"As a little girl people would ask me, What do you want to be when you grow up?' I'd always tell them, I want to be a girl singer,'" Wanda Jackson recalls in her new memoir written with Scott B. Bomar, "Every Night is Saturday Night." "I don't suppose I really could have been any other type of singer, but that's what I told them."And a girl singer she became, in pretty short order: By age 17 she was earning record royalties that in one month amounted to $1,226.56, and by age 18, in 1956, [...]
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