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Jackie Deshannon
 
Date of birth: 21 August 1944
Date of death: Alive (or unknown)
Country Of Origin: America
Profession:

Singer

SongWriter

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Jackie DeShannon was born in Hazel, Kentucky. The daughter of showbusiness parents, Sandra Jean and James Erwin Myers, DeShannon was introduced to singing country tunes on a local radio show at the age of six. By the age of eleven, DeShannon was already hosting her own radio program. Recording under various names such as Sherry Lee, Jackie Dee, and Jackie Shannon, she had little success however her interpretations of country songs, "Buddy" and "Trouble", gai .... (More...)
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" And being away and not performing for a long time and really connecting with my audience for a long time, I have a great responsibility to myself and to them to do it exactly the way the process was when I was young. "

Jackie Deshannon
" And I just remember, you know, breaking into tears and feeling so empty because, as long as Elvis was in the world, you always knew something was going and he always had something that kept everybody mesmerized. "

Jackie Deshannon
" And unless you have that sense of being creative, people think you're just working all the time. "

Jackie Deshannon
" But I think that a lot of the acts were pretty discouraged because... I always knew that they came to see the Beatles, it never bothered me, and I tried to cater to the excitement and put a set together, so Brian Epstein ended up putting me at the very end of the show. "

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" Elvis was, at least the times I was around him, Elvis was a practical joker. He was always, had some little mischievous something going. "

Jackie Deshannon
" Every day I'm doing things, it's surprising to me, because this is about what following your passion does - it moves you, you don't move it. "

Jackie Deshannon
" He really set the standard, Elvis set the standard as far as I'm concerned on how a star should act. He was the first star. "

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" I always went with my agenda, I just couldn't execute it. "

Jackie Deshannon
" I heard a lot of jazz singers - Ernestine Anderson, Elizabeth Cotton, Nadia Boulange. there's just a lot of women that I listen to that the public wouldn't know. "

Jackie Deshannon
" I mean, I can sit down with a guitar, and in fact, we do two, three songs with just guitar and percussion. "

Jackie Deshannon
" I think Ingmar Bergman, Francoise Truffaut - all these people created images in my mind, beautiful pictures, I loved what was known at that time as the foreign film. "

Jackie Deshannon
" I think the songs are what I miss most. "

Jackie Deshannon
" I think to just single out a highlight of Elvis's career is pretty much impossible. As far as being a fan of his, a lifetime fan, there were just too many highlights. "

Jackie Deshannon
" I think, describing Elvis for me would be a very generous king. He was the king of rock and roll, will always be. He's whats made it possible for everyone to be performers and to do the things they do now. "

Jackie Deshannon
" I used to go to tons of foreign films. "

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