Stooges, Genesis, ABBA Get Rock Hall Of Fame Nods

“The nose, it looks enormous!”

Ahh you know the pop world had to bitch about something and of course they are going to go for the nukes/arm race. Rush did it in Distant Early Warning as well.

The Fixx did that in just about every song. (But they're still one of my favorite 80s bands)

Jim “Foetus” Thirwell is one of the most underrated artists in rock. I love his songs “Today I Started Slogging Again” and “I Am Surrounded By Incompetents”. Good stuff!

Your argument is based on pure fallacy.

Wanda Jackson - Induction Year: 2009 Induction Category: Early Influence

Wanda Jackson (vocals, guitar; born October 20, 1937)
The rockabilly field of the Fifties wasn’t exactly crowded with female performers, but Wanda Jackson didn’t let that stop her from making her mark. She emerged from a small town in Oklahoma to become the first Queen of Rockabilly. Jackson started out her career singing with the likes of Hank Thompson and Red Foley, who hosted the Ozark Jubilee Barn Dance. Her first contract, arranged with Thompson’s assistance, was with Decca Records, and she had a country hit in 1954 with the duet “You Can’t Have My Love.”
With encouragement from Elvis Presley, who she met while on a package tour in 1955, Jackson moved in the direction of rock and roll. “You should be doing this kind of music,” he advised her. Her early singles for Capitol Records, to which she signed in 1956, typically consisted of a country song and a rock and roll number. Jackson’s rockabilly recordings – including such red-hot Fifties sides as “Hot Dog! That Made Him Mad,” “Rock Your Baby,” “Mean Mean Man” and “Honey Bop” - are among the greatest ever made, regardless of gender. These rocking sides featured renowned country-music accompanists such as Buck Owens (rhythm guitar) and Ralph Mooney (pedal steel).
In 1957 Jackson gave the full-blown rockabilly treatment to a rhythm & blues number called “Fujiyama Mama.” Though it missed the U.S. charts, it became a hit in Japan. Jackson topped herself as a rock and roll singer with “Let’s Have a Party,” a song previously recorded as “Party” by Elvis Presley (for the film Lovin’ You) and the Collins Kids. By now she’d recruited a hot rockabilly act, Bobby Poe and the Poe Cats, as her backup band. Unusually, for the time, it was an integrated band that included black pianist Big Al Downing.
On “Let’s Have a Party,” Jackson’s voice is as uninhibited and raw as that of any male Fifties rocker, and guitarist Vernon Sandusky matches her energy with his uninhibited licks. Recorded in 1958, the song wasn’t released as a single for two years – and only then when a deejay started playing the track after discovering it on her first album, Wanda Jackson. “Let’s Have a Party” became Jackson’s first Top Forty hit, reaching #37.
Jackson cut a striking visual image onstage in the conservative Fifties. “I was the first girl that I know of in country music to sing in a tight dress, more of a sexy type outfit: high heels and long earrings and silk fringe dresses,” she told Goldmine’s Jeff Tamarkin. “I designed those and was wearing them long before the go-go dancers were popular in the Sixties.”
Her flamboyance raised eyebrows in the conservative country world – especially on the Grand Ole Opry – but fit right in with the freewheeling spirit of rock and roll. Capitol had her record more rock and roll on the albums There’s a Party Goin’ On (1961) and Rockin’ With Wanda (1963). Her band, the Party Timers, included guitarist Roy Clark, a future legend in the country field. Jackson had two more Top Forty hits in 1961 - “Right Or Wrong” (#29) and “In the Middle of a Heartache” (#27) – but both betrayed more of a country than a rockabilly sound, and that’s ultimately the direction she pursued for much of the rest of her career.
Wanda Jackson’s moment on the pop charts passed as quickly as it came, but the rockabilly songs she cut in the late Fifties and early Sixties are highly valued by those in the know. On top of being the Queen of Rockabilly, for 20 years – before, during and after her time as a rock and roll pioneer – Jackson enjoyed a formidable presence on the country charts. She racked up 30 C&W hits between 1954 and 1974; ironically, many hardcore country fans are unaware of her involvement with and impact on rock and roll.
In the long run, Jackson felt more at home with country music than rock and roll, though it had more to do with the lifestyles than the music. “At the time, I got thrown into the rock and roll scene and I didn’t understand these people,” she told Goldmine’s Jeff Tamarkin in 1987. “I was just country folk, you know?”
In 1971 Jackson became a born-again Christian, and throughout the Seventies she recorded gospel as well as country music. Jackson has returned to rock and roll from time to time, too, in recent decades. Rock ‘n’ Roll Away Your Blues was released in the mid-1980s. In 2009 she returned to her roots once again with I Remember Elvis, a tribute to her old friend and touring partner.
TIMELINE
October 20, 1937: Wanda Lavonne Jackson is born in Maud, Oklahoma.
1954: Wanda Jackson, still in high school, signs to Capitol Records
1955: Wanda Jackson meets Elvis Presley while on tour, and they cultivate a friendship.
1956: Elvis Presley encourages Wanda Jackson to sing rock and roll, playing her records from his collection to emphasize the point.
June 8, 1956: Wanda Jackson’s first session for Capitol Records yields “I Gotta Know,” a country-rockabilly hybrid.
April 1958: Wanda Jackson cuts her self-titled debut album, which includes the rockabilly raveup “Let’s Have a Party,” is released.
August 29, 1960: “Let’s Have a Party,” by Wanda Jackson, becomes the singer’s first Top Forty rock and roll hit reaching #37.
1962: Rockin’ With Wanda, the second album by Wanda Jackson, is released.
April 21, 1962: Wanda Jackson makes the pop charts for the last time with a country ballad, “If I Cried Every Time You Hurt Me.”
June 1971: Wanda Jackson converts to Christianity and begins singing and recording both gospel and country music.
1973: Wanda Jackson leaves Capitol records after nearly 17 years over their objections to her desire to make more gospel records.
1984: Wanda Jackson records Rock ‘N’ Roll Away Your Blues, her first rock and roll album in 20 years, in Kumla, Sweden. It is released in the U.S. three years later on Varick Records.
October 17, 2000: Queen of Rockabilly, a 30-track compilation of Wanda Jackson’s rockabilly recordings from the Fifties and Sixties, is released on Ace Records.
April 4, 2009: Wanda Jackson is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the 24th annual dinner. Rosanne Cash is her presenter.

