It seems like the good things that have happened in my career are things that you don't try to plan and push, and make it happen, it just seems to happen.

She was nominated for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2005 but was not elected. 1960–1964: The Queen of Rockabilly
In 1960 Jackson had a Top 40 pop hit with "Let's Have a Party" a song Presley had cut three years earlier.  9 hit and "In The Middle of a Heartache" which peaked at No.

She is known to many as the Queen (or First Lady) of Rockabilly. As rockabilly declined in popularity in the mid-1960s Wanda Jackson moved to a successful career in mainstream country music with a string of hits between 1966 and 1973 including "Tears Will Be the Chaser for Your Wine" "A Woman Lives for Love" and "Fancy Satin Pillows". Jackson mixed country music with fast-moving rockabilly often recording them on opposite sides of a record.