60s Nashville work was much more sedate and ballad-oriented; it's pretty cool to hear just how rural and hard country she really was.

2 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars cdwolf is great, September 24, 2005

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Jim "Jim - Chicago" (Chicago, IL United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Right or Wrong (Audio CD)

they pack everything i've ordered well - and ship quickly

thanks