(A) She was inducted in 2009 in the Early Influence category.

(B) If a woman who got STARTED playing rock & roll in 1956 can be relegated to the "Early Influence" category, then Abba certainly can be cast off there too.

Who did Wanda "influence" in the past 20 years? Poison Ivy, Kim Lenz, Rosie Flores, and maybe Excene Cervenka?

She got in because she was an early woman guitar player in rock (but not the first). But "influence"?

The Hall is crap. Nice to get acknowleged but this is not the same recognition that Abba got.

Or maybe she got inducted for country songs light Right Or Wrong or her gospel ablums of the 1960s-1980s. You tell me.

But SOMEONE or some group HAS to be the arbitor of public taste when it comes to something like this.

History isn't about "public taste".

Should Ben Franklin be written out of the history books because he "never was elected president"?

If we leave "history" to "personal/public" bias, then you can already predict how partisan academics will mark the history of the Reagan years.

This Hall is the canon of "what IS rock". Or at least purports to be.

"arbitor of public taste" was your choice of words. Now you actually want to debate their use?! Go argue in asinine circles w/ someone else.

Jann Wener IS an arbitor of public taste.

And anti-American “historians” work for the Smithsonian on some exhibits.

Just telling unpleasant truths.

History is history.

And the Hall still elects Early Influences in spite of your denial.

I LOVE THE FIXX. I was just listening to Ink this morning.

Speaking of Prog music, I just found out that Eric Woolfson passed away earlier this month. To me he WAS the Alan Parsons Project. I surprised that his death wasn’t noted here in any posts.

Holy crap! I had no idea! So many classic songs...his voice was timeless. I told my wife I want Time played at my funeral.

“Closer to Heaven” from Gaudi was another awesome Woolfson song. I remember it being used in a “Miami Vice” episode.

*Rock & Roll ping*

U kiddin?
No Jacket Required is one of the greatest albums ever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Dgg6dRlbC8

Guess it ain’t as good as Kanye East or whatever...

And here’s a bit more for folks who understand life and love and loss and laughter...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OiV_5kEt6A&feature=related