Beverly Ross on Songwriting in the Rock and Roll Era
Excerpts from a phone interview conducted with <a href="http://www.womeninrockproject.org/reference/ross-beverly/">Beverly Ross</a> on 23 October 2018. Lightly edited due to poor audio quality. Beverly's partner Ferris Butler can also be heard at a few moments. Part 1: First efforts at songwriting and learning rock & roll style Part 2: Performing on television Part 3: Writing "Judy's Turn to Cry" for Lesley Gore with Edna Lewis.
23 October 2018
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Wanda Jackson Describes Her Style
This brief interview was recorded with <a href="http://www.womeninrockproject.org/reference/jackson-wanda/">Wanda Jackson</a> at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on 21 July 2018 after she performed there. Jackson talks about learning from Elvis, switching to rock and roll from country, and being chaperoned by her father.
Footage courtesy of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, all rights reserved.
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Linda Gail Lewis Talks Rock and Roll
Excerpts from a phone interview conducted with Linda Gail Lewis on January 13, 2019.
Part 1: On what the Lewis family listened to at home and genre
Part 2: On learning and playing the piano
Part 3: Recording and touring from the 1960s to today, both solo and with her brother Jerry Lee Lewis
Part 4: Memories of Wanda Jackson and what it means to perform rock and roll "like a man."
13 January 2019
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Dodie Stevens on Teenage Stardom
An excerpt of a phone interview with singer, songwriter, and actress <a href="http://www.womeninrockproject.org/reference/stevens-dodie/">Dodie Stevens</a> recorded on 28 October 2018. Stevens reflects on her very early start in music, the stardom brought by her #1 hit "Pink Shoelaces," her work in movies alongside other teen idols like Fabian, and balancing a musical career with motherhood.
(c) 2018
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Laura Lee Perkins Discusses Her Musical Career
An interview conducted by phone with <a href="http://www.womeninrockproject.org/reference/perkins-laura-lee/">Laura Lee Perkins</a> on 11 January 2011. Perkins talks about moving from a coal mining town in West Virginia to northeast Ohio, where she was a discovered by DJ Jeff Baxter and encouraged to record rock and roll. She describes recording for Imperial records in California and meeting Ricky Nelson and working with his session musicians. She then relocated to Detroit, Michigan, where her aunt helped her with her career and she began touring as "Laura Leigh." Perkins refers several times to a magazine story about herself: Craig "Bones" Maki, "Laura Lee Perkins Isn't Lost!" <em>Blue Suede News</em> (Spring 2005), pp. 19–23.
11 November 2011
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Rosie Flores on Janis Martin
Janis Martin
Singer, songwriter, and producer Rosie Flores talks about discovering and working with rockabilly singer <a href="http://www.womeninrockproject.org/reference/martin-janis/">Janis Martin</a>. (Martin started her career as "the Female Elvis" on RCA in the 1950s). Flores produced Martin's first, and last, full-length album in 2007.
13 July 2013
(c) 2013
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Kay Wheeler on Rock and Roll Dancing
This interview with dancer Kay Wheeler was conducted on 28 February 2012 by email. Wheeler was active as a rock and roll dancer in the 1950s. She toured and starred in the film "Rock, Baby, Rock It" (1957). She calls her dance style the Rocknbop. In this interview, she describes the style and her dance influences, as well as some of the reactions audiences had to her performances.
28 February 2012
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Sparkle Moore Reflects on Her Early Career
This interview with rockabilly / rock and roll musician <a href="http://www.womeninrockproject.org/reference/moore-sparkle/">Sparkle Moore</a> was conducted by email on 28 February 2012. Moore describes her influences, her early performing experiences, and her approach to fashion on stage.
28 February 2012
(c) 2012
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