Rockin' With Wanda  by Wanda Jackson

Wanda Jackson from Oklahoma started her career singing country songs and recording for Decca Records. Then, a brief relationship with Elvis Presley in the mid-1950s and Presley's encouragement to also sing rockabilly songs led her to Capitol Records, which allowed her to record both country and rock ‘n’ roll songs.

In 1960, Capitol Records compiled her singles and hits from the second half of the '50s and presented them on the album Rockin’ With Wanda. The album contains twelve tracks. Four of them are her own, while the remaining songs belong to other composers. The producer of the record was Ken Nelson. Among them, the standout is the 1957 song Fujiyama Mama - with clear references to Nagasaki and Hiroshima in its lyrics - for which there were some hesitations about releasing it as the wounds left by the two atomic bombs dropped by the Americans on Japan were still very fresh, but it ultimately became a massive hit in the Land of the Rising Sun, remaining at No. 1 for six months (!).

With these recordings, Wanda Jackson managed to earn the title "The Queen of Rockabilly."